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"Conservative groups have sued to shut down the Abundant Birth Project..."

Is there a gif of someone sputtering in disbelief and confusion? Insert that here. And FUCK these people with a rusty speculum of votes.

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WHAR TARBS?

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Man, that's a drag. Thoughts and prayers.

James O’Keefe on Sunday revealed he was put on a ‘list’ for extra screening for domestic flights.

“Trying to understand the “SSSS” designations on my domestic boarding passes,” O’Keefe, the CEO of O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) said in a social media post on Sunday. 5According to Forbes: “An SSSS code on a boarding pass stands for “Secondary Security Screening Selection.”” Palm Beach International Airport shut down an entire passenger line as O’Keefe made his way through security.

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But he's always packing cheat.

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O'Keefe media group? Isn't that just him and a laptop these days? Can I be a CEO too?

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OMG

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Seems like a lot of attention. Just put him on the no fly list.

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Drop him off in Wyoming, put him on the no fly list and then follow him around until he breaks the speed limit or drives impaired and figure out a way to yank his license. Offer him a bicycle.

He can't hurt too many people in Wyoming.

(Obviously kidding.)

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Similar but Prudhoe Bay. Which doesn’t have a rental car place.

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No, too easy to work the system there. Sneak into Atco units, flip open locks, till you find an empty room, and set up in there like it was assigned to you. Get on the haul road and stick your thumb out. Allegedly.

Won’t be mentioning this to anybody’s son, am I right?

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Give him skateboard.

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Seems like a lot of attention. Just put him "in jail"

FTFY

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O'Keefe is on my "Should Be In Jail" Christmas list. Along with Stevie "Three Shirts", "General" Flynn, and Roger "Dodger" Stone.

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I don't even fly that much and I've been singled out the last two flights and I'm not even a widely known asshole. I'm just a locally known asshole.

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I get checked every single time because I refuse to travel without saline for my contacts. In probably 20 flights in the last year, I've had weed in my carryon without comment.

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Yeah I got double checked when I flew the other day, and I have TSA pre and Clear

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I *didn’t* get patted down last week. Which was like the first time ever. Hnnnggg?

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*glances over at Linda*

Well, you look kinda like a sketchy librul ... just sayin'

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Far be it from me to discount the word of James O'Keefe, a man known for his unimpeachable truth and honesty, but, are we sure this is not just some stolen valor to make himself look important?

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Couldn't (wouldn't) happen to a nicer guy.

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It stands for Stupid Shithead Security Screening.

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I want there to be a picture next to it of the Gadsden flag snake getting a body cavity search

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"Don't Tread In Me."

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TSA person wearing it like a sleeve.

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Maybe he can do a number from Oaklahoma to appease them

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He is the fringe on top.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67508331

UAE planned to use its position as host of COP28 climate talks to do oil and gas deals.

Cool, cool

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Kinda like hosting an AA meeting at the Johnny Walker distillery.

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Totally off topic, but one of our sister agencies employs so many sober addicts that you're not even allowed to bring pop top sodas into the building because the sound of opening it reminds too many people of opening a beer. I was floored when one of their employees told me that.

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I am glad they employ people who could use the employment! But youch, that is a hard restriction for me lolz, I am a cold soda drinker

Could switch to plastic bottles though, or grab a fountain at the sheetz

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(now I'm all into figuring out how to get cold soda--which I don't drink--into a place I don't work)

I suppose depending on how close one lived to work, you could use a insulated cup and bring it in that way, or keep some in a cooler in the car and refill out there?

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I like to have contingency plans for everything ^.^

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That's what I liked about Elizabeth Warren!

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Holding Devin’s birthday party at a state fair

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Wonkette Meet at the RNC

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That would probably be massive fun.

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I KNOW! The more I think about it the more I am like....lolz we could do soo much things. Just thinking of the "interviews with the crowd" the press does alone makes me giggle

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That we should do. Crash their party, cover everything in pink neon paint and put transflag stickers everywhere.

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giggle

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Is anyone surprised by this?

ANYONE??????

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Let's buy heroin while down at the methadone clinic.

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It is right up there with sending a bunch of old bearded men as the only participants to a conference on womens rights.

Yup. Tracks.

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Yeah pretty much

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Nice "summary".

--- https://twitter.com/ProfDBernstein/status/1728778780875874808

I've learned from "X" that the "pro-Palestine" movement lives in a fantasy world where, putting mythology regarding 10/7 aside (for the uninitiated, please note that every single one of these beliefs is utterly false)...

