Monica

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[Debbie N. @BeatlesFanDeb]

@JoyceCarolOates

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Putting an elephant into a convention hall like this is torturing it beyond the full comprehension of any human being, because we do not possess the sensory capabilities elephants do.

Elephants have the strongest sense of smell in the animal kingdom.

They can smell WATER from many miles away.

Now imagine putting this poor elephant into an enclosed space with thousands of people, perfume, food, sweat, cleaning products, flooring, and equipment.

This elephant was hit with a massive wall of biological information and sensory overload that we cannot begin to understand.

Elephants also sense sound and vibration through their FEET, not just their ears.

In the wild, they can communicate with each other from miles away just by sensing communication through their feet.

Now imagine what that elephant is experiencing in a convention hall: thousands of human footsteps, sound systems, equipment, metal clanging, concrete, and more.

A confusing hell.

Finally, hard artificial surfaces, in this case the convention hall floor, are terrible for elephants.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The tactics you need to employ in order to get an elephant to behave in this fashion are so horrific I can’t post them.

If this were 30 years ago, I still wouldn’t accept it, but I would understand that perhaps people didn’t know what goes into this sort of training.

Now, there is no excuse.

@GregAbbott_TX

[frank strong @frankstrong]

This is a must-read. And when you read it, recognize it’s not just about HISD. It’s about Fort Worth, Beaumont, Austin. It’s about the whole state.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.

I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:

There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.

The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.

This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:

A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.

Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.

State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.

Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.

Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.

Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.

What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?

Ask The Heritage Foundation.

For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”

The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”

It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.

That’s billions and billions of American votes.

Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:

1620.

That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:

1. Some individuals commit election fraud.

2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.

The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.

It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.

Stop trying to subvert our democracy.

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[Monica @monibethh]

RIP “Ripper”. Anthony Head ♥️♥️♥️

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

False.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed the first federal minimum wage into law in 1938 via the Fair Labor Standards Act, clarified, “By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.”

[The News & Observer @newsobserver]

Bad call robbed a Charlotte school of a track title. NC officials should fix it https://t.co/cCZ7MWnM6h

[Joel Bryant - HighSchoolOT @JoelBryantHSOT]

The Athletic got in contact with Mallard Creek track coach Samuel Willoughby, who said he was not officially notified of any warning given to Nyan Brown earlier in the 8A state championship meet.

“When they warn an athlete, they call the coach in and say, ‘The athlete did this. If it happens again, he’s disqualified.’ No warning was said to him. No one called for me and said anything,” Willoughby said. “It was just, ‘I gave him a warning earlier, and here’s what he did this time, so he’s out.’”

Willoughby referenced multiple oddities that happened with the officiating over the day, but his ultimate message is that his team is not a victim because they didn’t perform as well as they could have.

Good story:

[Monica @monibethh]

This is outrageous. There is no reason this should have gotten a warning

[Mercy McAuley Track & Field @MercyMcauleyTF]

@JMilanijr @langstonwertzjr Do you believe he should have received a warning for this?

[Scott Greenfield @ScottGreenfield]

This is why the death penalty is wrong. It's not that some defendants don't "deserve" it, whatever that means, but that the system is too untrustworthy, too subject to error, to take the life of a human being.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Nearly 12,000 habeas cases filed is a staggering amount, something not seen in generations. And for the government to lose 86% of the time, in front of hundreds of judges appointed by every living president, is a sign of just how much ICE and DOJ stretched the law until it broke.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I can’t let capitalism gaslight me into being a bad person. You don’t think everyone deserves food, shelter, clean water, and healthcare? That’s very sad. Maybe you should reevaluate yourself.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

When a president of the United States calls a black woman journalist a bitch, silence is not an option.

Shame on her cowardly coworkers.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

So ... it's now a federal crime to infiltrate and expose white supremacist groups?
White supremacist groups are a protected class under this administration?

[charred skeever hide @low_dosage]

there's just So Much Happening right now, but this really should have been a much bigger story

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old sexual predator wake up on Easter Morning, snort some Adderall and insult the world’s 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from ‘Epstein Files’ before?