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Today on Pod Save America I talk to Alex Wagner about all this degueulasse. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Roxane Gay on the Myth of Civility
Podcast Episode · Pod Save America · 10/05/2025 · 1h 1m
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October 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today on Pod Save America I talk to Alex Wagner about all this degueulasse. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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This video is amazing.
This is Mark Rober, who is my kids’ favorite celebrity (and the only person they’re allowed to watch on YouTube).
May 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This video is amazing.
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There's always a tweet.
May 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
There's always a tweet.
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This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
From the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast interview Episode 1431, May 1, 2023. In discussion of depression. Thoughts on this: only light is something (energy), darkness is nothing; the absence of light is all it is. Don't give it power; seek (and hold out for) THE LIGHT.
April 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast interview Episode 1431, May 1, 2023. In discussion of depression. Thoughts on this: only light is something (energy), darkness is nothing; the absence of light is all it is. Don't give it power; seek (and hold out for) THE LIGHT.
"The de minimis exception has allowed for packages valued under $800 to come in to the U.S. duty-free." This will end.
"Starting at 12:01 a.m. on May 2, carriers will either have to pay a 120% rate on the package or a $100 package fee. On June 1, that fee will jump from $100 to $200." USA TODAY
"Starting at 12:01 a.m. on May 2, carriers will either have to pay a 120% rate on the package or a $100 package fee. On June 1, that fee will jump from $100 to $200." USA TODAY
April 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"The de minimis exception has allowed for packages valued under $800 to come in to the U.S. duty-free." This will end.
"Starting at 12:01 a.m. on May 2, carriers will either have to pay a 120% rate on the package or a $100 package fee. On June 1, that fee will jump from $100 to $200." USA TODAY
"Starting at 12:01 a.m. on May 2, carriers will either have to pay a 120% rate on the package or a $100 package fee. On June 1, that fee will jump from $100 to $200." USA TODAY
50 years ago, Elvis performed 'Burning Love' in front of 10,000 San Antonio fans www.mysanantonio.com/entertainmen...
50 years ago, Elvis 'stunned' 10,000 San Antonio fans to 'silence'
It was one of the first times that Elvis performed 'Burning Love.'
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April 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
50 years ago, Elvis performed 'Burning Love' in front of 10,000 San Antonio fans www.mysanantonio.com/entertainmen...
April 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Musk routinely denigrates federal employees, and is turning the public sector into a toxic workplace. But you can't criticize him: Musk is using AI "to scan through agency communications to find any anti-Musk, anti-Doge, or anti-Trump statements.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Federal workers fear Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency is using AI to spy on them: ‘They are omnipresent’
The billionaire’s Doge may be secretly recording meetings in at least two agencies, according to emails from senior officials
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Musk routinely denigrates federal employees, and is turning the public sector into a toxic workplace. But you can't criticize him: Musk is using AI "to scan through agency communications to find any anti-Musk, anti-Doge, or anti-Trump statements.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives.
Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.
Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.
April 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives.
Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.
Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.
Republican commentator David Brooks said after the White House mistreatment of the Ukrainian president on Friday. “I was nauseated; [...] today was the bottom of the barrel, (acting) vilely to a man who is defending Western values, at great personal risk to him and his countrymen."
March 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Republican commentator David Brooks said after the White House mistreatment of the Ukrainian president on Friday. “I was nauseated; [...] today was the bottom of the barrel, (acting) vilely to a man who is defending Western values, at great personal risk to him and his countrymen."
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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.
Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.