“As the shutdown drags into its fourth week, causing cascading impacts around the country, The Post reports that pressure is now likely to intensify on the Senate majority leader to allow votes on measures reopening the government. Three Senate Republicans have already called for a reopening, and as one GOP strategist puts it, a few more coming out “changes the calculus” for McConnell. Meanwhile, thanks to new reporting over the weekend, the basic question of whether Trump has at pivotal moments acted in Russia’s interests, to the detriment of U.S. interests — is being thrust to the forefront with new urgency. This should cause us to revisit the role that McConnell played during the campaign in preventing members of Congress from showing a united public front against Russian sabotage of the election.”
PSA, because I see this constantly in royalty aus and even published fiction: when a king/queen dies, the person next in line automatically becomes the sovereign. They don’t stay a prince/princess until the coronation. This is why people yell “the king is dead, long live the king!” It’s instantaneous.
“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle.
He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously.
Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles – kingons, or possibly queons – that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon.
His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.” -terry pratchett, mort
[I was very happy with the dinosaur exhibit displaying accurate dinos, and for having such an extensive section on feathered dinos and birds being dinos, and the evolution of feathers as a whole.]
shakespeare is not pretentious. fans of shakespeare are pretentious. shakespeare is twelve hundred dirty jokes strung together by increasingly ridiculous plotlines and increasingly homosexual characters. don’t let the archaic language fool you
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