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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 16h
I hope you're all sitting down, but The Young Turks have just dropped a bombshell video that claims U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham was gay. In upcoming videos, we'll learn: • The Pope is Catholic • Bears are sh-tting in the woods www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dtnNq2lJkM
Screenshot from 'The Closet-ocracy' by The Young Turks
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
There's an AI-generated advertisement on broadcast TV on the channel I'm watching. It features a talking dog. The voices are also AI generated. I cannot possible explain how off-putting it is
TV with a bullet hole in it
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Facebook's targeted advertising knows me so well. I'm always selling fire engines
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
In today's episode of "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher is taking computer classes at the Serious Cybernetics Corporation. Share and enjoy. www.imdb.com/title/tt0653543 #H2G2 #DouglasAdams
Screenshot from "Lines of Excellence"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I just laughed way too loud at this #cars #motorhead
Photo of a smashed Chevrolet Corvair.

Caption by Madhouse Garage says,  The Chevrolet Corvair was what happened when General Motors asked the burning question... "What if Volkswagen had a cocaine budget?"...
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
WHY DOES EVERY LLM-GENERATED FLYER LOOK LIKE THIS
A crappy LLM-generated flyer for a "Paint and Sip"Another LLM slop flyer
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
It's the oldies show rated "not the worst" by Consumer Reports! Join me for your favorites from the '50s, '60s and '70s, along with a few newies and news, sports and weather. Radio 9 from 12 to 3 p.m. today on WRCT 88.3FM www.wrct.org and Tube City Online […] [Original post on union.place]
Cover of February 1960 Consumer Reports: "How to improve Radio and TV Programs"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
"Wheel of Fortune," last puzzle: JUST THE _ _ _ TS The lady didn't get it. She wasn't a "Dragnet" fan, I guess.
Harry Morgan and Jack Webb in "Dragnet: 1967"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Finally, some news I can use. But is it actually the world's largest pumpkin or only the world's largest pumpkin that's in Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh
    Where you can see the world’s largest pumpkin in Pittsburgh this weekend
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
From 12 noon to 3 p.m. this Saturday on the show, I'll be taking your suggestions on what should be done with the Wabash Tunnel in #Pittsburgh World's longest bowling alley? A Primanti Brothers with a 3,300-foot bar? New home of the Log Jammer?
Vintage illustration from the 1960s shows cartoon characters talking on the phone. Text says RADIO NINE ... GREATEST SHOW ON MIRTH. Logo WRCT 88.3 imitates classic KDKA Radio logo.
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
His AARP discount card has been activated
Steelers' Aaron Rodgers gets good news before critical Buccaneers game
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
"He can't do that to our pledges." "Yeah. Only we can do that to our pledges." #USpol
Trying to save her job, Kimberly Guilfoyle claimed the incriminating texts were AI-generated. Trump was annoyed at how brazen the accusations appeared to be, people who spoke with him said, and he was troubled that Guilfoyle was making money off his presidency.Otter (Tim Matheson) and Boon (Peter Riegert) are outraged by the sight of an officer abusing their pledge.
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
I did something Monday I haven't done for a long time — I drew my #cartoon with a dip-pen and a brush. I've been using felt-tip pens for years, but I think I need to go back to the dip-pen, because I've got much better linework with it.
Illustration of Mike Tomlin in front of a computer displaying his Minecraft city. Also visible are an ink pen, a brush and a bottle of ink.
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I've been out for years to family and friends, but National Coming Out Day seemed as good of a time as any to drop this. Helen Boyd, Dylan Scholinski and I wish you a happy National Coming Out Day. Check out the podcast if you like […] [Original post on union.place]
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
"My arms are 10 feet long"
'I’m 63 and Did a Dead Hang Every Day for a Month—Here Are the 3 Changes I Noticed
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
A weekend without the oldies would be un-bearable! Right now until 3 pm on WRCT 88.3FM www.wrct.org and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport www.tubecityonline.com/radio Requests: 412-385-7450 or @ me here! #oldies #radio #pittsburgh
A human-size teddy bear wears a shirt that says "WRCT 88.3 FM"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Also, let's be clear what happened: Jessica Hahn, a church secretary, told church officials that Jim Bakker and another pastor raped her. When they did nothing, her lawyers prepared a lawsuit. The church paid her $279,000 to silence her. That was when all hell […] [Original post on union.place]
Falwell: PTL transition won't be easy one
FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) - Moral
several interviews he gave Friday. payments totaled $115,000, and the
Majority Leader Jerry Falwell,
"I plan to keep it open as a encounter was with a 21-year-old
plan to
who has taken over the PTL
Christian outlet for the family of
church secretary from New York
ministry in the wake of the Jim
God... Hopefully I will bring a named Jessica Hahn.
Bakker sex scandal, says he re-
constituency that is not there now.
Ms. Hahn told the newspaper
alizes his fundamentalist approach
It is possible that we might, in she was emotionally troubled by
may clash
with the religious
fact, lose some."
the encounter, which she said she
organization's Pentecostal lean-
Bakker resigned as PTL's chair-
did not expect, and by the gossip
ings.
man Thursday after disclosing he
that followed. But she denied there
... I have no intention of
had been involved in a sexual
were any blackmail or extortion
making PTL a Baptist camp-
encounter seven years ago and was efforts.
ground or a Pentecostal camp-
being blackmailed. The Charlotte
"Jim Bakker is obviously trying
ground," Falwell said in one of Observer reported the blackmail to protect himself.... I know what the truth is....
