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The slipper limpet begins life as male and turns female. "The slipper limpet normally lives in stacks of up to 12 individuals, with the largest at the bottom and with increasingly smaller individuals stacked on top of one another.

"I'll tell you what, do not doubt and do not second-guess and don't ever challenge the president of the United States, Donald Trump."--Mike Johnson, 6/6/2025. This is very bad. This is not what democracy looks like. No kings!

The administration has a secret Department of Government Inefficiency. It finds the most disruptive way to do anything. Don't develop a five-year phased plan to transfer emergency management to the states. Instead, celebrate the start of hurricane season with "Surprise! No FEMA!"

According to New York Magazine, Trump's aides never told him about the "TACO" acronym. His fury at the reporter was because he didn't realize that the reporter was asking him a legitimate question about an acronym in wide circulation, and thought the _reporter_ was _personally_ accusing

BLM: "Black lives matter." Flip rebuttal: "All lives matter." Joni Ernst: "Lives don't matter."

Matt Levine: "The legal problem with President Donald Trump’s tariffs is that the United States has a Constitution, and the Constitution says that Congress has the power to impose tariffs and the president doesn’t. This is not some weird technicality; this is just what the Constitution says.

King James version: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,