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How come you only hear about last ditch efforts? Shout out to everyone givin' effort on the first few ditches and whatnot.

It’s definitely possible. And in NC it’s presumably constitutionally required.

“The General Assembly shall provide that the benefits of The University of North Carolina and other public institutions of higher education, as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the State free of expense.”

I’ve never seen a president so determined to starve Americans.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year.

We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.

Excellent summary of what is happening to the US

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

(It’s also our kid’s birthday)

Smoking on planes was still a thing. Truly awful.

it's very hard to distinguish between Trump's cognitive decline and his cognitive never-having-inclined

They are horrible... but also so very strange.

In this beautiful world of sunsets and kisses and flowers, good food and good drink, laughter, tears, and smiles, they insist on spending their single precious life deciding who gets to be human and who doesn't.

Tragic, ugly, and just SAD. A waste.

Giving a fuck about too many things is a recipe for living a shitty life and having poor relationships. You gotta pick a solid 10 hills to die on and less than 10 is ideal.

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Rev William Barber giving a rousing speech in Durham, NC

Special guest in Durm

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

Keeper of the Flame (1942) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama, Mystery 1h 40m | Approved

Relevant again

www.imdb.com/title/tt0034...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

History repeats.

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I’ve noticed sprint commitments leading to blame and pressure, not partnership and progress.

Fish Buttholes May Be The Reason We Now Have Fingers, Study Finds The reason we humans have fingers today may all be thanks to a fish's clacker.

Sometimes we lose sight of the important things

www.sciencealert.com/fish-butthol...

Still angry about the not-yet-born people who are going to die younger than they would have otherwise because we just abandoned R&D funding for one of the most-promising medical technologies of my lifetime

bsky.app/profile/laro...

TV graphic showing Harry Potter, wing for the Australian national rugby union team, has scored a try against New Zealand.

Five points to Gryffindor

a cartoon of spongebob with a bucket on his head that says cb on it ALT: a cartoon of spongebob with a bucket on his head that says cb on it

It does get old

@PeteHegseth on X: Cool story, General QT of @general_ben on X: July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

Is it also true for Trump, who also did not pick Pete?

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

I also whacked Paramount