--There was a country called Palestine, where Muslims and a small Jewish minority lived in peace and harmony, as they did throughout the Arab Muslim world

--Every Palestinian is indigenous to Palestine going back to the Canaanites, every Jew is not

--Zionists "invaded" Palestine

--The UN, trying to compensate Jews for the Holocaust, "gave" the country to the Zionists, even though Palestinians were stalwart opponents of the Nazis

--Israel, entirely unprovoked, proceeded to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population because of Zionist racism

--Israel then duped the happy Jewish populations of Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, etc to leave for Israel

--Israel, entirely unprovoked, proceeded to seize the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 as part of its imperialist agenda

--The PLO arose spontaneously as a national liberation movement, with no help from East bloc secret services

--Hamas though a national liberation movement, also was created and funded by Israel

--Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza somehow arose spontaneously, Oslo never existed

--Israel made no legitimate peace offers in 2000 or 2001

--Israel started the war that became known as the Second intifada

--Israel's reaction to the Second Intifada involved indiscriminate murder of Palestinians, part of a broader campaign of genocide

--After Fatah was defeated militarily Hamas became the focus of the "resistance," while simultaneously being funded and supported by Israel

--Under Hamas rule, Gaza was both a paradise and the world's largest open-air prison

--Palestinians in Israeli jails who were duly convicted of various crimes including murder, after trials in which they were represented by counsel, are "hostages," while actual hostages held by Hamas are all guilty of something or other.

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Seems like it's a farewell tour.

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For who?

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Milli Vanilli

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For authenticity.

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An old school journalist ... with a 40(!) year career. I would suggest Mr Avalos go kick the asses of the White House press corps, as the their are no "journalists" at the NYT or WaPo anymore.

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Indeed there's been considerable criticism and push back, including by John Leguizamo (to cite a well-known name).

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Temazepam gave me almost 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

I'm going to feel human once my coffee is ready.

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Eh, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

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Sleep or temazepam?

I've been using temazepam on and off for years. It's the only thing that works for me when I get in a really bad sleep cycle.

I'm really careful about how often I use it though, because I know it's wildly addictive.

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Probably the being human part.

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That's what I meant, yes.

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That's makes sense. Apparently, I'm not fully awake yet.

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Me (on phone): 'Hello my delightful sister! How good to hear from you!'

Sis: 'Remember that lovely day last week when we caught up and chatted about stuff?'

Me: 'Why yes!! It was most enjoyable! I did foot the bill for your alcoholic drinks, but what the hey... a brother should look after his younger sibling!'

Sis: 'Yeah. Turns out I got COVID. You probably got like a week to live. Can I have all your CDs?'

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It's true what they say - everything in Australia is trying to kill you.

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They also want you to pay their bar tab too.

This place is Hell.

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Last morning for us in the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

The only Disney thing we did was late lunch at a restaurant in Disney Springs, which was good but a little pricey..

DeSantis and his cronies have no idea what they are messing with. It is easy to see how much cash this area generates for the state of FL.. truly the goose that lays golden eggs..

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All other governors before that idiot DeSantis understood that. DeSants thought that he could take the magat vote from trump by taking on Disney, but, they ain't that stupid. Yeah, it takes a lot to be stupider than a magat, but DeSantis manages it.

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The non-Florida MAGAs are big Disney fans, if I understand it correctly. Messing with the House of Mouse is ill-advised.

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a LOT of parents with gun-related t-shirts dragging their kids around..

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They've really messed up RCID. I have to get private event permits there at times. Did it for an early November event. I have 3 coming up in the next 4 months.

They have a new online application process. It might make sense if I were building a building, had a huge staff, and had someone on payroll to do nothing but track the permitting process.

But that's not how the event staging process works. I have to do it. So I have to charge my clients an extra day of my time.

Usually in my industry, Las Vegas and downtown Chicago are the two biggest pain-in-the-ass fire marshal offices. RCID has always been picky but reasonable. The actual fire marshals are still picky but reasonable. But the new process is a shitshow.

This has a "sand in the gears" effect. I don't have much input on my clients' venue selection. But I do give feedback. And I can't recommend that my clients book Disney. It's going to cost them more and be more painful than going to Orlando, off-property, under Orange County jurisdiction. Or just someplace else altogether.

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Big Mouse wants to hear from you, don't they?

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Sure doesn't seem like it. I mean; not at the level of people I talk to.

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Probably not wrong.. But stupidity may prevail 😟

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐. 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/27/opinion/trump-ballot-challenge-insurrection-constitution/

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Let the People Decide! If they want to elect a criminal who sold us out, who are we to judge

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I can't read the article but I agree. He's a political problem. He needs to be dealt with through the political process.

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I prefer the criminal conviction process, because he’s also a criminal problem.

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Oh, he's a multi-faceted problem.

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why_not_both.gif

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Still trying to rescue those trapped Indian tunnelers. It sounds like not the best geology for tunneling.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/india-silkyara-barkot-tunnel-collapse-rescuers-vertical-drilling

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Nobody could have predicted this!

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒.

But but but it was being pushed for a very important reason!

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 $1.5𝑏𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑎 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑖

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It's a fucking vanity project

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This was a terrible idea in the first place.

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It's a fact

𝑀𝑒𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 100% 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠

https://humanparts.medium.com/men-cause-100-of-unwanted-pregnancies-eb0e8288a7e5

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That’s why we’ll never see a turkey baster on the Maury Show

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Most of the men on Maury are the equivalent of a turkey baster.

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Wow! I come here to learn things and stuff!!

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The more you know!

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