Wow.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
"In the solitude of a book, we find ourselves a little more willing to be vulnerable to having our mindset challenged." - Nick Raines
The main difference between people who want to ban books and me:
They would feel threatened by that quote.
I feel *energized* by it.
Colbert-Kimmel 2028: You can’t shut us up
Sign next to supermarket shelves reads “all deodorants are under video surveillance.”
Recently, there have been several stick-ups and one Axe murder (in the first Degree). Management has made no Secret of the need to increase security, but still haven’t found the Right Guard. Finding themselves underarmed, the crime wave continues to roll on.
Who did this? 😂
‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
Jesus wasn’t a big supply-side guy.
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
"The Giants win the game on a Little League home run. Tell me you've seen that one before."
"Well, not since my oldest son was 10 years old."
Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow react to the Giants beating the Rangers on a Little League home run from Heliot Ramos.
Canada is providing some education to the U.S. via billboards:
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
Excellent!! And remember that you may not always be totally fine, and that's normal. Stay strong, and keep all the good things going!!
"We are currently clean on OPSEC" has to be one of the nominees for the Irony Awards, which I just now decided needs to exist for this administration!
("OPSEC" = OPerational SECurity)
W!
Nobody will be fired over the national security group chat scandal because nobody was trying to get your Social Security check out on time.
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
The High Council of Analogy has met and agreed to allow this one
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
"Until this weekend..."
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers
Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers
Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
I believe not only does she have the gall, but she has far more gall than many of us will ever have to summon in our lives.
On Christmas Eve in 1991, 23-year-old Dana Ireland was found clinging to life on a secluded fishing trail on the Big Island of Hawaii. She had been riding her bicycle when she was hit by a car. She was driven five miles away to this spot where she was sexually assaulted and left for dead.
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From $488 to $241 in three months. Tesla shares now officially cut in half.
@cnbc.com $TSLA
Just as it never was about water fountains, or state's rights, or bathrooms.
