PBS Space Time: Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?

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A few weeks ago a large team of gravitational wave astronomers announced something pretty wild. The moderately confident detection of pervasive ripples in the fabric of space time that presumably fills the cosmos, detected by watching for subtle connections between the signals from rapidly spinning cores of dead stars in our galactic neighborhood. In other words, the gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.

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00:00 Introduction
01:02 Relativity and Gravitational Waves
02:21 Discovering Gravitational Waves
03:49 Gravitational Waves & Pulsars
05:04 Pulsar Timing Array Discovers GWB
06:48 Understanding the GWB
07:55 Are Pulsars Seeing Gravitational Waves?
09:00 Correlated & Anti-Correlated Pulsar Rates
10:07 Hellings and Downs Curve
11:44 Binary Supermassive Black Holes
13:39 NANOgrav Frequency Spectrum

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234 comments
1
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:45:48pm

We live in a jiggly universe.

2
austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:47:33pm

14 minutes to kickoff, US vs The Dutch.

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:51:41pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We live in a jiggly universe.

We do, which is pretty cool. There’s a LOT going on out there, much of it undetectable, until it is. We are still babbies at this whole cosmology thing, but we are getting incrementally better.

4
Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:54:08pm

Joe Rogan thought he would get a selfie with Axl Rose…

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:58:22pm

Amazing that all this stuff we discover in the universe is only 6,000 years old.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:59:16pm

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

Joe Rogan thought he would get a selfie with Axl Rose…

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Axl looks like he has lost a lot of weight, and that’s good.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:01:34pm

The scale of the cosmic events that produce waves like this is almost unimaginable. Our methods are now capable of detecting infinitesimally tiny waves generated by enormous cataclysms billions of light years away.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:09:55pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:11:02pm

People coming of age in the second half of the 21st century will curse the name of the Republican Party (and our political system in general, but especially the GOP) for undermining and stopping climate action for decades. Evil on a monumental, planet-wide scale.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:12:25pm

re: #8 Captain Ron

I always have to ask whether McConnell would have been as gracious if the positions were reversed.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:15:00pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:15:06pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

I always have to ask whether McConnell would have been as gracious if the positions were reversed.

Apparently, yes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:17:37pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

I always have to ask whether McConnell would have been as gracious if the positions were reversed.

Not a chance.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:18:45pm

re: #12 Captain Ron

Apparently, yes.

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Fine. I’m wrong.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:19:53pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The scale of the cosmic events that produce waves like this is almost unimaginable. Our methods are now capable of detecting infinitesimally tiny waves generated by enormous cataclysms billions of light years away.

Let me be the actually guy here:

Actually, the waves are hyoooge. Extremely long wavelengths. Hence the need to use pulsars separated by many light years.

It’s the stiffness of space which makes them difficult to detect. Space is not very pliable, much less so than any material we know. So the wave amplitudes are small (by the time they get to us.)

The changes in pulsar timings are small, too, but we have clocks that now are extremely precise.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:21:35pm

re: #15 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Reload for addition.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:24:08pm

re: #14 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Fine. I’m wrong.

Not totally. I think he failed to stand up to the assholes in his party that were making jokes about it. That would be courage.

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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:26:00pm

DeSantis Trade School

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:30:56pm

re: #18 sagehen

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Video

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:31:09pm

we really do have some old tired motherfuckers running this country, and i say that as someone who ain’t no spring chicken himself

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:33:13pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:44:42pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:47:24pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

“Their venom isn’t anything much” sounds OK except this is Australia.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:53:00pm

MFA - Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs -Equivalent to US State Department

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:55:39pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

“Their venom isn’t anything much” sounds OK except this is Australia.

Which has Australians, apparently. 😂😂😂

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:58:13pm

Well, we stunk up the pitch in the first half. Our midfield sucked.

They’ve got to bring on Pino +/- 70 minutes and Rose Lavelle, or we are going to go 2-0 down.

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Mike Lamb  Jul 26, 2023 • 6:59:50pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

“Their venom isn’t anything much” sounds OK except this is Australia.

Only causes excruciating pain and temporary paralysis, as opposed to instant death.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:04:07pm

re: #8 Captain Ron

And if Biden had the medical emergency McConnell would throw a kegger.

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:04:17pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

“Their venom isn’t anything much” sounds OK except this is Australia.

Everything, everywhere, in that poor benighted desert continent is intent on killing you.

Known fact.

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:05:30pm

Yes! Rose is on!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:07:06pm

re: #12 Captain Ron

Apparently, yes.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:08:54pm

re: #19 Florida Panhandler

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If so then the “trainers” did a piss poor job of it for 200+ years

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Dave In Austin  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:10:38pm

“Cosmic Time Machine”, part of the “Unknown series” on Netflix is worth your time.
netflix.com

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:10:51pm

re: #18 sagehen

Watching that idiot blather on about ‘the pluses of slavery’ I wondered, “Are the chairs in that studio nailed down? Because that man really needs a chair broken across his head.”

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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:20:59pm

re: #29 austin_blue

Everything, everywhere, in that poor benighted desert continent is intent on killing you.

Known fact.

Including Kylie Minogue and the Helmsworths.

It’s no coincidence that Rupert Murdoch is Australian.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:34:45pm

re: #34 Romantic Heretic

Watching that idiot blather on about ‘the pluses of slavery’ I wondered, “Are the chairs in that studio nailed down? Because that man really needs a chair broken across his head.”

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:45:00pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:54:56pm

Beautiful. Beautiful.
Gone too soon.

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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:55:14pm

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

“…My concern about gerontocracy isn’t “old people are bad” but more “a combination of corporate electoral spending and party machine politics allow the same people to hold power for decades with next to zero responsibility to their voters thus making a mockery of democracy”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 26, 2023 • 7:55:45pm

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:03:39pm

re: #30 austin_blue

Yes! Rose is on!

And she delivers the Corner that ties the game!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:07:05pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:16:37pm

hi

We’re back from podiatry, dinner, and a movie.

We saw “Barbie” in Scottsbluff in a forty-one seat Dolby Surround theatre. (We wanted to see it at the drive-in but the show is sold out for the next couple weeks.) Cooler inside anyway.

Holy crap, I haven’t laughed so hard at a comedy in a very long time. Tears streaming down cheeks laughing.

And without giving a spoiler, the very last line of the movie had me doubled-over in laughter (along with every other adult in the theatre).

Before the film started, since we were early, I spoke with the manager about the social media phenomenon of “Barbenheimer” and all the poster mash-ups, fake trailers, &c. He said a number of people were encouraged to see “Barbie” because of those comments and videos. That’s the kind of advertising a company could only dream of getting.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:19:19pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:22:04pm

“Imagine being manipulated by Big Kev so easily?”


.


.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:37:18pm

So my instructor pulled a fast one on me and taught me a Goose song. Now I have seen a few Goose videos and they appear to be a candidate for Jam-band status but they seem a little formulaic. That said, Hungersite is a fairly fun tune and a quick learn.

Goose - Hungersite (Official Music Video)

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:37:44pm

re: #45 ckkatz

“Imagine being manipulated by Big Kev so easily?”

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So basically the idea is Qev is doing as John of Orange did, giving the “Freedom” backbenchers their “special committee” with no plans to ever progress past that but giving them a time sink that also kept the “scandal” alive in the press through the next election season.

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:49:22pm

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:50:59pm

Sigh. I miss my Rat Terriers.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:53:22pm

re: #49 A Cranky One

Sigh. I miss my Rat Terriers.

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I miss my little rat.

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:56:40pm

Dang. We topped out at 103 today, which ended a run of 104 and above for 18 days, a historical record in Austin.

We will also set the record for the hottest July in History, which was set in…

(checks notes) 2022.

