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So the Fort Knox thing is a hardy perennial right-wing conspiracy theory. They had to let in a congressional delegation in 1974 because of an earlier round.

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Everyone excited for this year's WHCA? It's gonna be so cool!

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maybe now's the time for the Vatican to escape their gerontocracy idk

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If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

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At this point, wondering what the odds are that Democrats could actually flip all three special elections and suddenly have a House majority.

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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started reading Borges's EL LIBRO DE ARENA and naturally went to his Wikipedia page and fell into the rabbit hole and found this tale of a quack selling thermonuclear fusion to Perón in 1948

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I feel seen.

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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With the exception of Nicola Sturgeon, former first minister of Scotland, not one cisgender woman leader anywhere has talked about going through the menopause transition. Do you know of any?

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On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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A more effective action would be if everyone with a retirement or investment account makes sure to divest it of all TSLA shares and demands S&P499 index funds or ETFs be offered — i.e. S&P500 minus TSLA — because, as is, if you have S&P you’re an Elon investor.

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The goal must be a society that is progressive enough that conservatism becomes ethically permissible. A conservatism of maintaining virtues rather than maintaining hierarchy. A conservatism that goes after gambling and cigarette companies instead of women and minorities. We must bring it into being

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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"damn, lady, you're too corrupt for us to defend"

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We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

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WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

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I've cleared weeds in the backyard for four straight days Please clap

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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Full recording is up here: youtu.be/zC5I2oSJaMU?... Question at 1:01 is especially good

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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tired: wikifeet wired: luigifeet

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ayfkm just the laziest writing in the latest season of this reality show we're in

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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This is the way

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