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Mentally Orbiting | Stevie Lyn (@mentallyorbiting) on Threads Not gonna lie - the outfits had me thinking this was a video from 2008… cried harder when I found it this is today 🥹

President Obama greeting veterans from an honor flight arriving in DC and thanking them as they disembark.
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Ruining the classical music workplace Practice est. 1098

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November 10, 2025 Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.

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Earth to Democrats: Do NOT compromise on your shutdown demand Democrats have no discipline. Republicans are nothing but discipline.

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Time well spent! | Joe Fenti | 366 comments Time well spent! | 366 comments on LinkedIn

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Democrats Are So Angry, One Senator Faces Blowback From Her Daughter

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Robert Reich (@robertreich) Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —no...

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November 9, 2025 In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...

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Remember them. The @democrats.org who betrayed the American people.

YouTube video by Legion Magazine Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine

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24 million will lose ACA.

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How about the 24 million who will love coverage? Coward.

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Should we call you Neville Chamberlain?
Traitor.

After the Dem Sweep: Talking with G. Elliott Morris My polling guru on what just happened.

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This is really long. Krugman interviewing Morris, a pollster and strategist about the election Tuesday. Debunks some the false beliefs people have about how the Democratics should run on moderation to get elected. Tuesday kind of proved that wrong.
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The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy Consider the following sentence: “This statement is false.” Is that true? If so, that would make the statement false. But if it’s false, then the statement is true. This sentence creates an unsolvable...

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Henrik Blix (@henrikontheweb) on Threads Things are getting scary #politics #nyc #mayor #comedy #jokes #democrat #republican

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November 7, 2025 The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.

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YouTube video by CBS Evening News 6-year-old steps up after axolotl lab lost funds: "Not a lot of people get how important it is"

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HCR explaining what Schumer did.

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What Is a Manifold? | Quanta Magazine In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

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#aiethics #privacy #datagovernance #digitalpolicy #metaai #cybersecurity #airegulation #techaccountability | Clara Hawking Just in time for the holidays - Meta is gifting us something we didn’t ask for. Starting December 16, every “friendly” chat you have with Meta AI across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Snap Inc., w...

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November 6, 2025 “None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.

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The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think | Quanta Magazine Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.

The idea that depression stems primarily from a lack of serotonin has lost much of its support. Scientists are rethinking the causes — and definition — of the illness.

YouTube video by Vashik Armenikus UMBERTO ECO: WHY YOUR UNREAD BOOKS DEFINE YOU

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Daniel Valdez (@danielvaldez66) on Threads 😂 The Late Show has obtained Taylor Swift’s unofficial response to Donald tRump. Please watch it until the end; it’s pure gold, LOL.

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November 5, 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.

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