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🍃 🧪 Good news for climate change report

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

Resiliency is the way forward. A community has a scale of structure and skills that no loner or family can match. Have a skill or skills you can share for mutual benefit. Be mensch not schmendrik. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Yup, I think #LarryDavid got it just about spot on... #BillMaher

Memo to @nbcnews.com, @cbsnews.com, @npr.org, @nytimes.com, @apnews.com:

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party is shutting down as Beijing leaves no room for dissent www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/a...

Geography lesson at today’s Pro-Due-Process rally.

Kamala Harris: “he’s a fascist” Gen. Milley: “he’s a fascist” John Kelly: “he’s a fascist” Historians of fascism: “he’s a fascist” The NY/DC political media: “how did we all fail to see that Donald Trump was a fascist?”

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#LockHimUp

The Republican attempt to steal a state supreme court election, explained www.vox.com/scotus/40866...

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on my knees begging Target to reinstate the DEI policies. please. Costco is too crowded now 😭

Need a Republican Party catchup? Here you go. 2001: “I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” 2025: President Musk and his barker Donald Trump wreck everything. Literally everything.

well if there is one thing whose awesome power republican presidents respect and are powerless in the face of it's a central american nation's national sovereignty

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This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

This is a very good point actually! The Québéc pension fund is a major player in financing projects with high upfront capital but high long-term benefits. Similarly vested American vehicles would make it *significantly* easier to fund similar projects Stateside

What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

He did it because those tux-wearing bastards never once said "thank you."

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

"First, there’s the Espionage Act, which sounds like it applies only to spies. But there’s a provision in the law that applies to the SignalGate chatters, even if they were all legally entitled to the information. That’s because they have a custodial duty to keep national security information safe."

Ha!! Seen in Greenland. 🤣🤣 #MAGA

NEW: CT AG just responded to my request for comment. "The Office of the Attorney General does not believe it is lawful or appropriate for the government to use its law enforcement authority to control the financial decisions or policy choices of private universities.”

Who made this? 😂🥴😂

Important point Politico’s reporting makes on the Hegseth breach: “The revelation comes just days after the Defense Department promised to crack down on leaks, after multiple news outlets, including POLITICO, reported that the Pentagon was planning to give Elon Musk a military briefing on China.”

All you need to know about Twitter

When you see something you were not supposed to see

Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

i used to believe it was against the law to break the law, feeling pretty silly about that now

Call a rabbit a rabbit, and people see an individual. Call a rabbit a "test subject," and suddenly, their mind disappears. Language shapes perception - and the industry exploits that 🐇 ko-fi.com/post/How-L...

A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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