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Baby in the Pelicans baby race whooped everyone's ass (inset video from Will Guillory twitter.com/WillGuillory...)

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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Sign of the day…

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I keep hearing people say Trump is dumb for firing immigration judges just as he’s trying to dramatically ramp up deportations. It’s only dumb if you assume they plan to respect due process for those they deport. I think “ominous” is the better word. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/m...

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when gwen stefani said “this shit is bananas” my first thought was “hold up. how do you spell that”

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Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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This.

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The biggest line item on the site of Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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This meeting could have been a riot

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It shall be fickle, false, and full of fraud

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Arrest them. Seize their assets. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide

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Did you know that if you unravel the human digestive system and lay it in one straight line, you lose your job at the mortuary.

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This is America.

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NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

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“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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The Eagles said “Fuck the White House. We ain’t going” Bruh…. How do you suppose to not like that team? For the one time, Go F*cking Birds

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Dramatically yanking the tarps off my guillotine collection

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Its 2027. A group of ragged children is skipping rope. Dirty and ill-fed, they chant “one, two, three, four, five, how do you think that you might die? Measles, polio, Covid, flu. TB, strep throat, malaria, too”

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Childish Gambino voice: Gulf of America

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[leaning over to my seatmate in a nosediving passenger jet] you like string beans? guess what! thanks to donald trump's policies, they're about to get more expensive. donald trump promised to lower the prices of string beans, but he didn't. now you'll have to pay more for string beans than ever befo

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My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

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They're supposed to just not let them onto the bus

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There it is

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Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

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here’s to hoping I will not be too much of a dumb fuck today (morning prayer)

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tried to log off but some 20 year old tesla employee showed up with a badge and said i must witness the horrors

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if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

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404 Media has obtained audio of Elon Musk's AI ally and the manager of government coders, in which an employee refers to one of his plans as "illegal." 🔗 www.404media.co/things-are-g...

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If you're protesting tomorrow: "I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present." MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

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I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

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Bluecheck Junta

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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The only motivation for this is that there’s been too many early positive results and the conservative movement needs big city chaos to survive, so this policy has to go.

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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

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a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy is that i'm getting emails from my kids' schools assuring me that the teachers are dedicated to protecting my children against the federal government

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Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity Trump: Trade war! Colombia: OK Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights Colombia: Good. Was that so hard? Trump: They gave in!

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