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  Fun fact: the U.S. Constitution does not require citizenship to vote. I'll repeat that: the U.S. Constitution does not say that only citizens can vote. It does not ban non-citizens from voting. A federal *statute* contains this requirement, as do many states' laws. But if the law was changed to, eg, allow any permanent resident to vote as well, that would be fine constitutionally (and probably a good idea imho). So don't let people get away with just assuming that "only citiz...

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  I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the perpetrators were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital and government contracts.

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  Jesus, these people: "These advocates, many of whom support the Make America Healthy Again movement, are touting an addictive substance [nicotine] linked to tobacco use as a natural product that can be used for everything from improving focus to protecting against cognitive decline." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/09/20/im-pulmonologist-heres-why-new-wellness-claims-about-nicotine-worry-me/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzk...

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  As he becomes increasingly drunk on vodka and Sprite served in the flimsy plastic-wrapped plastic cups that came with his cheap motel room, #IHopeJohnRoberts doesn't find himself led into moral error by the ladies his new hobo friend has brought over – but let's be honest, he probably will, especially since one of the ladies has just produced a spliff, which John hasn't tried since he was an undergrad at Harvard, and honestly that was mostly the shake and seeds the Harvard Square dea...

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  How much should it cost to reupholster a simple square ottoman?

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  They think we're idiots. The problem, as the last presidential election demonstrated, is that more than half of us are.

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  I'm a well-educated guy, but not in finance. To me, it seems like the market is a massive bubble and will crash any second, but I've thought that many times in the past and usually been wrong, bec. big investors live in a completely different universe than I do. So I'm curious: do you think the market's going to crash in the next year or two? And are you (like me) relatively unsophisticated in the world of financial markets, or do you actually pay close attention to this stuff?

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  It's almost like juries don't believe DOJ is operating in good faith anymore, to the point it's even affecting straightforward drug and violence prosecutions. Jeanine Pirro’s office fails to convict accused MS-13 ringleaders twice | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/politics/trump-ms13-conviction-jeanine-pirro

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  Well, cra... I mean, yay. We were cleaning out an old piece of furniture and found this box full of decades-old undeveloped #film and disposable #cameras. Any suggestions for where to send these for decent-quality, affordable developing/digital conversion?

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  Dear #Canada: Kick our ass, please. Take care of yourselves, and kick our ass. #ElbowsUp Your American friend, Scott

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  Yeah, yeah, Facebook, but this is brilliant: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MCCancxKy/ "My favorite thing about The Odyssey is that when you notice how the poem is structured, the whole thing starts looking like Odysseus is just making up an alibi after coming home from a 10-year Fuckboy Tour of the Mediterranean. See, the parts of The Odyssey that Homer narrates directly are surprisingly grounded. At the beginning we see Ithaca, Telemachus travels around looking for news of his father...

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  I don't want to make the rest of you feel bad but I have the best wife hard stop.

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  Pinto Sally. #CarTroubleASongOrPoem #HashtagGames

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  "Democracy is a better idea than fascism, but the liberal international order does not exist because it is a better idea. It exists because the democratic powers built bigger and better guns, killed millions of fascists, overthrew fascist governments, tried and hanged fascist leaders, and liberated or coercively democratized former fascist countries.... The liberal international order rests on a founding act of violence, of which the Normandy campaign was a crucial part. It was justified, o...

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  Hmmm. I just tried a new cocktail: the Rothko #1, basically a Negroni-and-tonic made with Old Tom gin. It's good! The tonic + less-botanical gin makes it less overpowering than a regular Negroni.

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  Fuck those six Democrats in particular. US House approves $1 trillion defense bill that would boost security ties with Israel | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-house-approves-1-trillion-defense-bill-that-would-boost-security-ties-with-israel/

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  Watch recommendation: the 2026 documentary "Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt41702551/ A young woman starts a late-night 1970s NYC public-access show, and becomes an important advocate for gay rights, HIV education, free speech, and ultimately for sex-positive aging. Unexpectedly enjoyable and informative.

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  Not a surprise. But when they say "intellectual diversity" they actually mean "not lose our more conservative subscribers," and they know that's what they mean. They trade truth for $.

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  I'm so old, I remember being taught that the United States government allocated powers evenly among three separate branches so that no one official would have too much power. Also, they didn't know back then about continental drift. Trump 50% tariffs target Canadian autos, alcohol and cheese | AP News https://apnews.com/article/trump-canada-50-tariff-autos-alcohol-cheese-ca268ef24992b16695954c4c2e5eae6a

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  Going through a big Rubbermaid bin from the garage holding old electronics. Anyone need a CAT-5 crossover cable or some S-video adapters? How about an internal A: drive for reading floppy disks? Or proprietary printer cables?

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  In case any English-only USians want to watch today's #WorldCup final without subscribing to Fox Sports, the game is showing in Spanish on Telemundo and streaming audio for free on iHeartRadio. The only glitch I haven't been able to solve is that the two streams are out of sync by about 20 seconds, and I haven't figured out how to pause the audio stream successfully to make them match.

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  There's a new bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is the U.S. But permanent Standard Time would be healthier and safer. (In fact, the U.S. tried permanent DST back in 1974, but stopped bec people were being killed commuting/walking to school in the dark.) https://aasm.org/advocacy/position-statements/permanent-standard-time-is-the-optimal-choice-for-health-and-safety/ So why isn't permanent ST being proposed? Because GOLF INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS want that extra hour of daylight aft...

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  If you're having trouble deciding who to root for in the #England vs #Argentina #WorldCup semifinal, just remember to support the country that isn't fecklessly flirting with fascism instead of mounting a solid principled defense to it. See? Easy!

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  Subtoot: fuck T-Mobile and fuck all the tech companies and fuck every single development in the world since 1999 except Obama's election and my daughter getting engaged.

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  I'm trying to decide who would be more effective at managing the Strait of Hormuz: the Ukrainian Armed Forces, older Black women, or librarians. Pretty sure any of them would have it under control inside a week, no problem. (Are there any Black Ukrainian librarians?)

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  Today I hope that when John Roberts wakes up in his small locked room at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington the orderlies speak to him in those artificially soothing voices adults use with small children and frightened animals and all he gets for breakfast is a harmless porridge but then fairly promptly he is taken to a staff psychiatrist for the interview required by District of Columbia Code §21-522 and the psychiatrist quickly realizes who he is and apologizes that no one has recognized...

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  There's a reason cartels assassinate judges when the legal system gets too close to holding them accountable. Rubio vows to ‘dismantle’ International Criminal Court | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/politics/rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court

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  Them: here's a photo of Mitch McConnell with someone next to him holding a newspaper as proof of life. Me: dude, do you think we haven't seen the old Nick Nolte film "Under Fire," where they Weekend at Bernie's a political leader with a newspaper for a photo?

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  When bad people die, don't grieve. Don't even pretend to grieve. Not even if they had baby faces and a pleasant drawling way of talking. Not even if they were U.S. senators. When bad people die, don't say nice platitudes just because they're dead. When bad people die, be briefly grateful. Then forget them and continue doing good work.

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  In political science and human communications academic circles, this is what is technically called – and I apologize for using esoteric terms of art like this, but sometimes they're simply the most accurate way of describing things – anyway, this is what is technically called "an outright fucking God-damned lie." Senate GOP leaders say they’ve spoken with Mitch McConnell - Live Updates - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/07/congress/mitch-mcconnell-health-thun...