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Really getting this vibe a lot currently for some reason.

One Piece is silly stupid good escapist fun. Surprised how much I’m enjoying it.

Random thought: whichever GOP
senators get elected or reelected in 2026 have 6 more years ahead of them. Hyperbole aside, Trump has 2.

Which raises the (I think) serious question of how GOP senators might act no longer afraid of MAGA voters. Default of course is “not at all.”

Huh, I wonder if he really is an academic after all.

My sense from the data as well.

Good stuff. I hear an endless discourse about the "white working class" but rarely "the working class" and the politics thereof.

Wow.

Come on Celtics. I didn’t ask for this!

I’m pretty certain the conversation with the young lady he references never took place.

Reading this and thinking about how Sherrod Brown would have framed and described this anecdote about struggling constituents.

Quite differently I imagined.

A Democrat is ahead in the special to replace MTG lmaoooo

It’s been awhile! I’ll try to recreate what I did!

Don’t. I thought making a Malort sour would be a cool idea once.

It helps. A lot.

Would be curious to see this for other states too.

Grim thread worth a read if you’re in higher ed.

Impeached, and then again acquitted in the Senate, though I’d put even money on the odd of that at least being lower than during the first two impeachments.

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I used to waste years preparing gourmet meals. It was creative, an expression of my humanity, and fostered zen.

Thanks to McDonalds, I don't have to do that!

#Satire

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I’m so sorry to read this.

Polling error?

Lmao draft age kids don’t own Teslas, they’re trying to pay rent and oh yeah, eat.

Not that a man with rotting biltong for brains would understand this.

People laughed at Rumsfeld’s “known unknowns.” I’m not laughing.

It will be the best World Cup ever, Nick! Flawless and perfect! Huge and beautiful! Other countries will be talking about it for years!

Combining the worst of the mid-late 1970s with the worst of the early-mid 2000s. I wonder how this experiment will go?

Watch this space and buckle up.

92 year old Doge Dandolo of Venice sacking Constantinople is still (IMO) the historic bar of an ancient, decaying man slaughtering scores and causing uncountable destruction simply to feel alive.

But that gene sure has persistence.

This same person introduced me to Reza Shah, and Alexander Karageorgovich (aka the King of Yugoslavia). I should have been paying closer attention.

I had college mates who participated in the 1979 Revolution and then had to to flee as that coalition shredded. I learned from them.

At the same time one of my professors was a relative of the man who orchestrated the overthrow of Mossaddegh.

Strange time.