I don't want Jim
Bakker to leave PTL," she told the newspaper.
In a 1984 interview, she said she had complained to PTL and met twice with its executive director, Richard Dortsch, in New York.
She signed a document recanting her allegations during the second meeting but said later she felt pressured to sign it.
In late 1984 or early 1985, Ms.
Falwell
• From Page 1A
Hahn met with businessman Paul Roper of Anaheim, Calif. By early February, Roper had sent PTL officials the draft of a lawsuit detailing the woman's allegations and seeking millions of dollars in damages from PTL, Bakker and others, The Observer reported.
Falwell, pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church Lynchburg, Va., said Bakker is paying a high price for his trans-gression, but sin cannot be toler-ated.
"It
doesn't really matter whether someone seduced you or you raped someone," Falwell said.
"If you're a man of God, a leader of the flock, you yield, as far as I'm concerned, you're out of the ministry."
But the minister preached forgiveness for Bakker.
"Yes, what
Bakker dolls, Falwell said, "I
Jim Bakker did
would not and do not."
is wrong ... but
The change in direction at PTL,
no, I'm no more
Falwell said, "will not be easy, of
willing to con-
course. I am a fundamentalist and
sign him to the
I am a Calvinist.... I personally
scrap heap of
believe a ministry always reflects
human flesh
the personality of its leader."
than I would be
Falwell added that he wants to
willing to con- be realistic about the problems sign Richard
he'll have running Bakker's minis-
Nixon to that."
Bakker
Falwell
try.
The Observer reported that he
characterized himself as a preach-
sounded surprised to learn of a $10
er while describing Jim and
million debt to Kansas contractor
Tammy Bakker as spiritual enter-
Roe Messner, who is building a 21-
tainers as well as spiritual leaders
story hotel and other major pro-
in the Pentecostal faith, which jects at Heritage USA, PTL's embraces practices such as speak-
headquarters south of Charlotte.
ing in tongues and faith healing.
Falwell said he has been told
When asked whether ministers
PTL's financial situation is neither
should sell things such as Tammy critical nor comfortable.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Falwell prepares for newscast Friday from Lynchburg studio
The newspaper also reported that PTL officials have been seeking a loan to refinance existing long-term debt and raise cash.
Falwell said the loan would be for more than $50 million, and PTL documents say it would be backed with property at Heritage USA as collateral.
The entire 2,300-acre Heritage
USA complex, valued at about $160 million, includes a 500-room hotel, shopping mall, cafeteria, convention center, water park, offices, a school, a television studio and several real estate developments.
Falwell said it's too early to tell specifically what plans will be completed. Financial matters and orientation are on the agenda for the first board meeting at Heritage
USA Thursday.Falwell: PTL transition won't be easy one
FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) - Moral
several interviews he gave Friday. payments totaled $115,000, and the
Majority Leader Jerry Falwell,
"I plan to keep it open as a encounter was with a 21-year-old
plan to
who has taken over the PTL
Christian outlet for the family of
church secretary from New York
ministry in the wake of the Jim
God... Hopefully I will bring a named Jessica Hahn.
Bakker sex scandal, says he re-
constituency that is not there now.
Ms. Hahn told the newspaper
alizes his fundamentalist approach
It is possible that we might, in she was emotionally troubled by
may clash
with the religious
fact, lose some."
the encounter, which she said she
organization's Pentecostal lean-
Bakker resigned as PTL's chair-
did not expect, and by the gossip
ings.
man Thursday after disclosing he
that followed. But she denied there
... I have no intention of
had been involved in a sexual
were any blackmail or extortion
making PTL a Baptist camp-
encounter seven years ago and was efforts.
ground or a Pentecostal camp-
being blackmailed. The Charlotte
"Jim Bakker is obviously trying
ground," Falwell said in one of Observer reported the blackmail to protect himself.... I know what the truth is....
I don't want Jim
Bakker to leave PTL," she told the newspaper.
In a 1984 interview, she said she had complained to PTL and met twice with its executive director, Richard Dortsch, in New York.
She signed a document recanting her allegations during the second meeting but said later she felt pressured to sign it.
In late 1984 or early 1985, Ms.
Falwell
• From Page 1A
Hahn met with businessman Paul Roper of Anaheim, Calif. By early February, Roper had sent PTL officials the draft of a lawsuit detailing the woman's allegations and seeking millions of dollars in damages from PTL, Bakker and others, The Observer reported.
Falwell, pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church Lynchburg, Va., said Bakker is paying a high price for his trans-gression, but sin cannot be toler-ated.
"It
doesn't really matter whether someone seduced you or you raped someone," Falwell said.
"If you're a man of God, a leader of the flock, you yield, as far as I'm concerned, you're out of the ministry."
But the minister preached forgiveness for Bakker.
"Yes, what
Bakker dolls, Falwell said, "I
Jim Bakker did
would not and do not."
is wrong ... but
The change in direction at PTL,
no, I'm no more
Falwell said, "will not be easy, of
willing to con-
course. I am a fundamentalist and
sign him to the
I am a Calvinist.... I personally
scrap heap of
believe a ministry always reflects
human flesh
the personality of its leader."
than I would be
Falwell added that he wants to
willing to con- be realistic about the problems sign Richard
he'll have running Bakker's minis-
Nixon to that."
Bakker
Falwell
try.
The Observer reported that he
characterized himself as a preach-
sounded surprised to learn of a $10
er while describing Jim and
million debt to Kansas contractor
Tammy Bakker as spiritual enter-
Roe Messner, who is building a 21-
tainers as well as spiritual leaders
story hotel and other major pro-
in the Pentecostal faith, which jects at Heritage USA, PTL's embraces practices such as speak-
headquarters south of Charlotte.
ing in tongues and faith healing.
Falwell said he has been told
When asked whether ministers
PTL's financial situation is neither
should sell things such as Tammy critical nor comfortable.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Falwell prepares for newscast Friday from Lynchburg studio
The newspaper also reported that PTL officials have been seeking a loan to refinance existing long-term debt and raise cash.
Falwell said the loan would be for more than $50 million, and PTL documents say it would be backed with property at Heritage USA as collateral.
The entire 2,300-acre Heritage
USA complex, valued at about $160 million, includes a 500-room hotel, shopping mall, cafeteria, convention center, water park, offices, a school, a television studio and several real estate developments.
Falwell said it's too early to tell specifically what plans will be completed. Financial matters and orientation are on the agenda for the first board meeting at Heritage
USA Thursday.
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
A reminder that when Jim Bakker's fraud and corruption were exposed by the local newspaper in 1987, he used what has become a familiar playbook on the evangelical right in the U.S.: He admitted no guilt and blamed the media and his "enemies" #JimBakker #PTL
Bakker: Personal Toll More Than We Can Bear
Transcript of Jim Bakker's statement
Thursday:
Thank you. As you know, for many years Tammy Faye and I and our ministries have been subjected to constant harassment and pressures by various groups and forces whose objective has been to undermine and to destroy us. I cannot deny that the personal toll that these pressures have exerted on me and my wife and family have been more than we can bear.
In fact, as our friends are all too well aware, my and Tammy's physical and emotional resources have been so overwhelmed that we are presently under full-time therapy at a treatment center in Cali-fornia. We want to express our gratitude for the support and encouragement we've received from so many of our friends and partners.
I have decided that for the good of my family, the church and of all of our related ministries that I should resign and step down immediately from PTL.
I have also today resigned from the Assemblies of God. I am not able to muster the resources needed to combat a new wave of attack that I have learned is about to be launched against us by The Charlotte Observer, which has attacked us incessantly for the past 12 years.
I am appalled at the baseness of this present campaign to defame and vilify me.
I categorically deny that I've ever sexually assaulted or harassed anyone.
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago, in an isolated incident, I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and then colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confed-erate.
They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life. Vulnerable as I was at the time, I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry.
I have sought and gratefully received the loving forgiveness of our Savior who forgives us of our sins. I have told Tammy everything and Tammy, of course, has forgiven me, and our love for each other is greater and stronger than it has ever been.
Now, seven years later, this one-time mistake is seized upon by my enemies to humiliate and degrade me to gratify their envious and selfish motives.
They have falsified, distorted and exaggerated the facts so as to make the occurrence appear many times worse than it ever was. Anyone who knows Jim Bakker knows that I never physically assaulted anyone in my life.
In retrospect it was poor judgment to have succumbed to blackmail. But when extortionist overtures were made I was concerned to protect and spare the ministry and my family. Unfortunately, money was paid in order to avoid further suffering or hurt to anyone to appease these persons who were determined to destroy this ministry now, in hindsight, realize payment should have been resisted and we ought to have exposed the blackmailers to the penalties of the law. I'm truly sorry for all this that has happened in the past or any harm that may have occurred
I bear no malice to anyone. I forgive those who have borne false witness against me.
I cannot undo the past, but must now address the future. I have no doubt God has a redemptive plan for PTL and for Jim and Tammy. I fervently pray for the future of PTL and Heritage USA. It is my life to pre-serve, to protect those cherished values which it embodies.
I've asked my friend, Jerry Falwell, to help me in my crisis. The PTL Board of Directors has accepted my resignation, appointed Jerry Falwell as chairman of our board of directors requesting him to designate a new board of directors. He has done this and the old board has accordingly re-signed.
I asked the prayerful support of our friends and foes for the preservation and advancement of God's work and the future of PTL.
God bless you and goodbye.
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Hive mind: This is the view from our radio studio. I suspect railfans/train buffs would enjoy a webcam and scanner feed. Any recommendations on a weather-resistant webcam we could use? #railfan #trains #webcam #tech
Photo of a train stopped near a bike trail with several bikes passingPhoto of a freight train pulling empty coal carsA green switch engine labeled for Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
It's curious, but no one monkees around as much as we do! Right now on WRCT 88.3FM #Pittsburgh www.wrct.org and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport www.tubecityonline.com/radio
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Why listen to my show? Because I'm a member of the Radio Hall of Fame ...* ! 12 to 3 pm Eastern US time today on WRCT 88.3FM Pittsburgh and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport www.tubecityonline.com/radio Requests: 412-385-7450 or @ me here * — ... coffee cup […] [Original post on union.place]
A coffee mug labeled "RADIO HALL OF FAME"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
So proud of my alma mater. 🙃 How does the old joke go? "We know what you are, we're just negotiating your price"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
I am live (hoping you are the same) at the Mon Valley Arts Crawl in Downtown McKeesport! Come down and see us from 1 to 6 p.m. today. Live music, art demonstrations, food and a beer truck! Or listen on WRCT 88.3FM www.wrct.org and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport www.tubecityonline.com
An illustration of a hand holding paint brushes and the words "Mon Valley Arts - MVA"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Elvis needs boats Elvis needs boats ElvisElvisElvisElvisElvis needs boats www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcTY9i-fx8 #earworm
"Elvis Presley and several friends took a spin around McKellar Lake in his new boat Friday July 8, 1960."

