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Posts by Just a Guy in Switzerland

So far all the state redistricting in Red and Blue has ended up in basically a net zero change in US House seats. All it has done is increase resentment at internal State level. Meanwhile GOP controls national government and could pass anti-Gerrymandering laws if they really cared!

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You could also say that GOP in NoVa have their best chance to have their votes matter in a generation as Fairfax goes from D +30 to split up in to much closer races.

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FT Exclusive: The number of Americans seeking Irish citizenship through ancestry jumped 63% last year, as the Trump administration’s harsh rhetoric and policies fuelled demand for ‘plan B’ passports. ft.trib.al/VLmOiJH

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Which is your favorite Harry Potter book?
"Y'know, all of them"
What's your favorite storyline?
"The one where the kid uses magic and makes spells and stuff"

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I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

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😧

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Earn respect, you can't demand it

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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

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A third of all children in Texas have no health insurance. If you get pregnant in a Red State you have huge legal and financial risks.

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If she has enough time to be on social media, she has enough time to have another baby with Elon?

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If you ever find yourself saying 'I think what the Pope meant to say...' just stop and walk away from the keyboard

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It is a real term for grading oil. Middle East is 'sour' but that is important for all the byproducts for aviation, fertilizer, plastics, etc

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Fake rooms, props and a script to lure victims: inside an abandoned Cambodia scam centre Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and police offices, uncovered by Thai military during border clashes

Proof: www.theguardian.com/technology/2....

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"It's game 7, 9th inning and we are behind. The pitcher is gassed and tossing low and slow. Forget swinging for the fences, get in there and bunt pal!"

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BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

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Two bands I love that are on my wife's 'never play in my presence ever. No, I am not kidding' list

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Who would need to get through Congress hearings. Even Repubs who are going to be way less trusting and derential with a POTUS at sub-Jimmy Carter approval levels

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Kind of shocking, in my little home corner of NoVa suburbs there were three senior DoJ lawyers on my block. Won't break confidences on why's, but every one of them has left in the past year.

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If you are still bothering with exTwitter you really are deluding yourself than it is anything other than sitting in a chair as Elon Musk yells at you with a megaphone

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Trump made crude Oval Office remark about fate of Kurds in Syria, book says Ex-president interrupted briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troop withdrawal, Adam Kinzinger writes

You mean these Kurds? www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

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From the latest issue of The Onion. This is just brilliant writing.

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Straight to the furnace with you, vile beast!

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540 is a local area code around DC area?

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A good use of AI for writing is to let it suggest ideas, substitutions or turns of phrase. Then make sure you never use any of them, as they’ve obviously been used too often before.

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USAID, now US Forest Service. They keep demolishing institutions that were deeply problematic, but nowhere near as awful as their erasure. I think this is big, bad news, the real news of the day, not that nothing-to-see-here speech.

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a cookie monster and oscar the grouch are standing next to each other with the words stop i hate hugs below them ALT: a cookie monster and oscar the grouch are standing next to each other with the words stop i hate hugs below them

Perfect

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a painting of three spider-man in a room ALT: a painting of three spider-man in a room

12 Dementias... fixed it for ya

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mickey mouse is walking down a sidewalk with the words `` haters gonna hate '' written on it . ALT: mickey mouse is walking down a sidewalk with the words `` haters gonna hate '' written on it .

Don't want it everyday, but when I do,watch out!

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Hahaha! Duke sux

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his beliefs are unshakeable, resting on a bedrock of feels and trust in AI

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