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  1. Wordle 1,344 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #622 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1125 9️⃣4️⃣ 🟥5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  2. My guess is about triple that, but I lost count a couple of years ago. There have been several to only last 3-4 posts before mods could quickly ban new accounts. Think of all those one-offs that fast disappeared in the first year of the Russian Genocidal War thread.
  3. Ninety measles cases (almost a third under age 5) are now being reported in West Texas, 32 new cases since Tuesday. Hopefully, we'll get lucky, and none of those kids will die. But we should also be mindful that young children and the elderly are the most vulnerable. It's now spread across seven counties, with one case each in Lubbock and Odessa, but it remains mostly concentrated around Seminole and Brownfield. I think I've heard it's spilled over across the state line now into New Mexico around Hobbs. Don't be dumbass or listen to insane people like the jackoff who's now in charge of our entire healthcare system, who played a role in causing 80 children in Samoa to die from this disease. Get your kids vaccinated NOW if you haven't already done so (it's 97% effective). The crazy Mennonites aren't the only fucking yahoos in this state who are vaccine deniers, so this outbreak might have legs.
  4. Condolences. I had to bury a father who died of Covid in the hospital the morning after Christmas 2020. None of our family got to see him before he died, either. My sister, a PA who was treating hundreds of Covid patients, and I tried to combat all the misinformation directed toward our small-town, Fox News-addicted parents from afar about the severity of the disease, but they'd been inundated by a firehose of lies and succumbed to the absolute insane stupidity. After they saw a famous old fat man recover from it (after receiving the very best medical care in the entire world), they determined it must be no big deal. They believed the lie that it was really pretty much like the flu. Dad went out to play cards with some buddies. One of them had it; everyone at the table caught it; and all but one was dead within a month while the vaccine was being rolled out. I can see why you'd be bitter about not seeing loved ones before they passed away. That's understandable. What doesn't make sense is the motivation to lie to gullible old people and cause their deaths for political advantage. That's what makes me bitter. Mom eventually recovered, but cancer got her a couple of years later. Fuck cancer, and fuck anyone who discourages vulnerable groups from bolstering their immune systems. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who does that is basically a terrorist and deserves to be beaten within an inch of their life, and I'd happily volunteer to relentlessly pummel that piece of shit.
  5. The story of him getting recruited (or compromised) by the KGB in the 1980s has been around forever. I guess the only new thing is this dude posting about it. Given his peculiar pro-Putin proclivities, I have no reason to doubt it, though.
  6. Wordle 1,343 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Brick wall Connections Puzzle #621 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1124 6️⃣5️⃣ 7️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  7. It's pretty great. After running into it, I posted it in the Protest Song thread a few days ago. Apparently, the internet did it's thing and there a bunch of mixes out there where folks are doing their thing and having fun with the song.
  8. A few thoughts/questions while they're fresh:
  9. We're going to run the federal government like a business! Gee, Wally, I wonder who will pocket the "profits."
  10. I went looking for a video of this to hear what he was saying because I didn't realize your link included audio. The fact that they cheered harder after the gesture tells me they interpreted it the same way we do.
  11. It's a redux of the "Mexico will pay for it" con.
  12. This is what I could find on their backgrounds: Rachel Davis Mersey Named Executive Vice President and Provost (from January 6) Mersey became Dean of the Moody College of Communication in June 2023, where she focused on experiential learning through programs such as Bevo Video Productions and collaborations with Texas Athletics; partnerships across campus and with industry, particularly in Austin, Los Angeles and New York; and driving high-impact research and creative activities across disciplines. Mersey holds an appointment as the Everett D. Collier Centennial Chair in the School of Journalism and Media and is a member of the Communication and Leadership faculty. Prior to joining the Moody College as Dean, Mersey was Director of Global Research and Partnerships at Meta, the parent company of Facebook. She designed, hired and ran a multinational team that managed and executed a company-level initiative to increase data transparency while ensuring consumer privacy. She also delivered the first-of-its-kind data-sharing program in support of the U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, which was led by a team of independent academics that included Talia Stroud of the Moody College. Before joining Meta, Mersey served as Associate Dean for Research at Moody, where she was a champion for research and creative projects. Before joining UT, she was a professor and Associate Dean for Research in the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.S. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, and a B.A. with honors from Wake Forest University in communication and studio art. UT System names Jim Davis as UT-Austin’s interim president (from yesterday) Hartzell promoted Davis to senior vice president and chief operating officer in 2023, expanding Davis’ authority in the president’s office. In that role, he oversaw campus operations and services, university housing and dining and UT-Austin’s business strategies in areas like real estate and intellectual property. Hartzell said at the time that Davis led the legal work to develop the Moody Center, an arena that hosts concerts, basketball games and other events; the Innovation Tower, an 14-story office building for startups and established companies that want to collaborate with the university; and UT-Austin’s entry into the Southeastern Conference. ***** Prior to joining the university, Davis worked as a deputy attorney general for civil litigation under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for nearly four years. He long has had ties to the Forty Acres. He is a UT-Austin graduate, and his father, Robert Davis, is a former chair of the radio, television and film department. Davis attended Harvard Law School. His first job after law school was as a briefing attorney for former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales when he served on the Texas Supreme Court. Then, he worked in private practice for 14 years at the Locke Lord law firm. Before attending UT-Austin, Davis served in the U.S. Navy for four years as a cryptologist stationed in Scotland. In a 2023 letter, Davis expressed support for the university's response to domestic violence charges against then-basketball coach Chris Beard. The charges were ultimately dropped but Beard was still fired. Davis said athletic director Chris Del Conte “exercised thoughtful restraint to allow time for additional material facts to emerge” before acting. “It is a mistake to view a manager’s support for an employee as a statement of belief in criminal guilt or innocence,” Davis wrote. “It is his actual behavior that we consider, not whether some acts also constitute a crime. Whether or not the District Attorney ultimately charges Mr. Beard is not determinative of whether he engaged in conduct unbecoming a head coach at our university.”
  13. Obviously, I can't confirm anything about it, but I can say that Google Lens led me to this (posted 3 hours ago):
  14. Yippee ki yi yay Git along, little DOGES https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2025-02-20/texas-gets-its-own-doge/
  15. The senior Senator from Alabama doesn't know what a three-sided shape is called. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5156520-pentagon-cuts-defense-budget/
  16. PSA: The Traitor Turtle announced today he's stepping down after next year. So, his vote to confirm Kash Patel as head of the FBI wasn't because he was afraid of getting primaried. It was because he's in support of his party going full fascist.
  17. With a touch of Tom Hiddleston around the eyes.
  18. I hope you understand what your next assignment is.
  19. An excellent article on the same raid of the plant in Cactus appeared in Texas Monthly a week or so ago for further reading: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ice-raids-texas-immigrants-trump-deportation-cactus/
  20. So, this is a free link to a 9-minute video of a German satirist talking about Nazism and the rise of the AfD in Germany. I feel like the obvious links to Trump's fascist regime warrant it being included in the discussion. Give it a watch when you've got a free 10 minutes. It's worth it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/opinion/germany-elections-afd.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU4.Teu1.06hvOCOsqZ2M&smid=url-share
  21. Just another little fascist popping in to defend the King!
  22. Murkowski and Collins were the only Fascist Party members of the Senate who voted against him.
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