Source: https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pictures/1960-july-8.html
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Seth Meyers: "In honor of their upcoming FearFest, AMC has unveiled an updated version of the Crypt Keeper ..."
(photo of Mitch McConnell)
"... as did Kentucky."
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Well, it must be a day ending in Y. He LIED. If your kid or your partner did it, you'd say they LIED. You wouldn't say they made "multiple false and misleading claims." He's a LIAR #USpol #journalism
FACT FOCUS: Trump made multiple false and misleading claims in front of the UN General Assembly
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Do we know there's a "search engine for conservatives" now? Also, I'm glad they blurred out the offensive words "Hillary Clinton"
Some bearded ding-dong pitching a service called "Result Hunter"Result Hunter
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Try Your First Search
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Happy Monday to everyone except the person who hit my car in the parking lot of the Buttermilk Hollow Shop 'n Save and busted the mirror.
Seven years of bad luck
The good things in your past
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Today's show is pre-recorded, so no requests ... but we do have some slamming oldies as well as new music from The All-American Rejects, The Revivalists, Post Sex Nachos and more from this Mickey Mouse operation! 12 to 3 p.m. today on WRCT 88.3FM and Tube City […] [Original post on union.place]
Mickey and Minnie Mouse sit near a 1970s tape recorder
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Here's my cartoon this month for Print, #Pittsburgh's East End newspaper. #cartoon #editorial #PApol
Left: Harry Truman, 1948: "The Buck Stops Here!"
Right: Pittsburgh Mayors, 1948 to ?: Ed Gainey is passing an IOU to Corey O'Connor and saying, "Keep this moving!"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
There was a lot of fiddling necessary to get the parts to fit; the screws are barely sufficient to hold the walls together (in some places, I used zinc and neoprene fasteners that I sourced myself); but overall, it's pretty good. My review: You get what you pay for.
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
The garden shed is more or less done, but I've gotta tell you, the instructions leave a lot to be desired, and the instructional videos really are misleading. They show them snapping together like Lego bricks, and it's a lot more complicated than that. Anyway […] [Original post on union.place]
A gray plastic shed on a wooden platform, shown after a recent heavy rain storm
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
This morning's "Murder She Wrote" involves a real-estate tycoon who wants to build a luxury hotel in Cabot Cove: "You don't know how this man operates — shoddy construction, payoffs to local officials." He's got weird blond hair, a scowl, and yells constantly. I wonder who he's supposed to be.
Actor John Ericson in "Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly" (1985)
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
When you answer the phone, don't say "hello," say "I listen to Radio 9!" You won't win any money but it makes me feel better! Join me from 12-3 pm today and return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. WRCT 88.3FM & Tube City Online www.tubecityonline.com/radio […] [Original post on union.place]
A cartoon bumper sticker for defunct Pittsburgh radio station "13-Q."
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Unfortunately, this article aged very well: "The ultimate impact on the American psyche is going to be profound and will manifest itself in the political system and the way we live our lives. This is not a passing or small event." Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, Sept. 12, 2001
BY MILES BENSON AND DELIA RIOS OF OUR WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - As American leadership at every level moves to cope with the immediate crisis of mounting death and destruction from the disasters at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an important question will arise:
Can national security and civil liberty co-exist?

