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Circling the drain overlooking the Continent's End, listening to the ghosts of the Umunhum.


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"More than 2% of Democrats feel Biden should withdraw. Is this a trend or a movement?"

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Worth noting the EPA's brief correctly uses "nitrogen oxide" 7 times, and the EPA submitted a declaration from an official who used it twice. But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.

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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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I mean this is just funny, like stories back in the day of nonagenarians typing searches into the Facebook status box.

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Stay strong. You're is a voice that is needed and celebrated here

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Trump says he doesn't know anything about it and he says he disagrees with many of the things it says. 'Nuff said?

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Peter Sagal's avatar Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social
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Been thinking today of Obama’s speech at the 50th anniversary of Selma, IMO the finest of his career. In direct response to an accusation from a now disbarred lawyer, who said he “didn’t really love America,” Obama laid out a vision of the America he loved.

time.com/3736357/bara...

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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He might stand a chance if he was from Indiana or Ohio. And then there's that Kimberly Guilfoil (sp?) thing...

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.

www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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Kinky Friedman, provocative satirist and one-time gubernatorial candidate, dies at 79

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I don't be lichen what you're implyin'

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Getting Elvis vibes here. Don't know if I'm comfortable with that

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I feel like your forcing me to choose between Yee-haw and Forsooth. Verily, I won't be coerced, you betcher boots!

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This facility has gone 0️⃣ days without a free speech violation

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This is quite good. What it doesn't address, though, are the allegations that Lewis is silencing (or attempting to) journalists both within and outside WaPo.

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Since Roger Stone has declared himself the leader of Big Lie 2.0, it's more important than ever to uncover his role in the 2016 Russia attack and how Trump used the pardon power to make sure we never got to the bottom of Stone's treachery.

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"...Panama is an isthmus." currently

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Give up. It's s lost Cause

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

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Elf M. Sternberg's avatar Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
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It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.

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It's only the 4th inning. They've still got a chance for a field goal

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Alaska has had a small annual universal basic income since 1982. You might think it has only increased prices but every year when the checks go out, businesses compete for customers by lowering their prices. It has decreased poverty there. It's also increased overall employment.

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to be fair, of all his traits, his stupidity was the most endearing

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I was, what?, perhaps 8 or 9 years old when "Omnibus" was on our TV. He was Alistair Cooke then and so he shall remain to be

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When I was a kid I just assumed Alistair Cooke just didn't know how to pronounce "aluminum" and no one was brave enough to tell him

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Yes, you'd think the repetition would become annoying but, as you said, it becomes invisible and the dialog flows.

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I just finished re-reading the George V. Higgins novel, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle". A master-class in "... said". It's almost all dialogue. Pick virtually any chapter and it's "...Jackie Brown said..." and "...the bearded man said..." throughout that chapter without exception.

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To be honest, when was Smudge anything but "clearly hung over"?

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"Richard, not his real name..." Let's just call him "Dick"

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If you’re not a law nerd, and you’re wondering why people who are not themselves theocratic fascists would support theocratic fascists, it’s to achieve this: to limit the power of the regulatory state.

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Props for using the correct plural form!

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If you want to be taken seriously you really need a thermal imaging camera

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I hope you included a portrait of Lincoln looking bemused

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I’m a genuine admirer of David French. He’s one of the very, very few conservative Evangelical Christians (in fact, I can’t think of another) who stayed true to his principles in the Trump era, and he and his family paid a steep price.

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/o...

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Morbid curiosity got the best of me, and I read this. The argument is literally that Dolly Parton is a fake, destructive Christian because despite a lifetime of kindness, decency, philanthropy, and spreading joy around the world, she won’t explicitly condemn gay people for their wickedness.

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To call it "dysfunction" is being kind

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What I've discovered with these battery powered mowers (and chainsaws, string trimmers, leaf blowers, pole saws, etc.) is that if you've got 10 or 20 minutes to kill you pick one up, turn it on and get stuff done. Never happens with the gas powered equivalents

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"Justice" Thomas appears to find it hard to meet the challenges of comprehending filing instructions and filling out forms.

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Edgar sent us this photo where he was working in the beets in Lamont CA yesterday. It was 108°. #WeFeedYou #CALOR

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We covered all of that last semester. It was on the final.

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The first W & G movie was such an astonishing film! We won't see its like again, lads

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