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Remember to celebrate Edward Gorey’s 100th birthday tomorrow responsibly.

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Don’t you make me make a sign.

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If you couldn’t find the cord you need in this bin, of what use was saving all these cords friendo?

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If Frisco, TX, was a person it would look like James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, the 44-year-old assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas area. The Texas Observer has identified Rodden as the operator of the racist X account GlomarResponder. He lives in . . . wait for it . . . Frisco.

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"Jesus is coming—I better look busy."

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You bring the smoke and I’ll bring the mirrors.

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Now is the perfect time to revisit Umberto Eco's “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt:” 1. The cult of tradition. “There can be no advancement in learning. Truth already has been spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.” /1

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Happy Birthday to Lee Marvin. Photographed here at the wrap party for Point Blank [1967] with fellow Marine (and reigning World Shit-Eating Grin Champion™) Warren Oates and Keenan Wynn lurking in the background. I wasn’t there and neither were you.

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Math is hard.

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House Speaker “Mike” Johnson and his “wife” KKKelly were doing this before all the cool kids caught on.

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The outbreak is in a sparsely populated swath of rural Texas, near the New Mexico border, and has spread from its epicenter in Gaines County to include single-digit cases in Lynn, Terry and Yoakum counties.

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Shreveport Modern

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Is 'new baby' redundant?

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Meanwhile in West Texas: 48 and counting

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Thirty-nine years ago—February 14th, 1986—I took Molly on our first date. We ate a cajun dinner, then saw Brazil. Then we dropped in at the New Guild Co-op V-D party. Followed it up with an epic 80s #mixtape with #LyndaBarry artwork xeroxed and hand colored. These details are important.

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A grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish District Court indicted Dr. Carpenter last month along w/ her company, Nightingale Medical, and the Louisiana mother who ordered the pills online for her pregnant child. All were charged w/ criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, a felony.

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Happy Birthday to Grant DeVolson Wood, born this day in 1891 four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa.

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I was today years old when I learned that Chris Farley's SNL character who responded so poorly to being tricked into drinking that decaf coffee was from #Shreveport.

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Health officials confirmed that 24 people have been identified with measles in Gaines County, TX, which has one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the entire state. All of the confirmed measles cases in the county involve unvaccinated residents, and 9 patients have been hospitalized.

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Pick me a winner!

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Leaving this here for reference.

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We have the power of neither the purse nor the sword.

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“All the neo-Nazis initially refused to provide identification, the footage shows. The driver, identified on the police report as a known white supremacist provided a Louisiana driver's license when police explained that he legally had to.”

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Look here's the deal. House Speaker "Mike" Johnson has always had the political instincts of a dung beetle. Here's a campaign photo of then-Congressman Johnson grooming some of his staff for legendary sex offender Josh Duggar. 19 and counting indeed!

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Happy 100th to Paul Newman.

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