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Second rate reporter says what?

He really is that stupid.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Let me file that under fuck it.

When we show up, we win.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

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I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

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Respite Open Thread: New Fat Bear Winner

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A size-acceptance model for the rest of us. Per NPR:

… Fat Bear Week has been an annual event for the past five years in Katmai National Park and Preserve in southwestern Alaska. The idea is to publicize and celebrate the process of bears eating as much as they can to build up crucial fat reserves in advance of winter hibernation.

Park rangers made a game out of the process — a March Madness-style bracket matching bear against bear, each with photos proving girth and inviting the public to vote on the fattest bear in each pair…

Katmai Conservancy Media Ranger Naomi Boak says Holly earned her title.

“It was very hard to get a good picture [of Holly] out of the water,” she says, “because she was a submarine for the entire month. She did not stop fishing, except to dig a belly hole big enough for her to sleep in.”

Holly and all of this year’s 12 contestants are coastal brown bears that forage along the Brooks River. The Alaskan waterway has one of the largest concentrations of sockeye salmon in the world, and the bears there take full advantage.

This year’s weeklong competition was a huge success, with a record total of 187,000 votes cast — more than three times last year’s total…

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  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Fear not, Alaskans. As winter sets in the shortage from bears hoarding lemons and tartar sauce will subside.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax:

    Fear not, Alaskans. As winter sets in the shortage from bears hoarding lemons and tartar sauce will subside.

    Not to mention the raids on flour, eggs, bread crumbs and vegetable oil.

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    NotMax

    Open thread?

    Who in this maladministration watched the first Superman movie over and over and then decided implementing a slow motion Lex Luthor on California is the way to go?

    The Trump administration has finalized its plans to open hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land in Central California to oil and gas leasing, paving the way for more fracking to soon begin in the state. Source

    “Fracking = quakes? And a connection can’t absolutely be proven? Cool. Now we don’t have to waste any nukes.That idea never tested well, anyway.”

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    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: Everyone knows Oklahoma’s shake rattle and roll started after that convoy of Shake Weights mysteriously disappeared.

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    CaseyL

    Respite thread? A bit OT, but a nice bit of good news:

    Remember Thomas Cook, the 200-year old UK travel company that went bust about a week ago? Closed abruptly when they couldn’t find additional funding when the UK government decided not to bail them out, and put 2500 people out of work?

    Well, Hays Travel (another UK company) has bought up all the closed Thomas Cook stores in the UK and rehired everyone who lost their jobs.

    If I ever fulfill my lifelong wish to spend a few weeks in the British Isles, I’ll use Hays Travel as my agent.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: It was a really interesting documentary. The DNA testing came back that grandfather was a variant of the kodiak variant of grizzlies. Based on the measurements they were able to take, and the brief video footage they got of him, they were estimating that he is the largest bear alive or alive at the time they filmed the documentary.

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    Amir Khalid

    @jl:
    In fairness to bears, it’s not really overeating as humans and overfed domestic pets do it. As noted, Holly is eating now so that she can fast through her hibernation.

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    JAFD

    As I once told a young lady who was fretting about her curves…
    “You’re much more fun to play with than the average teddy bear.” ;-)

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