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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

Long live sandwich guy!
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MAYBE THE NATIONAL GUARD SHOULD BE STOPPING TRUMP FROM LITERALLY TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE?!?

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

I'm hardly "notable" but I am part Italian, and agree heartily with this assessment.

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

Speaking as a Gemini... Yeah, that's accurate. :D

Rosie the Ribbiter

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and an illustration of Teddy Roosevelt clubbing someone over the head.

Crunt [krunt]
(n.)
- A blow on the head with a club.

Used in a sentence:
“Elbert, having been the unlucky recipient of a crunt during yesterday’s ballgame with the neighborhood boys, awoke to find a most inconvenient lump he’d soon have to justify to his fretful mother.”

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

An Ai picture of Epstein holds a card saying don't get distracted

They are going to make this kid out to be leftist whether he is or not. They cannot risk ruining this lightening in a bottle martyr-narrative.

Worker pruning eggplant plants

"Yadi" shared this pic from where he was hard at work pruning eggplant plants in CAs San Joaquin Valley. Highs hit the high 90s on this day. He told us despite the temps he worked 8 hours and earned minimum wage. #WeFeedYou

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally dismissed large numbers of probationary employees earlier this year a victory for the labor unions and nonprofit groups that brought the case.

California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

Have you heard the good news?

California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient.

This article made my day!

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Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave

This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House.
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I saw those and debated getting one. I was afraid it would not taste as good as I remembered.

Sure thing, let me just call up my sister. We'll get right on it.

I won't speak for the OP, but most of the people who I know that are boycotting Amazon and/ or Whole Foods are doing so because Bezos is one of the gazillionnaires who have bought our government. Also he doesn't pay anything resembling his share of taxes.

With the SAVE act passing through the house I would like to remind everyone that it took the Taliban only 3 years to ban women from speaking #waronwomen #SAVEact

This is every business right now wether they admit it publicly or not

2025 Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute We invite you to attend the Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium, an event that celebrates the life and contributions of a remarkable figure in the field of statistics. This symposium will […]

Heads up for any Boston/Cambridge skeeps(?), I'll be talking at the Zelen Symposium at DFCI tomorrow on the success and challenges of climate modeling, in a program on data-related controversies... ds.dfci.harvard.edu/event/2025-m...

Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson | Substack A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. Click to read Letters from an American, by Heather Cox Richardson, a Substack publication with millions of subscribers.

Facebook started taking down posts of historian Heather Cox Richardson, a national voice. This is outrageous! You can follow her here on Bluesky. But, to see her wonderful posts at Letters From an American, you can subscribe at this link. There is no paywall. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Farm workers installing an irrigation system

Did you ever wonder the work needed to prepare a field before the crop is planted? Farm workers are hard at work in this Kern County CA field digging trenches to install an irrigation system. #WeFeedYou

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Chris Kridler and Alethea Kontis, sitting in a library, surrounded by snapshots from their previous years' storm chasing adventures

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