Did you know that the scientist Glenn Seaborg played such an important role in Presidential history?

Don't Take The Bait. That's Mostly What It Is.
I am channeling my inner Andy Rooney for this VERY short diary, and am delighted that the Image Library is here to help yet again. Did ya ever notice how, right after the Democrats pull off something absolutely remarkable, this strange thing happens...
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Here's a Summary of the Crimes Trump's Lawyer Tells the Supreme Court He Has Immunity to Commit
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by News Corpse 86 comments 129 Recs
Russian stuff blowing up: Death toll for Russian officers reaches 4,000
This is a great post to start off with. “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” It isn’t graphic, but it was tagged private so I can’t embed it, but this is the Troll of the Year. Superb. *chef’s kiss* Edit: Found one that will embed: I...
by quaoar 29 comments 161 Recs
ALITO: Immunity for Exiting Presidents is Justified as They Might Cling to Power in Response. WHAT?
Reading a brief Raw Story breakdown of some of today’s arguments from the justices in the never-should-have-been-taken-up-in-the-first-place immunity case, this quote from Alito leapt out of my screen like a rabid dog: “A stable, democratic society...
by Munchausen 45 comments 71 Recs
"He Wrote All of it Down" - Prosecution has Weisselberg's Handwritten Notes, Spelling Out the Scheme
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PWB Theme Thursday: This is Your Cat on Catnip
Hi everyone! 4/20 fell on a Saturday this year, so I didn’t get to use some memes I’d saved just in case (because looking at a calendar never occurred to me...)�Plus I found this on the-site-...
by userexists 150 comments 85 Recs
One underappreciated effect of the fake elector cases
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by justin423 111 comments 541 Recs
Thank you from Ukraine!
I just want to say thank you from Ukraine to every US citizen and every friend of Ukraine all over the world who took action and made this critically needed military assistance package possible. Thank you for every call and email to your congressman,...
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Biden sets rule to end coal-fired power plants and creates one-stop shop to speed power-line okays
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Gateway Pundit Declares Bankruptcy **UPDATED**
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Once again, I apologize for my Dyslexia.
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The Republicans Make a Shocking Discovery. The Car is Radioactive.
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Here's a Summary of the Crimes Trump's Lawyer Tells the Supreme Court He Has Immunity to Commit
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Russian stuff blowing up: Death toll for Russian officers reaches 4,000
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Cartoon: Captain Nemo of the Formicidae
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Mom’s For Liberty 3.Oh No!
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PWB Theme Thursday: This is Your Cat on Catnip
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FANA Appoints Gerren O’Neill Ambassador to Monaco (Monte Carlo)
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	I am not interested in Glenn Seaborg. He was a nuclear shill.
7%	4 votes
	Glenn Seaborg was clearly a communist, since he was an admirer of Nikita Khrushchev, Stalinist pig.
1%	1 votes
	Glenn Seaborg hardly deserves consideration since he began his working career packing fruit crates.
0%	0 votes
	Is it really true that the first Einsteinium to be recovered was found in the debris and fallout from the
3%	2 votes
	I have no interest in people who traveled in the same circles as Marilyn Monroe.
1%	1 votes
	I have no interest in people who traveled in the same circles as the East German spy Ellen Romisch.
0%	0 votes
	The limited nuclear test ban treaty was a communist plot.
1%	1 votes
	If Glenn Seaborg was so great, why did he dress up in a monkey suit and climb the Empire State Building?
7%	4 votes
	NNadir is stupid. That wasn't Glenn Seaborg in the Monkey suit. It was Robert McNamara.
3%	2 votes
	NNadir is a liar. King Kong's attack had nothing to do with the Kennedys. It was a Roosevelt era act of terrorism.
5%	3 votes
	Glenn Seaborg was a Republican.
0%	0 votes
	Seaborg a Republican? You have to be kidding. Did you read what he wrote about the Nixon adminstration?
0%	0 votes
	Um, Seaborg served in the Nixon administration, more or less subject to Henry Kissinger's political judgement.
0%	0 votes
	Nixon tried to manipulate Seaborg into representing that Seaborg supported Nixon in the 1950 Douglas-Nixon Senate race.
0%	0 votes
	Glenn Seaborg was a great chemist, a great Democrat, a great American, and a great human being.
64%	33 votes

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