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I love the #CANES
You can’t make up the difference with three straight losses. Time to relax and heal from what I imagine are a lot of hidden injuries. Now time for some self deprecation . . .

May 29, 2025 at 3:26 AM

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LET’S GO #CANES!!!!

May 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM

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The A.V. Club with an excellent question: “If you don’t even get anything for rolling over for him, what’s the point of kneeling at all?”

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · Mar 29

The White House Correspondents Dinner won't feature any comedian at all this year, which will certainly force Donald Trump to be nice to them. www.avclub.com/amber-ruffin...

Today in cowardice: Amber Ruffin dumped from White House Correspondents Dinner

www.avclub.com

March 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Spoiler alert for folks who play Strands: They are not accepting this as a correct answer for “power plants” but it does count toward getting a hint.
You’re welcome. #themoreyouknow
#puzzles

March 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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“The only thing we have to fear is . . . fear itself, and sensitive war plans being shared in a chat thread on something called . . . [checks notes] . . . Signal.”

March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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This band, song, and video have all lived rent free in my head for about a month now.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
The Mary Wallopers
Cod Liver Oil and the Orange Juice

youtu.be/Ata1jxjsHbY

Mary Wallopers - Cod Liver Oil & The Orange Juice live at The Hut

YouTube video by Screenworks Films

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March 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Adam Parkhomenko

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what a day

March 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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You can be responsible for 3 fights in the first 9 seconds of a game, or you can work as a team, get 3 goals, and get an overtime win and the championship for your country. Congratulations, #TEAMCANADA!!! 🇨🇦
(Also happy for Jarvy and Slavin for being a part of this great tournament.)

February 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

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This is a lawyerly way of saying “fuck off, clown” and I’m absolutely here for it

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Feb 14

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

February 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Sometimes your only option is to call someone a d*ck. I tip my cap to Mr. Garcia.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 14

Sounds about right. https://www.comicsands.com/robert-garcia-musk-pic?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Dem Rep. Explains Why He Keeps Calling Elon Musk A 'D*ck'—And He's Got A Point

Well, can't argue with this logic.

www.comicsands.com

February 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM

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February 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM

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Holy crap! I needed that laugh. 😂

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · Feb 1

The greatest moment in broadcast television history.

February 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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BrooklynDad_Defiant!

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I love how the same idiot trumpers who literally blamed egg prices on Biden, and bragged that trump was going to magically bring them down, are all backtracking and saying he CAN'T do anything about egg prices.

And eggs are just the beginning.

YOU voted for this bullshit.

January 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Now more than ever, the world needs more Bjork and less of . . . pretty much everything else.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · Jan 24

Björk isn’t staying oh-so-quiet about how much she hates Spotify. The streaming platform is “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians,” she said recently.