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I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work:

“I basically study swamp monsters”
“I’m a dinosaur orthodontist”
“Dead bird bird watcher”

#2025SVP

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russians have destroyed or damaged more than a thousand libraries - according to data from 2024⤵️

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?

Character isn't something you tell people about.

It's something you live.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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The cruelty is the point.

Shapiro: I just heard from a woman who spoke at the press conference where I announced the disaster declaration. She’s got 30 bucks left on her SNAP card to get her through the holidays here in November…

More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.

Sounds like it’s the GOP that’s playing politics with people’s livelihoods. Hold the line, Dems.

Screenshot of headline reading: Measles spreading beyond the center of the Utah-Arizona outbreak Cases are now popping up in more touristy areas of Utah, according to a health official.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

RFK Jr. must resign.

The fact that several GOP members are defending themselves by attacking the SNAP food program says it all. They’re the ones who defunded it, and now they’re trying to justify it.

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

The GOP in Congress are worse than useless. They are craven enablers of murder.

This is not “America First”

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation

Let’s get back to talking about this

The quiet part, said aloud.

This breakdown is 🔥

The debate on which side uses political violence as a weapon is over. The receipts are here, and they all point right.

PS: Only one side has been threatening civil war, and it isn’t the left.

So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.

A “we were wrong” correction would be nice.

We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

I’m a (nearly) 90-year-old gay Japanese guy. Do I count? Because his face is very sandwichable.

Pulse Memorial's rainbow crosswalk removed overnight in Orlando A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando, Florida, that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was removed by the state overnight.

A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis.

The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.

NEWS: Federal judge finds that Alina Habba is NOT lawfully performing functions and duties of U.S. Attorney in New Jersey.

Judge Matthew Brann disqualifies Habba from prosecution of two criminal defendants who challenged her appointment

A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

NEW: Gov. Gavin Newsom comments on California's new maps moving through the California legislature

Welcome to Hell, James Dobson!!! Don’t act so surprised you’re here, you prick. Your roommate is James Phelps. We’re doing a two James, one cell thing.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

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America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare.

Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…