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[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That bread you're tossing to the ducks malnourishes the adults and can leave the babies unable to fly for the rest of their lives.

Bread is junk food for a duck. It fills them up so they quit foraging for the bugs, plants, and seeds that actually feed them.

In a growing duckling, a diet that heavy in empty carbs makes the wing grow too fast and twist at the joint. The feathers jut out sideways, the wing never works right, and the bird is grounded for good. It's called angel wing, and in an adult it can't be undone.

It doesn't stop at the birds. A pond where people dump bread gets crowded and aggressive, ducklings never learn to find their own food, and the soggy leftovers rot into algae blooms and draw rats.

If you want to feed them, give them food, not filler: cracked corn, oats, halved grapes, chopped lettuce, a handful of thawed peas.

Better yet, just watch them. A healthy pond already feeds its ducks. They were doing fine before the bread showed up.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SORKIN: Do you think it helps, given where you sit in the world, to speculate about fraud without any direct evidence?

US ATTORNEY JAY CLAYTON: I'm not speculating about fraud. I'm not saying there is fraud. I'm saying that the opportunity for fraud makes no sense to me

SORKIN: The president says there was fraud

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

The Mormons are finding out today that without separation of church and state, even your specific brand of Christianity is not safe. Don't say we didn't warn you.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

“MLK made his speech with a million people….”

“I had 25,000. I had more people”

- Donald Trump

Fucking idiot.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

REP. @AOC on Trump going to the Knicks game even though fans don’t want him there: “It has already been a vibe killer, because now MSG has to shut down the watch parties… sometimes you decide not to go to things so other people can enjoy it.”

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test.

Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that it serves Trump’s personal agenda. If they don’t like what you’re working on, the funding disappears.

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no president could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is the most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republicans are forfeiting it without a fight.

Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this funding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE all over Congress and your own job.
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[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

According to documents related to the defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Sean Hannity said if he thought the 2020 election was stolen.

"I did not believe it for one second."

Let's talk about a 'dishonest press,' Sean Hannity.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump to NBC: “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war.” And: “So when you say I promised – I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.”

Reality: Trump promised in two of his highest-profile 2024 addresses not to have any wars at all, and he also made that promise in a bunch of other forums. Some examples:

June 2024 social media post: The election is “a choice between STRENGTH or WEAKNESS, COMPETENCE or INCOMPETENCE, peace and prosperity or war and no war.”

July 2024 Republican National Convention acceptance address: “With our victory in November, the years of war, weakness, and chaos will be over. I don’t have wars.”

August 2024 Pennsylvania rally: “Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all.”

August 2024 North Carolina rally: Approvingly claimed Viktor Orban had said, “Make sure that Trump gets re-elected president and you're not going to have any more wars,” then added himself, “No more wars. No more disruptions. We will have prosperity and we will have peace.”

August 2024 Adin Ross interview: Boasted that he had no wars during his first term, then said, “And we won't have wars again.”

October 2024 Wisconsin rally: Did one of his numerous renditions of the Orban story: “Viktor Orban said, ‘If Trump comes back, you won't have any wars. You won't have any wars.’ And he's about as tough as they get, and he said it loud and clear and he said why. But you won't have any wars.”

November 2024 Election Night victory address: “I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars.”

That is in addition to the many times he struck similar themes without the explicit promise of having no wars period if elected again – for example, vowing to stop “endless” wars or prevent “World War III,” denouncing “warmongers,” boasting of having had “no wars” in his first term, or saying we don’t “need” wars.

Fact check with links to his full comments: https://t.co/qMQ8JmVG4z

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

JUST FILED: A barrage of legal challenges this week, will test Trump's slush fund and White House UFC fights

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[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

It feels good to see the supporters of the most cruel and perverse war criminal since Hitler running away in fear.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Former Republican Gov. John Rowland was convicted of corruption charges and election fraud.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

This is an important piece of journalism.

I sought an interview with Andrew Tate during my reporting. We traded one or two messages. He insisted that we meet in person to talk.

After reading this piece, I suspect many readers will understand why that meeting never happened.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Pam Bondi didn’t just mention Todd Blanche.

She testified that Blanche “was in charge of the process and the entire release of the Epstein files.”

She said she delegated oversight to him.

His name appears 96 times in the transcript.

So why is the man at the center of the Epstein file release, redactions, missing-document questions, and Ghislaine Maxwell questions being promoted instead of questioned?

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: Have you apologized yet?

DOGE was a massive failure. The DOGE Bros were a toxic combination of cluelessness, arrogance and laziness. They made no effort to understand the vital programs they destroyed, like programs that were designed to prevent screwworms.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

The @nyknicks are home and our city is ready to show out.

We’re hosting a free watch party for 5,000 New Yorkers tonight in Bryant Park.

You can register at the link below starting at noon today: https://t.co/Te8eGk5TwW

[Ronald Kelly @RonK3l]

Georgia data center stole 30 million gallons unbilled while residents were forced to conserve.

Unelected tech billionaires now demand 5 million gallons daily for AI greed. Parasites! You are the enemy destroying communities! 😡💥

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon: “The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is a measure of how much money rich people are making. The farmers who can’t afford fertilizer are not in the stock market. The families digging into their savings just to cover groceries are not in the stock market. The people paying $4 or more for gas are not in the fucking stock market”

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

The United States arrests 60,000 pregnant women a year. The most you get in my state is an extra sandwich at lunch and dinner. Adult women’s prisons are subject to MUCH MORE oversight than the juvenile system which is NOT centralized and is a total free for all.

Immigration detention is the same. They move these girls around in transfers to keep them from their right to seek an abortion to conceal the rapes.

The FBI had to raid and shutdown a prison to get the rapes to stop. That is our justice system in America.

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

New: Trump admin is now waiving federal environmental laws for border barrier projects through Big Bend National Park - and Big Bend Ranch State Park: https://t.co/Phy8yTAsaK

Weirdly - DHS says it actually meant to do this last month. I'll explain in a quick thread 👇

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Since the WSJ editorial board mentioned my earlier post about Justice Alito’s son, I’m happy to reply. Pointing out that his son works for an agency whose interests may come before the Supreme Court is not harassment. It is basic transparency.

The federal recusal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), requires a judge or justice to step aside from any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. That standard is about public confidence in the courts. It does not require proof of actual bias.

Whether a particular case would require recusal depends on the specific facts, including the nature of the case and the family member’s role. Reasonable people can disagree about where that line should be drawn. But the existence of the relationship itself is a legitimate subject of public discussion.

If the risk of a 4-4 tie were enough to keep a Justice on a case, no Justice would ever recuse from anything, since every recusal raises that same possibility. The recusal statute already weighs that cost and still commands stepping aside when impartiality is reasonably in question.

The public has every right to know about potential conflicts and to debate whether recusal is appropriate. Transparency is not a threat to judicial independence. It is one of the ways judicial independence maintains public trust.
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