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Here’s what happened to that oft-repeated Star Wars refrain, “I have a bad feeling about this”, in the opening scene:

The original lines for the following are:

Palpatine: He is a Sith lord.

Obi-Wan: Chancellor Palpatine, Sith lords are our specialty.

…and here’s the subbed/dubbed version:

And during the lightsaber fight between Count Dooku and Anakin:

Here’s the first of a set of highlights from the movie…

…and here are more: part 2, part 3, and part 4. I think they all make the prequels a little more bearable.

May Force be you travelling alongside with for great fortune!

You could say the same for Portland.

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It’s a gorgeous morning here in Tampa — hope your “Hump Day” is going just as well!

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A lot of what you need to know about the mentality of Trump’s base appears in the final sentence of this New York Times article on the government shutdown’s effects on people who voted for him:

“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” That person voted for Trump to not to bring themselves up, but to bring others down — a particularly toxic, violent, and even deadly form of “crabs in a bucket” thinking. The Atlantic was right: The cruelty is the point.

Recommended reading

• Vox: “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud
• Anil Dash on Twitter: “The wild thing is, for all their exhortations to listen to Trump voters, major media almost never actually reports on the fact that they consistently, loudly, unapologetically want violence. They think hurting people is good, and somehow all the sympathetic profiles won’t say it.”

I have better things to do than watch a falsehood-filled speech by Trump, but I will be reading the New York Times’ summary and fact-checks later.

Recommended reading

• Fast Company: To keep track of Trump’s lies, play Border Wall Bingo
• ACLU: A Look at Trump’s Biggest Border Lies
• CNN: Jake Tapper debunks Trump’s ‘wall of lies’
• USA Today: 9 facts you should know about the border before Trump addresses the nation
• New York Times: On the Border, Little Enthusiasm for a Wall: ‘We Have Other Problems That Need Fixing’

Thanks to Cameron Barrett for the find!

I’m posting this photo for no other reason than it’s one of my favorites of Anitra and me.