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Zelenskyy: “There is an understanding that at least a ceasefire is possible, and everything depends on the right pressure on Russia.”

"I wouldn’t be shocked to see this SCOTUS come up w/ a way around the crystal clear language & original intent on who is counted in the census. I’m more skeptical they’ll accept a new one-off census. But they could. It’s a deeply corrupt institution. That’s your path to the dissolution of the union"

Trump: "What a great honor to get those Purple Hearts. I guess in a certain way it wasn't that easy for me either, when you think of it."

The mushroom umbrellas were sold out.

This is what happens when they finally sit down with someone who knows how to do an interview, which is extremely rare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is notable because McDonalds’ breakfast daypart has long been seen as a proxy for employment. You’re more likely to visit if you have somewhere to go in the morning.

$MCD

Imagine this in Russian on Russian state TV

The word for what Jesse Watters is describing here is un-American. A shredding of the constitution.

There nothing funny about it.

VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...

"Everywhere we go, there's shelling. There's air defense behind the hill. The position was hit, f*cking hell."

Crimean Telegram channels report an attack on Russian-occupied Crimea.

Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae) A taxonomic revision of the eumenophorine tarantula genus Monocentropus Pocock, 1897, which currently comprises three species, M. balfouri Pocock, 1897 (♂♀; Socotra, Yemen), M. lambertoni Fage, 1922 (...

🕷️ Tarantula sex just got safer

A newly named tarantula genus, Satyrex, boasts the longest male palps ever recorded, likely evolved to reduce cannibalism risk during mating.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#Spiders 🧪 #SciComm 🧬

The Afipsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, Russia, is once again burning.

Based on an early look at several dozen hits over the past 2 weeks, both the success rate and damage from Ukrainian long-range drones have gone up compared to late 2024–early 2025. I haven’t put together the dataset yet, but even at a glance, the results already look different

Reposted without comment, because … what could improve on the original?

Heinous.

🛢️🔥/1. Russian Afipsky oil refinery was targeted early morning today by Ukrainian drone strike. The design capacity for oil refining is 7 million tons per year.

USAID cuts can be seen in a 'graphic and upsetting' way in Sudan: Anne Applebaum The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario join Morning Joe to discuss Applebaum's latest reporting from Sudan as it struggles with civil war and the retre...

On @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social with @lynseyaddario.bsky.social, talking about the impact of USAID cuts in Sudan

www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

“The Road” is a glass of wine. “Threads” is pure 180 proof horror

Wow — REPUBLICAN Rep. Thomas Massie points out the hypocrisy of Republicans crying foul about Texas Dems leaving to stop Trump from stealing 5 seats in Congress as Speaker Johnson and the GOP flee Washington to help Trump cover up the Epstein files.

What do they call it when the government controls businesses and markets?

I believe it’s fascism.

Where are all my small government republicans at?

The President’s Weapon Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

80 years ago today the first atomic bomb was used against human targets. Since 1945 the power to do it again has rested in the hands of one person - who can order their use without anyone's permission and cannot be countermanded.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills Lindsey Langston reported the Florida Republican to law enforcement for harassment last month.

Rep. Cory Mills is a complete personal trainwreck. Yikes.

What do you think? 👀

The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.

This is called a confession. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

See, the BLS gets some numbers right. Just the numbers he likes.

my man

IG eggs.tyrone

What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? To start with, it’s not a hoax.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
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