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Starting over 🇨🇺🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈.

[Ale @Alexpawsup4ever]

The increasingly rare moments when America lives up to its promise are beautiful.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

A federal judge has ruled that Texas’ ban on drag shows is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment, offering the following advice to those offended by drag:

“The solution is relatively simple ... just don’t go [to the shows].”

(https://t.co/yGR0Z4yXed)

[Pop Base @PopBase]

A federal judge has ruled that Texas’ ban on drag shows is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment, offering the following advice to those offended by drag:

“The solution is relatively simple ... just don’t go [to the shows].”

(https://t.co/yGR0Z4yXed)

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Vote @oliverslarkin for FL-25 on Aug 18!

[Ale @Alexpawsup4ever]

I respect their commitment to the bit cuz I couldn't keep a straight face if l tried to talk this much shit in one minute.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cruz: They want to cancel Thanksgiving, they want to cancel Christmas. El-Sayed is also an Islamist, as is Mamdani. They want Sharia law.

[tttt @cuntyliavt]

me asf when berghain plays

[Covie @covie_93]

Somebody should tell clarence thomas that if the 14th amendment was only meant for slaves then the 2nd Amendment was only meant for a musket.

[Ale @Alexpawsup4ever]

@badgalxrosi Well…

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[HBO Max @hbomax]

The girls are fighting. #Euphoria

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Do you support Israel's 'right to exist'?"

It's a 'gotcha' queston and I debunk all the BS surrounding the 'right to exist' propaganda right here:

[Rosalía España || Fan Page @rosaliavtspain_]

ROSALÍA en el inicio del LUX TOUR. 🩰🪽

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Brown is set to become the first openly trans woman to lead a New York City office.

Zohran Mamdani has appointed her the Director of his newly-announced Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs.

[Ale @Alexpawsup4ever]

@BebeRexha Palacio de los Jugos 💯

[LUX TOUR @MOTOMAMlTOUR]

Actuación completa de Rosalía y Björk en los premios #BRITs https://t.co/2jEq4HVtpF

[sar loves camila @bippitycabello]

@hasanthehun two things can be true: 67 years of dictatorship has crushed freedom and economic growth, and decades of U.S. sanctions have deepened shortages. civilians are the ones paying the price. caring about that isn’t “gross.”

[viviana @repmiIas]

this is the same thing that happened with venezuela all over again. i’m pretty sure camila, a cuban woman, knows more about what’s happening in her native country than american keyboard warriors.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Reality has gotten so absurd that accurately describing what’s happening makes you sound insane.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

I actually think it’s a good thing to not preemptively swear you’ll vote for Gavin Newsome before he’s the candidate

[Hit Signal @hitsignal]

Activist Nikki Sapiro shared a post emphasizing why Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl appearance serves as an important example of how white people can use their platform.