snootacamund.bsky.social
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There is no pundit fandom around Josh Shapiro without him going to Georgetown Law.
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You are roughly describing the case of Jaleel Stallings who was acquitted at trial but only after evidence surfaced that the police had lied about their conduct.
minnesotareformer.com/2021/09/01/j...
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Also how little the NYT covered Trump’s age and obvious decline.
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Great song, way to make everyone feel old by playing classics.
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Under mentioned is the uh what I’ll call stupid screwups that really make people smoke. Your B-17 flying out of England ran out of fuel over Germany is not something that should happen.
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Saying this will get us acting SecDef Strategy Cheese.
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He’s already been charged by the state for two counts of murder 2 and two counts of attempted murder 2.
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From a Reich that will last a millennium to we don’t even exist as a country.
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They have unleashed the Allspark.
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And any book about Polo I have to mention that Louis Mountbatten wrote an introduction to polo by the pen name of Marco.
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I haven’t read that yet, but I probably will. The cowritten time travel book was much tighter and not bad, imo, but how much did he write?
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It, from memory, seemed pretty upper Midwest? Pockets of civilization interspersed with whatever? Haven’t done the huge garage sale since before Covid but offhand, it was incredibly depressing and politically revelatory- oh, here’s the 5th set of marriage photos for offspring that moved to big city
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I’d argue 1999, Cryptonomicon was at the edge but entertaining while the Baroque Cycle fell off the edge.
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell - has a pretty different read on the general nature of flyover country.
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Altitude sickness *while descending* which is, uh, not usually what happens with any form of it. It gets much better real quick as you go down.
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During WW2 it was easy to recruit people from the midwest for West Coast war production because they were paid far more than they could make near home, at a far better standard of living (multiple female college educated relatives moved west for war jobs during ww2, it gave them independence)
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The thing that stands out in the Nick Ayers bios was donors *didn’t really care that it’s wasted*. Just a bunch of people shoveling money at campaigns for reasons not much connected to utility (as also evidenced by the number of Dem campaigns with more money than they could spend usefully)
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Whether it is intentional disinformation or they are too marinated to think clearly it should be disqualifying
Local TV has a fairly decent text summary of events as reported so far in this piece
www.fox9.com/news/vance-b...
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I think 90-95% of it is he baked his brain.
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Vance gave the priest who baptized him Fr. Henry a private tour of the White House so he’s not unimportant to Vance, would seem someone the media should be interested in. But their attention is selective.
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And this is a sitting Senator! It’s not some rando online!
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When we win wars, yes. NYC WW1 victory parade in 1919 went through a Victory Arch and went past a pyramid of reportedly ~100,000 German helmets, there were 5 miles of troops cheered by 500,000 spectators (largest to that point).
Peacetime random? No, this isn’t the US.
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Positioning of Melania’s jacket buttons was a choice, and a weird one.
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Polynesian navigators used to put their balls on the steering oar to sense the swell direction when sailing, but I think we all understand why that’s a problem here for the press corps.
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They don’t want to interact with how serious in purpose these murderers can be, but how utterly unserious they are intellectually. The Turner Diaries are below shitlit.
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Uh, they very much know the answer to that question
apnews.com/minnesota-go...
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There’s also 3) Trump hasn’t much idea of what’s going on, and doesn’t care
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Trump is in decline doesn’t know what’s going on and doesn’t have complete control and the press is complicit in covering that up because Trump talks to the press. Full stop.
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Also “was Trump told” != “Trump knows” because he’s lazy, uncaring, and not really there
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Whole thing was either true, or invented, by a Domino’s franchisee in a push to get free newspaper/media coverage back in 1991. He claimed data back to 1983 when he had a single franchise that wasn’t particularly close to the CIA, Pentagon, State, or White House.
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As one of the four described them:
“None of these men need to pad their résumé. None have free time between fatherhood, demanding day jobs, and a dozen other demands. But all feel called to serve.”
Which does not an effective sound like very effective people at O-5 rank.
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McGrew used to be cheap research officer at OpenAi. Before that Palantir and PayPal. So, clout, connections.
No idea why they need to join, or what it will give them as a group of O-5.
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It might have been true for specific case of “late night delivery surge” when the DC Domino’s franchisee got it first written up during the Gulf War, but you have to raise your eyebrows at someone who opened his first franchise in July 1983 claiming it dates to the invasion of Grenada.
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I’d guess airline/airport personnel with the motivation of money. I said screen cap, but that was shorthand for photos of printouts with fingers visible.
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The Russian lip filler or the more extreme “bimbofication” surgery package.
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I think it was an institutional intention because that’s what they desire, but a personal mistake by the reporter.
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Like with them not green lighting a Chevy Suburban clone (they proto’d one like 20yrs ago) the interesting part is why they didn’t.
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With a Gulfstream going .935 with 8200nm range you probably need to get >1.5 without an equivalent range, and boom is offering half the range. Refueling stop to get to Asia from the west coast limits the attraction.
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How that platform tolerates gore is horrifying, but the shocking part to me is they’ve left up posts for now >8hrs with pictures of the complete passenger manifest. Screencaps of the airlines list that goes down to passport number.
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The watch cabinet and the crocodile paneling are just perfect incineration of money.
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Just so everyone’s clear this is just raging farming, look at his current Twitter engagement
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You could write a scandal story on the weekly additions of gold decoration to the Oval Office.
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No and yes. It’s been around since 2000, but never had more than a dozen teams, most years much less. This is the first big 32 team instance.
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The main difference is the journalist joined Twitter in 2009. Over the intervening 16 years they acquired followers and an audience, and that isn’t transferable if they post the same way in 2025.
oh, and nobody cares what he posts on x either.
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Nobody talks to him on Twitter either.
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It’s worse because he’s getting absolutely no attention on Twitter.
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Napoleon invades Russia successfully, tsarina makes arduous journey to the east in company of smugglers.
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Mussolini didn’t make the trains run on time, but he did build massive showpiece rail stations.
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Very Very Very Charitably - because as David Downing tried to capture in an ok fiction book set as the optimism of the revolution collapsed post revolution, because people believe the Zhenotdel should have succeeded.
Utterly delusional it ever had a chance of course.
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My theory is because Ho liked the US at one point, and that runs against the “US is greatest satan” thread of tankiedom.