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And therein lies the problem. A president who acts as an absolute monarch, a rubber-stamp legislature, and a rubber-stamp high court. The only check on such a regime is the people themselves, with many judges and lawyers among them. This has regressed to long before the reign of King George III.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 10h

Donald, you put the bits in the copper end, and there’s a little box on the wall with chips inside, and they come out the glass end. It’s the same bits! Nobody thought they could do it. But they’re doing it very strongly, and we’re hearing about it more and more.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! Oh, that’s great. I’m unfamiliar with Mumford and his many mandolin-wielding sons beyond their once-ubiquitous “I Will Wait.”

Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 1d

That cool menthol will have me dancing like the Charmin toilet bears

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 2d

🎵Highway to the toilet zone 🎶
🎶 Gonna take it right into the toilet zone

Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

My 74 year old dad and 72 year old mom agree with them. They lived through the 60s. They know what’s up.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

She really steps into her public persona. Playing with all the social expectations of how a feminine pop star should act and subverting them. The real deal.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

Not great at all! We will get Christina Bohannon over the line, and hopefully Hinson out, and maybe the nitrates out of our rivers, someday. I’d say soybean farmers are a little panicked right now.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

Everything we do is a performance except in our deepest interior thoughts. And it’s time to rehearse, because when the lights go down and the play starts, you have to know your lines.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

Love from across the Mississippi in our dear Iowa, where there’s thousands standing with her.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

1. Jalen Brunson
2. Giannis
3. Wemby
4. Jaylen Brown

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know how you manage in Alaska in the winter, but I respect it. No kings. The people are the true sovereign.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

I get at least one phishing test from IT at work each week like this

Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

We can’t erase the harm that’s been done under this flag, but we can redefine its meaning for a new age. An age of upright, moral, and decent people repairing the harm that’s been done in our names. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness belongs to every person, universally.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

That’s so many sensible polos and khakis. They don’t know what they’re missing

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

That’s right. Some think we need a new national symbol, but this flag flew when we passed the Reconstruction Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is this rot in the structure, but we can cut it out and put good, sturdy beams in its place. The 2x4s of morality, equality, and decency.

Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

That’s right. Some think we need a new national symbol, but this flag flew when we passed the Reconstruction Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is this rot in the structure, but we can cut it out and put good, sturdy beams in its place. The 2x4s of morality, equality, and decency.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

This is what I would call “elite hater energy.” Sometimes it’s just understandable to be a hater. You just have to smile when the Dallas Cowboys lose. Or, yes, the Yankees. Or, if you’re the Pope, the Chicago Cubs.

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Sliwa has been in New York politics for decades and like anyone who has been in New York politics that long he has a deep and abiding hatred of Andrew Cuomo on a personal level

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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Ricardo Boo @richardcblair.bsky.social · 3d

You can’t even satirize something this pathetic and risible. Vance the climber and schemer, abasing himself before a senile, wretched zero of a man, thinking that’s the way to get power.

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