As I have posted previously, 104 is 40 (commie) and any wind is brutal rather than refreshing.

103 is so much better.

///

Apparently, next week is going to be HOT.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 8:58:59pm
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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:04:04pm

FREEZE PEACH

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:13:44pm

On the previous thread’s video, at 37:58, Cody Johnston notes (in regard to fixing systemic problems rather than symptoms), “A lot of charities know this, and work to fix the problem” (then flashes the logo of RFK, Jr’s Children’s Defense Fund on the screen).

Children’s Defense Fund isn’t trying to fix anything, either a symptom or the underlying problem, because vaccines aren’t either and he wants to scaremonger about them.

Which begs the question “Is Cody Johnston an antivaxxer,” because he just moved on in his monologue. He didn’t call out Children’s Defense Fund, he just said they are trying to fix the underlying problem they were formed to address.

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retired cynic  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:15:25pm

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

RFK, not JFK

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:19:29pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 9:38:24pm

re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

On the previous thread’s video, at 37:58, Cody Johnston notes (in regard to fixing systemic problems rather than symptoms), “A lot of charities know this, and work to fix the problem” (then flashes the logo of JFK, Jr’s Children’s Defense Fund on the screen).

Children’s Defense Fund isn’t trying to fix anything, either a symptom or the underlying problem, because vaccines aren’t either and he wants to scaremonger about them.

Which begs the question “Is Cody Johnston an antivaxxer,” because he just moved on in his monologue. He didn’t call out Children’s Defense Fund, he just said they are trying to fix the underlying problem they were formed to address.

I don’t always share Cody’s views on issues, but this would be an absolute deal breaker for me if he were anti-vax.

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mmmirele  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:06:30pm

We got an emergency weather announcement for a dust storm about an hour ago. Never got the dust storm, but it has started raining. Temperatures are dropping into the 90s, which is usually the temp around ~4 am before it starts going up again.

The rain is not going to last all that long, I don’t think.

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IngisKahn  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:10:50pm

re: #58 mmmirele

Got dust in west Mesa, radar looks scary.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:14:28pm

For the Alt History buffs:

What If America Stayed Out of WWI?


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Click to Reveal

I think a better question, a more impactful question, to ask is what if the US did not supply arms and material to the Entente even from the start.

While American soldiers were not that impactful, all the material and weapons we supplied was.

I suspect there would have been a truce called much earlier, as Germany may have been able to march on Paris or crippled the UK supply lines.

That would not have stopped the Russian Revolution, though its outcome may have been altered.

And I suspect a second world war would have broken out even earlier.

Say that a truce was called in 1916 and borders set to where they were close to the beginning of the war.

That would work in Europe, but in Turkey it is likely fighting would continue among the various groups. It would be chaos.

Eventually, because of the fall of the Ottomans, the likely spread of civil war out of Russia, and independence movements in occupied Poland, another war would come.

And with another decade of development in industry and aircraft, a renewed war in say 1932 would have had more air power than WWI, more destructive weapons, etc.

The alt history in the video is reasonable but undersells the eventuality of continuous warfare in Europe.

What is being overlooked in that video is that WWI was the inevitable outcome of centuries of colonialism, the industrial revolution, and the rejection of monarchies and the collapse of Christianity as a legitimizing force for said monarchies.

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teleskiguy  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:18:32pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:50:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:53:51pm

re: #55 retired cynic

RFK, not JFK

Fixed.

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Egregious Philbin  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:57:02pm

We actually got rain in Phoenix! Monsoon storm for the last hour. Got everything good and wet, lowered the temps by about 15 degrees or so. Man, we needed this, really really needed this….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:21:43pm

re: #19 Florida Panhandler

SKLAVEREI MACHT ARBEIT UND ARBEIT MACHT FREI

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mmmirele  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:34:43pm

re: #64 Egregious Philbin

We actually got rain in Phoenix! Monsoon storm for the last hour. Got everything good and wet, lowered the temps by about 15 degrees or so. Man, we needed this, really really needed this….

Yeah, it’s still raining on and off. I’m good with that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:43:09pm

In the tropical North Atlantic, the tropical wave which was threatening Fla., Ga., and SC has disintegrated. So has the wave which pushed into the Caribbean Sea. To the southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, the National Hurricane Center gives that system a 40% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone as it trucks west across the Atlantic.

In the Eastern and Central Pacific, there is no activity.

In the Western Pacific, Doksuri has dramatically weakened, now down to 75 knots. It is clearing the channel between The Philippines and Taiwan. Otherwise, the prognostication from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center remains unchanged: The cyclone should hit the coast of China in roughly twenty-four hours, then weaken as it drives inland to the river valley which feeds Shanghai before being downgraded to a tropical depression.

El Nino seems to still be suppressing tropical storm development, despite the high water temperatures.

[My Internet service went out for about five minutes in the middle of writing this. I don’t know if it will stay. It went out last night in clear calm weather, which we have again tonight.]

However, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric notes the peak of hurricane season is an eight-week period from the middle of August to the middle of October. 87% of all tropical systems on record have occurred in that period. For more on why that is: noaa.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:54:41pm

I don’t need to put in the hashtag, because we know who doesn’t commit these crimes.

Another day, another pastor. (WFLA-TV, Tampa, six hours ago)

This is the fourth time in one week. No word on when they’ll let him out again (can’t jail good Christian pastors y’know).

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A 76-year-old retired pastor is accused of exposing himself to a nine-year-old girl on July 21.

According to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, the victim and her family were at a community pool in Wesley Chapel. As the girl was swimming nearby the suspect, Allen Farabee, had exposed his genitals and placed it in his hand in front of her.

The victim explained she saw Farabee touching himself, and believed he exposed himself five times, according to the arrest report. She told deputies she felt uncomfortable due to Farabee’s constant staring.

During the investigation, Farabee was observed through surveillance footage putting goggles on and going underwater, facing the victim. The video showed the suspect going underwater at the same time as the young girl multiple times.

When a deputy interviewed Farabee at his home, Farabee said his genitals may have been exposed while adjusting his speedo.

According to the affidavit, he was arrested the day prior for similar allegations at the same pool. He later admitted to being an exhibitionist, being excited in the pool and exposing his genitals multiple times.

Farabee was arrested on July 21 for lewd and lascivious exhibition. He was arrested July 20 for exposure of sexual organs and indecent exposure. He was taken to Land O’ Lakes Detention Facility.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:06:51am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:16:14am

YouTube “influencer” (the term is correct, because she indoctrinates young people) Pearl Davis (JustPearlyThings, 1.64MM subscribers) is arguing on Twitter (same name with a strudel [@]) that oppressing LGBT+ people is not bad: They need to be oppressed.

I’m not gay, but I know when Christians argue for the need to oppress people, they mean kill them. And I’m in a group they’ve always wanted to kill (even longer than LGBT+ people).

Oppression is good, actually! Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:18:00am

re: #69 DodgerFan1988

Earlier today Moms for Liberty (originally one Republican mom schoolboard member who bitterly lost an election in Florida) argued for no healthcare in schools.

That is the context of the Xcretement, mental healthcare is still healthcare.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:28:06am

A s long as I’m up at 3am from cat meowing…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:32:34am

them, July 25, 2023

This TikTok Account Proves It’s Not Drag Queens Who Are “Grooming” Kids. It’s Pastors

“Attorney Kristen Browde is exposing the data on who’s actually committing child sex crimes, and it’s exactly who you think.”

Kristen Browde [goes to TikTok] has amassed over 380,000 followers on TikTok by debunking the anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” myth, and no one is more shocked by her success on the platform than she is. “TikTok is supposed to be this app where teenagers do dance moves, but it turns out it’s an incredibly effective political organizing tool,” she tells Them in an interview. “I am delighted that people are finding this useful information and are sharing it.”

