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8:30 pm...always seems a lot later..in November...than it does mid-June. It's exactly the same..it's just darker at 8:30 pm in November.
Remember that. We're just living in the darker part of things right now..but...we're still living. The light..will come back around. We'll still be here. We will.
Remember that. We're just living in the darker part of things right now..but...we're still living. The light..will come back around. We'll still be here. We will.
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
8:30 pm...always seems a lot later..in November...than it does mid-June. It's exactly the same..it's just darker at 8:30 pm in November.
Remember that. We're just living in the darker part of things right now..but...we're still living. The light..will come back around. We'll still be here. We will.
Remember that. We're just living in the darker part of things right now..but...we're still living. The light..will come back around. We'll still be here. We will.
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Some good news about Eastern Australian humpback whales.
These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Some good news about Eastern Australian humpback whales.
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WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
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Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"
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That rage you feel, as you watch the White House get leveled? That's how we beat Trump. Harness that, refine it, find ways to get other people equally enraged. Get them so mad they can't see straight. None of this kumbaya BS. White-hot, unreasoning anger, that demands the people who did this PAY.
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
That rage you feel, as you watch the White House get leveled? That's how we beat Trump. Harness that, refine it, find ways to get other people equally enraged. Get them so mad they can't see straight. None of this kumbaya BS. White-hot, unreasoning anger, that demands the people who did this PAY.
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He's not just tacky and tasteless. He's a monarchist, and so he's desecrating our iconic national symbol of having a republican head of state. Any of the Founders would have immediately clocked his Oval Office as vulgar Versailles wannabe crap, wholly incompatible with American norms and values.
August 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
He's not just tacky and tasteless. He's a monarchist, and so he's desecrating our iconic national symbol of having a republican head of state. Any of the Founders would have immediately clocked his Oval Office as vulgar Versailles wannabe crap, wholly incompatible with American norms and values.
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New study finds climate change contributed to ~15,000 premature deaths from wildfire smoke from 2006-2020, including 7# in Cuyahoga County.
Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Climate change contributed to 15,000 wildfire particulate matter deaths in the United States between 2006 and 2020, with a cumulative economic burden of $160 billion, according to observation-based mo...
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New study finds climate change contributed to ~15,000 premature deaths from wildfire smoke from 2006-2020, including 7# in Cuyahoga County.
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this is how the american economy is going to work for AT LEAST two entire years
a man in a white shirt is making a funny face with his mouth open and his arms outstretched .
Alt: guy jokingly pretending to kill himself
media.tenor.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
this is how the american economy is going to work for AT LEAST two entire years
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This is a little embarrassing
April 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is a little embarrassing
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Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
apnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
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In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse
April 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse
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This is not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf with some fairly minor genetic modification to exhibit a few (presumed) dire wolf traits.
Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
April 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf with some fairly minor genetic modification to exhibit a few (presumed) dire wolf traits.
Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
April 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
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Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics.
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
April 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics.
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology.
Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders.
And then it all becomes clear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
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My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.
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Judge Boasberg just ruled against the government again, and note this point: The Venezuelans designated "alien enemies" actually get due process, and Trump doesn't get to merely declare them alien enemies by fiat. Remember, Rubio is fully on board with this abuse of power (see below).
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Judge Boasberg just ruled against the government again, and note this point: The Venezuelans designated "alien enemies" actually get due process, and Trump doesn't get to merely declare them alien enemies by fiat. Remember, Rubio is fully on board with this abuse of power (see below).
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"A very strong vetting process" is not the same as legal recourse or due process. For example, Jews selected for labor details or gas chambers went through a very strong vetting process.
Asked about people who say they aren't criminals or gang members who were on his rendition flights to a slave prison in El Salvador, Trump claims, "I was told they went through a very strong vetting process."
March 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"A very strong vetting process" is not the same as legal recourse or due process. For example, Jews selected for labor details or gas chambers went through a very strong vetting process.
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Here's a gift link to it so everybody can read your interview
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defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector
In 2006, by the time scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form shel...
defector.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Here's a gift link to it so everybody can read your interview
defector.com/an-interview...
defector.com/an-interview...
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Thanks @sabs.bsky.social for a fun conversation and for telling my story!
I spoke with Sarah Cooley, the director of NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program, who was fired under the DOGE layoffs, about all she hoped to accomplish before the wreckage of NOAA
defector.com/an-interview...
defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector
In 2006, by the time the scientist Sarah Cooley finished graduate school in marine science, oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest had already begun dying mysteriously and dramatically—unable to form ...
defector.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Thanks @sabs.bsky.social for a fun conversation and for telling my story!
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I just sell cars and love everyone!
March 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I just sell cars and love everyone!