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@wirab

Retired physician. Reading “The Maverick’s Museum” by Blake Gopnik. Somerville, Mass.

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Our troops - and a couple of hundred children. Mention them?

07.03.2026 02:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Waiting for 15 Republican senators, or any 15 Republicans, to do the right thing is like waiting for Tinker Bell to spread fairy dust. We need street action, strikes.

07.03.2026 02:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yikes!
Thank you.

07.03.2026 02:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cigarette In My Hand - Old Ad 1991
Cigarette In My Hand - Old Ad 1991 YouTube video by raees raisi

90s Indian anti smoking PSAs were a trip, man

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEQI...

07.03.2026 01:39 👍 117 🔁 13 💬 16 📌 3

Was that pardon taken to apply to state crimes? I thought it could only affect federal crimes?

07.03.2026 02:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands

06.03.2026 23:35 👍 234 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 2

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 👍 14836 🔁 2668 💬 305 📌 120
Trump Defends Addition Of   Ballroom To    Air Force One

Trump Defends Addition Of   Ballroom To    Air Force One

Trump Defends Addition Of   Ballroom To    Air Force One https://theonion.com/trump-defends-addition-of-ballroom-to-air-force-one/

06.03.2026 17:00 👍 1054 🔁 102 💬 17 📌 6

“Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered
the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods
which interest dictates and credulity encourages.”

—Samuel Johnson (1758)

06.03.2026 13:48 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

wapo.st/3OUfaJg

06.03.2026 14:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It is notable that Markwayne Mullin's claim to Native American ancestry is not getting any of the blowback that Elizabeth Warren encountered. It is oddly difficult to ascertain exactly what his claim to Cherokee ancestery is. He is, curiously, describe as "passing for white."

06.03.2026 13:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is that a Death of Socrates over the mantel?

06.03.2026 04:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If they confirm him, they will get him out of the Senate, which I am sure would be a relief to many of them, however craven the motivation.

06.03.2026 04:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But none of that is why he fired her. It was lèse-majesté, saying he knew about the filming contract.

06.03.2026 04:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But she was not held accountable for any of that. Her offense was lèse-majesté.

06.03.2026 03:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Fish” can be both singular (one individual) and plural (multiple individuals of the same species.) “Fishes” is multiple species.

🐠 Fish

🐠🐠🐠 Fish

🐠🐡🐟 Fishes

Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

04.03.2026 11:54 👍 664 🔁 163 💬 53 📌 19
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Trump’s War On Iran: Myth Vs. Fact The White House has defended strikes on Iran, stating that the country’s leaders are “paying for their crimes against America.” The Onion examines the myths and facts surrounding President Trump’s war...

Trump’s War On Iran: Myth Vs. Fact — theonion.com/trumps-war-o...

06.03.2026 00:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since thou wert king—as who is king but thou?⁠—
The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack

05.03.2026 23:54 👍 328 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 5
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Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

05.03.2026 23:02 👍 1506 🔁 534 💬 26 📌 46

Limited education (only senator without a BA), not a critical thinker, modal response is aggression; entitled rich, evangelical, Trump sycophant.

Keep expectations low.

05.03.2026 20:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) an impressive way of laying out facts in a sensible and clear manner. His opening statement as Ranking Member of the House Armed Services committee is very much like that. Starts at 16:19.

www.c-span.org/event/house-...

05.03.2026 17:59 👍 74 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0
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The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz And Why the Disruption Will Last Four to Sixteen Months Longer Than Any Model on Wall Street Currently Prices

“The entire system of global maritime trade, carrying billions of dollars of cargo across the oceans every day, stands on a foundation that can be dissolved by a small number of private decisions taken in a handful of London boardrooms.”

open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

05.03.2026 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iran War, Day 6: The Fight Spreads, Congress Blinks, and Tehran Shows It Can Still Operate Day 6 is the point at which the war’s shape becomes harder to deny.

open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...

05.03.2026 16:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo artist, born #OTD 1696, master of decorative, illusionistic frescoes, with bold brushwork and vivid, luminous colours.
Royal Palace of Madrid

05.03.2026 05:58 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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@anntelnaes.bsky.social

05.03.2026 00:44 👍 226 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 0
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

04.03.2026 19:27 👍 2270 🔁 365 💬 199 📌 496

They blew up or drowned 150 people with absolutely no justification and it was a 10-minute story.

05.03.2026 01:11 👍 385 🔁 133 💬 9 📌 1
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Funds sought to open archive of renowned Dorset writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer Dorset Archives Trust launches £48,000 appeal to catalogue and digitise Sylvia Townsend Warner archive, preserving the Dorset author and LGBTQ+…

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2590162...

04.03.2026 07:14 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 3

Berger received Trump's endorsement here, allegedly in exchange for redrawing NC's congressional map to make Don Davis's seat redder.

04.03.2026 04:14 👍 47 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
The vote count in NC SD-26 showing Page at 13,077 and Berger at 13,075

The vote count in NC SD-26 showing Page at 13,077 and Berger at 13,075

Wow. With all precincts reporting—but some provisional and absentee ballots left to count—North Carolina Senate President Phil Berger is losing the GOP primary in NC SD-26 by TWO VOTES.

04.03.2026 04:13 👍 182 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 14