Browde, an attorney and former correspondent for CBS News, posts weekly videos aggregating local media reports of children being targeted by sexual predators, sourced from keyword searches on Google and DuckDuckGo, as well as tips from followers. (She posts all her data at her website whoismakingnews.com, where it’s available for anyone to download.) In the six months since she created her first TikTok video, she has noticed a continuing trend: that very few of the perpetrators who are being arrested for preying on kids are drag queens or trans people, the targets du jour of the right. Instead, Browde found that the individuals who are responsible for the vast majority of reported incidents hail from the very groups pointing the finger at the LGBTQ+ community, from religious leaders to Republican politicians. “They’re the ones who are committing the crimes,” she says. “They’re the ones who are doing this.”

The subject is a personal one for Browde, a 73-year-old trans woman who recently relocated from New York to Miami to help combat attacks on LGBTQ+ equality led by Gov. Ron DeSantis. TikTok has played an important role in that effort in more ways than one: Browde’s account now brings in about $1,000 a month on the platform, and she donates the proceeds to advocacy groups like Equality Florida. In a year that has seen DeSantis sign bills into law that limit trans youth medical care and further restrict LGBTQ+ education in schools, she tells Them in a 40-minute phone conversation that she will continue to do whatever it takes to be an ally in the fight: “Anything I can do to help, I’m all in.”

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:43:20am

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ms. Browde divvies up the numbers of sex crimes against children between drag queens, transgender people, gay and lesbian people, pastors and priests, and Republicans over the last twenty-two weeks. (That’s when she moved to Florida to try to fight Gov. DeSantis’s hate bills and started tracking the crimes.)

She is answering the two most-common deflections: There are fewer trans people, and the problem is spread equally amongst liberals and conservatives.

The numbers do not lie. She provides the sources for her data. Pastors are the overwhelming majority. Of politicians, the numbers are overwhelmingly Republicans.

Statistics (3:01, goes to TikTok)

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:47:27am

re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s like that old, well-worn slasher film trope: “The calls are coming from inside the house!”

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Targetpractice  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:48:46am

re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For the Alt History buffs:

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American public opinion in the early years of WWI was much like it is today with regards to Ukraine: “We’ll happily sell them all the guns and bullets they want, but we don’t want to fight in somebody else’s war.” Thus American “neutrality” was in name only for the most part, with American businesses happy to sell their goods to whoever had money and American banks happy to advance lines of credit to any government that could make the payments. For the Entente to be denied access to materiel from the US, the Wilson government would have had to pass legislation to bar their governments from doing business with American businesses. Given that America’s view of businesses in those days was even more “laissez-faire” than it is today, the idea of rejecting billions in foreign contracts would have been unthinkable.

But assuming for a second that the Wilson government went that far and Europe as a whole had no access to US arms and materiel, then the scenario is likely still the same: the war eventually grinds to a halt and depends on one side or the other struggling to keep fighting until unrest on the other side forces both to go to the negotiation table. In such a timeline, odds are that the “peace” of the following decade(s) would be an unhappy one, with no clear winner and a whole lot more animosity between the nations of Europe and towards the US than in our timeline. There might be no “stabbed in the back” narrative to aid the rise of the Nazis, but there would still be a lot of anger that would see a slow grind towards war preparations and eventually further conflict before the century’s end.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:01:24am

re: #76 Targetpractice

The video mentions the American Army’s “Red” plan in the early 20th century, wherein the US Army had a contingency plan for military operations in Canada should relationships with the UK go south.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:06:09am

The Christians are getting organised, and it’s scary.

Presidential Transition Project (Project 2525)

It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.

This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.

(more at the link)

Listed at the bottom of the page are all the groups associated with them.

TL;DR, the goal of the organisation is to identify people at all levels who are willing to work to destroy regulatory agencies at all levels of government, and impose a Christian state.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:10:04am

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Requiem : II Kyrie





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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:14:30am

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Heritage Foundation doing its thing.

It’s always got to rebrand its efforts for dominion.

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ericblair  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:24:30am

re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The video mentions the American Army’s “Red” plan in the early 20th century, wherein the US Army had a contingency plan for military operations in Canada should relationships with the UK go south.

That, and you got to give the plans staffers something to do.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:37:17am

re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Heritage Foundation doing its thing.

It’s always got to rebrand its efforts for dominion.

The Heritage Foundation is only one of the seventy Christian, conservative, and libertarian groups which are part of the organisation.

The full list is on their “Advisory Board” page. Some fun groups and people are Moms Fascists for Liberty and Steve Bannon.

project2025.org

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Targetpractice  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:49:03am

re: #69 DodgerFan1988

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Ammosexuals are located on the same branch of the “Tree of Liberty” as the “Parental Rights” crowd, namely self-centered jackasses whose entire thought process can be summed up as “Other people are the problem.” Ammosexuals will scream until hoarse that the problem of mass shootings would be “solved” if you kept “mentally ill” persons from obtaining guns…until you suggest we add barriers such as psychological exams in the gun purchasing process at which time suddenly “mental illness” is less important than “MAH RIGHTS!!!”

Similarly, “parental rights” is sacred and totally above debate…until you suggest parents should have the power to assist their kids in affirming their gender or sexual preference, at which time you’re guilty of “child abuse” and the state has a duty to strip your child away from you in order to receive “treatment.” Why? Because believing yourself attracted to the same sex or that your “birth gender” is incorrect is “mental illness” and the state has an obligation to get your child “treated” so they grow up as “normal.”

Yes, I’m sure by this point you can see where these two thought processes cross: That any who do not meet their idea of “normal” are “mentally ill” and thus the state is obligated to take steps (up to and including involuntary commitment/incarceration) to be “treated” until they conform. And yes, this is one of the central hallmarks of virtually every authoritarian government throughout history and has led to the deaths of millions in order to ensure “normality.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 2:02:23am

One more video from Ms. Browde. Someone asked her to weigh in on the recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling allowing the Mormon Church to cover up child rape.

The likelihood is if you belong to a Christian denomination in the USA, your church organisation has opposed reforming the law to make it easier to prosecute child rapists in your state.

She notes that the ruling is an expansive reading of the so-called Priest-Penitent exemption, which prohibits law enforcement to enforce the law against confessions to priests and pastors. (Contrary to popular belief, that has never been required to be a formal confession in some sort of sacrament. It’s like attorney-client privilege but doesn’t have a crime-fraud exception. Rape, theft, murder, all good.)

In that case, a girl made an outcry to a bishop of the church that her father was raping her. Not only that, he uploaded video of rapes to Faceborg (there was no question the rapes happened). The bishop said they’d handle it. They didn’t report it to the cops (that would bring shame upon the congregation), and the father continued to rape her for seven more years. When her infant sister came along, dad started raping her too.

The girl took several people from her church to court, arguing they all had a duty to protect her and they knew what was going on.

Every attempt to reform these laws are opposed by literally every church denomination.

Her data may not be up-to-date. The most current data on which states and territories allow priests and pastors to cover up rape when someone comes to them with information is at childwelfare.gov

Clergy as Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect

It is a dismal read.

Privilege denied in cases of child abuse or neglect:
GU, NH, WV (that’s it)

Can be included in a state law’s “any person must report” designation:
NC, OK, RI, TX

Everywhere else clergy can cover up child rape legally. This is Christian Privilege writ large. Civilised countries don’t allow Christians to cover up child rape.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 2:07:38am

re: #83 Targetpractice

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Similarly, “parental rights” is sacred and totally above debate…until you suggest parents should have the power to assist their kids in affirming their gender or sexual preference, at which time you’re guilty of “child abuse” and the state has a duty to strip your child away from you in order to receive “treatment.” Why? Because believing yourself attracted to the same sex or that your “birth gender” is incorrect is “mental illness” and the state has an obligation to get your child “treated” so they grow up as “normal.”

