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Exactly 46 years since the Miracle on Ice! #TeamUSA 🥇🇺🇸

We should never have allowed the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln to be submerged in a meaningless "Presidents Day."

The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

The Sports Section With Swagger My old corner of The Washington Post raised some of the best journalists in the business.

“We had the best writers in the country and did more with less, and we knew it with a swagger.” Sally Jenkins pays tribute to The Washington Post’s Sports section:

Thank you, Mr. President.

Forty Years Later: Remembering Challenger, Launching the Future | Blogs | Challenger Center

40 years since they slipped the surly bonds of earth.

“Make your life count -- and the world will be a better place because you tried.” - Ellison Onizuka, #Challenger crew

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Pete Hegseth Should Sit This One Out By inserting himself into the situation in Minnesota, the secretary of defense is only making things worse.

"Pete Hegseth might consider adding another task to his many duties, one that would be of immense help to the nation and to the armed forces: He should shut up."

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Never forget that without Trump, these are people who would never have been within a million miles of any job that carries serious responsibilities - and they know it.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

What amazingly stupid international policy.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Success! #whamageddon

An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist A roundup of songs that evoke a new nostalgia

“I now find myself comforted less by the songs of my childhood and more by the music I came to love as a teen and young adult,” radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “I still have fond recollections of my childhood, but I also have a kind of newer nostalgia.”

MAHA Wins

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

This is what they voted for.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social had some great lines in this article. All of his articles have some great zingers, but this one was spectacularly spectacular

Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

“In effect, Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: Quiet, piggy.” Thanks, @radiofreetom.bsky.social

They’re calling it the Festivus Speech™️ because it was just 15 minutes worth of airing of grievances

THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young

son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's

very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

I agree. No one who supports Trump should be able to say "oh, I didn't see/hear about that post about Reiner."

“Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, we must resist it, resist it without bitterness or despair by being bright lights in a dark time.”

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So much senseless violence: Brown University, Bondi Beach, Rob and Michele Reiner. Devastating.