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I haven't read Moby Dick since high school, but I'm pretty sure Ahab wasn't meant to be a role model.

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Mike Waltz has left the chat.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1948 comments

Who wants to pay big bucks to a law firm that won't even fight for itself?

submitted 19 hours ago • 77 comments

I am all for criticism of entrenched media, but damn people. It's not like Trump is going to shrivel up and blow away if the NYT puts "lie" in a headline.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

My 4-year-old brought her baby book to daycare and one of the other kids told her the ultrasound picture looked like "a Venom baby," like the Spider-Man villain. "He says its scary but I just go to sleep and dream about Venom. I don't even care."

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Out of curiosity, I looked up what Lutnick's parents did. According to Wikipedia, his father was a professor of history and his mother was a painter and sculptor. I have never seen a better example of nihilism.

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I didn't go to U of I and am not in agriculture, but still know what the Morrow Plots are. This is probably my biggest born-in-Illinois cred.

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Christ, maybe I shouldn't get world news from the same website where I test out puns.

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Based on every big city journalist originally from a small town I’ve ever met, the most unrealistic part of Superman isn’t the flying, but that he doesn’t get into screaming political fights with Pa Kent every holiday.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Release the list of all of the "journalists" who attended that pathetic event so the public is fully informed about who they should not take seriously.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

submitted 4 days ago • 1375 comments

Podifex

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If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

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Although I wasn’t able to get Jason Lutes to sign my copy of Jar of Fools, everyone should see Berlin at the Court Theater. Absolutely incredible. www.courttheatre.org/season-ticke...

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 6 days ago • 610 comments

Had to have the “don’t encourage the kid who licks things for attention” talk with my first-grader today.

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Durbin had a long, dignified career in public service. I wish him well, thank him and am all in favor of whatever highway or federal building they name for him. But he wasn't meeting the moment even for a careerist. I'm not comparing him to AOC or Sanders. I'm comparing him to Duckworth or Pelosi.

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Otter.ai just translated "the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation" as "the Gordon farting more foundation."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Anyway, back to the dictatorship.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social for pointing this out, but apparently if you add "meaning" to the end of a gibberish search, that bullshit AI feature will generate a supposedly common idiom. Fun until you remember lazy students use this AI for homework and papers.

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