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althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
Headline at The Guardian: "Starmer says he picked up Trump’s dropped papers to avoid security scare/UK prime minister says it ‘would not have been good’ for anyone else such as member of media to try to help" ("I mean, look, there weren’t many choices with the documents and picking it up, because...
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"Ramaswamy, who had apparently come around to the fact that significant cuts would require an act of Congress, began meeting regularly with a small group of legislators. Musk mostly did not attend. A source close to doge told me that Musk seemed to regard members of Congress as irrelevant, sometimes referring to them as 'N.P.C.s,'—non-player characters—the often mute and nameless figures who populate the backgrounds of video games.
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"... that once were based in the area now inhabited by the apologists. What, however, would the enlightened have happen? Their fantasy casts them as champions of the Stone Age folks who once enjoyed the real estate we currently inhabit. But stone axes and buffalo hunting could have continued only as behaviors protected by a civilization not only technologically superior but of sufficient surplus of goods and Christianity to still the westward American migration in service of an ideal.
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
How little is "that little man"? The internet tells me Roger Daltrey is 5'6". Ringo is 5'8". Said Ringo Starr, about Roger Daltrey who fired Ringo's son Zak from The Who. Ringo is quoted in "Ringo Starr Doesn’t Like ‘That Little Man’ From the Who" (NY Magazine).
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!"
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
Caught on camera: NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani losing it as he tries to force his way to Tom Homan. If this is how he acts now, imagine the disaster if he ever held office. Unfit. Unhinged. Unbelievable. Thoughts? ⬇️ 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/m1vvTgJNIF— Tony Lane 🇺🇸 (@TonyLaneNV) June 17, 2025 Speaking of Mamdani, there's also this tweet of his from 2020, during the George Floyd rioting:If this doesn't scream "mayor material," nothing does.
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"I always thought about that line because on one level, I understood it. It’s probably not your job to educate anyone. But if you’re in politics, if what you’re trying to do is political change, I always found that line to be almost antipolitical. That if what you want to do is change a law, change a society, change a heart, and you’re the one who wants to do it — well then, whose job is it?
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
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4 days ago | 
althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
"Elsewhere, a poster published by the state-affiliated Nour News – which is close to Iran’s security apparatus – singled out for suspicion people who wear 'masks, hats, and sunglasses, even at night' and those who receive 'frequent package deliveries by courier.' The poster asks people to report 'unusual sounds from inside the house, such as screaming, the sound of metal equipment, continuous banging' and 'houses with curtains drawn even during the day.'..." From "Iran’s Mossad paranoia...
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althouse.blogspot.com | Ann Althouse
Said Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, quoted in "'Project Runway' Designer Is Fatally Shot During Utah 'No Kings' Protest/Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, a Samoan-born fashion designer, was participating in an anti-Trump protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday when he was shot by a man working security, the police said" (NYT). [Ah Loo was] a bystander ...
