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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️

"Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016.

When Biden ran the government and the intelligence, the election was secure and Trump ran in 2024.

But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Have weather forecasts seemed less accurate lately? There's a major contributing factor: nearly half the morning weather balloons in the Lower 48 are "missing."

This is an ongoing crisis that is degrading critical severe weather forecasts that we all rely on. It's having real, tangible impacts on degrading forecast quality.

If you work in transportation, agriculture or commerce, this should matter to you.

Regardless of the causes, this negatively affects people of ALL political backgrounds. Weather affects everyone. And it's impacting ALL of us negatively.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

This is especially concerning for severe weather forecasts. We can't go 18 hours without ascertaining how the atmosphere is layered, how much storm fuel has built up and if severe thunderstorms are going to erupt. The Storm Prediction Center has even acknowledged forecasting frustrations in at least one public bulletin.

As an atmospheric scientist myself, I can say firsthand – the forecasts I'm able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be. I'm not able to predict severe weather with the confidence I normally would. That is extremely concerning.

The United States is "supposed" to launch balloons at 0Z and 12Z ideally – a.k.a. around 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern time. That's not happening. Many sites, due to staffing issues stemming from broader political and organizational issues, have pushed to 18Z, or early afternoon. That's not helpful for morning severe weather forecasts. In other words, you get less lead time. Less advanced notice. Quicker ramp-ups and ramp-downs to the forecast.

We're not able to get jet stream, temperature, moisture or wind profiles of the atmosphere each morning like we otherwise would.

Moreover, the World Meteorological Organization encourages 12Z soundings; that data is shared via the Global Observing System (GOS) under the World Weather Watch (WWW). That's not happening.

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@aliegarnett

[Mookie Alexander @mookiealexander]

"Rude" being a hit song has to be one of the lowest points in our history as a species.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[lowfatjif @lowfatjiff]

@mookiealexander He’s such a clutch player, and they parked him at the far side and rolled with No Big Game James. Kenny has some splaining to do, along with his hoarding timeouts while seeing Brunson shred Harden.

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@WrestlerHauser Rock n Roll Express
Midnight Express

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@MassiveReport This is surely a different look…

[chyea ok @chyeaok]

Again, Pete Buttigieg was lambasted by Fox News, including Sean Duffy himself, for taking leave to be in the hospital while his son was in the ICU.

Now Duffy is caking on foundation to film reality TV while in office and bragging about it on the same network. Clownshow.

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@mookiealexander Does not having him in at D maybe help a teensie bit?? Not sure anyone on that team can defend KAT/pnr but he surely cannot.

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@atrupar

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@mookiealexander Oh my goodness, I meant 31!!!

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@mookiealexander Just watched the Hulk Hogan documentary and��he was 50+ from the age of 26 on. Here’s him at 41.

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@RickBroering Thats Tim Duncan?!?! Dang.

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@RickBroering Big bodied bruiser with a nice stroke to 3…yes please.

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@RickBroering That kid is a flame thrower. My goodness.

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@atrupar What. The. Fu€&.

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@DavyJonesLR

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Are they waiting to see if Markwayne Mullin also wants to have sex with him?

[lowfatjif @lowfatjiff]

@XUAthletics @Skyline_Chili Regular 3 ways and 2 Coneys, lots of hot sauce added!