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NHL benches don’t even have back support. I wouldn’t be able to sit on one for more than 5 minutes. Is it time for them to change? - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:40 2
- Barcaloungers -- nm - Dano May 30, 19:42 1
  - Chaise longues -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 19:47
another underrated irony: the disastrous COVID response tolled the statute of limitations in NY, which allowed Bragg to bring this case outside the -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 19:37 1
- SCOTUS: Oh? -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:41
a pretty quick solve (for me) on Friday's puzzle gives me the best cumulative week time I've had on the xword. Just Satuday's to go. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 19:32 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 30, 19:54
“Anything going on today?” -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 19:18 1
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 May 30, 19:53
everyone on MSNBC trying to shake the shit out of Jen Psaki into the reality of the day is amazing -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 19:14
Holy fuck…there are people here ready to go to war for him at poker. These people are stupid nuts. -- nm - Will Hunting May 30, 19:04 4
- Take their money so they can't donate it to him. -- nm - Dano May 30, 19:11
- I've seen this movie. No, that's a lie. No one saw that movie. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:07
- Well, you've just identified the suckers at the table... -- nm - David May 30, 19:05 1
  - Yeah…the downside, 5 suckers win vs an informed opinion. -- nm - Will Hunting May 30, 19:08
With 10 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, Timberwolves only have 10 more points that Trump has felony convictions! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 May 30, 19:04
is this Meryl Streep and Fredo story true? - Beaker 🍻 May 30, 18:51 2
- Oh man, I truly hope she didn’t really feel that way about her part in The Deer Hunter. I love that movie and thought she was terrific for the role. - JenBro May 30, 19:18
- i dunno about the deathbed stuff (it's the Post) but yeah they were dating while he was making his bangers -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 18:53
I refuse to see this verdict as anything significant. - Mop🧹 May 30, 18:46 17
- SNL: ain't nothing gonna happen -- (link) - zeitgeist May 30, 19:57 [Image]
- Bookmarked -- nm - Trending May 30, 19:10 3
  - This is fine. I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong. I’ll eat the most delicious crow ever. - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:20 2
    - He was just fined hundreds of millions of dollars, could barely pay the loan, and is now a convicted felon. - David May 30, 19:26 1
      - I dunno … he’s ahead in the polls so the first few items seem to have no impact? -- nm - Will Hunting May 30, 19:57
- no, 34 felony convictions are in fact bad for someone running for president. i promise you it's true -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 18:47 11
  - This time, for sure! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 18:48 10
    - I mean, he lost 2020 then the 2021 Senate race then his candidates bombed in 2022 then the 2023 sexual abuse then the defamation verdict and now this. - David May 30, 18:55 7
      - And yet he's been consistently leading Biden in the polls. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:02 5
        
        I believe them as much as Nielsen ratings. -- nm - David May 30, 19:05 4
        
        What took you so long? -- nm - Strongbad May 31, 03:48
        
        624 billion million minutes in Netflix! -- nm - Qale May 30, 19:33
        
        I don't know if that's a bigger burn for pollsters or Nielsen. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:06 1
        
