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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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April 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It’s Amazing What White Evangelicals Are Willing To Ignore….
April 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

This is what "merit" means to them.

apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
#Connections
Puzzle #612 - the closest I’ve come to not solving it.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Government workers when DOGE shows up.
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Okay okay okay.

NOW is the winter of my discontent.
February 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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There is still beauty in this world
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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If you went back in time and told the Founding Fathers that in 2025 a South African billionaire will be running the country, they would say "What is a billionaire? We have not invented big numbers yet".
February 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I’m just trying to figure out this app.
January 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM