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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today's Wordle will have purists like me up in arms! Wordle 1,423 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As someone who worked 40 years for The Washington Post—which I call “we” even though it cut me 2 years ago—I am, yes, heartbroken. At the link below is the memo Bezos sent to the newsroom announcing that the opinion pages will support only his views. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/heart-brea...

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In commemoration, we'll kill the penny.

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Anne Paris @arlingtonparis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

gizmodo.com/elon-musks-e... “New reporting shows USAID was actually investigating one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.” Raise your hand if you’re not shocked 🙋🏼

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Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine

The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The EGOMANIAC — A MEGA-ICON — I.E., MAGA CON — has COME AGAIN. More amazingly clever multiple anagrams in this week’s Invitational, plus our quadrennial Alternaugural Address contest. In today’s Gene Pool.

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The Invitational Week 109: The Alternaugural Address

Write something funnier with the words from the latest Jan. 20 diatribe. Plus AMAZING anagrams.

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Is Trump trying to outdo the wacko megalomaniac president of Turkmenistan? open.substack.com/pub/genewein...

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TrumpmenBashi The Great

Hello.

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Owner:“I was confused; they took three people who did not have documentation .. I asked what documentation they were looking for, and they said a license or a passport. Who walks around with a passport? ... One of the guys was a military veteran... He is Puerto Rican, the manager of our warehouse."

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ICE agents raid NJ seafood store, detaining U.S. military veteran

NEW YORK (PIX11) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a New Jersey seafood store on Thursday. PIX11 News has learned a U.S. military veteran was among the people detained. …

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

More Eighth Dwarfs — plus our classic “joint legislation” contest — in this week’s Invitational, at The Gene Pool with Gene Weingarten and Pat Myers. tinyurl.com/inv-week-108

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Vile false equivalence: "Pardons from Biden and Trump flout the rule of law"

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Today's latest horror. "The pause on communications includes scientific reports issued by the CDC, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; advisories about public health incidents; data updates to the CDC website ..." The CDC was about to publish 3 reports on bird flu wapo.st/4aqfN44

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Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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@Pat Myers @patmyers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

WaPo's lit'ry zingster @roncharles.bsky.social on the long tradition of uplifting seasonal novellas: "Charles Dickens didn’t invent Christmas, of course, but he left Tiny Tim’s crutch lying in the hallway for everybody else to trip over." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

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Review | ‘Brightly Shining’ is a bittersweet tale of Christmas past

Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

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