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Pro-DEI, because different perspectives and experiences are the way to increasing knowledge, wealth, and wisdom.

Also annoyed that I have to point all this out.

He/Him is part of my First Amendment rights.
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Markets are loving it already
S&P futures showing a noticeable drop right around the time Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook from the federal reserve despite having no actual authority to do so.
August 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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If I'm reading this correctly, the chairman of the DNC (Robert Hannegan) got Truman on the 1944 ticket with FDR by using a three-way-call attack straight out of Mean Girls.

Article is at www.knoxfocus.com/archives/vic...
Harry Truman still refused to become a candidate until the enterprising Robert Hannegan got the president on the phone and the senator heard FDR inquire if Truman had been lined up. Hannegan replied, no, and said Harry Truman was the contrariest mule in all of Missouri. To Truman’s horror, he heard Franklin Roosevelt bark, “Well, you can tell the Senator that if he wants to break up the Democratic Party in the middle of the war, that’s his responsibility.” The president slammed down the receiver. Harry Truman agreed to run. From https://www.knoxfocus.com/archives/vice-president-harry-truman/
August 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The news that the United States now owns part of Intel reminds me....a lot....of this bit from P.J. O'Rourke.
I don't want to disparage private enterprise. The world has political, religious, and intellectual leaders for that. But when a totalitarian government gets cozy with large financial and manufacturing concerns, it rings a twentieth-century historical bell. I'm thinking how a certain "people's car" -"ein Volkswagen"- got its start. I'm thinking "Made the trains run on time." I'm thinking, "Greater Asian Coprosperity Sphere." There's a technical name for this political ideology. P.J. O'Rourke, from his book "Eat the Rich" (1998) describing his impressions of China in the chapter "How to Have the Worst of Both Worlds: Shanghai." This is in response to multinational corporations who were cozying up to China after the handover of Hong Kong. With this in mind, he muses "I'm just wondering if multinational executive have thought this through."
August 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Everyone was getting along swimmingly.
A copy of a typewritten text: The American Ambassador stated that consultation was one thing; however, as the Soviet reply now stood it gave veto power to the Soviet Government. It gave only qualified approval. His Government surely would not accept it. Mr. Molotov replied that it was conceivable that there might be two Supreme Commanders: Vasielevski and MacArthur. The American Ambassador thereupon informed Mr. Molotov in no uncertain terms that this was absolutely inadmissible. Mr. Molotov replied that he had informed Mr. Harriman of the Soviet reply and requested him, whether he liked it or not, to transmit it to his Government. ("The American Ambassador" and "Mr. Molotov" are underlined when they are at the start of a paragraph.)
July 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Gorman - at the very edge of Los Angeles County.

Coincidence? I think not.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LA...
A Wikipedia image showing the location of Gorman, California, as a small red dot in the northwest corner of a map of Los Angeles County, with an inset map of California showing all the counties outlined and Los Angeles County highlighted. Because every time Andor talked about Ghorman and the Ghormans I kept thinking of this little drive-through town on Interstate 5, with little more than a gas station, a high school, and a Carl's Junior to it's name.
June 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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This one really got me:
?!?!??? - an exclamation of punctuation from the corrected letter to Harvard from the Department of Education, so-called.
May 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Since @indyfromspace.bsky.social didn't allow quote-reposting on her post about how "The US is finally influencing foreign policy in a positive way," (by pushing other countries away leftward) only wanted to say that the last frame here was my immediate response to it:

"We're Heroes!!!"
Calvin and Hobbes are driving with his mom when the car goes "KLUNK." Mom gets mad at it, pulls over and opens the hood to check the engine. While she's looking under the hood, Calvin and Hobbes are disappointed to see nobody is stopping to help. They decide they should honk the horn to get some attention. Because Mom is under the hood at that time, it's a very loud and frightening BEEEEP! that has her yelling AAUGH!. Despite her visible anger, Calvin and Hobbes say in unison "HOORAYY! Someone stopped! WE'RE HEROES!" The driver of the car that stopped asks the mom "Want me to call a tow truck, lady?" to which she responds "First call the police and report an infanticide."
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Hey @nathanrichardson.bsky.social pretty sure this was your work on Twitter-That-Was.
Repost or otherwise claim ownership, if you like.

I've been wanting to redo it using "Teufelskern" as the name but ... reality intrudes.

(This is the first time I've wanted to import my tweet history.)
An image of the Slotin demon core accident diorama, cropped to the appropriate proportions for an album or CD cover, with the name of German electronic pioneers "Kraftwerk" at the upper left, and "The Demon Core" at the bottom - as if it was one of their albums, because it all looks a little too much like it actually could be. The German for "Demon Core" is "Teufelskern" which would make it even more Kraftwerk-like, in my humble opinion.
March 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Pretty brilliant idea on showing what negotiation should be happening.
Text is: “The negotiating table” I would show it to the entire world by setting up a negotiating table, chair, and a rug right in the Capitol Rotunda. Then place one chair across, facing it, with a sign on the table that says “Reserved for Republicans.” Then I’d establish a rotation of Democratic Senators pulling 2-hour shifts and a 24-hour livestream of watching them sit there, read books, do paperwork, and just hang out...waiting for Republicans to negotiate. Also includes a picture of just what this would look like
March 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Yep
Bobby Wheelock, one of The Boys from Brazil, telling a Nazi “Oh man, you’re weird”
January 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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I could not by any dark art find this through simple search on Twitter and had to go back to an article vaguely remembered and THEN search by the handle.
Image of a thread on twitter from 2017 @StevenEdeSouza Merry Christmas sir, re the notion that Die Hard is a Christmas movie (and of course it is), I'm wondering if you changed the book's 'Anton Gruber' to Hans Gruber to make him sort of the evil brother of Silent Night composer Franz Gruber? I think this must be so. That’s a better story than the truth, which is that the typical pre-production database search discovered a real person named Anton who could claim to be maligned so the studio lawyers advised it be changed The lawyers ruin everything again. Tragic. Thinking further last night, I looked at the timing of SNL's first Hans and Franz, thought of your work on Commando and Running Man, and guessed I had it figured out. Ah well.
December 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Just a quick note that “emergency food supply -132 servings” is back in stock at Costco.

Just in time for Trump’s return.
December 1, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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One of those too obvious to consider situations, clearly.
A recent police raid on a warehouse outside Los Angeles turned up millions of dollars in stolen merchandise that law enforcement said they suspected was headed for resale, but they alleged that it had all been stolen in transit, not from retail sales floors. This has always been the preferred operational method of large, sophisticated theft rings (See: Goodfellas and The Sopranos), because stealing from tractor trailers or warehouses yields large quantities of brand-new goods that are packaged for efficient transport, storage and resale. In fact, according to the cargo security firm CargoNet, this type of theft has recently soared—in the first quarter of 2024, 46% more incidents were reported than in the same period in 2023.
December 1, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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"I'm shocked, shocked, that grifting is going on in here!"
When they met at Mar-a-Lago, Lewandowski laid it all out. He’d spent several weeks digging into the finances of the campaign, he told Trump, and things weren’t adding up. Far too much money was being spent on programs insignificant to his electoral success, and there had been no apparent oversight of contracts and arrangements that created a windfall for certain campaign employees. Lewandowski told Trump that he’d taken the liberty of bringing in a private consultant—personally escorting this outsider into the campaign’s offices—to study the books. This person’s conclusion, Lewandowski said, was: “Your people are either completely incompetent, or they’re stealing from you.”
November 4, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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The cover should be a woodcut of this image of an orangutan with otters
Seven otters in front of an orangutan, looking as if they are listening to it tell a story or describe a process.
November 1, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Pretty straightforward, really, according to

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"The cores of the orbicules crystallized directly from the orbicule-forming magma... The orbicules occur in a matrix, which is similar to the core.

