When fireworks haven’t been going off today, we’ve had thunderstorms. Tough evening for my friend.
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The only prediction I ever made on Polymarket was this: I predict that Polymarket will refuse to pay me if my prediction fails to occur.
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mch
July 4, 2026, 3:46am
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Because Greek women ululated, many years ago I fastened onto this scene from “Lawrence of Arabia.” Viewing it just now, I was struck by how their ululations inspired the men to greater camaraderie with one another in the form of song. (Lots of places to go with that observation.) The sound reproduction here isn’t very good. In the movie versions I’ve watched through over the years, the depth of their ululation is registered better.
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I wonder if Heatwave ever performed a song titled “Martha & the Vandellas.”
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… in Bakersfield.
The bitter comes before the sweet.
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Well that’s inflation, so no pennies from Heaven.
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It sounds like Mother Nature is not amused with our DonOLD.
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It pleases me to hear you are staying active Darr . There is no better place to recover your health than the desert southwest and it sounds like you’re on the right road.
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tao:
Janis is singing.
Long time ago, brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my heart…
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I feel sorry for the bat that obviously bit Stephen Miller years ago. It died a horrible death.
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zenicetus:
If Trump had suddenly appeared out of nowhere without decades of history as a con man, bullshit artist, TV-hogging personality, and if half the voters hadn’t already been primed with the anti-Obama Tea Party movement, I might believe he was a Russian agent.
But no, he was the right person at the right time. As a country, we did it to ourselves. Blaming Russia is a diversion from what we have to face up to.
If you take all mentions of Russia or Russians out of this statement does it make any sense?
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jonney_5:
The Permanent Reaportionment Act’s(PRA) capping of the house should be unconstitutional.
It breaks the compromise that gave us the bicameral legislature. Small states get their equal representation in the Senate, and the House is then proportional
It violates the spirit, yes. However:
Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse [sic] three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
The letter of the Constitution is very much a ‘However you like, guys…’
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In a conversation that started with ‘so what happens if the USA does collapse?’
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Also, for anyone who thinks Avi Loeb still has a single shred of credibility left as an astrophysicist after insisting both 'Oumuamua and 3i/Atlas are each technological craft sent here by aliens…
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mch
July 4, 2026, 6:29am
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wow. this has gotta be watched.
Usha has become such a waste, serving her husband’s ambitions. Needless to say anything about Trump.
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You can’t spell “emoluments” without “FU”.
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Samantha Bee was on this years ago:
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It’s been canceled due to the heat. A big 250th parade in Philadelphia was also canceled, same reason.
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