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The ol' switcheroo.



(The cheering is in a video that for some reason isn't appearing as part of the embed, but can be seen if you click through to view the tweet on Twitter.)

Do we know why they didn't do this before Lula's inauguration a week ago? Were they waiting for there to be less of a security presence? It was reportedly planned enough that people were bused in in an organized fashion.

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Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:50 amDid anyone in the U.S. even cover it as a story?

New York magazine technically covered it, if mockery counts as coverage.

John Bolton Announces 2024’s Most Ridiculous Presidential Bid - Intelligencer

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A bold attempt by Bolton, relic of neoconservatism's early-2000s heyday, to become the first President elected from the dustbin of history.

That makes sense. I googled Grybauskas' name after reading the press release and saw he's affiliated with the University of Maryland, where Flieger used to teach, so I'd wondered if they knew each other.

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Bonkers Rings of Power S2 rumour: a wild Tom Bombadil appears? - TORn

I have a hard time believing this one, but maybe I just don't want to.

Oh, nice! I've heard that song a million times on the radio while driving, but hadn't seen the video before. Going by the credits, it had the same choreographer.

With the House voting about an hour ago to adjourn until Friday, this will be only the fourth Speaker election to last more than three days, per Wikipedia's list of contested Speaker elections. (In 1820, there were 22 ballots across Nov 13–15, though of course the House was much smaller then.) We ar...

Santos appears to be enjoying himself as well, based on this photo, perhaps because no Speaker means no disciplinary proceedings.

Yeah, I haven't been able to find much behind-the-scenes info beyond what's in the video description (the names of the dancers and choreographer and the fact that it was filmed in the Panthéon, which I suppose some more cultured people might have been able to tell on their own :P), but it's the vide...

RoseMorninStar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:39 amAnnoying, isn't it?

Highly.

Was it said in Fellowship?

Twitter's purported "manual authentication" of "verified" Twitter Blue accounts is going just great. Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again). - Washington Post For Blue 2.0, Twitter added two additional hurdles that could help slow people and bot...

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Eldy, for me personally, in addition to the strategy reasoning, it's mostly the frustration of the whack-a-mole method when one comes across a group of words like: taint, faint, haint, paint, saint, etc... That drives me crazy and advances nothing/is based on sheer luck not skill. :D One can always...