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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich
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No kings! Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
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How does an escaped lab monkey become a pastor?
A mom and a pastor shot two fugitives. They were escaped lab monkeys.
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Another
Post from @resistrebelrevolt.net In NJ State Assembly 25 Democrat, Marisa Sweeney, edged ahead of the Republican incumbent by 664 votes, turning the seat blue for the first time in 48 years!
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Google search list of panics
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Musk's trillion dollar pay package reminded me of this passage from Montaigne's essay Of Cannibals.
they had observed that there were amongst us men full and crammed with all manner of commodities, whilst, in the meantime, their halves were begging at their doors, lean and half-starved with hunger and poverty; and they thought it strange that these necessitous halves were able to suffer so great an inequality and injustice, and that they did not take the others by the throats, or set fire to their houses.
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Recession-level layoffs. More than a million jobs lost this year.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs so far this year — the largest reading since the pandemic recession and on par with 2008 and 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession, the firm’s figures show. The data includes a recent spate of layoffs at major companies such as UPS, Amazon and Target, and adds to growing concern about a labor market slowdown.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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#bluecrush
Graphic showing Dems winning 64 seats in the VA House of Delegates & GOP winning 35 with 1 undecided
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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As I was saying
the most impressive Democratic overperformance I've seen was in a special county commission election in Eaton County, Michigan, in a district that Trump won with 69% of the vote . . . and the Democrat is down just *10 votes*, 50.3-49.7%:
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Blue Crush 2025
Source:
www.washingtonpost.com/elections/re...
Graphic showing shift to Democrats in Virginia Governor election from 2021 to 2025. County shifts are represented as spikes on a map. The map is covered with blue spikes that get taller as you move eastward.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Tom Wambsgans
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I'm addicted
Chart showing Dem and Rep seats in VA House of Delegates
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Wow. Blue Crush 2025.
Graphic showimg shift to Democrats in Virginia from 2021 to 2025
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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They're multiplying and embiggening!
Graphic showing shift toward Democrats in Virginia from 2021 to 2025
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Graphic showing dramatic shift toward Democrats from 2021 to 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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What happens to a sandwich hurled?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?
Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff questioned that testimony during cross-examination, displaying a photo of the sandwich lying on the ground, almost entirely inside its wrapper, after it was hurled. “In fact that sandwich hasn’t exploded at all,” she said. Lairmore maintained that he had “mustard and condiments on my uniform, and an onion hanging from my radio antenna that night.”
November 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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My hypothesis is that Trump redid the Lincoln Bathroom because he needs a new place to store classified materials.
Photo of archival boxes in bathroom at Mar-a-Lago from 2023 federal indictment of Trump
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I actually made a similar point in a letter to the Washington Post published on Sep. 9, 2001. My timing was not the best. Still true though!
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opin...
Rich Student, Poor Student September 9, 2001 The Sept. 2 and 3 front-page articles on Montgomery County schools say the system has been unable to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students despite two decades of experimentation. The obvious conclusion is that even well-intentioned reforms cannot succeed unless we alleviate the fundamental inequalities outside of school -- the great disparities of health, wealth and hope -- that confront poor children. ADAM ROTHMAN
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
“Art Deco doesn’t go with, you know, 1850 and civil wars and all of the problems,” Mr. Trump said. “But what does is statuary marble. So I ripped it apart and we built the bathroom. It’s absolutely gorgeous and totally in keeping with that time.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Pumpking at night
No kings pumpkin wearing crown with lit candle inside
October 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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No kings but pumpkings
Carved pumpkin with crown
October 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Here's the transcript from today
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...
BESSENT: Well, Martha, in case you don't know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer. So, I have -- I have felt this pain, too. And there are a couple of things happening here. One, the Chinese have substantially dropped their purchases to almost zero. So, they, unfortunately, have been using American farmers, who are amongst President Trump's biggestsupporters. I think he had more than 90 percent support. And then this was one of the biggest crops in 20 or 30 years. So, it was a perfect storm.
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Sorry, forgot to add alt-text
The Treasury Secretary owns thousands of acres of North Dakota farmland, worth up to $25 million. The properties grow soybeans and corn in a state that exports most of its agricultural products to China. The investments have earned Mr. Bessent as much as $1 million in rental income annually, according to his financial disclosure filings.
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Bessent today: "I'm actually a soybean farmer"
October 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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French police have revealed the identity of the Louvre robbery suspect who remains at large.
Gru
October 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This sentiment is less comforting that it may seem at first glance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/a...
“We say, ‘Oh we’re so divided,’ as if we’re Chicken Little and this is the worst it’s ever been,” he said. “But the Revolution was a pretty divided time. The Civil War was a pretty divided time. Almost all of American history is division.”
October 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Slop designs. Stairs to nowhere.
Design for exterior stairs for proposed ballroom with no door or entry at the top.
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM