The MAGA Agenda Is Sinking in Popularity. What Might Donald Trump Do?
Podcast Episode Β· The Political Scene | The New Yorker Β· 21 February Β· 39m
βThey've hung a gigantic banner of Donald Trump on the outside of the Dept of Justice, kind of like the one they hung before on the outside of the Dept of Labor? It's like Pyongyang on the Potomac over here. This one's even bigger. It's a huge, it's literally like dog peeing on fire hydrant.β
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The Titanic sinking
US healthcare heading towards Greenland
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A murie game, iwis! Gif thou wilt areise thy craft, hie thee to thy levest bokesellere for a boc bi a unspedeful Yrish preost cleped James Joyce, in the schort chapitre cleped Oxen of the Sunne in his maistriwerk, Ulysses.
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Sometimes youβve just gotta yield to temptationβ¦
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"The one constant in Marco Rubio's career is that he has betrayed every mentor and every principle he's ever had in order to claim power for himself," a political figure in Miami told me.
Once in a while, if you listen to Rubio, you get a sense that deep down, somewhere, there is still a person there, under a very thick layer of whatever it is that's covering him.
I wanted to say I was excited to cadge a copy of the @newyorker.com with Dexter Filkensβ recent profile of Marco Rubio, but suddenly, a scalding hot shower sounds goodβ¦
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Closeup of a Hellbender salamander, taken underwater as it rests on a rock.
We're fighting like hell for #Hellbenders by suing the Fish and Wildlife Service to force the agency to set a binding date to enact federal protections for them under the #ESA.
This prehistoric #salamander faces tremendous threats from activities that harm rivers and streams β‘οΈ bit.ly/46XwSBI
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
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As the tributes to Jesse Jackson pour in, I think of Julian Bondβs remarks about Jacksonβs two presidential campaigns: In 1984, Jesse Jackson had been the candidate of Black America; in 1988, he became the Black candidate of disaffected and alienated America -- unemployed meat packers and 1/
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iβm using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.
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βThis is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.β
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Fantastic, provocative post for the wider @gbif.org network (we really should be testing #ccSignals imho).
As I find myself tasked with returning to the question of commercial vs. non-commercial use, this bit makes me feel more than a bit seen:
creativecommons.org/2026/02/12/h...
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A silly seal
1) π Looking for your perfect match on #ValentinesDay? So are these marine species π
As ocean temperatures and conditions shift, predators and prey are falling out of sync, causing cascading effects across marine ecosystems in South America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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A photo of a Guanaco exhaling on a mountain top
AyΓΊdanos a definir la gobernanza de datos indΓgenas en biodiversidad
Comparte tus perspectivas en una breve #encuesta sobre la gobernanza y soberanΓa de datos indΓgenas, y ayuda a promover los #PrincipiosCARE en toda la red de GBIF.
β Β‘La encuesta ya estΓ‘ disponible espaΓ±ol! gbif.link/Indigenous...
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Strong Jean Shepard off-his-meds vibe on this one, like A Christmas Story meets The Seventh Seal.
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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
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As Le Point and Le Monde have both reported, Epstein was running a major project out of his luxurious apartment in Paris' 16th arrondissement to advance the interests of Marine Le Pen and her PΓ©tainiste party, which appears to have been coordinated on several levels with the Kremlin. Here's Bannon.
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A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.
Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
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Benito carrying a football with musicians carrying flags behind him
Iconic moment as he says "God Bless AmΓ©rica" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order
For the rest of the hemisphere, AmΓ©rica doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
"Generally, you canβt read other peopleβs emails. Powerful people have private servers, I.T. staffs, lawyers. When you get a rare glimpse into how they actually think and view the world, what they actually are after, heed Maya Angelou: Believe them."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Working Group Co-Chair Floyd Homer explaining what remains to be done.
Delegates @ipbes.net completed their read-through of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment's background messages
There are still some outstanding issues for them to address in the evening before turning to the Summary for Policymakerβs tables, figures, and preface #IPBES12
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Out-of-the-box thinking to increase use of public transportationβ¦
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Three men standing together in the old Manchester Central train station that now serves as a large meeting space
During a brief pause in the action at #IPBES12 @phylojoe.bsky.social & I had the chance to welcome Ethiopia as @gbif.org's the newest participant! πͺπΉ π
Tesfu Fekensa & his colleagues at #EBI are eager to get the national GBIF delegation and node that they host up and running #ForNature !
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Ian McKellen performs βThe Strangersβ Caseβ speech from βSir Thomas Moreβ on Colbert.
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This email dates back to 2016, by which time Epstein was already a convicted pedophile.
Seemed to be no concern for the Trump boys.
What type of fun did they have?
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