(Which I think means: bubbles form in magma, then are filled up.)
Image is of the following text: The orbicular rock at Slättemossa, southeastern Sweden, has a quartz monzodioritic composition. The cores of the orbicules crystallized directly from the orbicule-forming magma; cores made up of xenoliths have not been observed. Outside the core follow first an inner mafic, a felsic and then an outer mafic shell. The orbicules occur in a matrix, which is similar to the core. They grew simultaneously and show an almost perfect parallelism in evolution. After initial ‘normal’ crystall-ization of the magma, superheating probably triggered by a sudden addition of volatiles destroyed earlier formed nuclei and also affected the already crystallized part of the rock. Cooling caused heterogeneous nucleation and rapid crystallization, which formed the inner mafic shell. This is enriched in mafic minerals, especially biotite, compared to the core. At the same time the grain size becomes significantly smaller. Depletion in mafic components, possibly intensified by a sudden change in physical conditions, destabilized biotite and amphibole crystallization, causing oversaturation in plagioclase components, forming a felsic shell having a sharp boundary with the mafic shell. Plagioclase is extremely altered. Mafic minerals were then stabilized, probably due to depletion of plagioclase components, and an outer mafic shell formed. With the return to homogeneous nucleation, matrix formation concluded the crystallization. Orbicules might have moved in the magma causing some squeezing of magma surrounding the orbicules, but major movements involved the settling of the whole package of orbicules and matrix in the surrounding non-orbicular magma.
October 17, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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Hey @wellerstein.bsky.social in case you know:

A lot happened on August 6 1945, but I never hear followups on "Recent 'Quakes' Now Revealed as Bomb Blasts," wherein Larry Crosby (Bing's brother) talks about extracting energy from uranium using 10' tongs.

Is anything said in there close to real?
Front page of the L.A. Times from August 7, 1945. Headline is Atomic Bomb Hits Japan; below that Jet Plane Explosion Kills Maj. Bong, and centered below that Death Ends Career of Sen. Johnson [R-CA] and below that: Recent 'Quakes' Now Revealed as Bomb Blasts
September 12, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Note that Hamilton's response says the Republic of Rome was -destroyed- by Caesar, who (like a "whig") "flattered the follies of the people"
Screenshot from Hamilton's August 18, 1792 letter responding to President Washington, with the following text (immediately following the text usually forwarded about) highlighted: It has aptly been observed that Cato was the Tory-Cæsar the whig of his day. The former frequently resisted—the latter always flattered the follies of the people. Yet the former perished with the Republic the latter destroyed it.
June 1, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Washington mentioned a conspiracy theory (sigh) of the day: monarchy had always been the true plan, one that the national debt was enabling.

This was the 14th item he brought up in his letter to Hamilton, which is the Objection XIV that Hamilton is responding to.
Screenshot from Washington's July 29,1792 letter to Hamilton, with the following text highlighted: 14th That the ultimate object of all this is to prepare the way for a change, from the present republican form of Government, to that of a monarchy; of which the British Constitution is to be the model.
June 1, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Still wondering about Fisto, though.
He-Man, well-regarded animated hero, with a close personal friend who happens to have a huge metal glove covering his entire right hand. Word on the street is that this goateed redhead is named Fisto.
April 10, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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Went to Trader Joe’s late on March 13 - it wasn’t emptied but it was well cleared.
A Trader Joe’s on March 13, 2020, with shelves emptied by people preparing for whatever the COVID pandemic would bring next.
March 14, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Four years ago today, just as the severity of the pandemic was becoming clear.
Screenshot of a Donald Trump quote tweet dated March 8, 2020 3:18 PM. Dan Scavino has tweeted a picture of Trump playing a violin, with the caption "My next piece is called...nothing can stop what's coming." Trump's quote says "Who knows what this means, but it sounds good to me!"
March 9, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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This is a pretty recent Kevin, perhaps what was intended.

Although disappointed they didn't go with Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Marvel's mastermind K.E.V.I.N. From She-Hulk. (Kevin Feige insisted that anything looking like his trademark cap had to make sense in context.)
February 6, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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January 7, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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Spoilers (maybe)
for Loki Season 2, “Glorious Purpose”

Yggdrasil, the World Tree, first appears at 42 minutes.
Image of Ygddassil at minute 42 of Loki Season 2 Episode 6, Glorious Purpose.
December 1, 2023 at 4:31 AM