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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

West Virginia has the sixth least financially distressed population according to this list. 🧐 This has to be the result of one of those tricks like how we‘re recession proof because we never had any jobs to begin with, or we never felt the housing bubble burst, or the dot com bubble burst, or the

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Turtle Mutual Aid:

Let’s not forget that earlier today, this day was known as “we cannot build bananas in America” day. That is, until everything went bananas

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Okay, but besides wrecking the economy, sharing war plans over text message with an editor, destroying our cancer research capacity and public health system, spreading communicable diseases, and giving everyone's social security information to a teen nicknamed "BigBalls" - what has Trump done wrong?

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

the truth about jd vance is that he’s almost certainly right that his classmates looked down on him and they were right to do it

JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful!
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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DAMN!

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around.

THE NEWS:

as profound a meditation on attention as anything I've read

Map of the US showing almost all of it covered in a combination of yellows, oranges, and reds, indicating various levels of drought

Map of the US showing almost all of it -- a bit more than the other map -- covered in a combination of yellows, oranges, and reds, indicating various levels of drought

Fully 83 percent of the entire contiguous US is currently in some form of drought conditions, and that's *better* than the week before, when it was 88 percent.