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What Democrats say vs. what Republicans hear.

No lies detected.

Apt.

I will be forever flumoxed that Bill Maher even has a show on HBO.

Leopards eating leopards. 🙄

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Jay North, best known for his role as a well-intentioned, but often mischievous "Dennis Mitchel" in the sitcom, 'Dennis the Menace', died at his home in Lake Butler, Florida, after a years-long battle with colon cancer. August 31, 1951~April 6, 2025.

Clem Burke, drummer for the band Blondie, the Romantics, Chequred Past, and the Ramones, has died of cancer. November 24, 1954~April 6, 2025.

So many great and awesome things come from Canadia. 🇨🇦

At the end of March, Myanmar —a country in the midst of an ongoing civil war — was hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that has killed over 3,300 people. While three U.S. aid workers were on the ground in the country actively involved with aid efforts, they received word that they were being let go.

As one example of the fallout from RFK Jr’s cuts to federal health agencies, a planned FDA exercise with a network of veterinary testing labs around the country to ensure they’re able to detect bird flu virus in milk has been suspended, due to elimination of the agency's food safety lab in Illinois.

I saw this and snort-laughed pretty hard.

We are witnessing the moral moment: Americans: #HandsOff Canadians: #ElbowsUp Standing up for democracy, intellectual freedom, integrity of law, research, science, health care, education, the arts, social security, media. And on guard for Canadian sovereignty. 🇨🇦 Hope on both sides of the border

Hands-off protest sign in San Francisco, April 5, 2025. 🙂

If all it took was trans people existing for you to turn into a Nazi, you were already a Nazi.

IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social