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This is TERRIFYING. The NWS & NOAA have already been notoriously understaffed in recent years. But now they want to close down the two major locations for running models and collecting & interpreting radar data. NO HYPERBOLE: SHUTTING DOWN THESE NWS OFFICES WILL KILL PEOPLE.

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I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year." It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.

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"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.

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"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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Nothing to see here

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Twitter is evil. Get off if you possibly can, friends.

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"Skinny Legs and All" was published my senior year in high school. That book completely changed how I viewed the world. 35yrs later, I still re-read it every other year or so.

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Reminder: behind every brand social media account is a real person. And behind that person is a legal department saying "Please don't post that”

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Why is the media like this?

submitted 54 days ago • 1819 comments

I see no way to stop this so now I’m just wondering if we shouldn’t be flooding the space with useful nonsense: Supporting universal healthcare makes your dick bigger. The fastest way to grow your wealth is prison abolition. Alpha grind mindset means gym, protein maxing and reversing Citizens United

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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

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The state of media for Americans is so completely broken

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In his 1792 tract “The Rights of Man, Part 2,” Thomas Paine proposed a graduated tax in which the top marginal tax rate would be 100%. He pegged that top income at £20,000 per year. That would be roughly $4 million in today’s money.

submitted 89 days ago • 35 comments

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

submitted 97 days ago • 86 comments

Solid point.

submitted 98 days ago • 17 comments

Are you tired of greasy pots and pans? Stubborn kitchen stains? Messy sponges and sprays? Me too. I wish the sun would devour the earth.

submitted 107 days ago • 22 comments

Kids go running for the rich taste of Gamera.

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A reminder that just because a policy is popular doesn't make it right.

submitted 101 days ago • 16 comments

On this day in 1988, "Mystery Science Theater 3000" debuted on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis. MST3K's first eppy covered "Invaders from the Deep."

submitted 102 days ago • 43 comments

If you're singing in public for any reason and not replacing 'eyes' with 'thighs' in the lyrics, you're just wasting everyone's time.

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no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

submitted 105 days ago • 204 comments

Doesn't ring a bell. But add it so the alien loves to eat cats and that's a show I would watch.

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There are few sports situations I love watching more than NFL in the snow.

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📺On November 17, 1973, 'Schoolhouse Rock's' 'Conjunction Junction' first aired on ABC

submitted 109 days ago • 20 comments

A 5-year-old stomped into a restaurant in a princess dress, held up her arms and shouted "I'M HERE." I just hired her to be my life coach.

submitted 110 days ago • 18 comments

Vaccines work—thread:

submitted 111 days ago • 28 comments

If you want an idea of how crazy RFK Jr. really is, give this a read. If he’s n charge of HHS, the nation will be in peril. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 112 days ago • 30 comments

Introduce yourself as a TV character

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Gonna start a cheesy 70's yacht rock cover band - but we all wear animal costumes. Gonna call it Furry Manilow. Who's with me?

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Hark, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is totes adorbs. - Trevor Shakespeare

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There should be a Pulitzer for satire www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her...

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In 2005, a Jewish family was forced to flee their home after challenging their local school's policy of requiring Christian prayer. A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"

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