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Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINII! youtu.be/41Ea6cUt658?...

If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum

“If the president does it, it’s the law.”

Double.

“And now that some of us have outlived our political utility, they’re more than happy to throw us to the wolves.” First off, lol. Second, very curious who Reid thinks the wolves are.

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

Misrepresents. Or in other words conflicts with the national hagiography, and gives the MAGA sads.

To be clear, they’re talking about sites like Black Elk Peak, which were, after decades of pushback, were given an indigenous name after originally being named after a man who the Sioux called “Woman Killer”

Steve Bannon literally wants to destroy democracy and replace it with an authoritarian state, and anyone who is involved with him is complicit in that project.

Southern Baptists, motivated by their success in overturning Roe V.
Wade, are now looking to overturn same-sex marriage. If you didn't see this coming, you haven't been paying attention.

Oh.

Under the globally recognised Peelian Principles, the key difference between police and the military is that policing is done with the consent of citizens. How can a nation continue to give consent if police shoot unarmed women with rubber bullets for asking to go to their own homes? #Fascism

Funny for the Day…

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

This is a glorious thread from the great master.

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

One of my dream jobs but my wife and friends think I would be terrible.

Plus there's the dilemma about who should get the medal: the shameless doctor or the athlete?

QUOKINFO The quokkas would like it be known that HMAS Bouncer The Dog is not peacekeeping in the US. THe quokkas are too busy laughing their cute, apex predator faces off with colleagues on HMNZS Pingu the Penguin, HMCS The Littlest Hobo, eh? (NCSM Le Vagabond) and HMS Paddington Bear.

Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINII! youtu.be/pBkZ7KVU8G4?...

Poor little baby! www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Before his Nazi vanity parade, the Trump administration sent a message to the troops.

C' était Paris en 1970 (Concours FNAC) 📸 Gare de Belleville-Villette dans la petite ceinture photo d' Alain Beloeil 1970

Great King Keir Mon Amun As Senal Morning and Evening Star Lord of the Great Paperclips of the Nile.

"We overcame the Pharaoh, we will also overcome Keir Starmer" is a quote for the ages

Let me just stop you there Stephen Miller… The reason that cancer rates are far higher in the developed world is because people live long enough to get it It’s not because illegal immigrants are picking your fruit you daft twat This man exudes hatred

Interesting report. Seems to be the core is the same, society has made it too expensive to be young, too expensive to have a family, If the politicians want more babies, they need to pony up the money. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please don't post any videos from the shooting in Graz.

In 2020, two men made an “Earth Sandwich”. One was in New Zealand and the other in Spain. At the exact same time, they each placed a slice of bread at precisely opposite points on the globe. This created an Earth Sandwich with 12,724 km of planet Earth stuffed between the two slices of bread.