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It’s not just that. They are overwhelmingly Christians. They don’t just want the right to control their children the way they see fit: They also want the right to control YOUR children the way they see fit.

All of this (book banning, bombing abortion clinics, murdering doctors and nurses, denying LGBT+ rights, overturning divorce laws, reimposing segregation, &c) is all based in Christians wanting to impose their religions on everyone else. There are simply not enough so-called moderate or liberal Christians willing to stand in their way (they have always been the minority of the religion).

When you believe your deity commands you to do something, and someone is in the way of your deity, you will literally do anything including kill to impose your God’s will.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 2:26:36am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m coming around to Joe Bacon’s idea of taxing churches without exception.

My position has been that the part of church income which is not directed toward (actual) charity should be taxable.

But nearly every church denomination in the USA has used their tax-free donations to lobby state legislatures to keep their right to cover up child rape beyond the reach of the law.

I’m not exactly an anti-theist, but when things like this Arizona case comes up I find theism (organised or not) incompatible with civilisation.

Like conservatives still bitter about losing their slaves 150 years ago, Christians are still bitter about losing their absolute stranglehold on governance during the Enlightenment.

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Targetpractice  Jul 27, 2023 • 2:32:34am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s not just that. They are overwhelmingly Christians. They don’t just want the right to control their children the way they see fit: They also want the right to control YOUR children the way they see fit.

All of this (book banning, bombing abortion clinics, murdering doctors and nurses, denying LGBT+ rights, overturning divorce laws, reimposing segregation, &c) is all based in Christians wanting to impose their religions on everyone else. There are simply not enough so-called moderate or liberal Christians willing to stand in their way (they have always been the minority of the religion).

When you believe your deity commands you to do something, and someone is in the way of your deity, you will literally do anything including kill to impose your God’s will.

Yep. And part of this belief system is the simplistic idea that any mindset that does not comport with their own is an indication of “mental illness.” You believe in anything other than the “One True Faith”? You must be mentally ill because nobody who’s in their right mind could believe anything other than what everybody else believes. LGBTQ+? You gotta be crazy to feel sexual attraction (or a lack thereof) to anything other than members of the opposite sex. Think women should have free will and autonomy? The Good Book says women are effectively pets to their husbands and slaves to the men in their family, you must be nuts to think otherwise. And so on and so forth.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 2:48:04am

re: #87 Targetpractice

Yep. And part of this belief system is the simplistic idea that any mindset that does not comport with their own is an indication of “mental illness.” You believe in anything other than the “One True Faith”? You must be mentally ill because nobody who’s in their right mind could believe anything other than what everybody else believes. LGBTQ+? You gotta be crazy to feel sexual attraction (or a lack thereof) to anything other than members of the opposite sex. Think women should have free will and autonomy? The Good Book says women are effectively pets to their husbands and slaves to the men in their family, you must be nuts to think otherwise. And so on and so forth.

As a child I was told my atheism was a phase by my grandparents. (I lived with them while my mother went to college.)

The only good my maternal grandparents did with that is I was such a shame to the family that they did not tell others in my family I did not believe. (They still forced me to go to church.) Families, like churches, care about their appearances, so if they don’t throw away their children for lack-of-belief, they will cover it up so others don’t find out (to evade shame).

When the news did come out (during my failed reëlection campaign in 2018), the response was swift, as every one of my so-called liberal Christian relatives disowned me. The only one who will speak to me is my mother (she is an “agnostic”).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 2:57:16am

State Senator Kathleen Kauth is the author of the Nebraska trans hate bill.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:03:16am

Coming soon to you:

GPT-4 Architecture, Infrastructure, Training Dataset, Costs, Vision, MoE

[…]

Over the next few years, multiple companies such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI/Microsoft will train models on supercomputers worth over one hundred billion dollars. Meta is burning over $16 billion a year on the “Metaverse”, Google waste’s $10 billions a year on a variety of projects that will never come to fruition. Amazon has lost over $50+ billion on Alexa. Cryptocurrencies wasted over $100 billion on nothing of value.

These firms and society in general can and will spend over one hundred billion on creating supercomputers that can train single massive model. These massive models can then be productized in a variety of ways. That effort will be duplicated in multiple counties and companies. It’s the new space race. The difference between those prior wastes and now is that with AI there is tangible value that will come from the short term from human assistants and autonomous agents.

[…]

Lots of money out there circulating, all to become the agent to end humankind.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:04:10am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

You don’t have to ask. You know he’s a bastard who wouldn’t do the same.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:09:05am

Well, since I took my wife to the podiatrist, dinner, and a movie last night (one of those three is not like the others), she’s going to repay me in a few days when I have to see the VA podiatrist in Cheyenne.

She’s going to hunt down who’s playing “Oppenheimer” in Cheyenne so we can see that movie. (I’ll need to go back to see “Barbie” again to wipe out all the doom-and-gloom, plus catch all the jokes and jibes I missed the first time round.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:33:11am

Your state government on Christianity.

A 45-year-old got pregnant in a state with a ban on abortions. She flew across the country to get one (CNN, July 9, 2023)

When 45-year-old Victoria realized she was five weeks late and the lines showed as positive on two pregnancy tests, the New Orleans resident dreamed up a plan to get an abortion.

Traveling out of state was the only abortion option for Victoria, who asked CNN to withhold her last name out of fear of backlash against her and her family. Louisiana is one of several states that have essentially banned all abortions.

“It was probably one of the hardest things I’ve had to go through, from the moment of discovering that I was pregnant at age 45 to actually having to have to take time off work, travel across the country, do a meeting with a doctor, and then take the pills and then skedaddle back home and then go to work like nothing had happened,” Victoria told CNN of her experience earlier this year.

Victoria’s story about the distance she traveled and the hardships she endured to get an abortion reflects a wider American reality, where women seeking the procedure must navigate through a patchwork of states with varying levels of access.

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nowherenorth2  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:33:33am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I work for my county’s cps in very very very north New York. We have had the same thing happen here. We are embroiled in a fight over whether clergy should be mandated reporters.

The church, specifically a very far right group, say no and that it makes it so people would not “confess sins” to clergy. The church has a member who has been credibly accused and found guilty of abusing his own children. The church has said the member is “cured” because they go to weekly counseling via the church.

We took the family to court and because of his affiliation with the church and the appeal of its members, the member was only given an acd and orders of supervision.

The case continues to be called in because there are allegations and suspicions they aredoing it now to the other younger children.

To make matters worse, a member of the church is an affiliate of our local board of legislators and is like the liaison between dss and the board. And board members are know to meet with and engage with the church on various things. Yes. We are a very red county. Why do you ask?

I know I do not speak a lot here. But at work I am known for not holding my tongue. The church liaison guy was doing a tour of our building and meeting staff. We were told we could ask questions. I said I would like to ask if their church follows the saying “Jesus loves the little children” too literally.

Needless to say, I was sent out to meet with families that day.

Back to obscurity.

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TarHellion  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:37:03am

Felt good to have this Birbie flap around

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:37:19am

re: #95 nowherenorth2

Perhaps you should comment more often. You have personal experience which I think would benefit everyone here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:38:26am

Considering the number of physicians and nurses fleeing the fascist states, I wonder how long before the Fascist Party passes state laws automatically stripping medical licenses of anyone who moves out of state?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:39:10am

I’m going to head to bed.

I suspect my dreams will be very pink after last night’s movie. /s

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nowherenorth2  Jul 27, 2023 • 3:44:33am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Maybe I should. We will see. Obscurity has worked so far.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 27, 2023 • 4:13:56am
Soldiers in the West African country of Niger have announced a coup on national TV.

They said they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed the nation’s borders.

Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been held by troops from the presidential guard since early on Wednesday.

He was promised Washington’s “unwavering support” in a call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

UN Secretary General António Guterres also said he had spoken to the president and offered the UN’s full support to the uranium-rich country.

Mr Bazoum is a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militancy in West Africa.

bbc.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 4:32:05am

Overnight, Politico found and posted the proposed plea agreement between the DoJ and Hunter Biden, the subject of the kerfuffle which has been blowing up the Interwebs the last couple of days. Popehat updated his analysis here. TL;DR: No, the Trump-appointed judge is not scuppering a deal because the idiot Republicans asked her to, nor because of any personal animus toward Hunter Biden. The plea agreement was very incautiously drafted by the government, and Biden’s lawyers clearly didn’t think through all the ramifications of all the things in the document when they agreed to it. (Popehat said later, on social media, that this appears to be a product of the two sides staring at the same paperwork for years on end, and losing sight of what it might mean to people who haven’t been “in the know.”) When the plea agreement was presented to the judge, she, quite rightly, started shooting it full of all kinds of holes, at which both the government and Biden’s lawyers went, “Oh, SHIT,” and thus the agreement was temporarily called off while the judge sent the parties back to finish their homework.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 4:38:41am

My original intro to this post is a spoiler, so it’s in the tag with my result. Result is a birbie, for those who don’t want to be spoiled.

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Nojay UK  Jul 27, 2023 • 4:49:13am

re: #101 Shropshire Slasher

There was a weird incident a few years back where a four-man team of US soldiers deployed in Niger got killed in action. It was never a big news thing, not like BENGHAZIIIIII!!!

I figured it was a Spec Ops team who got ambushed and killed and no-one who actually knew what was going on was going to talk about it. It was a while ago so it might not have anything to do with this coup attempt.

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:06:11am

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The scale of the cosmic events that produce waves like this is almost unimaginable. Our methods are now capable of detecting infinitesimally tiny waves generated by enormous cataclysms billions of light years away.

Events that occurred billions of years ago - before the Earth even existed. In the intervening billions of years we have dinosaurs, multiple mass extinction events, and everything from the past several centuries that created the technology necessary to do this kind of detection, plus the math and physics that can describe or predict it.

Wild stuff.

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:11:16am

I know that we’re seeing hot tub water temps off Florida’s coast. Media reports are calling it record temps. It’s record temps since we started keeping records - that goes back only a few decades at best. We have indirect evidence that these temperatures are record temps going back much further, based on other pieces of evidence, like tree rings, fossil records, etc.

What we do know is that record warm waters are unsustainable for life that we all depend on - coral reefs that provide habitat for fish, water currents that help redistribute warm waters to cooler water regions (the Gulf Stream) are likely to see disruptions, and more ominously, severe cyclonic storms will occur as hurricanes that cross these hot waters will get supercharged by bombogenesis and cause widespread destruction.

GOP naysayers will bury their heads in the sand, but the reality is that everyone faces this peril, even those well inland as weather patterns get disrupted, monsoon rains occur where they shouldn’t (or are far more severe or don’t occur at all), and severe weather occurs at the extremes because as more energy is imparted into the climate, all manner of weather gets more severe. That’s what we’ve done to the planet - we’ve imparted more energy to the atmosphere and the oceans, and the laws of thermodynamics require balancing the equation.

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:24:02am
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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:29:18am

re: #107 lawhawk

McConnell has fallen multiple times this year, and now uses a wheelchair to get through airports.

The more we learn of McConnell’s frail health, the more it looks like yesterday’s incident was a TIA. That could help explain the motor skill issues and his abrupt stop in talking.

The thing is that the GOP has no one else who is nearly as effective as he is. None of the current GOP can even hold a candle to what McConnell has managed to do over the past few decades, including hand delivering SCOTUS to Trump to install a majority right wing extremist bench.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:30:32am

Enjoy this episode of The Rookies, originally broadcast on 8 October, 1973:

The Rookies Oct 8, 1973

Never heard of this show until today, TBH.

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Belafon  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:32:06am

So the Fed raised interest rates again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:35:15am

re: #110 Belafon

So the Fed raised interest rates again.

ECB is about to follow suit

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:35:20am

re: #110 Belafon

So the Fed raised interest rates again.

They did.

They also indicated that there’s no longer a chance of recession this year.

All of that is to the chagrin of the GOP, that was hoping for a recession to make Biden’s reelection chances that much worse. The GOP will renew their efforts to wreck the economy by what means they have at their disposal, including government shutdowns and attempts to roll back Biden’s signature efforts like the infrastructure bill that not only helped stave off a recession, but helped the economy grow significantly.

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 5:48:14am

There are a couple of significant reasons there are fewer public pools than a few days ago. There are fewer people interested in lifeguarding and maintaining the pools, which means there’s not enough coverage for existing pools.

Structurally, public pools were closed to “save” costs and because racists across the nation didn’t want “those people” in their pools. Rather than making them desegregated, they would close the pools and create private swimming clubs, making it unaffordable for poorer folks to go. Beaches are often further away from urban areas, and beaches have additional hazards such as rip currents that increase drowning risk. You don’t want to learn to swim in an ocean since that’s not a controlled environment compared to a pool.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:01:34am

Morning all….

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:08:06am

4/6 for the Wordle thing

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wrenchwench  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:09:10am

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:10:32am

re: #104 Nojay UK

There was a weird incident a few years back where a four-man team of US soldiers deployed in Niger got killed in action. It was never a big news thing, not like BENGHAZIIIIII!!!

I figured it was a Spec Ops team who got ambushed and killed and no-one who actually knew what was going on was going to talk about it. It was a while ago so it might not have anything to do with this coup attempt.

From what I understand, they knew what they were getting into (or so someone said I believe).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:23:30am

re: #114 Dave In Austin

Morning all….

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For those who can’t read threads, can you give us the TLDR synopsis?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:33:35am

re: #118 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The deep fryer for Desiree following this is amazing

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:33:52am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:33:58am

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Dr. Matt  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:37:06am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:37:19am

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The scale of the cosmic events that produce waves like this is almost unimaginable. Our methods are now capable of detecting infinitesimally tiny waves generated by enormous cataclysms billions of light years away.

And yet I still can’t get great cell signal in the park five minutes from my house.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:38:09am

An old pic that just showed up on my “memories” from my OneDrive archive. Some of my crazy friends and I by the river for the annual duck races at our favorite watering hole a few years back.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:39:31am

re: #119 Dave In Austin

The deep fryer for Desiree following this is amazing

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SPECTACULAR! Thank you!

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:41:35am

Popcorn stocks are in short supply.

Pass the popcorn
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:42:30am

European Central Bank has, as expected, hiked interest rates:

The European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point Thursday, judging that inflation remains too high even as data points to a deepening economic downturn in the 20 countries that use the euro.

The move takes the benchmark rate in the euro area to 3.75%, the highest since October 2000.

“Inflation continues to decline but is still expected to remain too high for too long,” the ECB said in a statement.

edition.cnn.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:42:45am

re: #126 lawhawk

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No wonder he’s been freaking the fuck out over the last few days. I was hoping for good news for the weekend. It says “the federal grand jury,” so I assume this is the DC 1/6 case?

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William Lewis  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:44:15am

Got out before the sunrise this morning to beat the heat and the storms (heat advisory for us later today. Wet bulbs above 101 F.) and drove around for a couple of hours in the farm country south of Eau Claire. Took 97 images. First pass has that down to a dozen. Initial favorites:

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:46:52am

re: #128 Nerdy Fish

That seems to be the likely case.

