TK-S Is Here Now

Missouri is the Show-Me State. Schmitt does magnificently at showing everybody what a contemptible dickhead he is.

Notre Dame should have probably been in, but Miami is there instead so there would be a representative from the ACC, and that was apparently the best that conference had to offer (Duke, with five losses, somehow got to the ACC championship game and beat Virginia--in OT).

Ilhan Omar’s net worth:

2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

~ Kevin Sorbo ~

GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM | Kirkus Reviews Character study of the Marine hero who became a radical critic of the system he’d fought to uphold.

A biography of Gen. Butler, "Gangsters for Capitalism" by Jonathan Katz provides a good history of Butler and how he came to understand that war was indeed a racket.

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War Is a Racket - Wikipedia

And they wanted decorated “war hero” General Smedley Butler to lead it. Fortunately, he had broken the code and understood what was going on. He wrote “War is a Racket.”

Just as important a read today as ever!

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Oklahoma will host Alabama in the first round of the College Football Playoff, 7 p.m. Wednesday 12.19.2025.

One last home game to park. Too bad it's on a Wednesday. I'll still have to get up and go to work early the next day.

Amanda’s tragic story is just one of countless others. Trump & his MAGA Republicans enabled this.
More than 1 in 3 women in America now lives under an abortion ban, with more on the way. #RoeYourVote

Thusly one of the reasons I cannot fully embrace Gavin Newsom as a potential Democratic POTUS candidate.

This week's Oklahoma education notebook includes items on charter school applications, CareerTech enrollments, state Board of Education meeting dates, Mid-Del Schools and Oklahoma 529 #oklaed

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Schmitt is one of the senators from Missouri. Doesn't say a hell of a lot for Missouri. And you thought Oklahoma sucked?

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Thread.

Hicks, ex-owner of Rangers and Stars, dies at 79 Tom Hicks, the former owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars, has died at age 79.

If I'm not mistaken, Tom Hicks, in addition to having owned the Texas Rangers (MLB), Dallas Stars (NHL), and FC Liverpool, was also the Tom Hicks that owned what used to be known as ClearChannel (now known as IHeartRadio). He was 79.
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Gift link, because this is awesome:
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Once again--reading the alt text is *required*.

Ilhan Omar: "It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage ... it's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president."

She isn't wrong.

Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.

In Ukraine the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Hegseth needs to go. Now.

So does Cotton.

55 years ago today

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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots.

But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting.

What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare.

Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:

Sex-mad Dave the Duck had penis removed after mating 30-plus times a day Poor Dave has physically recovered - but his owner says he's no longer his old self

Yes, that’s right:

Roses are red
Daffodils are gay

Archived link: archive.is/SrAc5

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals Are you on Trump's naughty list?

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
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Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”

Murderer.

For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.

ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.

For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.

Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.

Don't know if everyone can access this article, so here is a gift link (I hope)
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This is a huge problem.

"Many members of Congress spend hours most day in call rooms, dialing for dollars for their next campaign. Imagine landing your dream job, only to discover that half your workday will be spent not on the work itself but on cold-calling strangers to beg for money."

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes