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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 13m

A church I went to had fantastic communion wine. I wanted to ask the priest what it was so I could buy some, but I figured that was sacrilegious.

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 32m

Same reason federal judges’ jokes aren’t funny. Years of people kissing your ass & acting like every utterance is golden really warps one.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

This unwell man, who was President of the United States, is trying to rewrite history.

Nice try, Don. Biden wasn’t president on January 6, 2021. I would say even his own voters can’t be this gullible, but…

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17h

The Seventh Circuit REFUSES to allow Trump to immediately deploy the National Guard in Chicago, but allows them to be federalized pending appeal.

Same initial ruling as the Ninth Circuit, before oral arguments.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 21h

A white boy with Kid ‘n Play hair;
He didn’t pull off the look

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks!

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 21h

I had a client that the jail strapped to a chair as he died of DTs when they made him go cold turkey off Ativan, even tho he had a prescription

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

You’re super nice to say that. Some extra money would be great!Thanks!

Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t go to school in the US

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

I somehow missed the fact that Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Schultz says that he's not aware of DHS performing any analysis about whether Abrego would be tortured, persecuted, detained or refouled to El Salvador if deported to the Eswatini.

Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

Ultraviolence?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

And the pepper balls bounce off the costume

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

Evangelicals (Baptists particularly) ordain their ministers & deacons. There’s no apostolic succession, but they ordain.

Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

Calling it the I Hate America Rally does seem bad messaging

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

It would actually be great if the richest people took the bus. I guarantee bus service would improve.

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

I remember when right wingers freaked out at the thought of foreign militaries on US soil

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

I was not happy with that decision. I love Obama, but giving him the prize in 2009 seemed unnecessary.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

So shady how the administration is still cranking out permits for natural gas infrastructure during the shutdown. I'm dubious that this complies with the Antideficiency Act. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Federal Register Document Issue for 2025-10-10

Notices, Proposed Rules, Rules, and Presidential Documents published in the Federal Register on 2025-10-10.

www.federalregister.gov

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 1d

Can people challenge those permits as illegally issued?

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 2d

This looks interesting

SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 2d

CHARLOTTE BRONTË AT THE ANTHROPOCENE reveals how Charlotte Brontë quietly chronicled the dawn of the Anthropocene, witnessing extinction, deforestation, and industrial upheaval through moorlands, villages, and valleys.

#MSA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/y5tcayh5

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 2d

Notker the Stammerer; Charles the Fat; Charles the Bald

Carolingians loved offensive nicknames

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 2d

Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy www.medievalists.net/2025/07/notk... #medievalmusic

Notker the Stammerer: The Monk Who Shaped Charlemagne’s Musical Legacy - Medievalists.net

Discover how Notker the Stammerer, a monk of St. Gall, helped shape Charlemagne’s musical legacy through his writings, chant compositions, and lasting influence on medieval liturgy.

www.medievalists.net

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 2d

You’re allowed to just make up Nobel prizes. He could call it the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Peace in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 2d

Mythbusters proved this could be done. I wonder if it was used in the ordeal by hot water where the accused had to reach into boiling water to retrieve a stone.

(en.wikipedia.org)
In the 2009 season 7 finale of MythBusters, "Mini Myth Mayhem", the team
demonstrated that a person can wet their hand and briefly dip it into molten lead
without injury, using the Leidenfrost effect as the scientific basis.

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 2d

I was trying to figure out what frost has to do with that. Turns out it’s named after the discoverer Dr Leidenfrost.

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