        Exactly. -- nm - David May 30, 19:07
      - unless SCOTUS gives him a get out of jail free card, he's gonna die in prison -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 18:57
    - this is like Doyle Brunson folding every time some online clown fakes his way to the final table just because he caught a lucky flush on the river one - hollywood big shot May 30, 18:49 1
      - Exactly! You get it! -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:01
I shouldn’t have gone to Twitter tonight. Sooooo much crazy. - kelly May 30, 18:46 3
- Or, you know, any night. Or day. (NM) - Marlowe May 30, 19:14 2
  - Bluesky has lots of posts of happy animated dancing animals. - Dark Callisto 🦊 May 30, 19:19 1
    - That’s every day there! It’s a social network filled with trans folks and furries! -- nm - Qale May 30, 19:34
Chicago Bears on Hard knocks -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 30, 18:41
Thx TWolves Future is there tho -- nm - budice May 30, 18:40
Never Forget? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 18:39 1
- 😄 It's wonderful! -- nm - Krusty May 30, 18:44
How will Mayor Bass respond to this one? Metro driver's bus is attacked by a would-be passenger because she wouldn't let him in between stops. She - Meg May 30, 18:30 2
- buses are even more wild-west than the trains. drivers generally don't even try to enforce the fare rules b/c they'll just catch hands or worse -- nm - reagan, prolly May 30, 18:32 1
  - The drivers are much more vulnarable. When was a train operator ever attacked - just other passengers. -- nm - Meg May 30, 18:41
Meanwhile, Biden has untied Ukraine's hands -- (link) - Reagen May 30, 18:13 1
- Denmark. Sweden and France already gave their permission and Ukraine already started -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 18:15
Trump trial—Juror #2’s only source of news, is on Truth Social—and THAT person voted to convict… -- (link) - Trending May 30, 18:09 4
- Clicking through shows what Elon wants trending. -- nm - David May 30, 18:41
- Legal pundit said a lone hold out rarely gets to hung jury, but if you have an ally, then you can hold out. - zeitgeist May 30, 18:13
- I've read that this was a red herring - they just did so to see what crazy shit Trump was posting. -- nm - Reagen May 30, 18:11 1
  - I'm pretty sure that the person said they got their news from several outlets and one was Twitter reposts of Trump's truth social posts. -- nm - pmb May 30, 18:18
NBC News - within moments of the verdict Trump's campaign website crashed due to volume. -- nm - Meg May 30, 18:08 1
- Oops, that's his 'donation' website. -- nm - Meg May 30, 18:25
Luka on course for 80pts -- nm - budice May 30, 18:05 1
- "sure Dallas, you can have this one. as a little treat" -- nm - reagan, prolly May 30, 18:08
sorry, kaitlan - don't wanna listen to him [switch] -- nm - mud May 30, 18:03 1
- You would think he would rise up in full satanic oratory to inflame his minions, instead he sounds like.. - zeitgeist May 30, 18:08
And in the end, when the dust settled, America realized it was saved by a porn star. -- (link) - Snoopy May 30, 18:01 1
- They just took what I said and added Snoopy! -- nm - David May 30, 18:03
Has the internet broken, yet? -- nm - VMan May 30, 18:01 1
- It's flowering in full summer glory - zeitgeist May 30, 18:02
Luka taking it under advisement -- nm - budice May 30, 18:00
Put it in the Louvre -- (link*) - Reagen May 30, 17:59 [Image] 4
- That's a worse exit than his Tulsa rally disaster when tiktokers reserved most of the tickets, remember that sad walk from the chopper across the WH l -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 18:04
- awww -- nm - mud May 30, 18:01
- "Other than my own actions, what did I do to deserve this?" -- nm - David May 30, 18:01 1
  - This one will never get old. -- nm - Tim May 30, 18:20
hate it when I agree with David Frum but when he’s right he’s right -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 17:59
on the even brighter side, in two weeks there will be another Inside Out in theaters -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 17:40 1
- and Meg LeFauve is having a group meetup at El Capitan opening weekend - hollywood big shot May 30, 19:09
Welcome to Derry: Bill Skarsgård to Reprise IT Role as Pennywise -- (link) - Remlik May 30, 17:35
How much is 0 divided by 12 times 34? That's a lot of not believing a dude is innocent. (NM) - Marlowe May 30, 17:21
Also, I am dumb and for some reason thought this trial was civil, not criminal. -- nm - ty97 May 30, 17:17 1
- In your defense, the former POTUS is on trial so often that it's hard to keep up. -- nm - David May 30, 17:35
Here's a definitive answer from the Orlando Sentinel on whether Trump can vote. - David May 30, 17:17 1
- Yup, pretty much what I posted earlier. Had he had a felony rape/sexual charge, he would NOT have been able to vote. -- nm - JaxSean May 30, 18:58
By going 0-34, Donald Trump is now qualified to catch for the White Sox -- nm - budice May 30, 17:13 2
- Or umpire in place of Angel Hernandez? -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 17:35
- I just saw that I was cracking up -- nm - Remlik May 30, 17:15
“I wish you well” -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:51 1
- Heh -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 30, 17:49
I don’t spend enough time there to bother changing it, but I do wonder how long the tv in the first floor vending area has been set to Newsmax. -- (edited) - znufrii May 30, 16:48 5
- burn the place down on the way out the door -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 30, 17:57
- Uhh, that's not good. -- nm - David May 30, 17:55 1
  - I never see anyone sitting in there watching, so I think someone changed it during the pandemic and no one ever cared enough to change it back since. -- nm - znufrii May 30, 19:53
- Just saw the news on the backboard -- congrats!! -- nm - Fuzzy May 30, 17:53 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - znufrii May 30, 17:55
has anyone done a wellness check at Fox N***? -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:44 5
- Deadline has video of them reading the verdicts live. You can hear weary sighs in the background. -- nm - David May 30, 17:51 1
  - ha ha -- nm - nelson May 30, 17:52
- This is their chance to lead—gotta rip Trump and start getting their Republican base out of the far right boonies -- nm* - Trending May 30, 16:48 2
  - real Fox N***: remember Hunter Biden? -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:52 1
    - Who cares if Hunter goes to jail? He’s not President or running for president . It’s apples to oranges -- nm - Trending May 30, 17:11
I’m shocked. Can’t really explain it but shocked -- nm - ty97 May 30, 16:43 14
- I'm surprised. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 17:06 5
  - Really, truly, same. I excpected not guilty or a hung jury. - ty97 May 30, 17:08 4
    - I have no doubt he's guilty of at least some of the charges, I just didn't expect he would actually be convicted. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 17:34
    - I always thought it would be hard to find a jury without one MAGA person on it. That's the wild card. Also, hand it to the prosecutors. They did a - pmb May 30, 17:13 2
      - there was a big Trumper on Paul Manafort's jury and even she had no qualms about convicting his treasonous ass when all the evidence was presented -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 17:18
      - same -- nm - ty97 May 30, 17:15
- I thought he’d get away - ty97 May 30, 16:49 7
  - Kim will confirm that it was so unsurprising to me that I didn't even react. Juries find guilty people guilty the overwhelming majority of the time. - David May 30, 17:53 3
    - It's a puncture in his balloon of invincibility. - Reagen May 30, 18:03 2
      - but also Dems as a collective party have to actually treat it as such. instead we get Jen Psaki throwing her wet blanket on dunking the GOP over it -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 18:07
      - I mean, the 2020 election was that. He's taken L after L since then. - David May 30, 18:05
  - i hate to rain on your parade but 34 felony convictions is bad, actually, for someone running for president -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:55 1
    - I don't understand why you think you are raining on anything. -- nm - ty97 May 30, 17:06
  - I hear ya—definitely feels like it could go that way—people are overall rule followers and law obeyers—I think this has a chance to - Trending May 30, 16:54
DBacks-Zac Gallen left today after 6 pitches. Eval -- nm* - budice May 30, 16:38 2
- so now the Mets will do nothing against the entire Arizona bullpen! -- nm - Tim May 30, 17:07
- More like Zac Couple Sips, am I right? -- nm - Trending May 30, 16:42
Quebec billionaire Robert Miller arrested, charged with sex offences against 10 victims -- (link) - Beaker 🍻 May 30, 16:32
trump showing up to the june 27 debate -- (link) - budice May 30, 16:29 1
- Biden should present him with a pair of gold tone handcuffs the kind that will turn his wrist green -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 16:37
If news headlines were treated like movie box office records, where would you rank this for May over the last 50 years? -- nm - Max May 30, 16:26 6
- I was at work when the verdict came down: Building really quiet—some smiles, some people left in disgust and some were actually crying -- (edited) - Trending May 30, 16:41 2
  - CRYING?!!! -- nm - Pippy 🇨🇦 May 30, 17:54 1
    - (losers) -- nm - mud May 30, 17:55
- 1968 (the whole damn year); 73-74 (Watergate); 98 (Clinton impeachment); 2000-01 (Y2k, tech crash, 9/11); 2008 (Obama/mortgage meltdown); 2016-2024 -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:34
- Might not be top ten, after 9/11, Osama take down, columbine and other mass murders -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 16:30 1
  - for the month of May. As in the top May box office day record was in 2022 (Dr. Strange Multiverse) -- nm - Max May 30, 16:36
lotta takes just aged rotten -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:18 1
- "But if Monday’s opening is a preview of exaggerated allegations, imprecise legal theories and persistently unaddressed problems... - David May 30, 16:24 [youtube]
Shogun makes a good point -- (link) - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:16
He's now criminally inadmissible to Canada. Woo! -- nm* - Beryllium May 30, 16:12 1
- :-] -- nm - mud May 30, 16:13
Do we expect any jurors to be interviewed? give a heads up if you see one, I'm curious -- nm - Max May 30, 16:07 8
- vid: -- (link) - mud May 30, 16:12
- CNN said reporters are going to be all over them the next few days. I can tell you if it was me I wouldn't tell a soul. -- nm - pmb May 30, 16:11 5
  - Yup. I don't want to end up in court suing someone for slander for millions of dollars I'll never see. -- nm - Mop🧹 May 30, 19:12
  - This. For their own safety -- nm - decline May 30, 16:25 3
    - This. Can't wait till they start getting doxxed. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 17:06 2
      - .. really? -- nm - mud May 30, 17:53 1
        
