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losco
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Gen- Xer The 90s were glorious! Go Cats!
Kentucky, USA Katılım Şubat 2012
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the Iran war began, prayed Wednesday to have "every round find its mark." to.pbs.org/47mCOVc
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@ESPN680 @tsnmike @TheOnlySweeney That sounds ridiculous. Of course we want the coach to build a winning team. It’s the coaching part that is the problem. Maybe Mike should stick to telling other schools fans on how they should act
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KENTUCKY NEEDS TO KEEP POPE, BUILD A PROGRAM | The Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy joined The Take with @TheOnlySweeney and discussed Kentucky Basketball and their fans need to STOP asking for a new coach and focus on BUILDING a winning team.
Listen to the The Take with Andy Sweeney (Monday through Friday 12pm to 3pm) on ESPN 680/105.7 and the ESPN Louisville app!
PODCAST: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
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@TownsendMark @Sihanet @ikhlassahmed77 @nattyray11 @KholoodKhair Pretty much that entire article is verbal testimony of those who were defeated or just hearsay from SAF aligned people. Funny how despite so many self admitted eye witnesses none of them managed to take any photos that survived.
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It was the biggest massacre for decades - 10,000 Sudanese killed over two days. The international community knew genocide was inevitable. Why and how did it happen? Huge thanks to @Sihanet @ikhlassahmed77 @nattyray11 @KholoodKhair theguardian.com/global-develop…
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@tj0258_ @ianbremmer this is like a normal day of trading, all the libs are just hyping themsleves up into contextualness silliness.
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@KySportsRadio I think we are going to find out one day that our recruiting woes are due to one guy. Maybe Hart wasn’t pushing the “you have to love Ky” enough
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Dr. Michael “Robby” Rabinovich in season one of ‘The Pitt’: A COVID-traumatized leader who was hard-nosed but fair to his colleagues. A flawed man, but one you wanted to have around when things get hard. Dr. Robby in season two of ‘The Pitt’: A hothead who casually insults his colleagues and says within earshot of patients that he can’t wait to get out of the ER. “A man who has yelled at basically every brown woman he works with, lied about his self-destructive tendencies,” writes TV critic Roxana Hadadi, “and failed to protect his patients and colleagues against ICE’s incursion into the ER.”
“Eleven hours into this 15-hour shift, most of the attending’s best qualities — his pragmatic approach to medicine, his encouragement of young colleagues, his ability to roll with unexpected challenges — have curdled into huffy dismissiveness and defensive blind spots. Those slutty little glasses aren’t cutting it anymore. This is Robby’s asshole season, and it’s tougher to watch than all the de-glovings and severed limbs ‘The Pitt’ can throw at us,” Hadadi continues.
Read our TV critic on how Robby’s descent into douchery is undercutting the rest of its ensemble: nymag.visitlink.me/DAeelD

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Read Chris Cornell’s daughter, Lily Cornell Silver’s gripping first-person essay about the grief process, facing her fears, and how music and therapy saved her life.
Commentary: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

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@fan_cats40258 @clayton_cash @wildcatnews @KySportsRadio You fucking idiot. He’s getting paid for a made up job. This is politician crap. This is the kind of stuff we try to stop with our elected officials. How dare you compare the athletes to him? Athletes get injured ALL the time. Grow up
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@clayton_cash @wildcatnews @KySportsRadio Drop in the bucket compared to what we paid Lowe and JQ but you’re worried about a guy that gave 24 years to UK because the media tells you to.
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@AbeWashingtrump @Quadcarl It’s a great metaphor. I’m pointing out how stupid you are for thinking CSNY opened the gates up. Fuck off
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Great photo-metaphor; who under 60 gets it?
Quadcarl@Quadcarl
You probably won’t get the reference but trust me it’s accurate AF.
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@greenfield64 If it weren’t for the Dead, they never would have been there.
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@AbeWashingtrump @Quadcarl It was advertised as a free concert to begin with. No one opened the gates you fucking moron.
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@Quadcarl Was Altamont overrun by foreign terrorists and criminals, because the band that played before the Stones opened the gates and let everyone in for free?
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@GunnyBoy7 @MirzaMahan @anadoluagency Yes, they lie. You might want to except the fact that we have a lunatic liar running this country as well
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“Good faith negotiations” Hahahahahahahahahahahahha. The Ayatollahs never ever have negotiated in “good faith”. They are liars hiding behind a cloak of religion. They also claimed their ballistic missile range was less than 2000 km and then fired a strike at Diego Garcia 4000 km away. Delete your account liar.
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#BREAKING US delegation coming to Pakistan 'in a day or 2’ for possible talks but Iran ‘still not ready' due to mistrust, Pakistani Foreign Ministry sources tell Anadolu
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Robert Mueller died last night.
He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.
He had integrity.
And tonight the President of the United States said good!
I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.
I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.
Good.
This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.
That is what is happening. That is what has happened.
The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.
America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.
And the church said nothing.
Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.
Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.
Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.
JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.
These men are something more painful than monsters.
They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.
Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.
Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.
That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.
And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.
When Trump is gone, they will still be here.
Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.
That morning is coming.
Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.
He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.
He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.
The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.
That is all it needed to be.
A man died. His family is broken open with grief.
That is all it needed to be.
Instead the President said good.
And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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