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The tornado-warned supercell just west of Atoka, OK at around 3:20 p.m. this afternoon. Not to shabby for a day I wasn't planning on chasing...but in what felt like the blink of an eye, there were like 10 tornado warnings all around us without a tornado watch even being issued lol #okwx

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Anakin Skywalker and Mace Windu walk into the movies together… Last night, Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson surprised fans celebrating the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. www.fandango.com/star-wars-ep...

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You can’t outplay someone who built the table you’re bluffing on.

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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

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if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean

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The life-sized Xanathar puppet inside the ‘DUNGEONS & DRAGONS’ experience at Universal Fan Fest Nights in Hollywood.

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Healthcare settings have a duty to mitigate COVID. Patients shouldn’t be infected in the place they go to seek care. What about HCWs? A new study showed 40% had symptoms of Long Covid. This is a mass disabling event. It’s creating chronic illness patients, while taking HCWs out of the workforce:

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Democrats don’t have to win in rural America,” Johnson said. “They just have to get enough of the rural vote to allow their advantage in metropolitan areas to produce a majority. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024...

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Oh. One more thing

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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Senator Jon Ossoff: “Fear is intentional—to silence dissent and make people afraid to exist. Civil rights are eroding at a pace unlike anything in American history.”

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Bunny Bread

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Saw this on another site and had to share. Sad but true

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ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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Lab-grown teeth, which can be intergreted into the jaw, are another step closer to reality. www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-te...

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This is how you accurately write a headline. Rolling Stone gets it.

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#caturday

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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

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Report commissioned by main US pharma lobby warns 25% pharma tariff would add $51 billion a year to US drug costs . If fully passed on, tariffs would boost US drug prices by 12.9% www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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LIBERALS: for every one of us sitting at home and not voting on Monday, there will be three Cons waiting in line to vote. This is not a drill.

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Time really IS just a construct, cause tf you MEAN this dropped 31 YEARS AGO TODAY!??? What an album. Had to be there. No skips. Crumblin Erb and Git Up, Git Out still get HEAVY rotation. Crumblin Erb gotta be one of the most perfect songs in hip hop. Flawless.

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Welcome, @katiephang.bsky.social!

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The power of the people is always greater than the people in power.

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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

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At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

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Happening now: a crowd of protesters is growing outside the FBI's Milwaukee Division office in St. Francis, Wisconsin. People are demanding charges be dropped against county circuit judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested Friday. She's accused of helping a man evade immigration agents.

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34 years ago today, 'Dinosaurs' premiered on ABC. (April 26, 1991) 🦖🦕 Created by Michael Jacobs and Bob Young. Voice cast: Stuart Pankin, Jessica Walter, Jason Willinger Sally Struthers, Kevin Clash, Florence Stanley, Sam McMurray, & Sherman Hensley. [📽 via The Jim Henson Company] #OTD #OnThisDay

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