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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.

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The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

Thanksgiving is the time to share your blessings with your family and your closest, most enigmatic friends.

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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D.C. Sandwich Guy Is Definitely Not Guilty, Jury Rules The man accused of “assaulting” a federal agent by throwing his Subway sandwich is free at last.

FIAT JUSTICIA RUAT CAELUM!

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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

I threw the sandwich, but I did not throw the condiments
I threw the sandwich, but I didn't throw the condiments

All around Washington D.C.
They're trying to track me down
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the spilling of some mayonnaise
For wasting all the dijon, but I say

Voters Did Not Understand the Stakes in 2024 - The American Prospect A large majority of American voters are greatly dissatisfied with the state of things, most especially the economy. It turns out that median voters were catastrophically misled about the stakes of the...

"Either voters didn’t hear about what Trump said and did—perhaps because of how the mainstream media compulsively laundered or obscured his extremism—or didn’t understand it, or didn’t believe it." prospect.org/2025/10/29/v...

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This rhetoric is still shocking to me 😔

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

The AG's job is to protect Virginians from scams, price gouging, and corporate greed – but over the last 3.5 years, @jasonmiyaresva.bsky.social has refused to put people first.

I’m running to make sure Virginians have an AG working for fairness, accountability, and a level playing field.

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out.

Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/BZC3lZB

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

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JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

You cannot be fucking serious

God keep me from ever completing anything.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

I hope that the states they are targeting will play hardball. Enough.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

Impeach

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.