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Life’s a bitch and I’m a dog person: socially inept emotionally adept

[Woof @meIfiori]

Quebrando um jejum de vários anos sem dar as caras por aqui porque PRECISO desse post fixo no meu perfil.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Have we talked about the advantages of extremism lately? What did I miss?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[fried @FriedHardt]

o fato do gilmar mendes ter se tornado o maior crítico do processo contra o master mesmo quando moraes e toffoli estão atolados até o pescoço nos escândalos, só prova q ainda falta desenterrar oq o maior vagabundo mafioso do STF recebeu do vorcaro que ainda não foi descoberto

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

One year ago today

(Musk later deleted this post.)

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

The US has once again allowed Russia to sell oil.

The US Treasury Department has extended the permit for operations involving Russian oil already loaded onto tankers by 30 days.

Disgrace.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.

In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year.

Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve.

Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads.

They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.

The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week.

These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Ukrainian intelligence services believe Russia is starting to prepare a renewed offensive from Belarus into Northern Ukraine toward Kyiv, the report suggested Russia is pressing Belarus to support new offensive actions.

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

"Professor, don't you find it curious that a new US-Iran peace deal leaks almost every time the 10y UST yield breaks 4.4% on the upside?"

"Actually, if I think about it, I don't find it curious at all."

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

How, exactly, did we go from a $200 million privately-funded ballroom, to a $1 billion taxpayer-funded one?

[Vatslav @Vatslav55]

Ветеран армії США Девід Френч: — "Жодна нація не може зрівнятися з американською могутністю, але вперше в моєму житті моральне та стратегічне серце захисту ліберальної демократії не б'ється у Вашингтоні. Воно в Києві, де мужній народ підхопив смолоскип, який впустила Америка".

[Sônia Bridi @SoniaBridi]

Quem diria? A direita americana sabe que vacinas são seguras mas não quer que o povo saiba.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I just want to point out....

The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Russia did not offer peace.
It asked for silence around its parade.
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Moscow announced a May 8–9 “ceasefire” for Victory Day, while warning that central Kyiv could face a massive missile strike if the celebrations were “disrupted.”
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Ukraine answered with a different test. At 00:00 on May 6, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared a regime of silence and made the rule explicit: if Russia attacks, Ukraine will respond symmetrically.
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Russia attacked. Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy came under fire, including a strike on a kindergarten in Sumy, and by 10:00 a.m. Zelenskyy said Russian forces had violated the silence 1,820 times.
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That is the whole difference: Moscow wanted quiet for a spectacle; Ukraine gave Russia a chance to prove whether peace was real.
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[Godless Heathen @heathen_godless]

@JakeSherman Nopity, nope nope nope. The issuers of the GOP’s credit card (the American people) have just revoked their spending privileges. $71.7 BILLION? If this passes, every member of Congress needs to be tossed. Trump & the GOP are bankrupting us.

[tengri_spirit 🇨🇦🇰🇿🇺🇦 @tengri_spirit]

Вдумайтесь. Посол Америки в Украине ушла в отставку и открыто обвинила Трампа в заключении союза с Путиным.

Респект Бриджет Бринк. Смелая и честная женщина

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

MAGA found 34,000 dead people on voter rolls and screamed FRAUD. What they didn’t tell you: ZERO of them voted.
Dead registrations ≠ dead people voting.
This is a known manipulation tactic-give you a scary number, hide the part that proves nothing happened. Don’t be played.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.

70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.

Oil dropped 12%.

The trade made $125 million in profit.

Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.

$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.

$920 million placed before this one.

Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.

What kind of war is this?

This is more like a trading desk with an army.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

I never thought I’d see a U.S. president and vice president actively back a European leader caught collaborating with the Kremlin at the expense of Europe’s security.

That will forever be the legacy of Trump and Vance in Europe. We will not forget.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I love it -- JD Vance comes to a foreign country to openly campaign for a candidate ahead of an election, and then accuses other countries of interfering in those very elections.

[Woof @meIfiori]

@IAmSophiaNelson Serious? Election can be “rigged” with methods of mass influencing. And Kremlin sells those methods to it’s allies. If Orbán loses, is likely Trump won’t last long after USA elections.