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I have no interest in wealth. I just want to build enduring, open platforms for Agriculture. ->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<- PhD plant physiologist, LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids #trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution
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Through May, Baltimore has recorded 54 homicides, the fewest through the first 5 months of a year on record. The previous low: 65 homicides, in 1977. At this point in 2022, just three years ago, there had been 138 killings, and in 2017 there had been 146 people killed.

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I respect this account's consistent and pure hatred for a certain southern German automaker

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BREAKING: Faith-led Moral Monday protesters — including Rev. William Barber — have once again been arrested while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, this time including several wheelchair users. The group is decrying cuts to healthcare programs in the GOP budget bill.

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As a former long-time resident of DC who lived for a time on the east side of the Creek, sometimes on the west, a frequent marathon-trainee through the park (top 10 in-city forest, hands down), probably hundreds of hours exploring ... THIS IS FUCKING NUTS HE SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR CHILD ABUSE

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The slowest part of using an e-bike for most of my commuting needs is finding a way to trigger the lights so I can cross Glenoaks without getting pancaked by three BMWs at once, all black, all with opaque tinted front windshields. Thanks Burbank!

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I will maintain forever that this generational labeling nonsense is just another kind of horoscope

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MacGruber (the film) has aged incredibly well

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This is incredibly sad. I’ve worked with GISS folks since the mid 90s (with an admittedly long hiatus)

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Cucumis metuliferus, the African horned cucumber, is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family, Cucurbitaceae. Its fruit has horn-like spines, hence the name "horned melon". The ripe fruit has orange skin and lime-green, jelly-like flesh.

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When I was a kid in the early 80s, we got cable (HBO). I didn't see "Apocalypse Now!" or "10" until later, but both films were on all the time, and I'd see this image in previews, and I thought when Martin Sheen came out of the water it was Bo Derek.

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The credibility of tech leadership in this country took tremendous damage after this latest, massively Dunning-Kruger'd, techno-fascist-data-theft-national-security-threat catastrophe. Should be an eternal (subject to repentance) sign of shame around the necks of any tech leader who supported this.

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This is destruction of our cultural inheritance, an inheritance that our very recent ancestors worked extremely hard to build ... using post-WWII money & leverage like we'll never see again. Cultural inheritance is tactile, can't be shoved in a bottle, can't be rebuilt from scratch from an LLM.

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Newsom is a self-preserving reactionary asshole

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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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Wow nice photo op!

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You know what protects people from dangerous heat waves? Legalizing infill homes along the coast so people don't have to move into the Central Valley and Inland Deserts. Saves farmland and wildlife habitat, too. Go out and push for SB79

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Incredibly compelling article. The Silicon Valley-Executive Branch alliance is the greatest contemporary threat to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in the US (and probably globally, too).

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World-historical fuckup is also a dead-beat dad!

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"see you in hell in a gasoline suit"

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I can't wait for Marco Rubio to add this anecdote to his standard story about how his family fled Cuba to find freedom in the USA.

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that's the face of a man who can't pee right

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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If attempted, this would constitute flagrant violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

hey, brother, can you spare some normalcy?

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