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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[BatMN @_BatMN_]

Where would you move?

[Cardinal Curmudgeon @Gimblin]

If disparate impact is FINALLY chucked into history’s dumpster fire, it will be a legal earthquake.

Faster, please.

[Josh Chavis @JoshChavis65]

All of America watching Euros rave about Waffle House, Chilis apps, buying Combos at a rural gas station, floating the Chattahoochee, and ranch dressing on the internet:

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

It's the political paradox. Those who seek political power are the ones who should not obtain it. Those who can most be entrusted with it are the least likely to obtain it.

[Robert Meyer Burnett, Viceroy of Verisimilitude @RMBee]

But who is inside?!?

[Stacey @ScotsFyre]

None of the annoying hippie Boomer ladies extolling Graham Platner’s virtues would allow their granddaughters to date him for any period of time without throwing a shit fit.

Because the “huge asshole” vibes are readily apparent.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I don’t want him restored to competency.

He should be executed.

It’s all on camera and it should not matter AT ALL whether he is competent to stand trial.

He was competent enough to kill Iryna, so he is competent enough to be put to death.

Period.

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

If CO₂ is the primary driver of heatwaves, why do many U.S. regions show more heatwave days during the Dust Bowl era than today?

Real climate science starts with observations... not narratives.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

The Obama IRS attacks on the Tea Party were the start of this strategy and it has only advanced since then

If you are left-leaning, you have free reign to harvest ballots, to collect donations, do whatever you want. If you're GOP, you will be scrutinized, attacked, your family will suffer, you business will be audited.

Sorry, that's just the way things are.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

The reason that Republicans have not set up their own ballot harvesting operation is too long for a tweet, but here is the summary:

It is illegal to harvest ballots as a Republican. Not technically, but if you are GOP and you step out of line on even the smallest thing, they will put you in jail for 20 years.

[BatMN @_BatMN_]

This woman is a terrible human being.

[Tina Smith @TinaSmithMN]

Graham Platner is gonna win because he has connected with Mainers on what they really care about: How this country can work for them, not just the wealthy.

He’ll win because he’s not part of the Washington establishment.

If I voted in Maine he’d have my support, no question.

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

For those dismissing the possibility of fraud in CA vote, please remember that key protections we're told are built into the law turn out to be vaporous in practice:

--'You need to sign it' .... A mark or slash will do.
--'We check those signatures.' ... LA election workers told @jenlynncallahan they don't. https://t.co/svWWKDd6gu
--'Must be postmarked by Election Day' ... No! Fine print in regs lets voters self-date.
--'Ballot "harvesters" must sign the ballot envelope!' ... But the ballot's still counted if they don't.

All this doesn't mean there was fraud. Still ...

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

No. Washington earned the esteem and admiration of his countrymen first by winning the war and then by surrendering his sword rather than seize power after the improbable victory.

The American people followed him because they trusted him. It wasn’t rooted in his “personality,” but in his example and in his deeds.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Voting with a gym membership or prescription label? That’s absolutely insane, and yet another reason that we must pass the SAVE America Act.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

— Bertrand Russell

[Paul Chato 🇨🇦 @PaulChato]

WARNING: Hugh Laurie, a brilliant comedy actor, responded to person commenting on his show, House, with ancient techniques outlawed years ago by DEItators: 'humour' 'sarcasm' and 'irony'. Online respondents have major meltdown.

[David Poland @DavidPoland]

Most of the talk about the money around Obsession suggests that people really have no idea how things work.

Nothing wrong with thinking the crew and cast should benefit from the huge success. But that huge success that directly relates to them is the $15m sale, not the box office success.

[BatMN @_BatMN_]

So, soccer is immigrants' fault?

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants.

We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Jay Roach on the problem Mike Myers & he faced after the test screening of "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Sh@gged Me" (1999):

"The first movie never tested well. It never got above a 55, which is so low. There was scepticism. People had expectations of Mike Myers, because of SNL and Wayne’s World – not everybody was going along with this idea of the bad teeth, hairy body and taking the piss out of Bond. But by the time we tested the second one, it was the opposite problem. They were so quick to embrace it that we actually had trouble figuring out what they liked! It seemed they were laughing at everything."

'The Spy Who Sh@gged Me' tested around the 90 mark immediately, leaving Myers and Roach with the task of rifling through the footage to discern what should make the final cut.

("‘Groovy, baby!’: How Austin Powers: The Spy Who Sh@gged Me became the greatest comedy sequel of all time", Jacob Stolworthy, The Independent, 2019)

P,S: On this day, 27 years ago, "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Sh@gged Me" (1999) premiered in the USA.

[BatMN @_BatMN_]

@redheadranting We're leaving soon. Tired of it.