The Georgia indictment is likely to occur in 2 weeks, based on when GA DA Willis scheduled court appearances and informed the courts to clear the calendars.

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wrenchwench  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:49:02am

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:50:06am
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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:52:09am

I’d also point out that even if Smith indicts Trump and limits the indictment to Trump, nothing stops him from issuing superseding indictments against Trump or to bring others into the case, or to separately charge others as coconspirators/accomplices.

That’s the thing about this case, there are so many coconspirators and accomplices that Smith can pick and choose the strongest cases and flip those least willing to go to prison on Trump’s behalf, because they know that they are not likely to get pardoned for their criminal conduct by anyone (and accepting a pardon is an admission of the criminal conduct therein pardoned/commuted).

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jeffreyw  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:53:40am

Good morning!

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wrenchwench  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:54:22am

Tabby tangles.

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:54:45am
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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:56:49am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 6:59:13am

re: #137 lawhawk

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wrenchwench  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:02:05am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:04:00am

re: #124 Eventual Carrion

An old pic that just showed up on my “memories” from my OneDrive archive. Some of my crazy friends and I by the river for the annual duck races at our favorite watering hole a few years back.

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Duck races, Gracie?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:05:33am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:05:50am

rawstory.com

Comer hammered for letting MTG run wild in committee hearings

Comer will do anything to take Joe out.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:06:36am

re: #140 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Duck races, Gracie?

It’s a fundraiser thing. You donate money and in return you get some rubber duckies. The fake ducks are all sent down a river in a “race” and whichever one the current/wind carries across the finish line first gets a prize.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:07:10am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:08:01am

re: #142 Joe Bacon ✅

rawstory.com

Comer will do anything to take Joe out.

But all he is succeeding in doing is making himself look pathetic.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:10:24am

From Bluesky (@wallace.bsky.social):

CHRIS RUFO: I am a propagandist. I write propaganda for a living. My job is to mislead and deceive people

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Would you like to publish one of your fine works on our op-ed page good sir?

WTAF, Times. This is why nobody reads you anymore.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:18:02am

re: #96 TarHellion

Felt good to have this Birbie flap around

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Pulled it out at the end.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:21:31am

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

My original intro to this post is a spoiler, so it’s in the tag with my result. Result is a birbie, for those who don’t want to be spoiled.

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Also bad spoiler for today’s wordle.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:22:49am

re: #148 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Ironically, in another social media hangout I’m in, I’m actually the oldest person present. And yet, you know how old I am not.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:23:45am

re: #146 Nerdy Fish

From Bluesky (@wallace.bsky.social):

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WTAF, Times. This is why nobody reads you anymore.

As I’ve said before The New York Times is just another cog in the 24/7 Republican Bullshit Machine.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:24:05am

OH SHIT

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:25:38am

Next NYT headline: Record Temperatures Disprove Global Climate Change

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:34:24am

Tucker Carlson says ‘being racist is not a crime’ but if he was he would ‘just say so’

Former Fox News host, who has long been accused of pushing racist invective on his show, denies being racist in biography

theguardian.com

Yeah, Fucker C isn’t a racist. He just hates colored people…

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:37:00am

re: #153 Joe Bacon ✅

Being racist may not be a federal crime, but it makes you a shitty person, and there’s nothing stopping us from calling you out for it. And you acting on those racist urges and doing racist shit - that’s definitely a federal crime.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:39:11am

re: #153 Joe Bacon ✅

Tucker Carlson says ‘being racist is not a crime’ but if he was he would ‘just say so’

Former Fox News host, who has long been accused of pushing racist invective on his show, denies being racist in biography

theguardian.com

Yeah, Fucker C isn’t a racist. He just hates colored people…

And I’m not a girl who loves dogs. Nope. Not me.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:41:17am

Everything’s coming up roses.

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sagehen  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:43:56am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s a fundraiser thing. You donate money and in return you get some rubber duckies. The fake ducks are all sent down a river in a “race” and whichever one the current/wind carries across the finish line first gets a prize.

But there are no ducks in that photo. Is this before it started, or are they already downstream? (also, is there any possible strategy to help your duck do better than someone else’s?)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:44:48am

There is no law against being racist or making racist statements.

There are laws against denying a person their rights based on race.

Tucker knows that, he is still out trying to make white supremacism just another aceeptable viewpoint on the political spectrum.

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mmmirele  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:50:59am

re: #135 wrenchwench

Tabby tangles.

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I have those every day with my two! They love being together. One moment they’re all tangled up, the next moment, one has carefully started beating up on the other. I made the right choice to get a bonded pair.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:59:11am

re: #157 sagehen

But there are no ducks in that photo. Is this before it started, or are they already downstream? (also, is there any possible strategy to help your duck do better than someone else’s?)

Probably before it started and they were waiting for the ducks to pass by.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 27, 2023 • 7:59:47am

Health update:

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:00:03am
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darthstar  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:01:03am

re: #162 No Malarkey!

I’m so indicted
I just can’t hide it
I’m about to go to jail and I think I’ll hate it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:05:45am

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

My original intro to this post is a spoiler, so it’s in the tag with my result. Result is a birbie, for those who don’t want to be spoiled.

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Birbie here too

Click to Reveal

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From team: 3,4,5

When trying to solve, person who took 5 had letters in the wrong position — which complicated her solving earlier!

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wrenchwench  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:06:12am

re: #159 mmmirele

I have those every day with my two! They love being together. One moment they’re all tangled up, the next moment, one has carefully started beating up on another. I made the right choice to get a bonded pair.

It’s been a month since half of my bonded pair went over the bridge. Schrader just started sleeping places other than right next to me. He’s been clingy, but shows no other signs of missing his brother. He barfs less, because he’s only grooming one cat now, himself.

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jeffreyw  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:07:53am

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:08:25am

Russia has already lost the war; whatever happens, Putin has put Russia onto a glide path to permanent decline.

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Dizzy  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:08:52am

re: #161 Vicious Babushka

Health update:

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:10:35am

re: #122 Dr. Matt

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:11:29am

re: #167 No Malarkey!

Russia has already lost the war; whatever happens, Putin has put Russia onto a glide path to permanent decline.

The key to any nation’s tech future is its cooperation and interaction with the rest of the world, and Russia has actively turned its back on the West.

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jeffreyw  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:14:50am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:15:14am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s a fundraiser thing. You donate money and in return you get some rubber duckies. The fake ducks are all sent down a river in a “race” and whichever one the current/wind carries across the finish line first gets a prize.

sounds like a blast

when my best buddy The Franacle was still living in Idaho, her town held porcupine races on July 4. We went out one year. they use real porcupines.

the local kids/teams trap em and take care of them for a couple of days
then race them and let em go

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:16:26am
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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:20:37am

re: #173 No Malarkey!

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Aw, shit, here we go again.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:21:51am
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wrenchwench  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:22:24am

re: #174 Nerdy Fish

Aw, shit, here we go again.

NBC News: Trump attorneys have been told to expect an indictment against former President Donald Trump

As I have been since Biden’s inauguration.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:29:26am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is no law against being racist or making racist statements.

There are laws against denying a person their rights based on race.

Tucker knows that, he is still out trying to make white supremacism just another aceeptable viewpoint on the political spectrum.

SCOTUS ruled last month that if your racism is due to a sincerely held religious belief, it’s ok to act on it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:29:33am

Mastodon

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:30:21am

re: #131 wrenchwench

Birb here, too. But leap in the guess.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:31:12am

re: #175 No Malarkey!

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peeve of mine when newsies use “as soon as today”
as if that means anything

it can’t be sooner than today, ffs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:31:44am

re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter

SCOTUS ruled last month that if your racism is due to a sincerely held religious belief, it’s ok to act on it.

That is true. Freedom of Religion and all…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:31:50am

re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter

SCOTUS ruled last month that if your racism is due to a sincerely held religious belief, it’s ok to act on it.

2/3 of the current SCOTUS is a ass

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:32:52am

re: #180 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

peeve of mine when newsies use “as soon as today”
as if that means anything

it can’t be sooner than today, ffs.

Obviously, they’re hedging their bets in case the grand jury doesn’t return a true bill today. I have to wonder how often grand juries have dragged their feet on deliberations for indictments that journalists feel they have to include this phrasing.

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BigPapa  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:32:53am

re: #176 wrenchwench

As I have been since Biden’s inauguration.

Ha ha Boom!

There’s room on his list for another:

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:38:51am

Rep Mo Brooks is surprised Jack Smith hasn’t reached out to talk to him regarding Trump’s intent on overthrowing the govt and invalidating the election to install Trump in the WH.

Umm… don’t be surprised Mo if you’re brought in as a witness. Smith already has tons of evidence of Trump’s multiple federal felonies.

As I’ve noted previously, Smith has so many crimes and charges to choose from, he’s going to streamline the case to make it so that he can get guilty verdicts with a jury - more charges can end up being confusing to a jury.

Better to get convictions on fewer charges than to botch a case by throwing the literal book at Trump (all sections of Title 18 of the US Code).

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:41:00am

bsky.app

Something gnawing at me about losing Sinead O’Connor now, during the ascendency of the Q-Anon & anti-trans moral panics, knowing her career in the US peaked and fell during the Satanic panic of the ’90s when people couldn’t accept her telling them it was actually the churches that were raping kids.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:45:01am

re: #183 Nerdy Fish

Obviously, they’re hedging their bets in case the grand jury doesn’t return a true bill today. I have to wonder how often grand juries have dragged their feet on deliberations for indictments that journalists feel they have to include this phrasing.

i see it used with regards to all kinds of announcements or actions

it seems a kludgy way to say likely imminent

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:45:17am

re: #174 Nerdy Fish

Aw, shit, here we go again.

I’m so Indicted - Trump Parody song

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Jay C  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:45:32am

re: #104 Nojay UK

There was a weird incident a few years back where a four-man team of US soldiers deployed in Niger got killed in action. It was never a big news thing, not like BENGHAZIIIIII!!!

I figured it was a Spec Ops team who got ambushed and killed and no-one who actually knew what was going on was going to talk about it. It was a while ago so it might not have anything to do with this coup attempt.

I recall that incident, and IIRC (a dubious proposition, but never mind for now), the soldiers who were killed were more-or-less “regular” military advisors to the Nigerois army - part of a program providing assistance to various African governments against Islamist terrorism. A program which I think was started back in Bush’s time, but that subsequent Admins kept up. And may still do (?).It’s never been particularly more “secret” than the usual military stuff: but it’s tended (like most things related to African affairs) to be ignored by US media. Because Africa.

But I agree, this coup is likely unrelated.

ADD: Here it is: the Tongo Tongo Ambush 4 Oct 2017.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:47:35am

re: #186 goddamnedfrank

Something gnawing at me about losing Sinead O’Connor now, during the ascendency of the Q-Anon & anti-trans moral panics, knowing her career in the US peaked and fell during the Satanic panic of the ’90s when people couldn’t accept her telling them it was actually the churches that were raping kids.

A lot of nations have laws against “offending religious sensibilities”, which is many cases also includes “telling the truth about churches raping children and covering it up.”

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gocart mozart  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:49:08am

It seems like years since you held the baby
While I wrecked the bedroom
You said it was dangerous after Sunday
And I knew you loved me
He thinks I just became famous
And that’s what messed me up
But he’s wrong
How could I possibly know what I want
When I was only twenty-one?
And there’s millions of people
To offer advice and say how I should be
But they’re twisted and they will never be
Any influence on me
But you will always be
You will always be
If I treated you mean
I really didn’t mean to
But you know how it is
And how a pregnancy can change you
I see plenty of clothes that I like
But I won’t go anywhere nice for a while
All I want to do is just sit here
And write it all down and rest for a while
I can’t bear to be in another city
One where you are not
I would return to nothing without you
If I’m your girlfriend or not
Maybe I was mean
But I really don’t think so
You asked if I’m scared
And I said so
Everyone can see what’s going on
They laugh ‘cause they know they’re untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace
Maybe it sounds mean
But I really don’t think so
You asked for the truth and I told you
Through their own words
They will be exposed
They’ve got a severe case of
The emperor’s new clothes

Sinead O’Connor - The Emperor’s New Clothes (Official Music Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:50:05am

re: #189 Jay C

… but it’s tended (like most things related to African affairs) to be ignored by US media. Because Africa.

I remember when Michelle Bachmann, the GOP crazy-eyed predecessor to LB and MTG complained about Obama sending advisors to Uganda, stating “First he got us into Libya, now he’s getting us into Africa!”

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:51:02am

re: #157 sagehen

But there are no ducks in that photo. Is this before it started, or are they already downstream? (also, is there any possible strategy to help your duck do better than someone else’s?)

We gather well before the race starts. That photo was taken right before we lit up the grills and started cooking. The actual release of the rubber ducks was probably a couple hours away.

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William Lewis  Jul 27, 2023 • 8:52:31am

re: #186 goddamnedfrank

bsky.app

She was terribly damaged by the abuse in her own life. She was, perhaps, one of the most emotionally fragile major stars around, especially after the loss of her son when he was 17. They’re being very mum about it but I’d guess she finally succeeded in one of her many attempts at leaving this world.

But she does deserve to be remembered and honored for that night on SNL.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:00:45am

This is a fascinating time capsule in video form: A Day in Tokyo (from 1968).

The video was produced by the Japan National Tourist Organization and Koga Productions, Inc. It’s narrated in English. A look at Tokyo a little over half a century ago.

A Day in TOKYO in 1968 | 昭和東京

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Dr. Matt  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:02:30am

re: #175 No Malarkey!

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But, but, but, when does the “lock her up” start?

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:08:09am

re: #44 Captain Ron

Savage!

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cat-tikvah  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:09:18am

Channeling Bender from Futurama:
Let’s Go Already!!!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:12:26am

we’ve been having trouble with a string of three bathroom fixtures for a long time
bulbs keep burning out, or not working. could be two, or just one in a fixture of two.

mrsdm (not wrongly) assumed it had to do with how i installed them.
mostly because we couldnt figure any other reason.

got an electrician in. no english so it was …interesting.
its the bulbs he said
we need to get led
mrsdm says they are leds
he says no.
he unscrews a bulb. printed right on the side is ‘LED’
he got his office on the phone and they translated
even if they are led, theyre cheap and no good.
so they need to be replaced.
he went off to home depot to get proper bulbs.

meantime brilliant mrsdm takes the bulb and smashes it (in a bag)
nope NOT an led.

1. wtaf?
2. trust your professionals. they know a lot of shit.

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gocart mozart  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:15:00am
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darthstar  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:15:21am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:20:54am

re: #186 goddamnedfrank

bsky.app

Her “ascendence” was fame she did not want, and her fall from that was a return to the life she was comfortable with according to her book.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:24:44am

re: #201 darthstar

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while 30+ points ahead in the R primary

how much will these new indictments boost him in the polls?

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:25:18am

re: #191 gocart mozart

It seems like years since you held the baby
While I wrecked the bedroom

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That’s in my regular mix.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:26:27am

re: #203 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

while 30+ points ahead in the R primary

how much will these new indictments boost him in the polls?

There is no question of him winning the primary, the party would see it as “betrayal” to withdraw support at this point, as we know how much stock they place in personal loyalty (especially the kid that gets you Presidential pardons)

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:27:05am

Just caught a moment of Biden making announcements about new initiatives on climate change on MSNBC.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:29:12am

re: #206 Barefoot Grin

Just caught a moment of Biden making announcements about new initiatives on climate change on MSNBC.

So devisive!!!

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William Lewis  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:29:33am

re: #204 Barefoot Grin

That’s in my regular mix.

That and Mandinka are in mine.

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darthstar  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:30:29am

re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The only thing that will hurt him in the primary is if the GOP House decided, in an attempt at self preservation, to impeach him for election interference, send it to the Senate, and 17 Republicans joined the Democrats to convict. That would prevent him from participating altogether.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:32:16am

re: #209 darthstar

The only thing that will hurt him in the primary is if the GOP House decided, in an attempt at self preservation, to impeach him for election interference, send it to the Senate, and 17 Republicans joined the Democrats to convict. That would prevent him from participating altogether.

Why would 17 Republicans want to commit political suicide and risk the well-being of their families resulting from violent threats?

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:36:07am

re: #208 William Lewis

That and Mandinka are in mine.

I somehow forgot Mandinka until someone posted it yesterday. Great performance.

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darthstar  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:36:14am

Ukraine is in sight of Russia’s next line of defense…dragon’s teeth.

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:38:22am

re: #201 darthstar

A better question is how may codefendants will be named, how many unindicted coconspirators, and who is named as witnesses to Trump crimes.

I’m going to go with 12 charges.

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Orange Impostor  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:42:01am

It’s hot in Texas. “Everybody in McKinney is dead”

Oops: It was “101,105 heat index” in McKinney on Thursday

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:42:51am

re: #213 lawhawk

A better question is how may codefendants will be named, how many unindicted coconspirators, and who is named as witnesses to Trump crimes.

Based on the preview we got from the target letter, I’m going to say John Eastman and everyone in the room during that infamous coup planning session in the White House is going to be in one of those three categories.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:45:33am

re: #214 Orange Impostor

It’s hot in Texas.

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Dear Texas,

Hold my beer.

Love, Flori-duh

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:49:15am

re: #196 Dr. Matt

But, but, but, when does the “lock her up” start?

Hillary was going to be indicted by Comey, then by Durham, and somehow it just never happened. Now the Fox News viewers are breathlessly waiting for Comer to blow the lid off the “Biden scandal.” They never learn that Fox News is just blowing smoke up their ass.

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Orange Impostor  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:49:18am

re: #216 Dr. Matt

Dear Texas,

Hold my beer.

Love, Flori-duh

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You need to watch the video for Pete’s deadpan reaction to one of the posted temperatures.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:49:22am

re: #214 Orange Impostor

It’s hot in Texas.

I’m sure dinosaurs would’ve made asteroid jokes had they developed a sense of humor.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:50:09am

Manatee Bay is now a Hot Tub thanks to the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine.

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piratedan  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:50:18am

re: #213 lawhawk

that’s kind of the biggie for me…

Trump, we all know he’s guilty, he’s admitted so multiple times in multiple public statements….

My passion is to see all of those that willingly helped him or even knew but didn’t report him…

The money behind it all, who paid for the advertising, the transport, the lodging? Someone ponied up for that and we all strongly suspect it wasn’t Trump because that bastard never pays for anything if he can help it.

The logistics, who put all of the RW loons into play? Unsure if there’s a network between the Oath Keepers and the III%’s and the Proud Boys, but someone got them all together to “play nice” for the J6 event and they were all tricked out in their gear to supposedly get real.

Those in office, coordinating the recon and delaying the vote to keep lawmakers in play while the assault unfolded, who told the Cap Police it would be just another day, why was the FBI so entrenched in the belief that these folks weren’t serious?

and then there’s Ginni Thomas, what groundwork was being laid to legitimize this coup? Did they have buy off from SCOTUS to allow “doubt” to be sown into a constitutional crisis if these alternate slates of electors were allowed to be thrown into the mix?

I want these fascists dismantled and disenfranchised, if not dismembered.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:52:38am

re: #209 darthstar

The only thing that will hurt him in the primary is if the GOP House decided, in an attempt at self preservation, to impeach him for election interference, send it to the Senate, and 17 Republicans joined the Democrats to convict. That would prevent him from participating altogether.

Not sure you can impeach someone who doesn’t currently hold a federal office.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 27, 2023 • 9:57:34am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:01:52am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:04:50am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:10:27am

JFC this makes the Orient Express look like some 40-year-old hulk running around Pyongyang.

Riding Japan’s $300 Luxury Compartment Train | Aru Ressha Kyushu🇯🇵

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:11:08am

DeSantis Offers Campaign Staff Opportunity to Work for Free in Exchange for Invaluable Skills
(borowitz)

Calling it a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Ron DeSantis offered his campaign staff the chance to work for free in exchange for what he called “invaluable skills.”

DeSantis denied that he was making the work-for-free offer because his campaign was in financial distress, arguing instead that it was the best way to provide “personal benefits” to his staffers.

“Oh, sure, you could work someplace where they’ll pay you, like Disney World,” he sneered. “But working for me for nothing will give you skills that will set you up for life.”

“Let’s say you hand out flyers for the campaign,” he said. “With that on your résumé, you could snag a coveted position handing out flyers for a nail salon. Or say you’re in the back room of the campaign office, licking envelopes—someday you could get a job licking any number of things.”

The Florida governor’s proposal drew scorn from his chief rival for the G.O.P. nomination, Donald J. Trump, who claimed it was far from original. “I haven’t paid anyone in years,” Trump said.”

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Jay C  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:11:34am

re: #225 Dr Lizardo

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Good idea: but once the tech has been “transferred”, it’s pretty much gone and whatever damage has been done.

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retired cynic  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:11:34am

credit Charlie Pierce’s column for this one, and the commenter who wrote, “She turned a whisper into a scream” (there are some visual disturbances in this, but the sound is okay):

sinead o’connor - she moved through the fair [live 1997] kieransirishmusicandsurvival

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:14:48am

re: #227 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

DeSantis Offers Campaign Staff Opportunity to Work for Free in Exchange for Invaluable Skills
(borowitz)

It’s not for free, it’s For Exposure (tm)!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:16:12am

re: #227 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

DeSantis Offers Campaign Staff Opportunity to Work for Free in Exchange for Invaluable Skills
(borowitz)

Speaking of which, Trump is having a hard time finding lawyers to represent him in all the cases being brought against him, in part because he’s a difficult client, a pariah, and his lawyers often end up needing lawyers. Perhaps he can be assigned a D.C. public defender.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 27, 2023 • 10:17:22am

re: #217 No Malarkey!

Hillary was going to be indicted by Comey, then by Durham, and somehow it just never happened. Now the Fox News viewers are breathlessly waiting for Comer to blow the lid off the “Biden scandal.” They never learn that Fox News is just blowing smoke up their ass.

Weeks ago, I challenged a FB friend regarding these “pending charges” ,which I branded as a hoax, and another Trumper (Friend of hers not mine) said regarding these pending charges: Can’t wait to see “Hecuba’s Daughter” eat her words.

These people are irredeemable. They are like members of religious cults whose leaders forecast an event and then, when nothing happens, they change the date and the cult members accept any delay without question. Except in this case, they probably blame the Deep State for the failure of the prophecy.

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silverdolphin  Jul 27, 2023 • 12:58:21pm

re: #201 darthstar

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I say that it is all said and done, Trump will have over 200 charges against him in all indictments, state and Federal.

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silverdolphin  Jul 27, 2023 • 1:03:33pm

re: #227 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

DeSantis Offers Campaign Staff Opportunity to Work for Free in Exchange for Invaluable Skills
(borowitz)

Thanks you for the Borowitz tag. It is such good satire that it satisfies Poe’s Law.


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