This is why the stupid reflecting pool actually matters.

An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. 🧵1/2

When generals start emailing the ranks…begging for “creative and unconventional” ideas, you’ve moved past confidence …and into desperation. That’s not the sound of a winning strategy. It’s the sound of leaders…searching for an exit.

Big money spent $70 million to try and defeat Abdul El-Sayed and it didn't work! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

It's the end of Reform as we know it

It's the end of Reform as we know it

A bad few months for Nigel Farage's insurgent party has shown their true colours

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oh cool so you created 5 million new jobs for those people right?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

Shouldn’t we be given some idea of what he’s dealing with?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."

Ron Johnson: "All these sports team fell into line, didn't use their brains like Aaron Rodgers did, they forced their players to get injected. Some of those players are grievously injured. They dropped unconscious on the field of play."

The fact that this man and this situation is STILL so normalized - putting the whole world in danger, to the point of compromising all that's good about humanity - just to further greed, lust, ambition, and proximity to power - it's astounding. It renders me speechless. I am without speech.

Three things about Trump that are unmistakable: 1. He is increasingly disconnected from reality. 2. He is increasingly desperate to convey grandiosity and avoid humiliation - this drives him. 3. His health - physical, mental, and neurological - is worsening, adding impatience.

But all he ever does - in incomplete and broken sentences - is talk about how up is down, which wars he thinks he has ended, how stupid his predecessors were, how low prices are, how high his polling is, before suddenly segueing into more about who he hates, who he likes and who he thinks likes him.

(1/2) The United States keeps sending this large, lumbering, and lopsided 80-year-old man with a limited vocabulary, whose face is painted in orange pigment and hair is indescribable, to speak to the media about America's interests.

How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Must read from @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social The need to micromanage is really hard to uproot. Something for Healey's advisers to think about too

How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else

The lesson from Manchester is that it takes time for public investment policies to show up in GDP

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More from Commissioner Schnell here: www.startribune.com/mn-operation...

DOC commissioner: Minnesota banned private prisons. ICE is bringing one back anyway.

DHS apparently plans to reopen the private, for-profit Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton as a 1,600-bed ICE detention center operated by the private prison company that owns it, DOC commission...

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“Last winter, Minnesotans banded together and rejected the harm caused by ill-informed, unplanned and costly federal immigration overreach. As DHS takes steps to reopen Appleton as a federal facility, our response should remain the same: Minnesota is not the place for this.”

But if you support what was recently Tory policy on net zero and the ECHR you’re out. There’s a space for the Tory party to be pro business and reasonably small c Conservative for people repelled by reform and underwhelmed by the Lib Dems…this isn’t that.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h ago

Nighty night

Narrator: Max Miller is not a good person.

Jesus expressly instructed this “Christian pastor” to feed the hungry. He did not, however, say one thing about LGBTQ people. Honestly, I have jewelry and houseplants that are better Christians than many Christians.

PinkNews@pinknews.bsky.social · 21h ago

Christian pastor shows empty food bank shelves after rejecting donations from LGBTQ+ allies ➡️ https://bit.ly/4gcKkpt 📷 Envato

I'd take the likes of Sarah Pochin seriously if they understood even the most basic things about WW2

Here is the good news: DOJ is now 0-20 in lawsuits to gain access to voter files and tomorrow is the 90th day before the election which means states can't purge voters -- even if DOJ wants them to. The bad news: Trump won't give up trying to use DOJ to undermine the elections.

Tapper: Senator Moreno said on Sunday that you have admitted privately that you need to get help. Miller: That’s projection. Tapper: Have you ever said that? Miller: No, not to him. Tapper: To anyone? Miller: I think a lot of people within this country see a therapist

If there is some level of guilt even guiltier than just guilty, that Max Miller dude is it. Dude throws major psychopath vibes.

If a feminist author wrote a satirical novel where domestic abusers are literally mainlining a drug they think makes them more manly everyone would be so pissed off

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

TAPPER: The story says when you were picked up for drunk driving, you have ecstasy in your system. When is last time you used illegal drugs? MILLER: I mean, the last time -- I don't know, several years ago? TAPPER: Two? 20? MILLER: This is testosterone replacement theory. Secretary Hegseth ...

According to Axios, (for whatever that's worth,) Trump is defending Miller publicly but he called him Monday night to privately tell him his reelection is looking tough. Deadline to replace him on the ballot is end of day. www.rawstory.com/max-miller-2...

Trump's secret late-night call to accused lawmaker leaks: 'Things aren't looking good'

President Donald Trump personally phoned Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) Monday night to deliver a sobering message as the Ohio Republican faces calls from his own party to resign amid allegations of abuse, th...

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🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:

🤯 Max Miller's interview with Tapper is an utter trainwreck 🤯

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Trump voters were promised two things: no more foreign wars and Epstein files. Congratulations, you got both.

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"