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New Jersey's most merciless spotted lanternfly hunter / Please don't do in the news nothing about me / Mets doomsayer / @ me if we were at the same concert / not your lawyer / talk about the weather, or how the weather used to be
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In the grand scheme this is not the most important thing that happened today.

But "protesters eagerly sift through the equipment and papers left behind by the regime's routed elite security forces" historically happens at a much later stage of regime collapse than this.
January 15, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”

Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
wapo.st
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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I have not read these pieces of legislation but I do know @maketheroadnj.bsky.social and other groups there and trust them
Implicitly. This is a show of vision, courage, and moral values by NJ Democrats. Sherrill beat be ready to help and sign these bills.

GL: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/n...
A Push to Expand the Rights of Immigrants in Defiance of Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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You’re right—swallowing the bird was a half-measure. The bird did eat the spider, as planned, but now you have a bird in you. It reminds you of swallowing the spider to catch the fly. You’re seeing the pattern.

Would you like me to suggest some animals which could eat the bird?
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
imagine going 25 years back in time to revisit yourself to explain what a pedophile is
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
The United States of America is announcing that its objective is to kill you, yes, you.
The fact that the Trump administration looks at a video where the victims final words are “I’m not mad at you” and the shooter seems to say “fucking bitch” after killing her, and thinks, yeah, this looks good for him, is amazing.
January 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
"the full wrath of American justice" what a deeply disappointing day to be a human participant in what was supposed to be civilization
Attorney General Bondi says Venezuela's Maduro and his wife have been indicted and "will soon face the full wrath of American justice."

I didn't go to law school. Can someone please tell me what the Constitution or federal statutes say about "wrath" being a principle of the justice system?
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Fiddling your time sheets?? To rip off the Legal Aid Agency??
Samina Ahmed, 46, fiddled her time sheets - claiming to work 28 hours some days - in a bid to take home a £70,000 bonus.
Woman struck off as lawyer after claiming she worked more than 24 hours in a day
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I found this story riveting, not only because Suzy is a relative of mine and I've been hearing about this saga for YEARS. What happens when your widowed dad finds love again—with a would-be Presidential assassin? Wild stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...
She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It took the death of Brigitte Bardot to realize that Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Free violates the rule against perpetuities; Dylan has no obligation to grow a mustache on his face.
Another real person, Mr. Football Man, is not named but is identifiable as Bart Starr, also deceased. If we assume Mr. Clean to be the actor who portrayed him, House Peters Jr, he's also dead but if he has a great-granddaughter she's likely alive now but would not have been born yet when Bob met her
December 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When Joel Plaskett said, "snowed in! Snowed in! Snowed in!" I really felt that.
Snowed In/Cruisin'
YouTube video by kanananaskis
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December 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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The descendants of immigrants who conveniently “forget” how their immigrant forbears “got over” are disgraceful.
And for the record, Mr. Martini, the Italian immigrant who Mr. Potter disgustingly disparaged as a “garlic eater,” and who received a chance for a decent home from the Bailey Business& Loan, is essentially the stand-in for the forbears of ppl like ICE enforcer Greg Bovino (Italian-American).
December 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Hell yeah, I love Abraham Lincoln’s NORAD Santa Tracker
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Merry Christmas from Long Island, New York.
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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StubHub apologizes for mix-up involving heavy metal band Lamb of God, Christian concert
StubHub apologizes for mix-up involving heavy metal band Lamb of God, Christian concert
StubHub’s website apparently confused a Christian concert called “Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God” with the heavy metal band Lamb of God.
www.wric.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
As time marches on, I find Greg Lake's I Believe in Father Christmas is incomparably on another level from other holiday hits. "They said there'd be snow on Christmas... but instead it just kept on raining" might be one of the earliest climate change references in popular music, knowingly or not.
December 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
You had to be there in the late 2000s to know that 3 of the best holiday bangers were from side projects of Eddie Argos of indie-sleaze-before-it-was-so-named UK band Art Brut. Glam Chops - Countdown To Christmas, B-side Baby Jesus Was The First Glam Rocker, and The Black Arts - Christmas Number One
THE BLACK ARTS "Christmas Number One"
YouTube video by fpvideo
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December 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Truly wild that someone went to Steven Van Zandt and said “can you write Darlene Love a version of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) but make it so we don’t have to give Phil Spector any money” so he wrote the same song but like 90% as good [positive] and they put it in Home Alone 2.
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
just got Whamageddon'd by the Spotify algorithm and I deserved it
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
RIP JOE ELY
This cover of one of the most important Woody Guthrie songs today was on his album from earlier this year
Deportee (feat. Ryan Bingham)
YouTube video by Joe Ely - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's really sad man ... our president is a asshole
December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The mosh pit for this Superheaven show at Williams Center just broke through the floor. I can't get close enough or won't get close to see how bad the damage is but they stopped mid-song and it's been a solid five minutes, so I might just leave rather than get crushed falling into the basement.
December 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Every show any genre I've been to since Oasis played MetLife Stadium, I've seen at least one person wearing a shirt from it, and this streak continues
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Seeing an opener of a 6pm show call themselves the loudest band from Pennsylvania, and I'm realizing I may have gone to a butt rock show. After "a death metal love song" they are outroing with the chorus to Christina Aguilera - Beautiful, and the phone flashlights are out.
December 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM