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Translated from the original German

Fathers of the year and non-fathers of the year all have the same constitutional rights

Can’t believe I blagged an exclusive interview with Katy Perry!

Every time I think I've bounced back from "Nothing can redeem humanity..." You bring me back down here...

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

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Study Finds Cats Only Meow When They Want To Alert Owner Of Neighbor’s Murder They Witnessed Through Window theonion.com/study-f...

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

If you're a 70-something-year-old man and you're constantly talking about how well you did on a cognitive test, you might not be very cognitively aware.

The Black woman VP answered a Lester Holt question in a way inside-the-beltway folks didn't like. The white man VP just tweeted that he doesn't believe in due process. Which do you think will get more outrage from our national political press?

“The world is now seeing Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule of law and other constitutional American principles and values.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

Um... I may have accidentally done this... (Actually no, Talin on the other place is about to release the code for exactly this)

I remember a few years back there were 2 Amazon sellers that ended up listing some textbook for like a million dollars because they had a bot which looked at the price the other was using and automatically raised theirs slightly, and it just kept going up and up Mentioning for no particular reason

owning a small business in 2025…

Been thinking of old Letterman clips for some reason.

Anachronym Challenge xkcd.com/3075

Going to be remarkable to see the speed with which the rest of the world figures out how to get by without the United States.

We hit post scarcity on food ages ago. Sadly the rulers don't want this. We could both feed the poor and generate income with luxury foods like the below. Don't settle for less, let's pull ourselves together!

Yesterday the Oval Office.

The system isn't broken. It was built this way... Stop putting rich white men in positions of power!!! For fuck sake.🤦‍♀️

FACT: Medicaid covers nearly half of all childbirths in the country, and around two-thirds of nursing home stays. FACT: Roughly 1/5 of America relies on Medicare or Medicaid to cover healthcare costs. FACT: GOP members just passed a bill requiring DEEP cuts to these programs. #HandsOffOurMedicaid

Kid Rock makes music for dudes who are only allowed to see their kids on weekends, but don’t ! 😂😂😂

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CHIEF PALEONTOLOGIST: So I need a name for this giant prehistoric shark GARY: How about Megalodon CHIEF: That's a badass name ME: *crumpling my note that says 'Sea-Rex'* Fuck you Gary

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

I must be broken. I ended up killing my "listen to it again" brain cells at 19... and now have a NEED for new music every 15 seconds. XD

Last wish

Today I visited the Archaeological Museum of Athens, and reading all these stories of flourishing civilizations that were lost in anti-intellectualism before disappearing, I came to the same conclusion as usual: we must better finance schools and open books. 🙏

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"