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Jan 18·edited Jan 18Pinned

Your head gif source info. Woof!

https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/doggo-trying-to-figure-it-all-out?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

Also, too, I think this is the AP article that on the criminal's trial from the AP that you want to read along with the Wikipedia article that 'Becca provided for historical context:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-defamation-lawsuit-70d4477120399373934253c7e450643e

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Jan 18Liked by Martini Glambassador

Our old pug used to do head turns a lot to pick up sounds. Tater, on the other hand, has upright, independently rotatable ears, each capable of scanning and aiming at me telling him he missed the puppy pad.

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Awwww, he's a Radar Tot!

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Clever, dear girl.

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Jan 18·edited Jan 18Liked by Martini Glambassador

yeah, Kaplan ain't playing.

as Meidas Touch noted, pulling stunts in a state court with no jury in this case is an entirely different beast than your lawyer not even knowing how to introduce evidence in federal court, and her client also throwing tantrums and trying to defy a federal judge's orders.

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Jan 18Liked by Martini Glambassador

That is a funny looking cat.

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Jan 18Liked by Martini Glambassador

😍😍😍

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TOO cute for breakfast. Gagging on the cute.

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Jan 18Liked by Martini Glambassador

Mesmerizing Martini magnificence.

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It is hypnotizing!

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It will be interesting to see whether it gets out to you before stores decide the shrinkage is too great. As context, I have seen them in IL, VA, and FL so far.

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OK, so I read the pasta article. I hate to come across as some sort of pasta pedant, but…

Any competent home cook knows all this stuff. Taste as you go, layer your flavors, pasta water is precious like gold, finish with butter, etc. But there’s always the, open a jar of Ragu into a pot of pasta I which has been cooked with oil in the water, so the sauce just slides right off.

To me, the difference between restaurant pasta and home pasta is that I can’t get mine to the table hot enough.

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Schumervand Durbin are WORTHLESS dammit. Because "comity".

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Jan 18Liked by Rebecca Schoenkopf

Fancy plating isn't an issue when you're blind, lol.

It always stands to repeating; the pro-life party isn't. Poor de la Sancha Cerros family.

Hooray, IRS! Catch as many of those rich cheats as you can before the Supreme Court decides to ban you. (May the anti-regulation people get the first servings of unregulated food & drugs)

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Jan 18Liked by Rebecca Schoenkopf

Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. The bar serves tainted alcohol because there are no regulations. They die.

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Jan 18Liked by Rebecca Schoenkopf

I always thought the reason pasta is better at restaurants is that someone else will be doing the dishes.

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https://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/nature/beaver_gallery

Overachieving Canadian beavers. Found with the caption "Beaver Dam visible from space: why this is a problem for Biden."

Why yes, all my friends are snarky.

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Joe should also eliminate fees for cashing checks drawn on customer accounts.

https://www.occ.gov/topics/charters-and-licensing/interpretations-and-actions/2002/int934.pdf

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I have NEVER heard of such a thing!

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I once tried to cash a check for $75 at the payor's bank and they were going to charge me $7 for the privilege. Fuck that. I deposited it at my bank and made a concurrent $75 withdrawal for free.

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Common. Tough for small businessmen, mechanics, et.al. If you don't have an account at the client's bank.... So stupid. The money is right there.

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I don’t take checks from a bank I know charges those fees. Or I require extra in the amount of the fee.

Since there are plenty choices I don’t feel bad for the customer.

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It's crazy. My local Lowe's just went whole hog on self-checkout, eliminating most of the cashier checkout lines. Lowe's?! Talk about your opportunities for accidental-intentional theft - little pieces of hardware in plastic bags that are $12-24 dollars a piece? Items bought in multiples like 2x4s and sheets of plywood? What are they thinking?

Aldi has no self-checkout and yes, sometimes you have to wait in a line, but they are fast, very efficient, and reduce opportunities for theft.

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Aldi and Lidl both have self-checkout.

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Not the Aldi's around here (Ohio, MA, don't know about other states.)

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This is your Movie Night reminder. This Saturday we are watching 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 (1982.)

Available for free with ads on Tubi and The Roku Channel. $2.99 on Prime, YouTube, Vudu, Apple TV and Google Play.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-jan-20-my-favorite?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Abolish judicial review

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Jan 18Liked by Rebecca Schoenkopf

from KS anti-choice group: safeguarding health of women with the “ultrasound safety act” and enacting “life-affirming” tax changes.

Ah yes, women famously make decisions about having children based on the tax code. Also I assume the ultrasound safety act is going to make it damn hard to get a diagnostic ultrasound. For the "health" of the woman of course. How do these people live with themselves?

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"One in five shoppers reported that they’ve accidentally stolen items during self-checkout in a survey from Lending Tree. One in seven said they’ve stolen from self-checkout on purpose."

So only 2 out of every 7 shoppers is honest AND competent?

Yeah, I'd get rid of those machines, too.

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"Why Not Me?" was maybe one of the most prescient books ever. Also one of the funniest.

Al Franken gets elected president (Senator IRL) on one issue, which is ATM fees (overdraft fees IRL right now!).

Someone give Franken an award!

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I wish the judge would make PAB go sit in the furtherest corner of the court room - as far as possible from the jurors, but still in it. If he refuses, charge him with contempt and give him 24 hours of immediate incarceration.

I might be wrong - I often am - but I think the judge can do that. I mean, if he can dispel that yahoo FROM the court room, it stands to reason he could make PAB sit anywhere IN the court room that he deems necessary.

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I would say that isolating him in a room in the courthouse with only a monitor to view the proceedings would be appropriate.

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Yeah Supreme Court.

Who needs clean air and clean water when they done got Jay-Zuss?

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