Brian Danger Hicks

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Things seem bleak but it’s probably a bad sign for Republicans that people have started mentioning their actual goals and political blueprint and their response is “how fucking dare you??”

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Apparently there was at least one meter gauge logging railroad in the US. As you might expect, this was done as a tax dodge. www.pacificng.com/template.php...

PacificNG.orgwww.pacificng.com Pacific Narrow Gauge - Railroading on the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.

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Step down for the birthday boys

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Seems like a pretty big change in focus!

Change in Headline

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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a bag of potatoes wearing a candidate mask would ride "my opponent can't even get a liquor license in New Jersey" all the way to the White House. my cat, S'mores, who is absolutely not fit to govern, would run "my opponent can't get a liquor license in New Jersey" ads 24/7 on all three networks

Lol

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One for the syntax folk 🐦🐦

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Remember, this is America, the world's greatest democracy. If you're mad at John Roberts, don't protest at his house, focus on defeating him the next time he's up for reelection.

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"A showdown unlike any other in recent history" bro they literally were the candidates in our most recent presidential election

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Wirecutter calls Alito the best budget pick but notes that Roberts is fully tricked out with all the bells and whistles

can someone please rank the republican supreme court justices by affordability

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Wagatwe Wanjuki

One of the big unmentioned reasons for the closure is that these pharmacies, including Walgreens, have multi-billion opioid settlements against them. Walgreens is on the hook for $5.5 billion. www.mlive.com/public-inter...

Rite Aid closing stores across Michiganwww.mlive.com As a part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Rite Aid is shuttering more stores in Michigan and Ohio.

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Remember, a large portion of silent films are lost, not due to decay or fires, but because they were intentionally junked by their studios. Among the worst was Paramount, aka CBS/Paramount. People come and go. Corporate culture is forever.

2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

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Anytime someone talks about a business closing locations these days I just google the name and “private equity” and you’re not gonna believe it but…

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Amanda Marcotte

"Joe Biden's administration has made shutting down consumer fraud a majority priority. "Rather than dial back the shady behavior, the tech industry is turning to Donald Trump, a man whose entire business career was built on fraud, to save them." www.salon.com/2024/06/24/a...

A viral blog post from a bureaucrat exposes why tech billionaires fear Biden — and fund Trumpwww.salon.com Silicon Valley increasingly depends on scammy products, and no one is friendly to grifters than Trump

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whenever i encounter tedious bluesky drama i prefer not to take part in it. it's best if i just hang back, take exhaustive and detailed notes, and then in a year or two make a documentary about it

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makes you think

Israel invaded Lebanon in 1978. Carter describes what happened next in "The Blood of Abraham": The US notified Israeli Prime Minister Begin we were going to cut off all military aid to Israel & present a resolution condemning it at the UN. Begin immediately said: "It's over."

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3 years ago I wrote “I genuinely dread the point in the near future of our media where republican (and only republican) attempts to overturn each election are simply read as an expected, natural and given part of the horserace, which any democrat (and only the democrat) must overcome for legitimacy”

Important update on Arizona's statehouses from Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball: The stakes could be especially high given the legislature’s role in finalizing the election results, which could be pivotal nationally. Toss-up. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

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Even when "all the wealthy people will domicile in other states to avoid the tax!" proves empirically to be false by passing the tax and observing what happens afterwards, they still are like "what if it's true tho"

The recent news from Massachusetts revenue officials that they collected about $1.8 billion this year from the so-called "millionaires tax" sparked chatter: Is the windfall great financial news — or a precursor to an exodus of wealthy residents?

Other states eye Mass. millionaires tax — for windfall or wealth exoduswww.wbur.org States considering wealth tax proposals, like Pennsylvania and Vermont, are taking note of Massachusetts' revenue gains. But at home, the question of whether the voter-approved Fair Share Amendment is...

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I really think another hobby would fix me.

"1985" is closer to 1985 than to us

"Don't Fear the Reaper" is closer to "More Cowbell" than "More Cowbell" is to us

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ok "apple is paying openai in exposure" is fucking hilarious

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RIP United States v. Paramount Pictures Inc

BREAKING: Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired popular dine-in movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Sony Pictures acquires Alamo Drafthouse Cinemaapnews.com Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and “The Garfield Movie” has acquired the distinctive theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the companies said Wednesday.

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They are literally doing "Donald Trump Is A Convicted Felon. Here's Why That's Bad News For Joe Biden." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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there it is. "The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...

starting to wonder if congestion pricing was paused because the NYPD cops who commute from long island threatened a revolt and eric adams was like kathy, we can't have that

While I do think Chris Pratt is overused, I am looking forward to the wild-eyed optimism he will bring to the role of Jeb Kerman.

Wrong guesses only

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Thomas is in his own league here. Just a spectacular, historic crook. Probably the worst crook in American judicial history (I'm not saying certainly b/c there was some pretty bad Gilded Age corruption in the judiciary, too).

Data from Fix the Court on gifts received and reported by SCOTUS justices. New plan: Hire Clarence Thomas to be a liberal judge, apparently all you need is the fee and it appears you can get him to rule however you want

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what's great is how multilayered a success this is. It won't win a single conservative voter and it greatly demoralizes a huge number of liberal voters, all while being morally indefensible and a treaty violation.

President Biden announced an executive order on Tuesday to essentially block asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, a major shift in how the U.S. has historically handled claims for protection. Here’s how it will work.

How Biden’s Asylum Order Workswww.nytimes.com The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handled claims for protection.

I think Union Pacific should paint locomotives replacing the flag on the hood with different pride flags, and also whether or not they actually do that Microscale should make matching decals for model locomotives.