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The Ghost of Mark Twain

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Back from the dead...and really not happy about what is happening today. As I once incorrectly said “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”. Nope. We have seen this before...

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The contest is closed - thanks for the many great and entertaining entries! Our distinguished (and my great friends here in the afterlife) panel of Kurt Vonnugut, Joseph Heller, and Richard Pryor will, along with your votes, select the winner. Finalists in first two comments. Vote now!

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The Ghost of Mark Twain·Nov 12

Actually 2016, but the two-week promise dates to 2017.

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The Ghost of Mark Twain·Nov 17

GOP Rep Massie from Kentucky: “If they have ongoing investigations in certain areas, those documents can’t be released,” Massie says. “So, this might be a big smokescreen, these investigations, to open a bunch of them to, as a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files."

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We ALL need to show up!

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End this Iran debacle NOW! The only way to defeat Iran (and we could) is a costly, bloody, difficult land invasion. Iran isn't the good guy here, but we aren't either.

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Fortunately for all of us except the incredibly naive and stupid can almost always identify AI images, art, music and "literature", that won't always be the case and likely not even for much longer. AI can help humanity - the arts ARE humanity. We need to limit it while we still can

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We did this to ourselves. Even those of us who didn't vote for Trump, because we failed to stop it. Don't make that mistake in November 2026. We MUST do better

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Nailed it. AI authors and artists are not those things at all.

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Or distraction from Esptein, corruption, ICE abuses, the National Guard occupation of Washington DC, the lies about communism, more corruption, the coming election and lies about election fraud, crony capitalism, etc etc etc...

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Groceries are expensive, and feeding a teen more so. I started doing this with my son years ago, and have been doing this with my step-daughter for about a year She caught me making the swap and crushing the Aldi dupe box in the recycling. Got a really dirty look. Am I an asshole or genius? 🤣

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I'm sure most of us got this one because we didn't get caught.

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Easy fix, and fair

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I heard Grindr had their flags at half-staff today 🤣

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