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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Garrison Keillor | A June Wedding in a Faraway Village



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Garrison Keillor | A June Wedding in a Faraway Village 
Garrison Keillor on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, near his bookstore Common Good Books in 2014. (photo: Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press)
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "We came to Portugal knowing only the words for apology (desculpe) and gratitude (obrigado) and were stunned by the beauty on every hand, the seaside city of Porto on the river Douro, the narrow twisty streets and red tile roofs over skinny passageways into stone-paved courtyards."
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Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill near the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)

Federal Judge Rules Against Border Wall Construction With Military Funds
Barbara Campbell and Bobby Allyn, NPR
Excerpt: "A federal judge in California has blocked President Trump from using $2.5 billion in military funding to build a southern border wall."
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Voters at a polling precinct. (photo: Getty Images)
Voters at a polling precinct. (photo: Getty Images)

Electoral Map Bias May Worsen as US Gerrymandering Battle Shifts to States
Joseph Ax and Andrew Chung, Reuters
Excerpt: "The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that federal judges have no power to police partisan gerrymandering - the practice of manipulating electoral district boundaries for political gain."
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ICE agents make an arrest. (photo: Getty Images)
ICE agents make an arrest. (photo: Getty Images)

ICE Arrested Activist Just Hours After He Recited a Poem Criticizing the Agency
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "A Bakersfield College student was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 36 hours after he recited a poem criticizing the agency at a public event, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Southern California."
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Jon Stewart helps Luis Alvarez, Detective (Ret.) and 9/11 Responder, New York Police Department, as they are sworn before testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on the need to reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund on June 11, 2019, in Washington. (photo: Jack Gruber/USA TODAY)
Jon Stewart helps Luis Alvarez, Detective (Ret.) and 9/11 Responder, New York Police Department, as they are sworn before testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on the need to reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund on June 11, 2019, in Washington. (photo: Jack Gruber/USA TODAY)

NYPD Officer Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder Who Testified Before Congress With Jon Stewart, Dies
David Ushery, NBC News
Ushery writes: "Luis Alvarez, the NYPD detective who used his final days to plead with Congress for more benefits for 9/11 first responders, has died, his family said Saturday."
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A photo handout showed five of the jets flying above the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar. (photo: FS)
A photo handout showed five of the jets flying above the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar. (photo: FS)

US Deploys F-22 Stealth Fighters to Qatar Amid Iran Tensions
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "The United States has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran."
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Bill Wehrum. (photo: WP/Getty Images)
Bill Wehrum. (photo: WP/Getty Images)

EPA Air Quality Chief Resigns Over Ethics Investigation
Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "So little time, so much damage done. That's the legacy left by Bill Wehrum who spent only one and a half years as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) top air quality official before announcing that he will step down this weekend under the cloud of a federal ethics investigation over possible conflicts of interest."
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