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Looks This Way a Lot Lately, No?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

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— Rob Tracinski (@tracinski.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM

I Ordered My Violent Insurrection With a Side of IVF, Not Unemployment

WaPo, Page One. “She hoped for change, but not like this” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM

Outlier

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Grinding Through the Consonants

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Laying Some Smack

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

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— Tammy Duckworth (@duckworth.senate.gov) February 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Slow Week at the Office?

Ms. Gleason is reportedly on vacation in Mexico.

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— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Yes, the Stove Is Hot

As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.

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— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) February 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Edmund Burke: “Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”

UPDATE -- Stupidity logs its first kill:

A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, officials there said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015.

So Donny

REPORTER: Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card? TRUMP: Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM

First, it’s not really new. There’s been a program for admitting wealthy job creators since 1990. Second, only Donny could fail to see the difference between an entrepreneur and an oligarch.

Hunch Pays Off

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Breathtaking

So the Administrator is not actually in charge, but must remain unnamed:

Seems like a thing that ought not be a secret.

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— Domestic Enemy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM

UPDATE: Too nonsensical even for Donny and Co.:

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— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM