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.Anything but it .ארנב רות :in Hebrew. Not white. Born the year Raiders of the Lost Ark came out.
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The rich shouldn’t fear taxes. They should think of them as an insurance policy vs hungry mobs with pitchforks.
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someone make a version of the incredibles scene with this lol
Living presidents of South Korea:

Sentenced to 15 years
Acting president
Sentenced to 24 years
Acting president
Enjoying retirement
Sentenced to life
Acting president
Acting president
Acting president
Acting president
Climbed fence during the last non-acting president’s coup attempt
February 19, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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i think it’s funny every american on here is looking at yoon’s lifetime prison sentence going what’s it like to live my dream meanwhile a lotta koreans are like im so confused why isn’t he dead
February 19, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Honestly? I'm starting to get a little tired of the horrors
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Particularism saves lives.
VARNEY: We were told coal is the dirtiest fuel & there are more CO2 emissions than from gas. Is that no longer true?

BURGUM: It's true, but then the question goes back to reversal of the endangerment finding, which is, is CO2 a pollutant or something that helps plants grow? We know it's the latter
February 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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The underlying decision is HUGE. Judge Sykes vacated under the APA "Matter of Yajure-Hurtado," the decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals that had blessed the Trump admin's new interpretation of a 1996 law to deny the right to seek bond to huge swathes of people it takes into custody.
I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention
February 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Fun fact: The eruption of Mount Tambora also led to weather conditions across Europe that forced a group of young artists who were hanging out together to stay indoors one summer and into starting a writing contest and anyway, that's how Mary Shelley ended up writing Frankenstein
Likewise the paintings of JMW Turner are influenced by the eruption of mount Tambora and the resulting Year without a Summer
February 19, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Rep. Stephen Lynch: "It offers a great contrast. Look what the British government is doing in light of the evidence, and look what the US government is doing. Nothing. Our chief law enforcement officer Pam Bondi is defending and obstructing the investigation."
February 19, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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it really is shocking how much self deprecation is seen as a cultural requirement for 'serious art.' 'real' artists are not allowed to exalt their work and must present it publicly as a sort of 'i dont think this is very good but maybe you will get around to it.' HECK THAT. love yourself
February 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.

Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.

Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
February 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Nobody, in the entire history of caring, has ever cared one fraction of a percent about anything as much as he cares about this.
Trump: "I thought when I saw this note -- 'I'm excited to announce that Norway' -- I thought they were going to say they're giving me the Nobel Prize. Oh. This is less exciting. But I don't care. I don't care about Nobel Prize."
February 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
W/alt
February 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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when you think about the amount of time George Washington spent worrying about how his actions would be perceived and reflect on the republic
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
Trump: "This building was built for peace. Nobody knew what to name it, and then Marco named it after me. I had nothing to do with it. I swear. They said, 'There's a surprise coming.' I thought they were gonna give me a lot of money or something. Maybe cash. Can always use some extra cash."
February 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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February 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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I wasn't aware that the famous Forty Martyrs Palimpsest has been fully digitized and put online. But here it is, you can now take a look at the complete manuscript:
Westminster College : Palimpsest manuscript of The Questions of Priest Mūsā, with undertext of The Massacre of the Forty Martyrs of Raitho, The...
The manuscript consists of a collection of saints’ lives in Christian Palestinian Aramaic: Ammonius’ The Massacre of the
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
February 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Hoover was a much better pre-President than President. His record before election suggests he should have been great at handling such a crisis. Friends, he was not.
February 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Herbert Hoover was horrible. In fairness, we could say that he caught a lot of the blame for presiding over the wreckage created by the disastrous policies of his predecessor Calvin Coolidge.

But this McArdle take is white hot garbage.
February 19, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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This idea of powerful people not being able to get away with enjoying the privileges of their status was offensive to our “populist” overlords who successfully convinced millions people that they had something similar to lose
February 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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If I were to go on a renewed rant somewhere about language study being the backbone of any scholarly* future for the 'Global Middle Ages' that makes sense and that two years of Arabic is not what I mean by language study would anyone.... uh... read it?

Because I feel p. unheard at this point.
February 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.
February 19, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
Breaking News: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested in Britain on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC said.
UK Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties: Live Updates
The British police on Thursday arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of criminal activity linked to the Epstein files.
nyti.ms
February 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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New on Velveteen Rabbi, this week's #Torah #poem:

velveteenrabbi.com/2026/02/19/m...
February 19, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.
February 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
February 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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Me too. I want every member of the Epstein class to be unable to stop thinking about experiencing Epstein's fate themselves.
I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the UK’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged, the BBC said.

Get the latest: bloom.bg/4rqF1ah
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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This is what I mean when I say the aristocracy changes shape to survive. It shed historical bloodlines/mandate of Heaven and shifted to capitalism/“meritocracy”.
It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
February 19, 2026 at 2:05 PM