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Here is my big list of Dad jokes.

#1. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
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Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."
Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"
This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
I don't know which guy you mean
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Scott Pelley got a big scoop with the Trump DOJ whistleblower that almost surely was going to be the top story on 60 Minutes this week. But per the NYT, Bari Weiss personally booked Jared Kushner on 60–letting him take a victory lap for the Gaza deal. Pelley’s story was pushed to second position.
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Moreover, even though the whistleblower story contains real news—he hasn’t talked before and he’s making his case publicly—here’s how the CBS News website is playing the two stories at this hour: Kushner leads, whistleblower story is below 10 other stories under “more news.”
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He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.

Yes, we are the baddies.
Trump says he's imposing new tariffs on Colombia but won't say what the rate will be
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Noah Smith seems to now believe that accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, something which is now the consensus of all major human rights organizations on the planet as well as the International Association of Genocide Scholars, is comparable to the 2020 election denialism of the GOP.
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Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.
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In 1925, Congress felt it needed to pass a joint resolution to authorize Grace Coolidge to accept gifts of furniture
The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.
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lol apparently despite getting there an hour late and leaving early i attended my local No Kings rally for longer than the biggest leftist political streamer on the internet
Let me show you my book, "To Serve ICE".

IT'S A COOKBOOK
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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“Sure, it was disappointing to lose the 'Duke of York' title, but it turns out in one of the former colonies, America, I can finally be King!" chaser.com.au/world/epstei...
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The "it's a republic not a democracy" crowd is really leaning into "he won an election so he can't be doing anything wrong."
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NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Earlier this year I revealed that my investigators had uncovered a massive Epstein file at the Treasury Department containing bank records. They found over 4700 wire transfers totaling $1.1 BILLION in and out of his JP Morgan Chase accounts alone.
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In Azerbaijan, critics of the tyrannical government dressed up in donkey suits to mock them -- and were imprisoned: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Yes I've heard about the corker at the No Kings march who was repeatedly hit by the driver of a Range Rover. If anyone has more information to share with me, please reach out via DMs or bikeportland.org/contact
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CNN: Do you really believe that the 7 million attendees who participated this weekend hate the United States of America?

REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.
Can't you just fucking disappear and then reappear 6 months before the election to siphon off votes and ensure a Republican victory like you do every 4 years