Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

...aaaand Melissa has just tied Hurricane Patricia for the most intense tropical cyclone ever measured by satellite, anywhere in the world.

T8.4 = 182kt

Here's the global top-10 list of the satellite era (from Velden 2017):

A) all Tik Toks can be seen on desktop without the app.

B) do not ask journalists or anyone else to hunt down alternate formats.

C) Tik Tok—at least until Ellison/Andressen controlled it—is no more nefarious than any other platform. They used that excuse to take it over.

Apparently spotted in SF 🫡

Looking forward to the new animated series Frog & Chicken, about two lil inflatable buddies just running around Portland shaking their stuff at bullies.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ?

Then releasing it as if they discovered it ?

Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me.

Very Trump like too.

Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

Trump isn't even in office yet & we're already talking about letting him bypass the Constitution as though that's a normal conversation to be having.

Smokey Says: Only YOU can #resist Fascist Dictators. #AltGov

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