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Nature is my religion.
Vote Blue. Pro-Democracy.

[Corey duBrowa @coreydu]

The Scots and Norwegians are making a very strong case for “best World Cup fans.”

[Bugsy Sailor @BugsySailor]

Just another Lake Superior sunrise. Sorry, it's the only content I've got.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Ossoff: “Our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas and our care for one another. Americans aren’t a race, we’re a people. United not by ethnicity, but by shared convictions and that is what makes us exceptional”

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

MAJOR BREAKING: In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states may count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day, even if they arrive afterward.

Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented.

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

Lightning bugs are the best part of summer

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Since we’re not doing separation of church and state anymore, when can we expect the churches to start paying income taxes?

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The final draft of Declaration of Independence was submitted to the Continental Congress by Thomas Jefferson today in 1776!

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Birthright citizenship is a constitutional right. PERIOD.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination."
~ D.H. Lawrence

An Oak Forest
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1893)

[Lake Michigan @LakeMichigan13]

Busy boating week up topside. Please humans be safe.
Always wear a life jacket.
Keep an eye on the weather.
Know the rules of navigation.
Don’t operate under the influence.
Boater safety courses are way cool as are fire extinguishers & throwable floatation devices.
🌊🌊

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to have knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

― Socrates

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Famous libtard Ulysses S. Grant:
“Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep the Church and State forever separate.”

—Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, September 29, 1875

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi @NYTimesPR, thanks for responding. Appreciate it. I'm a subscriber and I think some of your reporters do some great reporting.
Just to respond to your response to my post:
1) There were no facts "misstated" by me. You cited three examples in response. Only one of them was about specific *named* GOP House members (and it wasn't from "yesterday", it was from a year ago.) So I stand by my post.
2) As others have pointed out already, none of the 3 articles you cited have the names of any GOP individuals in the titles ("Right-Wing Republicans" "a Kansas Republican" "G.O.P. Fingerprints"), in comparison to your original "Who is Darializa" takedown piece. Where is your "Who is Brandon Gill" or "Who is Keith Self" or "Who Is Randy Fine" or "Who Is Mary Miller" critical profile pieces? How about "Who is Tom Emmer," given the GOP House Majority Whip just a few days ago spewed racist crap about Somalis? And where are the Peter Baker tweets summarizing *their* most controversial claims?
3) This isn't a new criticism. Many have made it against your paper for many years; that you go harder on the left than the right, that you even occasionally whitewash the far right. Remember when you had to do a public response in 2017 to a NYT profile that went super soft on a... Nazi? https://t.co/IF6DhTwcrp. Remember when you guys did a softball piece about a far-right, Islamophobic Trump aide's love for cooking? https://t.co/dp0Sf9PQg9.
Oh, and dare I ask: where are the fawning 'Trump voters' in diners' equivalent pieces for DSA members in NYC bodegas? Isn't it time?
4) Finally, that your response to my post was to proudly say you guys at the Times have "been documenting the increasingly extreme viewpoints on both sides of the political spectrum" kinda makes my point for me. One side's extreme wants universal healthcare and an end to genocide. The other side's extreme says Somalis are "garbage" and wants "remigration", mass deportations and white supremacy.
But, hey, "Both sides!"

[empty ring @ring_mt]

@Dogman1013 Hey! @mooseincrisis is that your family?

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@JamesTate121 @tchurjulie Serious boat shoes.