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Last weekend, I completed the first draft of my fifth Ed Earl Burch hard-boiled crime thriller, THE FATAL SAVING GRACE. It'll be out soon. Will post updates.

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The world's best sports mascot.

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www.amazon.com/author/jimne...

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You know who it's for...

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Don’t mess with @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Today’s the day I rope @edearl56.bsky.social , author of the Ed Earl Burch series, into sitting for an interview. Anyone who skips this of entertainment and enlightenment is so dumb they couldn’t pour water out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel. tinyurl.com/2xapsatd

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Old storage building about three blocks east of me that got blown away by the recent EF-1 tornado that hit Athens. Aka, The Night Stalker.

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Have a hunnert-proof Happy New Year, pilgrims.

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One of the more ludicrous parrot squawks from Trumpers during the shutdown shitshow that just ended was: "Where was Sleepy Joe during all of this?" Not his circus, not his monkeys. Besides, when your enemies are digging themselves into a deep hole, hand them a shovel and get the hell out of the way.

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This is a real tweet by the Democratic Party and I can’t help but wonder where this energy has been for the past 6 months

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.

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Evidently the GOP really doesn’t have a problem with foreigners taking over the country.

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Grab yourself the very best in hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers with a Western flair. You'll be damned glad you did. www.amazon.com/author/jimne...

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Know who else was honored by Time magazine? Hitler and Stalin.

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Comer on CNN on budget cuts: "Everything is on the table ... you look at improper payments -- that's a big issue -- where the government sends money to people fraudulently in Medicare, in Medicaid, where they send money fraudulently in unemployment insurance."

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What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

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More Parents Say Allowing Child To Play Football Not Worth Risk Of Being Drafted By Jets theonion.com/more-parents...

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Daisy the Dog, demanding treats and tribute.

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Turned 68 today. So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.

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With Trump the tax laws will be even weaker: How One of the World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion in Taxes dnyuz.com/2024/12/05/h...

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“Trump appears determined to test if he can squander the goodwill he has, and when he does, it will only serve to reinforce what many already know: his leadership is a clear and present danger to the principles that hold this nation together.” My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-honeym...

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If the roles were reversed, the House Republicans would hold three press events a day to demand the release of the report and to condemn the opposition for covering up sex crimes. But most of the House Democrats find partisan displays of politics icky so ...

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here's today's post: 'Dark Brandon: “maybe I’ll become a pardon factory”' — firewalls against fuckery need to be constructed now. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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The news media is so broken.

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Just cracked the 36,000-word mark in the latest Ed Earl Burch hard-boiled Texas thriller with the working title of THE FATAL SAVING GRACE. You can get yourself addicted to the profane and utterly reckless Ed Earl at: www.amazon.com/author/jimne...

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I’m about to lecture on Watergate and I feel, for the first time, that I have to explain to students why it was such a scandal. “No, people thought the president wasn’t a king. Even Republicans! Honest!”

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Those long, thin lines in the sky are trails of tiny ice crystals created in the wake of high-altitude jet aircraft. They’re a harmless, easily-understood phenomenon. They’re not some evil government conspiracy. Really. fullfact.org/online/longe...

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Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter — and every Republican lost their shit www.jefftiedrich.com/p/joe-biden-...

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Just bc my stalker Bryan Betancur said he would kidnap, stab me 20 times, and rape me and post it all the Facebook, now he’s a criminal?? Just bc he gave my joke address to a bunch of Neo-Nazis, he’s a bad guy?? Wow. So much for the tolerant left. The J6ers are clearly tiny innocent babies!

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Every Trump nominee, especially those in national security roles, should undergo a FBI background check. www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/p...

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Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Zoë van Dijk.

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From David French's col-yoom: "Dissenting Americans should brace themselves for an assault on free speech, extreme intolerance and a vicious form of cancel culture that includes an avalanche of threats and intimidation."

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If I could only get Max to massage my neck...

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Steve Van Zandt, on tour with Bruce Springsteen, playing guitar for the song No Surrender. Slava Ukraini!

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As the vote count comes to a close, it turns out Trump had the smallest popular vote margin since Bush v Gore in 2000. h/t @redistrict.bsky.social

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A feeding frenzy has broken out among Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and their lawyers over how to secure the pardons that Trump has spent months promising to Jan. 6 defendants. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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