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Watched our two favorite NBA teams play at Gainbridge Fieldhouse last night. Charlotte 133, Indiana 109.

If you'd told me 10 years ago that I'd turn into a basketball fan as I approached 70, I wouldn't have believed you. But my mom did the same; she became a ferocious UConn fan at that age!

The sources of Epstein's money have always been murky. I think we're going to find that a lot of it came from sex trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering, and blackmail.

The guy seems to have been one of the very few criminals who actually was a mastermind.

We're already experiencing a brain drain of graduate students, postdocs, and health care providers.

That whirring sound is Vannevar Bush spinning in his grave.

He has to fake human emotions, because other than rage, he doesn't have any.

An influencer who actively rejected medicine and became a shill for wellness scams sounds just about right for RFK Jr. and his band of charlatans. Ugh.

(Great username, BTW! We need a mantis emoji!)

I'm tired of purity tests. Seriously. There's not a Republican in the wings who comes close to any of the Democratic prospects. Please stop goading people to shirk voting. It's destructive.

Stop it. Just stop.

That too.

THANK YOU. I'm tired of the Kamala-bashing. She galvanized her party when she rose to the top of the ticket. She may or may not be the best candidate for 2028, but our enemy is the GOP-centered disinformation machine, not a previous candidate.

It's the horrific but logical conclusion of the prison-industrial complex.

No one but Netanyahu can stop the Gaza genocide.

A lot of horrifying and disgusting stuff will eventually come out of the Epstein files; predictable, because that entire operation was horrifying and disgusting.

I've seen satanic panic over this stuff. Hold off on rumors, and don't attribute to demons what human creeps can do on their own.

It was especially frustrating because she was in so much pain that she was effectively housebound. There are medical professionals in the family and they were all seriously worried that she'd never regain her mobility. For someone otherwise healthy but 90+, that's life-threatening.

Property taxes are local issues, not federal issues. Trump is just blowing smoke out of his cloaca as usual.

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President Michael Crow of ASU emphasizes that inclusion is in the University charter.

#AAASMeeting2026

“Our voters are pro-science voters.” — Mayor Gallego of Phoenix, AZ.

@AAASMeeting2026

It took 5 months of hoop jumping for my MIL to get a minor revision of a knee replacement. She’s older so the diligence was reasonable—but every one of her appointments added a month’s delay.

She’s fine now, fortunately.

But he watched "War Dogs" three times! 😂

It's obvious but still striking to consider that we have a United States government driven solely by one man's emotional dysregulation and dysfunction.

DHS itself was a political-theater response to fear. We already had law enforcement and military capabilities to handle threats from within and without. DHS was redundant from the start.

If a staffer to any other POTUS had done that, that staffer would have been fired on the spot.

I obviously don't believe for a moment that it was a "staffer," but if it was, it was someone who thought it would please the boss.

That sounds delicious! (The samosas and spicy sauces, not the snow!)

And if a WH staffer DID have access to the account and was responsible for posting racist content--and wasn't immediately fired--that's a mark against Trump for hiring and retaining racist idiots.

Of course, we all know that being a racist idiot is a qualification for working in the Trump WH.

"Fake" outrage when the POTUS puts brazenly racist images on his own social media accounts?

Of course, I wouldn't expect Karoline Leavitt to know fakery from reality.

Too many people don't understand the math. No vaccine is 100% effective, and the risk of being exposed to a disease depends heavily on how many people are spreading it. That obviously means that vaccinated people can occasionally get infected. It also means that herd immunity is a real thing.

I'm pretty liberal, but my requirements for supporting a politician are fairly broad. They have to be reality-based responsible adults who reject bigotry, understand how politics works, are transparent in their dealings with others, and ask (not tell) constituents what they want.

Awww. I think they should name ALL the urinals in national parks after Trump! And the toilets too!

Drunk or sober, many things taste good when dipped in buffalo sauce!

I really hope the families of ICE agents are thoroughly ashamed of them. I'm sure that at least a subset are.

Also, ICE lured applicants in with the promise of big money. Few read the fine print--it's not a lump sum. I expect an internal ICE revolt at some point.

Well--no, it's not a crime to "party with Mr. Epstein," but it sure as hell is a crime to lure teenage girls to the "party" and then rape them.

These people are beyond redemption.