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Loves books, superheroes,movies,TV,cats, sports, especially pickleball!!#TheWayHome #Pickleball #DanversSisters #GirlofSteel

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Not content to ban women from serving in the top pastoral, the Southern Baptist Convention seeks to ban churches that allow women to preach or to serve in subordinate pastoral roles.
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[Everything Ole Miss @EverythingRebs]

In honor of Ole Miss/Auburn today, let’s take a look back at the opening round of Omaha in 2022

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

Bill Pulte is not an experienced national security professional.

He is a reckless political hack.

Under no circumstances can this guy be allowed to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence.

[DJC @DJRiter]

@Alex_Chatman 😢😢😢

[TV's Other Worlds @tvsotherworlds]

Amazon Just Made an Unforgivable Mistake With This Highly-Anticipated Sci-Fi Franchise https://t.co/fPllVqaiMi

[DJC @DJRiter]

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[DJC @DJRiter]

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[DJC @DJRiter]

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
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[Isidoro ✏️ @Isidorobvazquez]

Maja Chwalinska estuvo años sin jugar. No por lesión sino por un cuadro de depresión.

Volvió de a poco, sin hacer ruido, sin que nadie la esperara demasiado.

Llegó a Roland Garros desde la qualy, siendo 114° del mundo. Ganó la qualy y hoy está en la final de #Rolandgarros

Ella misma dijo que cambió algo adentro. Que dejó de repetirse que era un desastre cada vez que fallaba un golpe. Que aprendió a dejar ir los pensamientos.

Quizás se trate de las historias de superación mas fuertes que se hayan visto en el circuito.

Lo que logró esta semana va más allá de si gana o no el sábado.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Staggering levels of corruption.

They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families.

And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

[WSB-TV @wsbtv]

‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Jumanji’ actor, James Handy stabbed, killed https://t.co/LMkOYoXKvn

[DJC @DJRiter]

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[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Update: @TriciaOhio has now quietly deleted this post, even though she issued it in her role as @DHSGov comms chief at the time.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

UPDATE: Dulce Diaz was in fact a U.S. citizen and the Trump admin has now acknowledged the fact and issued her a passport. Below was DHS’s angry (and utterly false) claim to the contrary.

Proof that, yes, ICE has at times detained US citizens in error.

[DJC @DJRiter]

@HQNewsNow 🤬🤬🤬🤬 cowards and criminals a lot of them

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Melinda French Gates donates $215M to menopause care. Women have been expected to deal with it on their own behind the scenes. "We're way behind on knowing exactly how the hormones change and at what time. We're way behind on sharing information w/ women."https://t.co/OW3WViugcf

[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Leo XIV has issued a manifesto calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence. His first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has sparked widespread online reactions. Many young people appreciate his stance, seeing few leaders addressing AI's rapid rise.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Whatever [the next outbreak] is, we ain’t ready for it. We still have anti-vaxxers running around.”

“I don’t trust scientists. I saw a YouTube video, so I’m not going to take it.” (mocking)

“I don’t want you to ever forget this story.”

“20,000 years ago, we’re in the cave. Do you know what the life expectancy was?”

Shannon Sharpe: “10 years? 15 years?”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “30. Half of everyone born was dead before they were 30.”

Shannon Sharpe: “Wow!!!”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Fast forward to 1840… everyone born in the world was dead by the age of 35. We gained five years of life expectancy. And every one of them ate organic, breathed clean air… Science matters here.”

“We’ve doubled the life expectancy with antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation. The three biggest forces operating on our longevity. So to come around and say I don’t need vaccines because I’m not getting sick, that’s like saying, why are you using dandruff shampoo? You don’t have dandruff.”

Shannon Sharpe: “Well, I don’t want to get it.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “That’s my point. If you’re successful, people think you don’t need it when that’s what’s creating the ongoing success in the first place.”

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?