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State police said people "should not attend political rallies" until the assassin is apprehended. Thousands turned out anyway. www.fox9.com/news/no-king...

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Alas, poor #bonespurs boy. It looks like it's going to rain on his parade. Literally. Words fail to express how sorry I am not.

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Assassination: Top-quality reporting, with frequent updates: www.startribune.com/brooklyn-par...

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Dem. House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed Saturday morning at their home. Dem. state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were both shot multiple times Minnesota’s house had been evenly split. Democrats had a one-vote majority in the state senate.

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☞ Die Eitelkeit weist jede gesunde Nahrung von sich, lebt ausschließlich von dem Gifte der Schmeichelei und gedeiht dabei in üppigster Fülle. ☞ Vanity rejects all healthy nourishment and lives exclusively on the poison of flattery. — Marie Freifrau Ebner von Eschenbach (1893)

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𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐥; 𝐔𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝟓 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐄 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥. “fails to cite contrary binding authority or any prior decisions that, upon review, actually conflict with the panel’s decision; [...] we do not convene en banc to relitigate a case.” tinyurl.com/5fmn2auu

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So many proverbs rely on antimetabole that any antimetabole sounds like a proverb. #meta #proverb

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In hnoor of Friday the 13th: The pop-up book of phobias: www.reddit.com/r/interestin... What could possibly go wrong?

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ι☞ מֶ֗לֶךְ בְּ֭מִשְׁפָּט יַעֲמִ֣יד אָ֑רֶץ וְאִ֖ישׁ תְּרוּמ֣וֹת יֶהֶרְסֶֽנָּה׃ ι☞ A wise and just ruler will make the nation a better place, but one who takes bribes will bring it to ruin. #proverb (chapter 29 verse 4)

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Do not insult the crocodile before you ford the river. #proverb

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The devil has more than 12 disciples. #proverb Image: #orangeJesus staged a supper at MAGA-Lardo. January 9th, 2025. Participants reportedly paid him a million dollars apiece. Mighty peculiar campaign fundraiser, since the campaign was long since over.

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Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Too late. — Avocado ripening #proverb The Heaviside Step Function is named after Professor Step. It's called that because all its weight is on one side. Also known as the avocado function. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavisi...

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Lyin' Ted Cruz and James Woods are passing off a picture as current, even though they both know it is from May 30, 2020. This is their "evidence" of violence in LA. Cruz posted it on 4:26 AM on Jun 8, 2025 with the comment «utter lawlessness». He also said "This…is…not…peaceful.»

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There is no point in using exact methods where there is no clarity in the concepts and issues to which they are to be applied. — von Neumann & Morgenstern Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944) #proverb. Widely misquoted and misattributed.

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AI fail du jour: This is important, and the chatbot is very very wrong. It was Minkowski (not Einstein) who established the idea of spacetime, with time as the fourth dimension. For the next level of detail, see here: www.facebook.com/ike.bickerst...

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Don't poke the bear. #proverb

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Now you know how Churchill felt when Hitler attacked Stalin.

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The relationship status between Lone Smuk and the #bonespurs boy should not be called an explosion, but rather: ☐ "rapid unscheduled disassembly" ☐ "demised a little bit" ☐ "accelerated decommissioning" Familiar #spacexEuphemisms

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We've seen this movie before: Illegal Alien v Sexual Predator #currentEvents #lifeImitatesArt

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I’m old enough to remember when the craziest, most outrageous thing to happen in the White House was a tan suit…

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Studies involving human subjects are very difficult. #proverb Drug trials are tremendously expensive and require elaborate safeguards. "Education research" attempts a vastly more difficult task using vastly less resources. The credibility of the results is underwhelming. Image: xkcd.com/1594/

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Interesting article by Sidney Blumenthal. Deeper, broader, and more nuanced than the headline might suggest. Tangential remark + perspective: I keep coming back to the stinking elephant in the room: 77 million people voted for evil. No amount of litigation is going to fix the fundamental problem.

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Entirely predictable. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Tesla stock lost 15 cNp on the day. Newsmax stock was down 11 cNp. DJT stock was down "only" 8 cnP. The Dow was little changed.

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No matter how far you push the envelope, it remains stationery. #proverb Bad things happen if you trifle with the envelope, as discussed here: www.facebook.com/ike.bickerst...

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☞ Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest. ☞ It is a bad plan that cannot be altered. — Publilius Syrus (circa 50 BC) #proverb Suppose Plan A is to go from Seattle to Atlanta, but when you get to the middle of Montana the CHECK ENGINE light comes on. It's time to switch to Plan B.

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www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/... www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Fifth partner leaves Paul Weiss to join new firm reut.rs/4kyLZGs

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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov (1961) Foolish #proverb. I say you can and should get rid of your complacency /before/ you reach the shattering revelation.

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Check for aurora as soon as it gets dark. In absolute terms, not super-likely, but in relative terms, orders of magnitude more likely than on some random ordinary night. www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aur...

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I'm never afraid to pick up a hitchhiker, because the probability of having two homicidal maniacs in the same car is very slim. #proverb Most people's understanding of probability is very weak. Their understanding of causation is even weaker.

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WH spokesminion Karoline Leavitt ... aka TACO Belle

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Interesting analysis, different from most of the hot takes I've seen elsewhere. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/more...

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Aurora now. The 30-minute forecast is vastly more reliable than the longer-term forecasts. www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aur...

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