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JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

JD Vance had the #water level of a lake manipulated to accommodate his vacation plans.
It's not always the big corruption stories that rankle.

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Vance: Kash how to you get your eyeliner to look so natural, it always clumps for me

Patel: I’m . . . My family is from India, JD. This is how I look.

Vance: [recoils]. Oh God not again

Pathetic, contemptible failure of elites, everywhere you look.

man this is embarrassing

Screenshot of an NYT excerpt reading "Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old known as Big Balls and a member of the Department of Government Efficiency, was beaten in an attempted carjacking in Washington, prompting President Trump to renew his threat of a federal takeover of the city. In a social media post, Trump shared a photo that appeared to show Coristine lying in the street bleeding, battered and shirtless."

If you tried to describe this to someone from 2019, they would assume you were having some kind of acute mental health crisis

It seems fairly clear that Donald Trump thinks gravity makes water flow "down" from the Pacific Northwest to California, because there is absolutely no system that connects the water in Oregon and Washington to Southern California.

Personally, I prefer minimalist maps, so my approach might be something like:
1. Render the key items (faults, water, and mines) appropriately.
2. Drop everything else.
3. Add back any necessary context.
4. Iterate as necessary.

Released on this day in 1985: Rum Sodomy & The Lash #ThePogues
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Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Welsh BDSM 2. Tower of Norse Shit 3. Glittering Maze of Drones

Transmission #53322 from NROL-129 (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. Welsh BDSM
2. Tower of Norse Shit
3. Glittering Maze of Drones

When I say “trust the process,” this is the process I’m talking about

so if anyone does not recognize the name, this is probably the most famous living mathematician on earth. you basically fund his group to pay salaries and random shit like MRI machines becomes several times more efficient, like magic.

a model baseball player front and back wearing the uniform of the kansas city royals. the player is wearing a black balaclava-style mask. the back of the uniform is blank with no name or number. the front of the uniform is the normal Kansas City home uniform. the back of the uniform is blank. there is no number on the front of the uniform. the idea is you can't tell who the player is!

What if we all wore ICE-style masks as we went around doing our business.

If a baseball player's uniform didn't have a number or name.

Let's all be anonymous. It's very practical, we don't want to get doxxed either!

"Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The System has no such thing. We must not allow The System to exploit us. We must not allow The System to take on a life of its own. The System did not make us: We made The System."

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A scientist who was working in California’s Half Moon Bay yesterday sent this video showing an otherwise imperceptible indicator of the tsunami: pelicans being pulled backwards away from shore.

NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trump’s proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.

I mean I don’t think it’s a very plausible interpretation but I don’t think you’re evil or a moron if you disagree with me, but the people mad at me definitely think that if I don’t agree I am a huge MAGA racist.

I am SO close to agreeing the American Eagle ad is about eugenics, if just a few more socially adept and charismatic people yell at me about it I will definitely be over that line

This man has no understanding of small “d” democratic principles or of small “r” republican principles. This ostentatious display at the president’s home hearkens back to the monarchy from which we declared independence.

This is true across the board, in all parts of American society. But more specifically, I continue to be dismayed & ashamed at how few of our university leaders & our very senior & most prominent disciplinary colleagues are speaking out against this.

170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

Creepiest part of all this is it genuinely seems like the most intimate friendship he’s ever had

I regret to inform you Elon made a good post, and not just because of the subject matter. It's not great, but it's good and it's the equivalent of Elon working with a lighter after trying to rub two sticks together for the last decade of posting

I would be so embarrassed if people caught me at a Coldplay concert.

At first, looked like Epstein on the jumbotron but the girl was too old.

Geological map of the California Mother Lode region with different types of bedrock denoted with pale colors.

This is fantastic—a map of a narrow strip of land cut into sections & stacked on top of one another. And that logotype! collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commo...

“How am I supposed to explain to my child that Elmo doesn’t use two-factor authorization?” Colton Horn, Rottweiler Advocate

Hacked Elmo Account Posts Antisemitic Messages
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Trump in 2017: It is my pleasure and honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve