The 5-week human embryo does not look “fishlike” because we descended from fish. Those folds are pharyngeal arches that become the jaw, middle-ear bones, and parts of the neck. They never function as gills.
The popular “we pass through a fish stage” claim comes from Haeckel’s 19th-century drawings, which were later shown to be inaccurate and exaggerated. Recapitulation theory has been discarded for decades.
Shared genes and similar early folds exist across vertebrates. That is a fact of development. Treating it as proof of a specific evolutionary story is an interpretation, not an observation.
@Bannons_WarRoom@pulte Mostly does not matter…. And vantage pulls lower scores than fico… the cost needs to
Come down to consumers it’s 125-155 dollars for a tri merge. Also title insurance on refinances over and over needs to be canceled. This is not going to do much for mortgage volume.
@Rainmaker1973 The original tweet from @Rainmaker1973 has a reply calling it out as AI, and the video itself carries an “AlphaSphere” watermark, a style commonly used by AI content accounts that mass-produce cute animal/kid videos.
Jefferson Healthcare is still open. It opened a new wing last year and Senator Murray toured it last week. That matters because the conversation has mixed current strain with future policy and implied the hospital itself is gone.
The largest federal Medicaid changes in HR 1, including work requirements, do not begin until 2027. Some eligibility rules start this fall. Providers are already planning for them. At the same time, Washington’s own recent budgets reduced Medicaid and Apple Health funding by hundreds of millions of dollars and lowered certain provider rates. Both levels of government affect the same hospitals.
Rural hospitals have faced the same basic math for years: a 24/7 emergency department and labor unit cost the same whether the county is large or small. Jefferson Healthcare delivered 78 babies last year; a maternity service usually needs closer to 200 just to break even. Staffing is harder in a small market. Uncompensated care was already high. Those pressures existed before the latest federal law.
Cuts add strain. They are not the only story, and they are not the original one. Patients and staff deserve an accurate timeline and an accurate picture of what is actually open.
No, this is not true.
The X post claims a massive baobab tree (likely Adansonia digitata) is the “oldest tree in the world” at 6,000 years old in Tanzania. This is a long-running viral miscaption that has circulated for years (sometimes previously labeled as Senegal). https://t.co/NK6hB5mS0m
Key facts:
• No living tree has been scientifically verified at 6,000 years old. Baobabs can live a long time—often over 1,000 years, with the oldest documented (via radiocarbon dating) around 2,450 years (the Panke baobab in Zimbabwe, which died around 2011). Living examples reach roughly 2,000–2,100 years in some cases. Early speculative estimates of 5,000–6,000 years for large specimens have been repeatedly disproven by actual dating. https://t.co/t5bOkWT3Yt
• The oldest verified individual (non-clonal) living trees are Great Basin bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) in California’s White Mountains. Methuselah is about 4,850+ years old (dated via tree-ring analysis), and an unnamed living specimen is even older (over 5,000 years as of recent updates). These hold the record among single, non-clonal trees. https://t.co/RGBbO6FhYm
• Clonal organisms (like root systems that regenerate new stems, e.g., Pando the aspen colony or Old Tjikko) can be far older in a genetic sense (tens of thousands of years), but they are not single individual trees in the same way.
Baobabs are impressive for their size, water storage, and longevity among flowering plants (angiosperms), but the 6,000-year claim is false. The photo itself has been misattributed for decades
AB 2624 is structured as an extension of California’s longstanding “Safe at Home” address-confidentiality program (originally for domestic violence survivors and later expanded to certain healthcare workers), combined with targeted restrictions on specific harmful online conduct. It does not impose a general ban on investigating public spending, filming in public, reporting on organizations, or criticizing immigration-related programs. https://t.co/gOZVIW5cW9
Key elements that supporters and the bill’s text rely on for legality:
• Address confidentiality: Eligible immigration support providers, employees, and volunteers who document threats or harassment can receive a substitute mailing address from the Secretary of State. Government agencies generally must use that substitute address instead of revealing the real home address in public records. This is a privacy protection for government-held information, similar to existing programs that have operated for years without successful broad constitutional invalidation. https://t.co/7ImLLjKmt4
• Restrictions on posting personal information or images: The law prohibits knowingly posting or distributing such material (including of household members) only when done with the specific intent to either (1) incite a third person to cause imminent great bodily harm that is likely to occur, or (2) threaten the person so as to create an objectively reasonable fear for their safety. Parallel rules apply to soliciting, selling, or trading the information with that intent. These provisions track First Amendment exceptions for true threats and incitement to imminent violence. https://t.co/frHv1mQPYn
• Legislative findings and existing models: The bill includes findings justifying limits on public access to certain records in order to prevent violence. It mirrors statutes already on the books for reproductive healthcare and other providers, and it references California’s press shield law (Evidence Code §1070). Enforcement requires proof of the harmful intent, not merely the act of posting or investigating. https://t.co/gOZVIW5cW9
In short, the measure is presented as narrowly aimed at doxxing-plus-intent-to-harm rather than at speech, journalism, or public-records scrutiny of taxpayer-funded entities. Filming public facilities, documenting alleged fraud or waste, naming organizations, or criticizing policy remains outside its scope according to the author’s statements and the bill language.
That said, free-speech advocates and some First Amendment experts have argued that parts of the statute risk being overbroad, vague, or capable of chilling citizen journalism and reporting, and that certain provisions may not be sufficiently narrowly tailored. Challenges in court remain possible once the law takes effect (October 1, 2027). As of now, it has been enacted by the Legislature and signed by the Governor, so it is currently the law of California unless and until a court rules otherwise.
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@FoxNews The earthquake it shows (the 7.1-magnitude quake in the Kumamoto region of southwestern Japan) happened earlier, on July 28, 2026.
Today is Tuesday, August 11, 2026, so neither the post nor the event is from today.