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My favorite from a grad school party back in the ‘90s: “I can top that. Ready? The student wrote: ‘The potato famine was located in Idaho. Hundreds of thousands of people died. The rest immigrated to America.’”

He was a TA for a 200 level history class. We all toasted him the winner.

We are the last generation of folks that grew up in the library. We looked things up in encyclopedias and dictionaries and retained what we learned because it took too long to look it up again!

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

THE “EPSTEIN CLASS”

The DOJ is using selective redactions and half lists that protect the powerful while intentionally confusing the public.

They’re protecting reputations, not survivors.
@khanna.house.gov

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

We need to talk about Don Imus and how much evil he platformed on Imus in the Morning. He was “Oprah” with the whack-a-doodle dirt bags before Oprah was.

You should have heard the rumors about that degenerate in the 1980s NYC club scene. It was obscene even then.

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Tom Homan Gets Big Mad On The Sunday Shows We watch so you never have to!

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What we learned about Homan from watching the Sunday Talking Heads:
Homan is a meat puppet, and he's more of the same as Bovino.
Jake Tapper is a pathetic blob of a human
Nothing will change unless we make them change it.
#blueCrew #ICEFascism

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Another nice wrap I made. This one inHayfield Aran
🧶 #knit #knitsky

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

He’s a sock puppet. Or a stocking horse. Stalking horse? I’ve only heard it said, but both would make sense.

My thoughts on Stephen A Smith potentially running for president are:

Could we please stop fucking electing celebrities and get back to the business of running the country with boring people who just want to do a good job.

Thanks

Wow. That’s awful.

Since 1982 for me. Never have I ever, either.

Alaska has the chance to do something hilarious. Since we have preferential voting, if the Republican candidates aren’t ranked in the primary, they won’t appear on the ballot in November.

Will we? Oh, hell no, because Alaskans as a rule aren’t that smart.

Yeah, well, I’d love to see our sitting senator go to the villages and tell people their tribal IDs don’t count under the SAVE Act. You don’t need a drivers license if you don’t have any roads, you know.

Where were you that an ID was required at the polls? I’ve never heard of that in any state I’ve lived in—and I’ve moved around almost like I’m military.

I have other reasons to distrust BLS data. I used to use constantly in my last job. It’s noticeably degrading and that makes me actually sad.

Narrator: Then it shouldn’t be happening.

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?

Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

But very on brand for Forbes.

back in my day politics wasn't about being nasty it was about being a Policy Wonk and trying not to sound too much like the Orson Welles ferris wheel speech from The Third Man when describing the societal role of government

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

WA Democrats consider retreat on estate tax, fearing wealth exodus Democrats in the state Legislature are moving to roll back a big increase in the estate tax rate, acknowledging it may be causing some very wealthy people to move.

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA "To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."

New in PN: "Just making s**t up" — @volts.wtf sounds off on the EPA

“How the f**k are they going to do that? If you can get the Supreme Court to rule carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.”

Your Presidents' Day reminder that patriotism isn't about attacking immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, or dividing us by race & faith. True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."