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9+ hours later, and we raised $128,037. INCREDIBLE. The Byters community has BLOWN ME AWAY with its generosity. We did a lot of good today, friends. Thank you all!!! 💙💙💙

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Allllll right, at 10 am EST tomorrow, we're going live for a good cause!! Join me, @HoegLaw, and others to fundraise for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles!!

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If you're wondering why we have all these strong constitutional protections for the right to a fair trial, right to be presumed innocent, etc...

It's precisely because people are otherwise willing to discard them the instant a case infuriates us.

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@MachinistLawyer Oh, thank you for letting me know! It’s been a minute since I looked back at this case, so I appreciate the update

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New upload!!

This is Chris and Raquelle Judge. They are married co-owners of Judge DFW, a company marketed as a one-stop-shop home renovation/interior design company that was responsible for defrauding customers of millions of dollars. When people gave them money, they started projects, spent the money on luxuries, and then walked away, leaving customers ruined. But their plan wasn't well thought out at all, and was destined to fail from the beginning. Now Raquelle and Chris are facing 5 and 20 years in prison, respectively.

Byte Club has access to it NOW, and everyone else will be able to see it at 11 am ET!

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@bbq_counselor Haha I look forward to it!!

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Don’t get me wrong, cat headbutts are great, but they’re nothing in comparison to a toddler seeing you from a distance, lighting up, and charging joyously headfirst into your open arms

[Charlie @Charlanardo]

There is literally no greater feeling in life than receiving this off a cat. Nothing. Not even close.

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@DarkCastiel87 100%

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She got placed on a child abuse and neglect registry for seven years because she *checks notes* let her kid walk half a mile in their gated community to the neighborhood pond.

*Parental anxiety intensifies*

Do we really wonder why the kids are chronically online today??

[reason @reason]

A Virginia mom has received a 6-month suspended jail sentence for letting her 5-year-old walk to the pond in their gated community. https://t.co/5jzrssyzHO

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@HELLFIREV1 I used to walk to and from school (probably about a mile each way) with my brothers, and then by myself, starting from first grade. As a mom today, now I’d worry about criminal liability for it in the US

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@DrDMcMenemy Ugh, so true! I LOVE Haidt’s work, especially his recent stuff on childhood and how parents can raise happier, healthier kids with more IRL experiences

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The perfect vacation doesn’t exi—

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JUST IN: Greek island offers free accommodation in exchange for caring for rescued kittens five hours a day.

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@StarowNiklas Same tbh

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NEW UPLOAD!

Counsel for DoorDash Girl (aka Olivia Henderson) recently filed a motion requesting that the court dismiss the indictment against the defendant. According to reports, the argument centers on her claim that the door was wide open when she arrived, and says that because of this, the alleged victim had no reasonable expectation of privacy. In this video, we're talking about why this might not be the strongest argument for dismissing the indictment.

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Absolutely wild that this trial hasn’t yet happened

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three alleged co-conspirators are set to stand trial in 2028, more than two decades after being detained at Guantánamo Bay.

A military judge set the trial for June 5, 2028, rejecting prosecutors' push to begin proceedings in January 2027. The case centers on the Sept. 11 terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

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Like I said. (Although imo the judge was being kind to her with this number.)

[Reuters @Reuters]

US judge awards Blake Lively $407,000 for legal bills in Justin Baldoni dispute, much less than she sought https://t.co/zogkwsiu6N https://t.co/zogkwsiu6N

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There’s a lot of hard stuff when it comes to motherhood, but damn, is there so much beauty… The fact that we moms carry our kids with us for the rest of our lives is pure poetry.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.

Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.

They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.

At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.

In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.

A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.

Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.

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This times 1000

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

imo you literally get that “spark” all over again. everything is a new experience to your kid. seeing a bug? coolest thing ever. eating ice cream. amazing. going for a car ride. painting a picture. even every day normal activities like grocery shopping are an incredible experience with them. holidays like christmas, easter, halloween etc all feel like how they felt like when you were a kid again. everything is exciting again because you are seeing the world for the first time through their eyes

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In other news, water is wet.

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JUST IN: Study finds that short-form video content such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube shorts deactivate cognitive brain regions.