Matt

[Dan (Taylor's Version) @Dan_Welter]

Cooper DeJean pointing at the football and being called for an illegal fair catch.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

There is an animal that eats anthrax, botulism, cholera, and rabies for lunch and walks away fine. It doesn't have a good PR team, so most people have no idea what it's actually doing for us.

The turkey vulture's stomach acid runs at a pH of around 1, roughly as corrosive as battery acid, and hot enough to dissolve bones, hide, and virtually any pathogen that comes with the carcass.

A vulture eating a diseased animal isn't spreading the disease, but putting an ending to it. The infection chain terminates in the vulture's gut and goes nowhere else. Few other scavengers on Earth does this reliably.

Without vultures, things get bad for humans in a hurry. We've learned this hard lesson first hand.

In the 1990s, Indian farmers started giving their cattle a cheap painkiller called diclofenac. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. The population collapsed by more than 95 percent in under a decade, one of the fastest declines of any bird species ever recorded.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs and rats moved in to do the cleanup instead. Both species actually carry and spread rabies. Both brought the disease into contact with human populations in ways vultures never would have.

A 2024 study in the American Economic Review estimated the vulture collapse contributed to roughly 500,000 additional human deaths over the following decade. Not metaphorically. Counted deaths, linked statistically to the collapse of one bird.

The same thing is now beginning in sub-Saharan Africa, where poachers bait carcasses with poison to kill lions and elephants that might alert rangers. Vultures find the carcass first, as they always do. Six of Africa's eleven vulture species are now threatened with extinction.

The animal that shows up to the things nobody else will touch is doing more disease control than most of what we actively protect. It just has the misfortune of looking exactly like what it is.

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@Zigmanfreud This is quite the fracture. I still think the vast majority of Dems prefer middle left sanity, but these super-blue states are sprinting away from it.

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@GregWhitak43995 @sammmidd @stillnothawkize Incredible tweet, 10/10

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@watchinggames2 @mrdtrine84 @HawkeyeSanity @iHeartRadio We all know why you post anonymously with no picture. We all know why, and you know that we all know why.

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@GraeschMatt @Murph_Andy Most of them are streamed live on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook

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@bennyjohnson Religious freedom is religious freedom 🤷‍♂️

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@papasmurf341 Low T Kid Rape Ken Paxton?

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@CashisKing70 @ElectionTime_ Low T Kid Rape Ken Paxton

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@Acyn @jonfavs Low T Kid Rape Ken Paxton

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@ClayTravis Your cope is hilarious

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@cyclonetrader24 @McCormickJohn @PatThomas1318 This is a pretty easy explainer

[RD @RDb6qj]

@MikeBrem @McCormickJohn @PatThomas1318 Basically, Zach was married and so was his current wife. She was married to a Koch and Zach was working for the Koch’s.

Zach couldn’t keep his zipper up and he cheated on his wife with the also married former daughter in law.

You following????

[Matt @bald_keys]

@tjpullen @stillnothawkize @HawksBestie One of the most disingenuous sentences I’ve seen on Twitter

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

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@HawkGuyEnjoyer The video ain’t Sand, sport

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@AdamLauridsen @HawkGuyEnjoyer Not Rob Sand

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@gregghenson @dmonnin1 How so?