Jeff R

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TTRPG player, history buff, American living in Europe, very happily married, 2 cats no kids

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Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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A new article at Tetrapod Zoology on a remarkable and charismatic group of (mostly Mexican) anguid lizards. Please share! tetzoo.com/blog/2024/6/... #reptiles #herpetology

Arboreal Alligator Lizards of Mesoamerica... and Beyond! — Tetrapod Zoologytetzoo.com Ever keen to cover more of squamate diversity – Squamata = snakes and lizards – we here look at a really interesting group of mostly Mexican lizards. They’ve led us on a merry chase with respect to ...

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His target market appears to be Proud Boys deeply concerned about climate change.

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Not my book but my brother's, it is about how neoliberalism laid the foundation to force us to solve distributive conflict through finance. Plus it uses really interesting case studies like the Stockton bankruptcy to make the point. cup.columbia.edu/book/democra...

Democracy in Default | Columbia University Presscup.columbia.edu How did neoliberalism arise? Faced with the crises of the 1970s, a coalition of neoliberal intellectuals, conservative politicians, and business interests ca... | CUP

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I CANNOT believe we didn't know this was here until the Finnish Defence Ministry tipped us off. The Estonian Maritime Museum has an INTERWAR VICKERS-ARMSTRONG SUBMARINE! To Dr Clarke's and my knowledge, this makes it the only surviving Brit-made period sub in the world youtube.com/shorts/cwNF5...

The Tallinn Maritime Museum has an INTER-WAR BRITISH SUBMARINE!!! #history #shipshape24 #submarinesyoutube.com

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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God

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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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I mean, after Trump reinstates Schedule F, the executive agencies really *won't* have any special expertise to draw on, so the Roberts court is just planning ahead.

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Do you need something to be mad at all the time? Want an excuse to bully people and start fights? Instead of taking this desire out on social media might I suggest an alternative: It's called your local city council meeting and we actually desperately need that energy there

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Unemployment doubled after smoot-hawley was passed. McKinley tariff resulted in a landslide defeat for the republicans in the midterms and a democratic trifecta in 1892. Whichever dipshit intern wrote this down for him didn’t bother to read any further

Bueller? Bueller?

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THIS IS HUGE! For the FIRST time, an HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has shown ZERO infections in a late-stage Phase III trial. Lenacapavir was 100% effective at preventing HIV in MORE THAN 2,000 participants. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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There's a whole universe of right-wing mythology that migrants show up and, like "welfare queens" before them, are given a Cadillac and a house. The reality is that our economy requires them, and the effects of deporting them would be akin to simultaneous natural disasters all across the country.

I think my favorite flavor of Trump voter is the person who a) is very upset about high grocery prices and b) is fired up about Trump's plan to deport 50% of the nation's agricultural workforce.

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The year is 2026. Ground beef costs $20 a pound. In this Ohio diner, patrons say Donald Trump is doing his to best to fight inflation. One patron complains he can't find any home nurses to watch his grandmother and his wife had to quit her job. Unemployment is 6%.

I think my favorite flavor of Trump voter is the person who a) is very upset about high grocery prices and b) is fired up about Trump's plan to deport 50% of the nation's agricultural workforce.

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David Slack

Every few years here in Texas, a young idealistic conservative puts forth a bill in the house to punish employers $100k each undocumented worker & landlords $25k per undocumented immigrant housed in their properties. The bill is then quietly strangled before it hits the floor and the rep primaried.

@edzard.bsky.social anyway, going to assume you are not a fan of these quackademics med.virginia.edu/perceptual-s...

DOPS Research - Division of Perceptual Studiesmed.virginia.edu

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@edzard.bsky.social Just saw something I wanted to share with you, and thought "I wonder if Edzard Ernst is on Bluesky? I haven't read anything from him in ages!" Glad to find you here.

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Only Man Without Umbrella At Rainy Event He Organized Demands Voters Trust Him To Run Country.

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Ohio eating good tonight

Large amount of meat dumped on Ohio roadwww.nbc4i.com WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO (WTRF)- A large amount of meat was dumped on a road in Ohio. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio said they received information from the Grandview Township …

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I'm sorry, but if you call yourself a "moderate" or "conservative" while also advocating for "major changes" or to "tear down the system," then you're not any of those things, you're just an angry reactionary dimwit who doesn't even know what words mean. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/u...

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When human beings aren't busy finding new ways to kill each other, they can do amazing things. This is today's amazing thing - and it's amazing. news.sky.com/story/britis...

British girl's hearing restored in pioneering gene therapy trialnews.sky.com Opal's mum says she was "gobsmacked" when she realised her daughter could hear without her cochlear implant - and experts say the results are better than they expected.

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My overall thesis on Philip Roth:

He was such a bastard but then again so is much of humanity and he was very good at understanding why they/he are like that

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HAPPY MAY DAY!

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the time in 2017 I found too many post-it notes and brought in some new sodas for concessions

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We had L5R, WEG Star Wars, Carbon 2185, Ecorchurs (presented by the author), Pathfinder (from Paizo's organised play team), D&D, Swords of the Serpentine, CoC, Vaesen, Castle Falkenstein and WFRP 1e.

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They Should Invent A Strain Of Weed That Doubles As A Low Cost High Speed Rail System