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[Maddox Desolation @MadoxDesolation]

When people wonder why we cant get behind war, it's not because of being a snowflake, weak, or afraid. It is because most of the US and the West have become very disenfranchised with the idea of it let alone the action. We have been at war. 1/

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Good on the Kennedy family to put out this statement. It couldn’t have been easy.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Who knew allowing twitter to turn into a disinformation cesspool might have consequences

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.

Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.

Anyone see a problem here?

[Caitlyn Yaede (she/her) @caitlyn_yaede]

The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Well said, Mr. Herron.

[Maddox Desolation @MadoxDesolation]

@pjg318 @Angry_Staffer If it's local news that makes sense. The local news for FOX stations has a tendency to cover real news while the rest of FAUX 'news' doesn't.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

State Attorney Monique Worrell responds to Desantis removing her: “If we are mourning anything this morning, it’s the loss of democracy. I am your duly elected State Attorney, and nothing done by a weak dictator can change that.”

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

This man is such an amazing ally to the Indigenous community. Thank you so much Mr. President.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump buried his ex-wife on his golf course, after she “fell down the stairs.”

[Aaron Black @ABlackPolitical]

After a year of bogus recession predictions, the economy grew steadily at 2.4% while inflation fell significantly. Business investment increased by nearly 8%, and construction of factories contributed more to growth than it has in 40 years.

Here is the latest evidence that Bidenomics is growing our economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top-down. #BidenBringsBackJobs

✅ 13.2 million jobs created under President Biden—nearly 4 million more jobs than before the pandemic.

✅ 3.6% unemployment—under 4% for 17 consecutive months, the longest stretch in over 50 years.

✅ More Americans are joining the labor force—the share of working-age Americans with jobs is the highest in 20 years.

✅ Inflation has fallen for 12 months in a row, and is down two-thirds from last year.

✅ Wages are rising—wages are higher than they were before the pandemic, accounting for inflation.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Jamie Lee Curtis talks about defending her trans daughter, Ruby, in new interview:

“This is my daughter, this human being has come to me and said, This is who I am. And my job is to say, ‘Welcome home.’ I will fight and defend her right to exist to anyone who claims that she doesn't. And there are those people.”

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

Conversion therapy is not therapy—it is harmful pseudoscience.

And it’s illegal in Canada. 🇨🇦

And now the state of Michigan too.

https://t.co/K0KUCFa89N

[Rare Stories @rarestorees]

This listening device was invented by Leon Theremin, who invented the musical instrument, Theremin. Its design made the listening device very difficult to detect, because it was very small, had no power supply or active electronic components, and did not radiate any signal unless it was actively being irradiated remotely.

These same design features, along with the overall simplicity of the device, made it very reliable and gave it a potentially unlimited operational life.

The image below shows the seal opened exposing the Soviet bugging device, on display at the NSA's National Cryptologic Museum.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

2) Scientists have long known that some microscopic critters are able to hit pause on life to survive harsh environments, slipping into the deepest of sleeps by slowing their metabolism to undetectable levels in a process called cryptobiosis.

As far back as 1936, a viable several-thousand-year-old crustacean was discovered buried in the permafrost east of Russia’s Lake Baikal. In 2021, researchers announced they had resurrected ancient bdelloid rotifers, microscopic multicellular animals, after 24,000 years in the Siberian permafrost.

‘Zombie’ viruses are thawing in melting permafrost because of climate change
This new species of nematode, dubbed Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, breaks that dormancy record by tens of thousands of years. The frozen soil the nematode was embedded in came from an ancient gopher hole, excavated from about 130 feet below the surface. Scientists used radiocarbon dating to determine that the soil was 46,000 years old, give or take a thousand years.

“The age over which it survived is one of the shocking things,” said Gregory Copenhaver, a co-editor of PLOS Genetics and director of the Institute for Convergent Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The past 46,000 years reach into the previous geologic epoch, called the Pleistocene, he noted, and “this single organism, the actual individual they found, has been alive over that period of time.”

[Dreamweasel @Dreamweasel]

If the Republican base had any hesitation about rallying behind Schmuck à L’Orange for another election cycle, this would have been the year we would have seen it. But there’s no momentum behind DeSantis, or Ramaswamy, or any other GOP challenger. They’re not going anywhere.

[Maddox Desolation @MadoxDesolation]

This is the actual job of judges. Their personal opinions should never get in the way of the law. There can be a fine line between interpretation of the actual law and opinion. A good judge recognizes that line and doesn't cross it.

[Jen Psaki @jrpsaki]

So 8 of the 9 judges who unanimously rejected the request of Trump team to stop the Georgia case into election interference and disqualify Willis were appointed by…Republican Governors..

[Nancy @ntsbfh]

@TristanSnell https://t.co/wlELE3w207

[Maddox Desolation @MadoxDesolation]

@SpeakerMcCarthy So pathetically petty. I wonder what @MirriamWebster would have to say about this.