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This is a great way to visualize it.

Heh. The Rubio-on-the-sofa meme is like the Chris-Christie-on-the-beach meme of this era. Versatile and never gets old.

Hegseth also evaded question from Congress as to whether he’ll deploy troops to polling places during the election.

Though I grew up mostly in the yellow region, my parents were born and raised in the green area and that's my inheritance.

Apparently he was taken off the ventilator. That’s a good sign.

Who’s the person on the right supposed to be? Grok told me it was Noem but it also told me Doug Burghum was RFK Jr. If that’s supposed to be Kristi Noem, I don’t see it.

The Rest is History podcast has an excellent 4 part series on Britain in the 1970s. I’m on episode 2 and loving it. Highly recommended for our history-minded members.

@Andrea-B said:

…as in the case of Kiriakou, the process.

I think we should be grateful as a society that we have to go back 15 years to actually find an example where the DoJ used the process as a punishment.

By the way I went to one myself. 1986 in Vancouver.

Four years earlier it was in Paris.

From that there are two legacies. Debussy’s Estampes and the Eiffel Tower.

Wow. Even the throne-sniffing Turley is complaining about this one.

In Alpha sometimes we like to say “it’s not rare so much as rarely diagnosed’.

Maybe these are the ‘rarely found earths’. Though of the long list of them I’m sure some are actually pretty rare.

Skating to where the puck is going to be. Question is how long?

It’s close to impossible to govern the house with a few seat majority. Every possible candidate would have the same problem.

True dat

Nice.

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