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OK, this Tucker Carlson impression on Saturday Night Live last night is uncanny! Has all the verbal tics and go-to phrases down, and nails the high-pitch cackle.
Caesar: Rome is no longer a republic
Cassius: Well this won’t bring down sandal prices
Brutus holding up a “This is not normal” auction paddle
Having a hard time believing this ides of March story, you're telling me senators did something other than send out fundraising texts
I assume some version of this "Black Panther" dialogue happened in the White House once in 2017 and never again
I was reading on my porch in short sleeves yesterday
Chalamet has become too full of himself, says person who writes like this
So being a scam is disqualifying now?
I say yes. Perfect match for Stan who came along just when he was lonely, and willing to walk away from a successful corporate job to work in the FBI’s personnel office? Because patriotism? Not buying it.
Happy π Day!
Yeah she called her mom a whore. Hard to walk that one back.
He’ll name a performing arts center after you?
Please come help me win the thing I already won. Pretty please.
I could imagine Paige visiting them in the mid-90s. It’s probably always too risky for them to come to the US.
ooh which show?
Trump "private national security briefing" = angry old racist tells you what he remembers from Jesse Watters' show last night
"Food Cops: Moscow" would slay
Also, we're sending Marines and warships, and begging other countries to join us, to defeat a military that's already been destroyed
Trump is hardly the first president to come up with transparently bullshit war updates, but he goes through several news cycles within one tweet
She just wanted to be a kinky secretary
My school is legit dying. But these aren't the reasons why.
Chronicle of Higher Ed op/ed: Universities and colleges are facing existential problems. Clearly it's the professors who are wrong www.chronicle.com/article/coll...
Ugh, such rachmunes for Martha
Who really won the Cold War? Mail Robot.
There could be a whole Paige spinoff
Me to my Soviet Politics TA in 1990
I finally finished The Americans, and all y’all who said it ends well were right.
Traditionally, "surrender" usually involves the surrendering party saying they are surrendering
Are the plans in the room with us now?