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Going well for the Young Republicans I see.
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Irish guy in SF Bay Area, California. Internetting since 1987: it's been a long, strange trip. My daycare was Clondalkin's Laurels pub (thanks Mum!) & a mag tape server room with endless rows of blinkenlichten (thanks Dad!). @meehawl on mΓ€Κtα» & the bird.
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Going well for the Young Republicans I see.
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Clarence Thomas's judicial motto:
No Oligarch (gift) Left Behind.
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2024 writers just phoning it in now.
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Wait, the hullabaloo over Dr. Cannard was an actual canard? Who's writing this stuff?
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"Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia."
""For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have been horribly butchered by millions around the world," Clinton said. "Today, the United States must finally stand up and say 'Enough.'"
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If only Bolsonaro had had the idea of renting out a villa on airbnbβor even a full-service hotelβand demanding payment in diamonds. Did the felon and adjudicated rapist Trump not give him any tips?
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This aged... poorly.
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Dunning-Kruger: the struggle is real, yo.
#Idiocracy
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"Each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine."
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Global warming temperatures increasingly sabotage our basic mechanical devices, calibrated as they are to 20th century norms.
Rangers "were unable to airlift anyone because emergency medical flight helicopters can't "generally fly safely over 120 degrees [49Β°C]."
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"Indirect deaths range from 3-15 times the number of direct deathsβup to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflictβUsing the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, this would translate to 7Β·9% of the total population."
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MOAR!
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Mid-year Darwin entry has cleared the field.
'"41-year-old Allen Ray McGrew, ignited a large firework device and set it on his head. The device exploded, causing βmassive head injuries.β'
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Oui... Hon hon hon... Oui!
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In addition to 1.1 million dead, COVID injuries have knocked 2.4 million people out of the US workforce. Massive impairment.
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FPTP increases the probability of these phase changes that seem to take people unawares. Which is a little destabilizing for a democracy.
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In fairness to the Brits though, even though Keir elected by only around 20% of the voters, transfer of power efficient and smooth & Sunak not whining and leading a mob to storm Parliament.
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Numbers coming in. Lowest turnout since 2001 (also a Lab sweep) at ~61%, comp'd to ~67% 2019. Keir got almost the same number of votes as Corbyn. Again, FPTP just ridiculous. UK vote shares incredibly fractured, masking disturbing fascist bloc.
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Evergreen:
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I think you're right on the Reform theory, sadly.
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Reading reports that the Tories still likely to retain more seats than the Liberals. Disappointing result.
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"Show reveals the case of a man fixated on fathering as many children as he possibly can. Prepare for a new low of depravity."
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He looks exactly as you would expect.
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The New York Times is not a serious paper. It ran a column by a weirdo insurrectionist fellow-traveller advocating not voting. Then when he was exposed as actually voting, it silently changed the headline.
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"A ray of sunshine is that the Tories got obliterated in England and thereβs going to be so many pictures of little fancy guys in bowties crying that itβs going to make us all feel better."
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Big news if true.
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"While thereβs a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba.β
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How are you going to have a vote to impeach when you can't get a quorum because too many members have been sent to the gulags or are disappeared into "protective detention?"
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Noem just shot her dogs, but did you know that fun-loving, kooky brain-wormed Kennedy eats them?
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I've never related more to Steve Bannon than him checking out during this rant.
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Reminder of the Iron Law of Wilhoit:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition,
to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects
but does not bind,
alongside out-groups whom the law binds
but does not protect."
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"All of conservative legal theory in a single headline."
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I don't know how many years of my life I've been writing Close-Guantanamo-Before-It's-Too-Late stories and while this would be a highly ironic end for Liz "The al-Qaeda Seven" Cheney the joke won't be funny for very long
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The Caribbean oceans are now so warm that they are producing September-level intensification in June.
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"Trumpβs error on January 6 might have been charging mere civilians with the task of overthrowing the government; had he instead commissioned the military to march to the Capitol & murder Mike Pence, heβd be in an (even) stronger legal position."
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Just a reminder that creating fraudulent documents to disguise that you paid sex workers to keep quiet in order to swing elections is now an "official act."
"Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decision"
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Per SCOTUS, can't cancel student debt.
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Narrator:
"They could not, in fact, keep it."
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Remembering those times Trump asked his Def Sec and Joint Chief to send the army to shoot protesters with live ammunition and they refused, saying "uh no, that would be an illegal order."
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"The Founders were hardly all wise or all knowing, but they did understand a history that we have now forgotten. Thereβs a reason that they so carefully included accountability for governors, and presidents, and wanted it for kings."
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The question is, was he lying then, under oath, or is he lying now?
Roberts, confirmation hearing, 2005: βNo one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law.β
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"After our high court's betrayal today of the American experiment in self-governance, I wish genuinely that the British had prevailed in our war of revolution. I'd now be a citizen of a commonwealth democracy in which a monarch held ceremonial powers only."
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Never underestimate the radical optimism of Ukulele Guys.
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Reminder that Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all involved in the judicial coup in 2000 that installed Bush the Second as POTUS.
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SCOTUS "isn't really a court of law any moreβThe closest equivalent that I can think of is Iran's Guardian Council: a theocratic body with veto powers over basically all functions of government, dedicated to maintaining religious supremacy."
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Judgement delivered ironically on the first day of the month still β after 2,000 years β named for the dictator that began the terminal process of converting the Roman Republic into a hereditary Empire.
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No error detected:
"So Biden canβt forgive student loans but he can order a drone strike on the loan collectors?"
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