Charles Louis Richter

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Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade

Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more

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a better idea for a blitz primary: ➡️ all potential candidates are drugged, pass out, and wake in a classroom on a remote island ➡️ each is randomly assigned a weapon and sent out one by one ➡️ every hour, a zone of the island is forbidden; staying there is fatal ➡️ last one standing is the nominee

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

i have another idea but doubt we could construct a system of thousands of interconnected and moving cubical rooms by the primary, let alone the traps

[cornering a film exec in the elevator] ok, but hear me out: it takes place 28 days *earlier*

no, why would there be zombies, this is an intimate character study of an aging couple coming to terms with their growing differences, it just happens to take place in the same cinematic universe

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Charlie Kirk frantically working out intercontinental charter bus logistics

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smoky beefs proceeding apace

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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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It's clear from the text that she is describing how the interaction must have felt. She is not reporting speech here. There's no poor communication issue going on here, except perhaps on the receiving end.

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i wish i could make a living making joke album covers

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I wish I had an hour to spend with photoshop to make a Tofu Loaf album cover

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Make a band more vegetable The beatroots.

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Make a band more vegetable Fine Young Cabbages

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can someone help me identify this birb

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Jeff VanderMeer

just last night I had to pull up a very similar photo of Oregon tide pools to explain to my partner that there, it's not a rare occurrence to find a starfish, but rather you search for creatures among the landscape of overlapping starfish

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Your honor, with all due respect, all I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.

Your honor, with all due respect, they sentenced me to 20 years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. I'm coming now--I'm coming to reward them.

Your honor, with all due respect, I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. The runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb.

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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps

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update from brussels: dog on a horse

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.