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Learner, Stargazer, Godless Tea-sipper, Cat-owned Ginger, Soul whose intentions are good. *soul not included ᴰᴹˢ ʷⁱˡˡ ᵇᵉ ⁱᵍⁿᵒʳᵉᵈ ᵇˡᵒᶜᵏᵉᵈ ᵒʳ ᵐᵒᶜᵏᵉᵈ ᴺᵃᶻⁱˢ ʷⁱˡˡ ᵇᵉ ᵖᵘⁿᶜʰᵉᵈ

Todd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe

MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell reported Monday morning that “Overnight: A spokesperson for Sen.

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We didn’t ask you to release a diary. We demanded you release the Epstein files. We even passed a law.

I’ve shared this before, but since people feel the need to downplay covid in schools, I’m going to share it again. I had a student named Kimberely in my English 1 class the year covid hit. Kimberely was sweet but very shy. When everything locked down, she was terrified. 1/?

help, I have established a track record of harassing captive strangers and have express intent to reoffend. now I am facing the very reasonable consequences of my obnoxious actions and it’s religious persecution is what it is. I’m being discriminated against because I’m an insufferable asshat.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith. This week, her sermon got her kicked off a flight and clips of her removal racked up millions of views on social media. She called the situation “spiritual warfare.”

AI companies are buying up millions of rare, old books because the internet is saturated with AI content. AI needs clean, human-written text to build newer models. But the books are being permanently destroyed for the scanning process. FYI: Book shredders are ALWAYS the bad guys

Galois theory and permutation groups are super interesting and can be understood by anyone with some high school algebra if you all just give me a few minutes. Everyone take notebook and one of these pencils. Let’s get going. Everyone here loves polynomials, am I right?

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

A senator is refusing to confirm the president’s personal attorney as attorney general unless the nominee rescinds a slush fund for pardoned insurrectionists in writing. That’s an INSANE SENTENCE. Oh, and I guess the tax immunity provision is totes cool.

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The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

"The rioters were fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth. Because he was angry he'd lost an election. Former President Trump's actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty." Mitch McConnell Feb. 13, 2021

ICE murders someone, gets caught joking about it, nothing happens to anyone involved. I worry that the sheer grim repetition is having the desired numbing effect on the media and politicians.