        I am expecting it. Hope they protect themselves. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 18:25
- the Carroll judge strongly advised that jury not to, which they seem to have taken to heart. -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:08
Went to see if Mo Brooks had his primary yet. He’s not in office after losing the Senate primary. - Tim May 30, 15:58
DJT down 7% afterhours. -- nm - Reagen May 30, 15:57 3
- about $4 down right now -- nm - Peglegpete May 30, 16:10
- Last time I checked. Conviction also impacted access to credit amongst other business relations. Nobody wants to be tied to a criminal -- nm* - budice May 30, 15:59 1
  - should be barred from getting classified info briefings now -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:05
12 jurors just determined a porn star was more credible than a former POTUS. - David May 30, 15:52 9
- if the sentencing date holds (i think it prolly gets pushed) it will be handed down four days before the start of the GOP convention -- nm - hollywood big shot May 30, 15:58 8
  - the more you recall how close 2016 was and how this scheme likely tipped the balance, the happier i am if Judge Merchan throws the book at his ass - hollywood big shot May 30, 16:03 7
    - I'm gonna guess probation, first offense, basically minor...but...30 days for massive gag rule violations that endangered jurors -- nm - zeitgeist May 30, 16:28 6
      - I feel bad for the jurors—maga cult won’t ever do their civil war, but they have the harassment thing down to a science. I’d be super anxious if I was - Trending May 30, 16:37 5
        
        I'd immediately run for office -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 30, 16:39 4
        
        I suspect at least a couple will. -- nm - David May 30, 17:53
        
        I'd immediately try to disappear and move to a different country. -- nm - Strongbad May 30, 17:35 1
        
        the loons are coming for me regardless. might as well m ake hay while the sun shines and get that Govt Secret Service protection -- nm - Beaker 🍻 May 30, 17:50
        
        I’d vote for you 🗳️ -- nm - Trending May 30, 17:13

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