Jeff Kline 🏳️‍⚧️

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Forensic Psychologist wandering in Missouri.

This is mostly for fun, not work.

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Make a band meatier ZZ Top Sirloin

Make a band meatier Nine Inch Ribeyes

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Make a band meatier Nine Inch Ribeyes

Make a band meatier Red Hot Chili

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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The existence of Gentoo penguins implies the existence of Gen one penguins with fewer features and possibly hazardous defects.

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Still remember when they compared a family moving to California to maintain their trans kid's access to health care to a guy who left California because he was afraid of offending liberals at work

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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in part because they seem totally orthogonal to where various dems land on the political spectrum from center to left. there's no pattern that I can discern to which dems are calling for biden to reconsider, other than that the leftier flank (squad etc) has been notably quiet

at this point i've given up guessing what will happen or what the best outcome would be and am just fascinated by the intraparty dynamics here

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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Hell yes Kansas.

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Ban

Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Second-Trimester Abortion Bantruthout.org In a 5-1 ruling striking down two laws, the court found that the state constitution protects the right to abortion.

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this is consistent with my general sense that many of the justices really, really don't understand both how much they are disliked by an increasingly fervent and expansive segment of population, and the extent to which those people are now paying attention in a way they weren't before

competing theory of john roberts from @stevenmazie.bsky.social: maybe roberts is still trying to play the institutionalist game but has lost his read on how the court is perceived by the public x.com/stevenmazie/...

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Yale Researchers, International Experts Release New Paper Rebuking Cass Review A new study released from the Integrity Project at Yale strongly rebuked inaccuracies in the Cass Review targeting trans care. #transrights www.erininthemorning.com/p/yale-resea...?

Yale Researchers, International Experts Release New Paper Rebuking Cass Reviewwww.erininthemorning.com A new study released from the Integrity Project at Yale strongly rebuked inaccuracies in the Cass Review targeting trans care.

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My god, they've made a Mechanical Trump.

Well this is grim

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I see the reasoning here, and I don’t disagree with it, but what gives me qualms is that this is also the same reasoning used to make a poor person stealing a loaf to feed their family into a serious felony.

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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What you need to understand about the World Wide Web in 1994, is that it was incredibly ugly: www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how...

What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com Looking back at the Web when it first entered the mainstream shows a world far different from today's cyber wastelands.

If you see this post a bird.

If you see this, post a bird

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Mitchell Epner

Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.

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I'm very pleased that our cats don't appear to be bothered by fireworks. Helps there aren't any going off right next door, plus we don't react to the sounds and so the cats think it must be okay. But they made a point of sleeping on me last night.

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D&D saves lives

They're gonna need someone to wake up the 1922 committee and get them to change all the rules first. And this, kids, is why you ask experienced TTRPG system designers like me to draw up your political game system rules...

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.

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I have a souvenir chunk of the Constitution, which is a pretty cool tchotchke.

USS Constitution ("world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat" built 1797) doing her turn around in Boston Harbor with a cannon salute today. #Happy4thJuly

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1/ 55 years ago today, I was born at Yale University hospital. It was the middle of the Vietnam War. My father was Lt. Commander at the New London Navy base, serving as a pediatrician. Once week, my mother brought to my first protests to hear the reading of the names of the troops killed in action.

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I want to make liberty as expansive for every American as it was for wealthy, white, landowning, males in 1787.

If you’re going to argue about the execution of America as an idea, then you aren’t understanding the power of internal mythology and you’re part of why conservatives can keep claiming it. The point is the promise of America, and the discussion should be how we can better live up to the promise.

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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge

America is a country that occupies the land of my nation and which shouldn't have existed in the first place, but I'm still proud to be a member of a country founded on the ideal, no matter how hypocritical it's been in practice, that no man is above another. That is an ideal worth fighting for.

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The Firebird concept wagon did it better than the Elon's Incel Camino

I think it's nice that you can turn your cybertruck into a hearse with this simple hack.

No Need To Book a Hotel This Summer. The Cybertruck Camper Has Your Backwww.autoevolution.com The Tesla Cybertruck seems to be one of the most versatile vehicles out there when it comes to camper conversions. And here is one more!

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I heart this post so goddam much.

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The thing that kills me is that outlets like the NYT and WaPo are some of the last newsprint holdouts of straight news reporting, while their editorial departments have turned into click-farming hives of ragebait.

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Today is a day of national mourning. My toddler can now climb out of his playpen on his own.

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Say what you will about Kipling… and oh boy is there plenty …but he sure knew how to make getting raised in the jungle by wolves and hanging out with panthers sound pretty damn cool to an eight year old.