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Every republic walks a line—liberty for the vulnerable or power for the mighty. NPR, PBS, and WCPE keep me steady. Gardening grounds me; naps keep me honest. FWIW, I've risen to my level of incompetence. Proceed with caution.

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What is the nuclear bag for?
YouTube video by Horizon What is the nuclear bag for?

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25.11.2025 02:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ImpeachTrump

25.11.2025 00:27 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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a black and white photo of a person holding a snow globe with a skull inside of it . ALT: a black and white photo of a person holding a snow globe with a skull inside of it .

Not a chance. Not even on his deathbed.

25.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And for the rare earths, and to restore the oligarchs’ property portfolios, and to keep the Monroe Doctrine’s ghost well-fed.

24.11.2025 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Short legs? There's a solution.

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In 2024, 45% of women voted for Trump. Whatever the configuration of one’s gametes, decision-making seems evenly distributed.

24.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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the blank document heckling me

24.11.2025 11:15 — 👍 56    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0
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Poll: 56 percent of Americans don't want Arabic numerals taught in schools A recent poll from CivicScience asked Americans whether or not Arabic numerals should be taught in school, revealing what the CEO of the company is calling “the saddest and funniest testament to Ameri...

Published May 22, 2019
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/poll-56...

24.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 0

Not a doctrine — a deal.
Intervention when convenient, profit when possible.
MAGA brands it America First, but it’s just transactionalism.
The coherence? Pure Trumpian word salad.
Certified Fresh.

24.11.2025 01:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Honestly surprised — figured kids would’ve been Blue Lagooned by the internet already.

24.11.2025 01:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We are not a serious country anymore.

24.11.2025 00:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This strikes me as finance-bro humor with a side of cherry-picked statistics for flavor. He's just playing to the crowd.

23.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nickname: Mozzareli

23.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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23.11.2025 22:28 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

A playlist with nothing but sea shanties would add to the vibe.

23.11.2025 22:28 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re a village. We understand.

23.11.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Celluloid Heroes
YouTube video by The Kinks - Topic Celluloid Heroes

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23.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I hear that Catturd and Libs Of TikTok are getting all triggered because Mamdani is going to force NYC schoolkids to learn Arabic numerals.
Well isn't that just tough?? 😎
Suck it up, Loomer!

23.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 36    🔁 1    💬 8    📌 2

You were this close. Should’ve said 6–7, like the kids do these days. 🙃

23.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But microscopes do introduce artifacts, distortions, and false positives from lens aberrations, staining artifacts, diffraction patterns, noise, and sensor bias. That’s why the user still has to apply judgment.

23.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man in a brown jacket says with great power comes great responsibility ALT: a man in a brown jacket says with great power comes great responsibility
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a woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope with the nbc logo in the corner ALT: a woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope with the nbc logo in the corner

Does this microscope care about cells?
What say the biologists about confusing a tool’s limits with a user’s intentions? (Weak analogy?)

23.11.2025 20:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An opportunity missed...

"Bless your heart, but nobody rigs their bathroom scale heavier just to dial it back on a second weigh-in and brag they “lost” weight. Tariffs don’t help folks; rolling them back just fixes a problem you created."

23.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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two men are standing on a set of stairs and one is saying " no " ALT: two men are standing on a set of stairs and one is saying " no "

Welcome to porch-swing & sweet-tea paternalism. To Northern ears, his answer has that unmistakably Southern rhetorical glaze — a folksy metaphor, a soft cadence, & a polite deflection wrapped up like it’s doing you a favor.

23.11.2025 19:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

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23.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

"So when I say the real poverty line is $140,000, I’m being conservative."

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

23.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gene therapy helps Virginia 12-year-old battle rare ‘bubble boy' disease A rare disease that has cut off children from the outside world now potentially has a cure. News4’s Erika Gonzalez spoke to a Virginia family about how gene therapy changed their daughter’s life.

A gene therapy co-developed by UCLA's Donald Kohn has restored immune function in 59 children born without the ability to make immune cells, a disease that typically gives them only a few short years of life. With the therapy, they qre now living normal lives. 🧪

21.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 34    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
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First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted More than half of the 49 saplings grown from the illegally felled tree will be planted in a week.

First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

22.11.2025 10:05 — 👍 87    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 0
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Orcas in Mexico are flipping young white sharks upside down to paralyze them. 🦈🧪

This move induces “tonic immobility”, a natural freeze response that renders the sharks temporarily helpless.

22.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 154    🔁 43    💬 5    📌 5

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