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Attribution to an original source. The earliest I've come across so far.
This is a rush transcript from "Your World," October 25, 2016. Governor, very good to have you. What did you think of what Trump was saying? GARY JOHNSON, LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Oh, well, I think Trump is toast. I really do. I don't think he is going to -- I think he is just losing support on a regular basis. And, you know, we are putting ourselves out there myself, Bill Weld, as a principled alternative to... CAVUTO: Well, why do you think he is toast? I mean, are we looking at the same polls? I see this IBD one where they're about even. I see in six of the battleground states, he and Hillary Clinton are separated by two points two three points. That doesn't sound like toast. JOHNSON: Well, not -- polls aside -- polls go up and down. My sense is, is that, when he talks about immigration the way that he talks about it, he alienates a whole lot of people. He is not going to reform the entitlements. He's not going do anything with regard to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security. I don't think it's an option to not talk about those things. So, will Republicans actually be getting smaller government if they vote for Donald Trump? I don't think so.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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He's on it.
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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New York's Statler Hilton (in 1919) and Waldorf-Astoria (in 2012), from which Statler and Waldorf's names are derived.
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Bond. Commander Bond.
Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Attributing phrase to its author. See: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
In the same 2017 email to Epstein, Summers appeared to reference another controversy, which was roiling Harvard at the time: the school’s decision to rescind the admission of Michelle Jones, a formerly incarcerated scholar who had been accepted into the University’s history Ph.D. program. Jones, who spent more than two decades in prison for killing her 4-year-old son, was rejected from the program by top administrators after professors questioned whether she had downplayed the crime throughout her application process, despite support among other faculty. Summers appeared to take issue with the support for her admission, framing the case as an example of what he viewed as inconsistent standards in how elite institutions judge wrongdoing. “I’m trying to figure why American elite think if u murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but hit on a few women 10 years ago and can’t work at a network or think tank,” Summers wrote, before adding, “DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.”
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Turns out, this was a podcast all along.
Title-page to Hobbes's 'Leviathan' (London: Andrew Cooke, 1651): an allegory of governance and the nature of civil and ecclesiastical authority.
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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...and you have a cited a co-author.
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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No sign of them in the East Wing.
Work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House before construction of a new ballroom. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP 10/23/2025
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Meanwhile in Paris...
October 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It's completely plausible your cat is a descendant of this cat. (Socks, 1992).
Socks the cat, 1992. White House bound after the November election.
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Standing tall since 1928
The 1928 Phillips 66 Service Station June 22, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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She is the President of Columbia.
Claire Shipman, CC ‘86, SIPA ‘94, was appointed Acting President of Columbia University in March 2025.
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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In all fairness, A View to a Kill (1985) was set in San Francisco, and did have a tweed jacket. Any Republican at this place & time would have been striving for this look.
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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One bright spot, though. They are only there to solve problems.
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Hidden in plain sight.
The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise, who appears as a giant, lumbering, and paranormal fluffy monster with a cute but also creepy looking smile on his face. He first appears in the 1984 Ghostbusters film as a logo on a bag of marshmallows in Dana Barrett's apartment, on an advertisement on a building near the Ghostbusters' headquarters, and finally as the physical manifestation and form of the apocalyptic Sumerian deity Gozer.
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Callisto, because he has all the same coloring.
Callisto, despite being the second-largest of Jupiter's ridiculous number of moons and the third-largest moon in the Solar System, doesn't get a whole lot of attention. The icy moon has the oldest surface in the Solar System, and may have an ocean deep below the thick crust, but has failed to gain the scientific interest and resulting NASA missions of the other large moons. Image credit: Claudio Caridi
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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It'll look like this next month.
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Star Trek: The Way to Eden — Episode aired Feb 21, 1969
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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135 years ago today, this great man was born. That's something to chirp about!
In this photograph, taken by Abbie Rowe of the National Park Service outside the West Wing, nine-year-old Joseph P. Donahue Jr. of Naugatuck, Connecticut, presents the president with the “world’s largest” birthday card. Credit: National Archives and Records and Administration
October 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Trying to wring this out: Your number of followers on here is nearly ⅔ the number of paid Washington Post subscribers.
The Post ran its first story about the “third-rate burglary,” on June 18, 1972, and for the next two years, the Watergate investigation consumed the paper. President Nixon’s retaliation was swift and brutal—as former Attorney General John Mitchell infamously ranted, “Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer.” Embattled, Graham wrote to a friend, “The idea of living with that gang in the White House whacking at you… is depressing beyond words.” Yet, she continued to fight for press freedom.
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Nothing better than these scholarly takes on daily events.
Kermit the Frog speaks during the University of Maryland's commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in College Park, Md. Riley Sims/University of Maryland via AP
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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That's no secret, either.
Though the script stipulated that Elaine's dance would include little kicks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus had to develop the choreography herself.
October 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Cave drawings were contemporaneous records, too.
Image of the ancient hunt on the wall of the cave ocher.
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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John Everett Millais - Ophelia - 1851
File:John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project.jpg Created: 1851 Uploaded: 20 February 2011
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM