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Following on from the great news this morning that a flamingo egg has been laid, Director Nick captured this great video clip clearly showing the egg on the nest. The female parent is called 'Penelope' and the male is 'Colin' named after the characters on ‘Bridgerton’.

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Rep. Green Commends Rep. Thanedar's Articles of Impeachment and Vows to Sign on to Them. Watch the clip of Rep. Green's floor speech by clicking here: youtu.be/EoaR6dQ8ZXg

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Sunrise moments ago from the summit of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park. A beautiful reminder, as Earth Month comes to an end, of why we need to preserve & protect our National Parks & our natural areas. @capitalweather.bsky.social

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CBS News quietly updated their story. I still don’t understand how WaPo could’ve reported it first if I was the one who “uncovered” it, but I guess it’s an improvement.

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Today: There is a preliminary injunction hearing in the lawsuit against DOJ from FBI agents who worked Jan. 6 cases. They want to keep their names private, fearing retaliation by Trump's mob et al. Case goes before Judge Cobb. Then, at 3, Sen. Judic Cmte holds a hearing on Jan 6 pardons. More soon!

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This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.

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You know, Russians torture journalists, return their bodies without eyeballs, bomb children's cancer centers and hospitals - and then put on Italian suits, speak in English from the UN podium, passing themselves off as civilized people with whom you can do gas business and discuss Dostoevsky... 1/2

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Finding myself randomly humming Battle Hymn of the Republic

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#polin questions Is Lord Debling an earl, baron, what is he When is Luke N going to get more recognition for what a great job he did in the season

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SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

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This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.

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Congrats to @petridishes.bsky.social! Well deserved, this book is hilarious.

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Awful story. Don't know if it's the case here, obviously, but we're going to see more reporting about ICE chasing bad leads -- wrong addresses, people with similar names and birthdates -- because the DOGE chuds are mashing together databases that weren't built to work together.

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From a skin-and-bones calf spotted alone during the drought, to one of the Nursery’s loudest voices — Weka’s journey is remarkable. Today, this feisty, but increasingly nurturing young elephant is thriving among friends and never misses a chance to announce herself at milk feeds: swt.bio/weka

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Dear god let this man cook.

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This whole enterprise of not trying to defend the actual proposition but instead that it merely has "room for legit debate" is deeply anti-intellectual. You can debate whatever you want, even if you're egregiously wrong. It's 'just asking questions' sophistry dressed up in a scholarly pretense.

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Congrats to Canada on picking a Liberal government and rejecting the stink of Trumpism! Elbows up!

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The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

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Everything I know tells me this is anti policing. Cops don’t need to be unleashed. We need to be better at solving violent crime by building solid felony cases. We don’t need military equipment or assistance because we aren’t at war with our neighbors. t.co/FmTFk7Wyde

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Neil Gorsuch told some of the most obvious, farcical, easily debunked lies I can remember a justice telling. I promise you could spend an hour trying to guess what he says is a picture of a “sex worker” in a children’s book, and not get anywhere close. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...

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i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'

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if you are at all curious about why and what effect this might have i wrote a book about it :) bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

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Gerry Connolly will take a step back and no longer be acting as Ranking Member of the House for the Democratic Party.

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April 28, 1925: The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts is ceremonially opened in Paris. The showcase for the world's best examples of modern design will give rise to a new term taken from the French "arts décoratifs:" Art Deco. 1/6

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So last year NYC Mayor Eric Adams was indicted for accepting bribes from the Turkish government to ignore the Armenian Genocide. lamag.com/news/feds-ny...

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The lesson of the last quarter-century of American policymaking, if you're a peripheral state, is that you can only escalate if you're America's most precious and special boy

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It’s the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. If you’ve never watched the HBO series “Chernobyl,” I highly recommend it. The story is true, the acting is phenomenal, and the Soviet mid-1980s aesthetics are on point.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs

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the TL;DR version of this thread is, don't expect this recession to look like the last ones, especially the parts where regular people got any help. we don't have any first-term president trying to woo voters. From the beginning* of this engineered crisis, we have heard "expect pain"

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I'm 1/2 European, which part has to go

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Prosecutors have been illegally eavesdropping on Luigi Mangione’s calls with his attorney.

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Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.

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BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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"EXCLUSIVE: Dem Voters Overwhelmingly Say US Should Cut Aid to Israel Until It Stops Attacking Civilians" From Palestine to economics, a new poll from Data for Progress and Zeteo shows likely Democratic primary voters prefer a more progressive approach.

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The more contact I have with these people at the local level, the more obvious it becomes that grifter culture is PERVASIVE in conservative circles. Everyone is both grifter and mark, all the time, so telling them that they collectively need to root out the grifters makes them worry you mean THEM.

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I think the main reason that 50% of all Democratic voters, along with dozens of countries who have filed interventions at the World Court, think a genocide is happening in Gaza is the behavior of Israeli forces in Gaza, the stated intent of Israeli leaders, and the sheer glee they've expressed.

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Before whatever is about to happen happens: There will be a lot of reporting and commentary about executive orders. Much of that reporting, at least initially, will regurgitate what the White House says the orders do as opposed to what they can actually do based on the text and controlling law.

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a gen x classic rewritten for the times🥲

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A $5000 discount on having a baby is pretty good, that way raising your kid will only cost a very affordable $295,000

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What the US stands to lose as a nation is our place in the world as #1 funder of biomedical research, holder of the most research patents, 🔬draw for the 🌎 top talent,👩🏽‍🔬 top thinkers, and top producers of discovery and innovation 🧬. Our research at world class universities is the envy of the world. 👇

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