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Only Following people I know/have met. Mostly.
He/him.

[Vnend @Vnend]

ToDo: Take ruminations on gender, sexual attraction, and romantic attraction, impose some order on them (including labels) and write it down

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

🚨The End of the Second Reconstruction:

Southern Republicans, after claiming they didn’t need a law to respect the rights of Southern Blacks, moved immediately to eliminate Black reps across the South.

Most Americans think this is a fight over a handful of congressional districts.

It is much, much worse than that.

Plz read and share this 🧵

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago https://t.co/ofv1Bu5ssm

[Strange Animals @Strange_Animals]

These reindeer stampeding in a circle are creating what is known as a 'reindeer cyclone'. This behaviour makes it extremely difficult for predators to target an individual. The fawns are kept safely in the middle.

(Video @bazabazon)

[Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan]

Classical music lovers, my latest for The Strad: a review of Boston Pops opening night and the debut of the Arcane Suite with Ray Chen: https://t.co/9vfT5cSPG9

[(((haroldfeld))) @haroldfeld]

Oh Lord . . . .
https://t.co/npx8rVQNCc

Props to @RepMikeLawler for pushing back repeatedly.

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum https://t.co/bDM5hOc3Cw

[Fly Sistah 🪷 @Fly_Sistah]

Ridiculous lies. President Biden left Trump with an economy that was the envy of the world.

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

A great thread on the nuance of "antidepressant prescriptions are rising" - without even approaching the idea that data shows that there are huge swaths of Americans with mental health issues that do not receive treatment, or even have access to a physician or internet.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

After two months of war, more than $29 billion in taxpayer money spent, American troops killed, and thousands of civilians dead, Iran has regained much of its key military capabilities.

Iran controls the strait of Hormuz—something they didn’t control before Trump’s war—and the prices Americans are paying for everyday goods are soaring.

What a disaster.

[Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett]

Racial resentment at the center of the entire conservative agenda.

Too many pundits try to whitewash that.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

A war powers resolution to rein in Trump's war with Iran just failed, 50-49.

All Democrats except John Fetterman supported the resolution.

Three Republicans broke ranks: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul.

[Antonio Villaraigosa @AVillaraigosa]

After ICE has killed citizens, arrested and deported legal residents without warrants, and generally endangered our communities, there’s an urgent need for oversight and accountability.  Attempting to restrict access to detention facilities only undermines public trust and raises serious concerns about what ICE is trying to hide. No agency should be able to operate in the shadows.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Omg…. I just can’t…

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Republicans removed every Democrat and every Black member in the Tennessee State House from their committee assignments for standing up to their partisan gerrymandering. How are we all not descending upon Tennessee right now and demanding this fuckery ends?

[Polly Sigh @dcpoll]

We have a president who was convicted of 34 counts of criminal fraud, whose business was convicted of criminal tax fraud, and whose charity was shut down because of fraud.

Trump sure does take fraud seriously. He commits it all the time.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is a fair question to all evangelical Christians, including myself:

“Dear conservative evangelicals;

You gave him a pass on “grab them by the pussy.”

You don’t mind that he’s an Olympics-class liar.

A thirty-four count fraud conviction didn’t faze you.

Not even an adjudication of rape bothered you.

He’s mentioned in the Epstein documents literally 38,000 times. You don’t find it odd that he’s personally blocking the release of three million of those files.

He’s the most corrupt politician in American history.

He’s broken all ten of the Ten Commandments. Including taking the lives of 153 little girls whose only crime was being in school. And then he lied about it.

He doesn’t go to your church. He doesn’t go to ANY church.

He cheats at golf.

He cheats at business.

He cheats contractors.

He cheats on his wives.

He cheats in elections.

He’s profane.

Crooked.

Disrespectful.

Selfish.

Driven by greed.

By ego.

By revenge.

Yet here you are worshipping a golden idol in his likeness.

So what is it about YOU that makes you a Christian?

Bruce Lindner”

[Laura Coates @thelauracoates]

"So for a lot of us we know our history, we know the pain that our people have gone through to get to this point and to start to see those things that we know from our history come alive again it is disheartening, it's scary." @harrisonjaime

[Strange Animals @Strange_Animals]

A male royal flycatcher - what a magnificent bird!

(Video: Stefano Ianiro)

[𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor_]

This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

[ezdraw @ezdrawps]

Color theory fixes more art than people think 🎨