This issue will be at the forefront, testing President Bush and his administration as they lead a frightened and angry country.

In pursuit of security, experts believe demands will be heard for more intrusive use of wiretaps, searches, detainment and "profiling" techniques to seek out possible terrorists. These could turn on skin color and national origin or ethnicity, and fall particularly hard on Arab Americans and Muslims.

"We will now see ourselves as a battlefield as never before and our sense of privilege, protection and isolation is forever destroyed." said Henry Aaron, a senior fellow and public policy specialist at the Brookings Institution.

"The ultimate impact... on the American psyche... is going to be profound and will manifest itself in the political system and the way we live our lives. This is not a passing or small event."

In times of national distress, the American public and Congress rally behind the president, who is central to establishing control, reassuring the nation and leading it out of tragedy.

Now it's Bush's turn.

"This is his opportunity to really assume the mantle of the presidency," said Fred I. Greenstein, chair of the Program in Leadership Studies at Princeton University.

As the search begins for perpetrators of yesterday's calamity, historian David M. Kennedy sees a major danger that American ideals of freedom might be undermined and swept away in a storm of anger, a rush for vengeance, a demand for protection against future attacks.

The continuing threat is not to "security interests in the usual sense of the term" but to "maintaining civil liberties and an open society and not becoming obsessively paranoid about internal threats," said Kennedy, a Stanford University historian who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-45."

At this moment, the nation inevitably looks to the president for assurance that the guilty will be punished, that things will return to normal.

"He has to interpret the events for people. identify the cause, and explain the significance for the country," David Hart, an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. "Does it mean we have to change our daily lives? Change our transportation or communication system in ways that affects us on a daily basis?" In times of great crisis, the president has great powers, not all of them spelled out in the Constitution. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, allowing Union troops to arrest and imprison individuals without formally charging them.

In this crisis, consequences will be run short term and long term, said Stephen Wermiel, a law professor at American University.

"The short-term question is the degree that law enforcement will try to get around the limitations that have existed on wiretapping, searches, stopping people at borders, detaining people at airports and ports of entry, profiling overtly on basis of skin color and national identity.

"I think we'll see that start to happen immediately," Wermiel said. "They will use powers without a lot of concern for what we thought were fairly clearly established civil liberties.

The notion of probable cause will be a lot easier to establish than it normally would be. I suspect that any Muslim group remotely suspected of sympathy with groups suspected of terrorism will become a target of wire taps and surveillance and maybe searches."

And the passions of an emotional public will support all that, Wermiel said

"But I hope we're not going to panic and forget about the tradition of protecting the rights of all Americans on which this country has been built."
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Red Dragon Tattoo is just about on me I got it for you — so now do you want me? With nothing to prove, will you be my honey? In you I confide, Red Dragon Tattoo I'm fit to be dyed Am I fit to have you?
A road sign in Queens, NY, says "Utopia Pkwy"
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
By request: "Smurfs on a Plane"
Samuel L. Jackson has had it up to HERE with these mothersmurfing smurfs on his mothersmurfing plane!
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: President Trump repeats his claim that he was at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and says his girlfriend in Canada and The Great Gazoo can verify the story. More news any moment.
A green cartoon alien snaps his fingers
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I kind of want to put Smurfs into everything now. #SmurfFiction
Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) prepare to assassinate someone as panicked Smurfs look on
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
"Captain's Log. Stardate 4527.5. We answered a distress call in the Schtroumpf system that consisted only of 'La la la la la la, la la la la la.' It may have been a fatal mistake. Destruction of the Enterprise could be our only hope of escaping the madness."
Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is engulfed by Smurfs
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Keep Ed Murrow's name out of your mouth, losers

60 Minutes
An iconic photo of the new 60 Minutes team in Murrow's old hangout

September 8, 2026 / 8:00 AM EDT / CBS News
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Someone on social media predicted this a few days ago. So who wins the pool? #DonnieDipshit #DementiaDon
Trump Shares Map Renaming New Mexico as 'New America,' Days After ‘Trump Strait’ and ‘Lake America’ Uproar
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day in the United States from a member of the United Steelworkers union and the National Writers Union. #LaborDay #solidarity
United Steelworkers logo with the LGBTQ pride colors in the center.national writers union logo
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
I'm building a garden shed. We already have a garden shed, but I wanted to be known as Jay "Two Sheds" Thurber #diy
a wooden platform that appears to have been built by chimpanzeesa messy construction site, or perhaps a deconstruction siteexisting shed, housing a lawn mower that's as old as I amdoes anyone want to come over and finish this for me?
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Radio: The original dashboard distraction! Join me from 12 to 3 pm (Eastern U.S.) today on WRCT 88.3 FM Pittsburgh and Tube City Online www.tubecityonline.com/radio as we celebrate Labor Day weekend with some rockin' #oldies from the '50s, '60s and '70s […] [Original post on union.place]
A 1950s magazine ad for a Motorola "Golden Voice" car radio
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Power's out. Basement's flooded. But without all of the electrical interference, shortwave is rolling in nicely. So I'm sitting in the dark, drinking Scotch, and listening to WRMI in Florida.#HamRadio #DXer
A backlit analog radio dial
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Happy to help, Google Maps! #LakeOntario
Left: Google Maps 
Jay has added a new business to Google headquarters, Cowardly & Craven, Digital Cartographers.

Right: 
Google Maps thanks Jay for their contribution
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Today, we'll talk about Dolly, The Hollies, and maybe Kukla, Fran & Ollie. Join me by golly from 12 noon to 3 p.m. on WRCT 88.3FM www.wrct.org and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport www.tubecityonline.com/radio Requests: 412-385-7450 or @ me […] [Original post on union.place]
LP Cover: The Best of Dolly PartonA photo of The Hollies
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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
If I see one more AI-generated "cartoon" depicting Dolly Parton and Tim Curry I'm going to flip my shit. I suddenly long for the days of crude MS Paint images, "Under Construction" GIFs and clip-art montages #slop
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