professoraxeman
Not a real professor, but I used to play one in everyday life.
No, it's not a Cuban, goddamn it. It's Dominican.
Stop the world; I want to get off.
I block all engagement farming accounts, no matter their stripe.
- I can't believe we have to have this relitigated now, but I guess I also can't believe our electorate cheered an authoritarian felon moron back into the presidency. What a garbage nation we have become.
- Duffy: "Some of the requirements in the last administration was, are you adding bike lanes & walking paths to your construction project? That's what they wanted to see. There's some places across this country where we don't need bike lanes. Why are we adding them to what should be just roadways?"
- It amazes me how profoundly stupid so many of our supposed "leaders" are.
- The former Chicago mayor said he was “in training” to run for president, amping up the potential he and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker could be rivals.
- Pritzker will eat that sorry-ass dude's lunch.
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- No.
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- No wonder he thinks "the world is flat."
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- As someone who grew up on the Atlantic coast and was used to the sounds, sights, smells, and sensations of a real ocean, I will tell you that moving next to the shores of Lake Michigan in high school was like a slap in the face. The Great Lakes are pitiful substitutes for real oceans.
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- You're still just a dilettante.
- You guys remember that movie Marathon Man? I think Trump should be able to keep as much of that plane as he can swallow.
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- People get put on registries for that sort of hobbies.
- Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
- With this logic, we should take all billionaires' money over $1.5B away, because what do they need more for?
- GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
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- Republican Tommy Tuberville has blocked a Democratic resolution that would have condemned the proposed gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to Trump.
- If there's one thing I'm dead sure of, it's that state university football coaches are universally pro-graft.
- "In a historic, sweeping decision, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list."
- Rose's was a "lifetime ban," after all, and that time has elapsed.
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
- Also, there was no "hoax." It was entirely real.
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- I take this personally.
- If we started shooting masked thugs who kidnapped people, the "official" gestapo would take off their masks and wear badges right quick.
- Wrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062
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- It was a time of infinite possibilities.
- Finite, for sure.
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- I always pronounced it JACK-o-bee. Damn.
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- I'm not sure about this now as a 50-something who still gets *enormous* pleasure from watching Match Game reruns, but I think even as a young child I understood Charles Nelson Reilly was only marginally closeted as a gay man, and that was a key part of the fun of the show.
- Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.
- Maybe it's because if they have to use AI to get their work done, they're demonstrably incompetent, or lazy, or both.
- Some Republicans in Congress want to redefine obscenity to include virtually any image that might "arouse" or "titillate" reason.com/2025/05/12/r...
- That'll make all those Trump portraits they've got in their homes and offices illegal for them.
- Kevin Hassett blames Canada for tensions with Trump: "Canada kept making it worse and worse with their rhetoric."
- I guess they should've mollified their abuser instead.
- This will be easy to confirm. Not that anyone will care.
- The factories came up to Trump with tears in their eyes - never cried before - and they said, "Sir, thank you for making building us possible and for making America great again!"
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- If memory serves, The Killers were the only band not to donate their fee for appearing at Live 8, so this would seem totally on brand.
- this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.
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- "If you're a cop, legally you have to tell me, or else this isn't a crime."
- Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- So this bribe only becomes a bribe *after* Qatar gets what it wants, therefore their "gift" of a $400M plane to the most nakedly corrupt politician in American history isn't corruption. Got it. True genius of logic.
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- As an homage to Harvey, I always begin the second round of Quiz Night with, "And NOW...on, to Round TWO!" I think I'm the only one who appreciates it.
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- "And NOW...on, to Dream TWO."
- The president who’s taking bribes wants you to know that the people noticing his crime are the “crooked” ones
- Thanks to the Roberts court, Trump will never have to go to jail for any crime someone else notices.
- American levies on Chinese goods will drop from at least 145% to 30% for an initial period of 90 days, while Chinese levies are set to fall from at least 125% to 10% on American goods.
- Too late.
- i don't imagine sisyphus at all
- Every day you don't imagine Sisyphus at all, then you wake up the next morning and don't imagine him all over again.
- Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
- Don't worry - Qatar will pay it.
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- According to ABC, the White House and Department of Justice concluded that the gift does not constitute bribery because it is “not conditioned on any official act.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- It doesn't have to be bribery to be a Constitutional violation.
- Never thought I's see this guy.
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- It was a perfect set. Too brief, but a wondrous thing.
- one downside to being your own boss is there’s no one to yell at you to get your shit done
- I found it meant work was everywhere, all the time, even literally in my bed. I can't even tell you how much happier I am now that I punch a clock.
- NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
- THIS JUST IN: Services cost money.
- Roger Stone calls for Mark Kelly's execution for questioning Trump. Last year he was caught on tape, trying to plot the assassination of Reps Swalwell and Nadler.
- Didn't I recently read a story about a white supremacist dude who got a 5 year sentence just for tweeting "I'm getting the rope" at someone?
- How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
- MUST, not "should."
- Speakers blasted "Born in the U.S.A. and "American Pie" as six cardinal electors from the United States celebrated the first U.S. pope a day after Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV.
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now do YMCA... - I hear it's fun to stay there. Why, I'll never know.
- Do they know what "Born in the USA" is about? 40 years later and people are still dumb as rocks about that song.
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- This skeet should have been an e-mail.
- I build a better fire than I used to.
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- 90% DUI or spousal abuse, no doubt.
- It'd be nice to have a principled news media in this country.
- Stephen Miller: "The writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So I would say that's an option we're actively looking at."
- Dude needs to be deported back to the Carpathians.
- NEW: An isolated John Fetterman clashes with colleagues and staff as he skips his Senate duties 👀 Around the Hegseth vote Fetterman was mulling voting yes. Patty Murray asked to meet with him. Fetterman declined. + lots more with my NBC colleagues: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
- Could've predicted he'd skip Senate duties the moment he broke the dress code. No adult man who wears short pants at public functions should be regarded as serious at any time.
- If you were named pope, and the news interviewed someone who knew you since 6th grade, what would that person say?
- No such person could be found.
