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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken My blog in desuetude: https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · Feb 14
With all due respect to Cavafy, it now seems clear that the barbarians were a really bad kind of solution.
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 1d
Oil lobbyists
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 1d
A Viking Helmet horn to the heart. [chef’s kiss]
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 1d
Cheung is positioning himself for Chief Spokesman of the DPRK after he leaves the Administration. (He’s certainly fat enough.)
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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 1d
what a total loser Trump is (source Forbes):
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 1d
“As the team proved most resplendently on Tuesday, rumors of Barcelona's demise have been greatly exaggerated, and also were started by morons.” defector.com/barcelona-is...
Barcelona Is On The Warpath | Defector
One of the motivations for the new Champions League format, which debuted in the men’s game last season and now has come to the women’s side, was to beef up the competition’s first stage with more hea...
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d
White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 1d
You know which country also has a lot of fishermen and sailors out on boats in their national waters?
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d
Where we are
Two adjacent posts: I assume we're at war with Venezuela now. Has the U.S. attacked Norway yet?
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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d
Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 1d
Counting down to 5,000% tariffs on lutefisk and Dale sweaters in 3… 2… 1…
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7d
What happens if Donald Trump doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize next week? Norway is bracing for fallout.
Norway’s Nobel Committee May Be About to ‘Insult’ Donald Trump
The US president has repeatedly boasted about his success in ending multiple wars
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 2d
The hero we need now. Dance, Frog, Dance.
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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d
Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 3d
This *is* the future Liberals want.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
#WarRavagedPortland
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 3d
Federalist Society / Joe Rogan / Milo Yiannopoulos
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d
Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 3d
Look at these pork-bellied goobers. A six-year-old could whip their fat asses. Texas, Pshaw!
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3d
Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d
listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 3d
Want. 😍 Just the thing for my morning Manhattan commute.
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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 3d
Bikes are kind of silly. What you really want is a Vespa with a mounted 75mm rifle on it for your paratroopers.

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Vespa 150 TAP - Wikipedia
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 4d
Honestly, Pritzker should order the IL National Guard to start shooting at any foreign state NG that invades Illinois territory.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”
Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d
With an unerring eye, the photographer captured the 20th century in all its beauty and brutality: on.ft.com/4gWf4uJ
Tate Britain’s Lee Miller show is a seize-the-day marvel
With an unerring eye, the photographer captured the 20th century in all its beauty and brutality
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 4d
One of the most important contributions to the study of how stars evolve didn’t come from an astrophysicist. It came from a computer scientist: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/12/a-stellar-revolution-how-open-source-tool-mesa-changed-the-way-we-study-stars/ #science #astrophysics
A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars
A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars on Simons Foundation
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5d
“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man
Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to ALISON BOSHOFF
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 5d
I want to see farmers force-feeding a tied-up Kevin Hassett soybeans like a goose.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 5d
I would remind folks that among the reasons Stephen Miller is saying crazy crap on Twitter is because he's losing in the courts, both judicial and public opinion.
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 5d
Live feed of Eric Hamilton, lawyer for the Department of Justice:
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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 5d
Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ? Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h
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TED @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 6d
God help the ICE CoD cosplayers if they shoot or injure a cop. Cops don’t take that shit from anybody, and they are vengeful.
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