COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
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COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
But I’m sure he still won the championship.
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Maybe the news photographers will be able to catch him this morning as he’s coming out of chu…sorry, I must have been thinking of any other President.
If the R’s could figure out a way to formally dissolve KC and STL but maintain the revenue, I’m sure they would.
Here comes that 6th District feeling, real strong.
Now there will be no excuses when Cracker Barrel goes belly up.
Tick, tick, tick…
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Please, God, don’t let me be redistricted BACK into Sam Graves’ Congressional district here in Missouri.
Well, he’ll be well-rested when the 25th Amendment kicks in.
Spent a lot of/too much time in Caesars Palace in the 80s putting on conventions, and your post brought the image of “Cleopatra’s Barge” to mind for the first time in ages.
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“The war in Poland…” “The war in the Czech Republic…” “The war in Slovakia…” “The war in Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania…”
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It’s always been my understanding that mayonnaise winds up in the consumer’s carotid arteries. Here’s hoping, anyway.
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We’re in a heap’o trouble. www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61348
What’s the expected date by which FIFA must decide whether to pull the plug on USA as a World Cup 2026 host? Asking for my city, Kansas City.
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God, help us. No, really.
Just to show you how little things have changed in 29 years. www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/199...
Maybe China can use them?
And Markwayne thinks Markwayne is a cool name.
We can only hope.
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So unfortunate for blue states.
This is one of those rhetorical questions, right?
@crampell.bsky.social Best wishes in all endeavors!
…AND a traitor to whatever his home state is. 😉
Doesn’t surprise me, but I just figure they’ll eventually rename the whole thing “The Trump Center.”
As opposed to the “Republic Party”?
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Is there direction in Project 2025 for turning NPR and PBS into “State Media”? Just curious.
There have been TWO Flash Flood Warnings sound on my mobile phone in the last 20 minutes. It’s now 3:36 a.m. I’m in Kansas City. And I’m thinking of all the men, women, boys and girls in Kerr County, Texas, who never got the word.
You’ve made my day.
Are we, the people, relinquishing our power to the wealthy and powerful few? missouriindependent.com/2025/07/14/a...
“Fail Safe,” right?
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(If there ARE future generations.)
“Heckuva job…” Wasn’t that what W said?
And here all this time I’ve been blaming the Romans.
He knows all about evil.
This one may cost you a day or two in Purgatory…but worth it.
What a sad existence for him.
After DJT’s numerous (and erroneous) comments about wind power/turbines/farms, I was curious about China’s commitment. Here’s what a Google search shows:
At gunpoint?
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The tragedy in Texas is still unfolding. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
😉
Captain Renault says he is shocked, shocked.
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Should we be looking for an Executive Order soon directing the DOT and U.S. automakers to fast-track the development of coal-powered cars and trucks? Just a thought.
“Alligator Auschwitz,” if you please.
I’m sure it’s in writing somewhere.
Is it “time-and-a-half” for Melania when she works on a holiday?
Bless you.
But we already knew that. youtu.be/2-6xJUkIVSw?...
Republicans don't believe in the separation of Church and State. They do, however, believe in the separation of Jesus and Christianity.
For today. For every day. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Bullshit. Beyond. Belief.
Such. Hate. Immeasurable.
Perhaps it’s time we start calling it what it is: “Alligator Auschwitz.”
@frago.cartoons
Wish I lived in a swing state. (MO resident.)
I’m sure Captain Renault would be shocked, shocked that rain is falling in South Florida.
Either cook them or send them to A.A. in Florida.
I have to think that Santa Monica is not a fan of Stephen Miller.
…and WTH is she wearing?
How difficult will it be for the new Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Bezos to get along? I mean, for one thing, how will he deal with the fact that her facial expression never changes?
Mentholatum.
Use a more appropriate name. It's ISIS
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Loving v Virginia is now on the clock!
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It Biden’s fault that you should even mention it!
The Four Horses’ Patoots.
Constructing their bunkers?
Won’t he want to just serve as his own Fed chair? (God help us.)
And her purpose in serving as DNI is what exactly?
“Noël Coward made a great remark when a reviewer criticized his play Blithe Spirit for being nothing more than light entertainment. ‘I am not interested,’ Coward said, ‘in proving how sad life can be to people who already know it.’ “ “My War,” Andy Rooney
You’re too kind.
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Only possible if the institution had capability for shame to begin with.
Loving the forecast in DC.
When you see what the military/intelligence services of Ukraine and Israel have accomplished against their adversaries with long periods of planning and preparation, it gives one pause to wonder if our current leaders can protect America from similar atttack. (Parade or no parade.)
Congressional Republicans are attempting to steal from the poorest in our communities to give to the richest among us. We won’t stop fighting until we Kill the Bill!
No way. ‘28 Olympics, too.
Fortunately, I had no food in my mouth when I read this.
Good news!
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A habitual liar for Trump melts down over a reporter’s factual observation
In his foreword to Andy Rooney’s memoir of WWII, “My War,” Tom Brokaw describes it as telling the story of “the ordinary people who saved the world from becoming the province of a madman.” In the days ahead, who will be OUR “ordinary people”?
How sad to have the current Secretary of Defense representing our nation at today’s D-Day commemoration ceremony in Normandy.
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It’s always a good day when I can listen to @buzzburbank.bsky.social on my podcast app. Thank you, sir.
Can’t speak to his clerk experience, but his brief tenure as MO AG (poor us) primarily spent running for the Senate seat. So, no - his question doesn’t come as a surprise.
Whatever it takes to get the Skydance deal approved.