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We hold these truths to be self-evident: Women are equal to men. Gay is equal to straight. Cis is equal to trans. Indigenous is equal to non. Top is equal with bottom.
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LIVE: Pope Francis has died at age 88 https://twp.ai/4ilcCX

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Nope, looking side-by-side photos of the same object from the Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes will never stop being cool. Take this photo of Messier 104 ("The Sombrero Galaxy") - amazing in both optics. 🧪

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BREAKING: There was a second Hegseth group chat?!?

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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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"I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again"

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The UK and the US are becoming a very particular kind of “poor country”. Not poor overall in the big league tables, but in a situation where the average citizen lives in poverty. And if that doesn’t motivate you to change things, I don’t know what will? From @dannydorling.bsky.social’s book.

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A recent study found that U.S. butterfly populations dropped by 22% in just 20 years. Learn more at www.sciencefriday.com/butterflydive

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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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I referenced this yesterday.

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Yes! It's good. membership.theonion.com

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👇🏽

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Potential #birdoftheyear candidate!

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@altnps.bsky.social is reporting more than 3 million so far and numbers are still coming in!! 🤝

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An illustrator's happy accident: "Spilled Ink Kittens" by Japanese artist Avagadoo #caturday #art #illustration

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Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...

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#NoKings

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substack.com/@tristansnel...

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Actress Holly Robinson Peete, the mother of a 27-year-old with autism, says RFK Jr. "got everything wrong when he said that autism destroys families." "I simply can't imagine being HHS secretary & speaking on autism so negatively... If you're going to talk about us, you need to learn from us."

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On the bright side—at least farmers won’t have to suffer through all that “socialist” government money anymore.

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Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return from his fourth trip to space on Saturday night. Here are some of his most stunning photos of the cosmos. Details: cnn.it/4iqYemP

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Maybe RFK Jr. should trust scientists and studies verses his magic 8 ball. youtu.be/-ibXDDDqpHA?...

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

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This is a nice thread about The Onion. Thank you for saying nice things, and I can confirm the premise: If you pay your staff well, and you allow them to do what they're great at, it works better than chasing algorithms. The art is better, the truth is found easier, and—bonus!—the revenue is better.

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... For context: Vance, a Catholic convert, instead met with the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and the foreign minister, Archbishop Peter Gallagher, on Saturday.

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Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money. Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?) Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia. Columbia: OK, here you go. Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money. Harvard: No. Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.

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Before I go into today's dystopian nightmare, let's take a minute to bring down your blood pressure. Here is one of my favorite creatures, the #RedPanda. Enjoy. #nature #animals

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Happy #Easter

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theblop.org

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We will not give up on Brittney and Donk being reinstated Sorry, I’m late but not feeling too well Connect with each other and support each other go.bsky.app/8jPre4f

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Kev @57kev.bsky.social great new Starter Pack go.bsky.app/FYwnob

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You remind me of another absolute badass woman that history will never forget! ✊(We need black emojis!!!)

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Thanks to @meidastouch.bsky.social for sharing stories of the resistance on both sides of the border. #elbowsup

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I can't do anything for this girl in life, but I can help give her final wishes a little push. She wanted a loud death, let's make it deafening. 📢 "If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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