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How algae learned to harness the Sun without getting burned Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment called siphonein acts like a natural sun shield, protecting the algae’s…

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump charged with threats against Hakeem Jeffries Prosecutors said that Christopher Moynihan was among the first rioters to enter the Capitol grounds and watched rioters fight with police at the rotunda door.

If you’re thinking “huh, it’s pretty notable that they didn’t just pop this guy federally, especially since that would undermine the administration’s narrative about political violence,” astute observation, have an inquiry into the U.S. Attorney’s Office about that. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Sure sounds like that research about how left-wing violence was outpacing right-wing violence for the first time in 30 years had some glaring fatal flaws

OMG! In Comey's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, he points to others who have lied to Congress that were NOT prosecuted. Number one is JEFF SESSIONS when he said "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two, but I did not have contact with the Russians." 1/

'Not a good look': How the Trump family’s 'culture of corruption' is staggering New Republic staff writer Timothy Noah said a hot mic moment recently exposed one more example of corruption under President Donald Trump. A conversation between Trump and Indonesian President Prabowo...

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'I’m federal': DHS agent arrested for DUI with kids in car demands to know if cop is 'Haitian' CBS News reports an alleged ICE agent caught driving near the Florida Keys attempted several tactics to avoid arrest, one of them including intimidating an arresting officer with an accent.“Are you Ha...

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It's so hard to tell if they're awful or idiots.

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Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

Either way, the practical effect is the same: the new lines would even further skew representation away from the actual votes cast, and the brunt of that skew comes at the expense of Black, Latino, and urban voters whose votes get spread thin or corralled into too few districts.

That persistent seat bonus isn’t an accident — it reflects how the district lines were drawn and how Democratic-leaning voters (especially Black and Latino communities in cities and South Texas) are either “packed” into a handful of safe seats or “cracked” across several districts.

* In 2018, when the GOP vote share dipped close to 50 %, they still took 23 seats — 4 or 5 more than the vote would suggest.
* Even after the latest census expansion to 38 seats, the pattern persisted: in 2022–2024 they won about 58 % of the vote but nearly 66 % of the seats.

* Example: in 2020 Republicans got about 53 % of the total vote for House races but 64 % of the seats (23 of 36).

* Across those seven cycles (2012-2024) they’ve usually held 3–5 “extra” seats beyond what a strictly proportional map would give them.

Since 2012, every U S. House election in Texas, Republicans have already consistently come out of Election Day with more seats than their actual share of the statewide vote would normally earn.

Why is the Grand Ole Pale party in Texas redrawing the map? They know they are losing? Or just fucking greedy?

FDA Commissioner Flagrantly Misquoted Harvard Public Health Dean at White House Autism Event The White House claimed that Dr. Andrea Baccarelli has found a "causal relationship between prenatal acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder." Not true.

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I'm on the spectrum. I'm 76. RFK Jr can fuck off into the heart of the sun.

Let's be honest about the 2024 election please.
Nov 25, 2024 — A new analysis by the Environmental Voter Project shows that 85.9 million eligible voters skipped the 2024 general election. We had the numbers, but far too many Dems/Indep just didn't vote!
www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024...

His MAGA critique was featherweight for a reason—the real fight isn’t about late-night jokes, it’s about who owns the microphone. That’s not free speech; it’s corporate fascism wrapped in entertainment.”

Meanwhile, Disney/ABC owns Kimmel, and Disney’s ESPN is busy cutting a mega-deal with the NFL that needs the FCC’s blessing. When your corporate parent is begging regulators to rubber-stamp its expansion, don’t expect Kimmel to throw real punches.

That’s the media equivalent of teaming up with the fire department and the arson investigators to torch your own house so you can collect the insurance money. They cry foul at Disney while running their own empire-building plays in front of the FCC.

And here’s where Jimmy Kimmel comes in: the affiliates that first raised complaints about his show weren’t just random critics—they were Nexstar and Sinclair stations.

Now Nexstar’s pumping out a Charlie Kirk puff piece for the same reason—because control of the airwaves isn’t about merit, it’s about money and leverage.

But when billions are on the line, media giants know the FCC can be persuaded to look the other way.
We’ve seen this playbook before: in 2004, Sinclair used its empire of stations to smear John Kerry with a hit-piece ‘documentary.’ It wasn’t journalism, it was political muscle.

Carr is full of shit, In San Diego, Nexstar is set to lock down the market—owning KUSI, KSWB, and KFMB/CBS if the FCC waves through their Tegna takeover. That would give Nexstar three major stations in one city, a move that normally violates ownership rules.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?

PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?

KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI