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100 years ago today a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”
May 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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April 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.

Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!

NO.

Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.

PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.

This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!
April 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.
April 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Everyone now and again I will see someone use the phrase "woke mind virus" seriously and I will wonder what it is like to be them, and to have a head full of rancid pudding where a brain is meant to be
April 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today.

This season of renewal invites us all to believe in the triumph of light over darkness, life over death, love over hate.
April 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?
April 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.
April 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Good morning 💙💛
April 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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👇🏽🤷🏻
April 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"Y'all, what's the big deal about a president honestly and candidly saying he wants to violate the Constitution? You need to chill. Authoritarianism is no biggie when it's done candidly with a smile!"
Leavitt: "Look, you guys continue to ask the president about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile, and then everybody here melts down about his answer."
March 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I need every single Democrat to find a way to be disruptive like Cory Booker is right now. Loooooove to see it.
April 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Fixed
March 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Well, they lied. Obviously.
March 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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TIME MAG has a piece by a reporter embedded at the El Salvadoran prison who watched as Andry, a gay asylum-seeking Venezuelan barber they said is a gang member but is not, was slapped and screamed for his mother as they held him down.

Horrific.
time.com/7269604/el-s...
March 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?

From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:

“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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It is human trafficking.
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
March 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For the record, when I say things like, "I'm so sick of Democrats," I'm never including her.
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.

My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.

I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
 
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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The first amendment is under attack. This concerns us all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
March 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM