Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. But, always be honest and speak up for what you think is right. This is how I scream into the void.
🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: Mike Johnson PANICS after a recorded conversation is released exposing the House Republican plan to CUT Medicaid, Medicare, AND social security for millions of Americans.
They denied it. The recording just blew up the entire lie. EVERY American should see this.
In September 2007, a bird weighing barely more than a pound lifted off from Alaska and flew across the Pacific Ocean without stopping once.
No landing.
No food.
No water.
No sleep on the ocean.
Seven days and nine nights later, she arrived in New Zealand.
Her name was E7.
She was a bar-tailed godwit — a shorebird small enough to fit comfortably in your hands.
Scientists had long suspected these birds made one of the greatest migrations on Earth, but nobody had ever tracked an individual bird across the entire journey in real time.
E7 became the proof.
Researchers fitted her with a tiny satellite transmitter before migration season began.
Then they watched in astonishment as the signals kept moving south.
And south.
And south.
More than 7,000 miles across open ocean with no break.
What makes the journey even more unbelievable is how a godwit prepares for it.
In the weeks before departure, the bird transforms itself into a living fuel tank.
E7 spent late summer eating constantly, nearly doubling her body weight in fat reserves.
Then something extraordinary happened inside her body:
Her digestive organs began shrinking.
Her stomach and intestines partially atrophied because they wouldn’t be needed during the flight.
At the same time, her heart and flight muscles grew larger and stronger to handle the nonstop effort ahead.
By the time she launched into the sky, her body had essentially rebuilt itself for one purpose:
Survival in the air.
Once E7 left Alaska, there was no room for mistakes.
A bar-tailed godwit cannot rest on the ocean like a seabird.
If she landed in the Pacific, she would drown.
So she kept flying.
Hour after hour.
Day after day.
She navigated using the sun, stars, Earth’s magnetic field, and atmospheric patterns scientists still don’t fully understand.
She rode favorable winds southward while slowly burning through the fuel stored inside her body.
And when the fat reserves finally ran low, her body began consuming its own muscle tissue to keep her alive.
After more than 200 straight hours in flight, E7 finally descended onto the mudflats of New Zealand.
She had lost over half her body weight.
Her digestive system had effectively shut down.
Her muscles were severely depleted.
But she survived.
Within hours of landing, her organs began rebuilding themselves again.
The tiny bird that crossed the Pacific started eating, recovering, and preparing for the next stage of life as though this impossible journey was simply normal.
And that’s the part scientists found most humbling.
E7 wasn’t some miraculous exception.
She was just the first godwit carrying technology that allowed humans to witness what her species had quietly been doing for thousands of years.
Every year, tiny birds rise into the Arctic sky and cross an entire ocean powered only by instinct, endurance, and a body engineered by evolution to do something that still feels almost impossible.
A one-pound bird.
Seven days nonstop.
Over 7,000 miles of open ocean.
And somehow, she knew exactly where she was going.
Thursday's collision between Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Ildemaro Vargas and Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy reignited discussion about MLB implementing a double first base.
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Coming from a former crack and opiate addict: you can't humiliate or beat down Hunter Biden. He's already done that to himself, so don't waste your time. He beat the odds. He can only go up. He's a role model for sobriety.
OMG! If this timeline couldn't get any weirder, CBS wants to replace Anderson Cooper with Joe fucking Rogan. 57 years of credibility is about to be torched for podcast ratings. This is what the collapse of real journalism looks like.
I honestly don't know how rich people end up committing crimes. If I had just $500K, I would live so peacefully, mind my own business, take walks, wear my little outfits, read books, and just feed birds.
I am so fucking sick of watching republicans scream about CA elections
You want to fucking know why CA takes so long to count ballots?
Let's take a state like Montana. Their total state population is 1.4 million while ours here in CA is 40 million
In Montana, about 300K people vote. In CA, about 24 million people vote
I know you ignorant, toothless, GOP motherfuckers barely passed basic math, but when you have tens of millions of votes, this takes longer to count
So shut your fucking Pie Holes & deal with it bitches
WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)