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Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

hang this in the louvre (there's room now)

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

I keep watching her feet. They don’t even wiggle- just limply laying like dead weight atop a flag while 3 cops climb on top of her and wrestle with a blow up penis suit. The frantic head motions of the first cop, desperate to stop this while his actions instead make me laugh so hard I cry.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

I am so very sorry for your loss.

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

Big 12 after dark in OT 2 means I care more about my grad school in this football game than I have in a long time. Let’s go UofA.

If CU and UofA win it’ll be a big day for all the tuition I paid.

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Exactly.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

❄️ The Pledge of (Snow)legiance ❄️

The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation

Air traffic controllers need to play hardball and start calling out sick like they did during the 2018-19 shutdown.

Nothing comes between Ted Cruz and a flight to Cancun.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Soup weather WATCH for Sunday. It doesn't look nearly as rainy as a week ago, but it looks cool/unsettled for Denver, with probably some higher mountain snow as well.

#COwx

END 1Q: Colorado 14, No. 25 BYU 3

About as impressive a first 15 minutes the #CUBuffs could've asked for. A pair of touchdown drives, a bend-don't-break defense faring will against the run-heavy Cougars offense. Coach Prime has to be pleased, but there's A LOT of game left.

Make it 2!!!! #CUBuffs

Good solid drive!!! TD!!! #CUBuffs

OH! MY! GOD!

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!