Rick Waters

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…Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right…

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I’m on a boat

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"The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy, and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about “court packing” and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment, period."

I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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This is and has been for a while, the core of my politics

Just give everyone what they need to survive and thrive. Yes "everyone." Yes "give."

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If “America 2024” was a book this would be the cover.

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Another one is when i went to see Porcupine Tree in Montreal and checked out the biodome the next day, and the first thing i saw was this

One insane synchronicity i will never forget is when i was doing call center work years ago, in between calls i was sitting there just thinking about Keith Morrison and how much i enjoy Keith Morrison and a call came in and the person's name was Keith Morrison

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I’m not a Democrat. It’s not that Democrats are too liberal. It’s that they’re largely fucking useless.

BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is discussing a mask ban for protests with the City Attorney. Source: youtu.be/5R6krNYXnZI?...

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And horny, let’s not forget horny.

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I recommend reading through the Rahimi decision, concurrences and dissent. Decision: Bruen was fine, but let’s not get crazy. Gorsuch, Kavanagh: Bruen may be nuts, but originalism is good! Kagan, Sotomayor: We done told you Jackson: Look at the mess you made Thomas: DIE UNHAPPY LOSERS

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America is broken

Breaking News: Boeing is expected to avoid criminal charges for violating a 2021 settlement related to two deadly crashes involving 737 Max planes.

Boeing Is Expected to Evade Criminal Charges for Violating Settlementnyti.ms The Justice Department will require the aircraft manufacturer to install an independent federal monitor to oversee safety and quality issues.

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This.

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Trump went full Smoot-Hawley. You never go full Smoot-Hawley.

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Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett are the only five of the 116 justices to serve on the Supreme Court to have been confirmed by senators representing less than one half of the US population.

Tipping the Scales: The MAGA Justices Have Already Interfered with the 2024 Electionswww.weekendreading.net They continue to be no less partisan than the House or Senate GOP Caucuses

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miles davis grew up hard and wasn’t the easiest person to like, but he created some of the defining music of the 20th century.

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Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & More www.openculture.com/2019/02/mont...

Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & Morewww.openculture.com From dead parrots to The Meaning of Life, Monty Python covered a lot of territory. Educated at Oxford and Cambridge, the Pythons made a habit of weaving arcane intellectual references into the sillies...

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the robo umps cannot come fast enough

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War on Zevon

Make a band less mild Creedence Whitewater Revival

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This is a bar for only the most straight heterosexual men. Cowboys, Construction workers, Cops, Leather Bound Bikers, Firefighters, Wrestlers, and Sailors. No girl stuff. Just sweaty heterosexual men being sweaty & heterosexual & male with each other. No femmes. All He/him. Males for males. M4M.

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BREAKING: in a devastating blow to both-sides-ism, the judge and jury in the Hunter Biden trial remain unthreatened

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Somebody should ask Mark Zuckerberg how that metaverse thing is going. You know, the thing he renamed the company after because it was going to be so enormous?

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The fact that Dems, within 16 years, nominated an environmentalist and a feminist for president, who won the popular vote but lost the EC, and that the party's overwhelming response was not "We must abolish the EC" but "Heh yeah our nominees sucked lol" is such a classic case of learned helplessness

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Steve Bannon is going to prison and it’s going to be really hard for him, because I don’t think they’re allowed to wear two or three jumpsuits at the same time.

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The things you're right about fade away, but when you're wrong you're wrong forever.

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never stop making fun of things that suck

Google appears to have rolled back its new AI Overviews — a generative AI feature — after the technology produced a litany of untruths and errors, including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and suggesting that people ingest rocks for nutrients.

Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flawswww.nytimes.com Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.

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Anyway the most recent former President of the United States has been found guilty of felonies and now there’s a substantial chance people are going to die because his followers are freaks and the so-called “mainstream” GOP will just shrug and blame woke or something.