malcolmkmcgowan.bsky.social
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Excellent! I didn’t want to have to fight you for them
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It’s only a matter of time
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Regurgitating the same old “news” is the 20th century equivalent to writing your news article with AI. The media mostly aren’t biased; mostly they’re lazy.
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Some people did- it was a paid service offered by AAA. You told them where you wanted to go and they created a custom map for you, that they called a TripTik. We weren’t rolling in $$ so we just used gas station maps
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During the Clinton administration. Google Elian Gonzalez
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Doctor Strangelove
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You were only waiting for this moment to eat fries
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What if a gay couple asks him to design their wedding website?
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This is exactly what I anticipated. It’s safer and easier to grab up guys like this than it is to apprehend violent criminals.
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Listen, children, and I will tell you the tale of Beefsteak Charlie’s and the “all-you-can-drink” pitchers of Schafer.
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the “confirm they’re here illegally” would be a step in the right direction. The problem with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, for example, was that nobody checked to see whether he was here illegally before they shipped him off to El Salvador
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QED
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Outfield wall ivy
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It’s only a matter of time before someone actually gets kidnapped by copycats and when that happens how will we know? ICE will deny having the missing person and nobody will believe them.
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Counterpoint:
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It’s a fair point; at the same time, the Feds really have DC over a barrel at the moment in ways that an actual state like Michigan just isn’t.
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Don’t be jejune.
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This time of year the pollen collects in drifts that look like snow from the air.
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The word “think” is doing a lot of work in this headline
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When Guantanamo Bay is not *quite* far enough outside the jurisdiction of the United States courts
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This is both appalling and, sadly, more generous treatment than the administration has been handing out to many other immigrants
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F those penguins, stealing jobs from American flightless seabirds.
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A defining feature of the Trump-era Republican Party is a complete lack of self awareness
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On the bright side, Timothy Leary lived long enough to hear “Timothy Leary’s Dead”
I know, that’s not actually the name of the song.
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Makes at least as much sense as the Utah Jazz
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It’s gotta open up occasionally, otherwise he would have exploded a long time ago
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Just the hair?
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One at a time, or all at once? Take it from me, it’ll go easier if you spread them out over a day or two.
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I used to smoke 2 packs a day. If you need all that information to answer the question, you’re not a smoker.
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Yes! Thank you!
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2 groups of workers most likely to not return to government service: those eligible to retire (the highly experienced) and those who easily find other jobs (the highly qualified). Which anyone could have predicted if they had thought about this “strategy” for more than 15 seconds
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This is what all the “smart” people assured me, repeatedly.
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I used to go to a place that cooked the fries in duck fat. Spectacular
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You’re not wrong; at the same time it’s probably better for us all to eat fewer fries so there’s that.
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She should have pulled a Hegseth and said that we’re renaming it after Joe Black, who single-handedly cleared out a German gun emplacement on D-Day and saved the Lives of his squad
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Point of clarification: I thought that [President] Derangement Syndrome was when you hate something that you would ordinarily support just because [President] supports it.
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Had a dog like that. We called her “Princess Monkey Butt”
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I dunno, man. That sounds like a lot of work.
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I am once again reminded of the immortal words of HL Mencken, who said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.”
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In the desert, you can’t remember your name, so it seems a moot point
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It’s good for someone.
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“Reportedly”
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Even if true, that doesn’t address the original point. Giving a huge media deal to Melania on Trump’s way into office seems designed to curry favor with the President; the Obamas’ deal clearly doesn’t have the same ethical implications.