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ask not for whom the jerk store calls

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This one is now the biggest swing from Tory to Labour 25.7%. Huge victories for Labour in the Midlands.

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GET THIS MAN A NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN STAT!!!

as a politics knower I think the democrats should simply do the thing that makes it easiest to win, but also aligns with both all my prior posts and all my most panicked recent posts. this is very simple and obvious.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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god this is just perfect

Martin Short is a national treasure

Jiminy Glick Interviews Bill Haderwww.youtube.com As grateful as Martin Short is to be hosting the show, he has a dermatologist appointment he just can’t move this week so he asked his best friend/Hollywood's top entertainment reporter, Jiminy Glick, to be HIS guest host on Thursday night. Jiminy’s been doing some warm-up interviews to get ready, including this one with Emmy-winner Bill Hader. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #Kimmel: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe Follow Jimmy Kimmel on Instagram: https://bit.ly/KimmelInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on Instagram: http://bit.ly/JKLInstagram Follow Jimmy Kimmel Live on TikTok: https://bit.ly/JKLTikTok Like Jimmy Kimmel on Facebook: http://bit.ly/KimmelFB Like Jimmy Kimmel Live on Facebook: http://bit.ly/JKLFacebook Visit the Jimmy Kimmel Live Website : http://bit.ly/JKLWebsite About Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmy® nominated “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” ABC’s late-night talk show. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is well known for its viral video successes, with over 16 billion views and more than 19 million subscribers on the show’s YouTube channel. Some of Kimmel’s most popular comedy bits include Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Halloween Candy YouTube Challenge, Jimmy and Cousin Sal pranking Aunt Chippy and music stars like Rihanna and Dua Lipa surprising Jimmy in the middle of the night.

PSA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging...

Begging the question - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

outsiders on broadway 😁 it’s a musical 😔

if i don’t watch the tonys how will i know which shows to regret not having seen five years from now?

tump doing his part to fight inflation

Speaking of suckers and losers…

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THIS.

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git stash

i have long sought this information

Guys, Kirkland Irish Whiskey is very good, so proceed accordingly

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Unhappy that well-meaning folks are playing around with the "republic"/"democracy" thing. Best to use and treat them as synonyms, not separate things. No really, it is. "Democratic republic" is basically redundant.

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Written by the president of the Cato Institute. I have side eye for some of the claims about how libertarian ideas fit in history and in the political landscape, but the point is he's forcefully rejecting Trump as not at all libertarian, the opposite of libertarian. That is valuable.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Trump is hardly libertarian. But neither is today’s Libertarian Party.www.washingtonpost.com Donald Trump’s upcoming appearance at the party’s convention says more about the party than him.

either biden doesn’t believe in climate change or he doesn’t care, but whatever the unions want i guess. insideevs.com/news/719283/...

The Automotive Cold War Is Officially Underwayinsideevs.com The White House plans to slap 100% tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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NLRB administrative law judge rules Amazon CEO violated federal labor law through remarks critical of unions in public forums

Labor board goes after Amazon CEO for suggesting workers might be 'better off' without unions.reason.com The First Amendment applies even to the CEOs of successful companies, but the National Labor Relations Board seems to disagree.

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www.techdirt.com/2024/05/09/l...

Link Taxes Backfire: Canadian News Outlets Lose Out, Meta Unscathedwww.techdirt.com As California (and possibly Congress) are, again, revisiting instituting link taxes in the US, it’s worth highlighting that our prediction about the Canadian link tax has now been shown to be corre…

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Scott Lincicome on X: ""What do Unions do? Incentives and Investments" https://t.co/Laap0dYbrU "union workers experience slower wage growth" "unionized plants have a higher likelihood of exiting" "the wage advantage enjoyed by union workers gradually diminishes over time" https://t.co/iiflhoN3G9" / Xx.com "What do Unions do? Incentives and Investments" https://t.co/Laap0dYbrU "union workers experience slower wage growth" "unionized plants have a higher likelihood of exiting" "the wage advantage enjoyed by union workers gradually diminishes over time" https://t.co/iiflhoN3G9

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Disastrous. A Greenpeace-funded lawsuit to ban "golden rice" in the Philippines has prevailed. This GMO variety has saved the lives and improved the health of countless children worldwide. Anti-GMO hysteria is just one of the reasons I'm unenthused by mnost established environmentalist groups

PhilRice acknowledges Court of Appeals’ decision granting the Writ of Kalikasan against Golden Rice in the Philippines; takes advice on implications of decision | PRRIwww.philrice.gov.ph On April 19, 2024, the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice), through the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC), received the decision of the Court of ...

a bachelor’s area of culinary expertise lies mainly in mould detection.

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Celebration Birth, by Richard Pousette-Dart, 1975-76

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you can now embed your posts in web pages! (the "embed" tool is available on web only at the moment) this does respect your "only logged in users can see this" settings. shout out to @samuel.bsky.team @bnewbold.net @danabra.mov @haileyok.com for getting this done

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Brian Beutler recalls one of Trump's most odious acts as president, early in the pandemic: declaring he'd dispense ultra-scarce ventilators and personal protective equipment only to states whose governors danced to his tune. “If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call,” he declared.

Donald Trump, COVID-19, And The Francis Scott Key Bridge Calamitywww.offmessage.net If he becomes president again, he'll extort Maryland and Baltimore rather than be president for all Americans—just like last time.

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My new post: a California law compelling often-absurd label warnings can sometimes collide with First Amendment restrictions on compelled speech, according to a federal appeals court. www.cato.org/blog/ninth-c...

www.cato.org

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Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, by Kazimir Malevich, 1915, 📸 by @MegMcLaughlinDA

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For Baltimore's sake and for everybody's, Congress needs to repeal the Foreign Dredge Act

The obscure protectionist law that will slow clean-up of the Baltimore bridge disasterreason.com The best time to repeal the Foreign Dredge Act was before the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. The next best time to repeal it is right now.

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Our Apple TV uses an image from the last thing you watched as wallpaper and this freeze frame from Antiques Roadshow is a little misleading

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Re-legalizing single-room-occupancy (SRO) housing and boarding houses could be a powerful way to address the homelessness problem [Luca Gattoni-Celli]

SROs & Boarding Houses Are More Than Hype | YIMBYtown 2024lucagattonicelli.substack.com They might be the key to ending homelessness

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The U.S. is pumping more oil than any country ever

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savor it, like a wine from a vineyard that no longer exists

I'm having a tough week, with a bad cold and some difficult family news, but nothing can brighten my day like @pbump.com using "beg the question" correctly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...