It's a slippery slope, folks!

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These are the elections on the ballot in 2025. I will be reminding you all EVERY DAY about this.

Not to make this too political, but those tiles have RIGHT angles.

TIL about Greenland sharks, the longest-living vertebrates, and mind suitably blown! "The oldest of the animals that they sampled had lived for nearly 400 years, and they conclude that the species reaches maturity at about 150 years of age." —J. Nielsen et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wut?!

So much food advertising is about what is not in the food or drink!

This incident is both enraging and extremely troubling. Enraging that these masked agents would bully and hurt an American citizen to the point that he could easily have died from the assault, bc of his heart condition and age. And troubling bc these actions are becoming so common.

THIS!

While it LOOKS like Trump is making everybody capitulate, you guys realize 6 people own 90% of ALL media in America? There are not tens of thousands of people capitulating. There are just a few old men—lusting for more power— & Trump is giving it to them! That’s what Kimmel's cancellation means.

"I can abhor the violence that took your life. But I don’t have to celebrate how you chose to live." —Pastor Howard-John Wesley

I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hive mind, what is this? It was in a box of 1990s toys. I tried Pokemon ball, but not quite. A little heavier than a bobber.

And you gotta problem with this? 🙃

I wonder if his university fired the professor who canceled his class went he found out Taylor Swift and her boyfriend got engaged, and he needed time to process the news.

Love it! This would also apply to my soccer buddies as we warm up for our pickup game. We are all tamalou (tamalous?). Even the youngsters in their thirties!

Those three bullet points nailed it so clearly and succinctly!

I feel so good about humanity when I see cars pulling off to the side of the road for an ambulance. I know it's the law and everything, but I'm nevertheless heartened to see people reacting quickly to help a stranger get the care they need.

An unfriendly reminder before a weekend of conventions & the Labor Day holiday - keep comments on people’s bodies to yourself. Be it weight gain or weight loss; no need to make that your response to seeing someone who’s changed since you last saw them.

Fun fact: adding alt text to your image makes your post more discoverable than any hashtags you pile in. Because when people search for posts - search includes alt text.

Clearly, incomplete landscaping at national monuments counts as an emergency that requires mobilization of multiple states’ national guard units

If the president wants to punish desecration of the flag, should we start with his followers who love to wear Old Glory as garments and underwear, in direct opposition to the already-established US Flag Code?

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"The authoritarian creep of Trump's narcissism." —former White House attorney Ty Cobb, speaking with @steveinskeep.bsky.social today on @npr.org

I saw the video, which no one else saw. The ambassador approached the governor. A big, manly guy, with tears in his eyes, he came up to the governor and said, "Sir, I'm so proud to be a part of this tremendous deal." Some people are saying 1/2

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

I swear, if Pittsburgh were a city in Europe, Americans would be photographing the heck out of it. @pittsburgh.bsky.social

Trump's federal military takeover of police function in DC?* *Wikipedia, "Wag the dog," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the....

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www.publicsource.org/federal-immi... Because, you know, hardworking, tax-paying cooks, servers, and dishwashers are such a danger to the Pittsburgh community, which has been aging and losing population for decades. @412justice.org @pittsburgh.bsky.social @refugees.org

Fellow editors, any suggestions for a gender-inclusive term for "king," as in "Coke is the king of soft drinks" or "Wordle is the king of popular word games." Something creative but not ridiculous?

Why we should all care about RFK Jr.’s dismantling of the US Preventive Services Task Force.

GOP lawmakers are so afraid of being held accountable that they're silencing critics like Isaiah Martin, who was arrested for refusing to yield the microphone during a redistricting hearing.

Well done, Carnegie Mellon University students! @cmu.edu @freespeechcenter.bsky.social publicsource.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Hear, hear! And by "hear," I mean don't hear. Leafblowers

We feed you. They hunt us.

My God

"Equally apply the Constitution" What a friggin joke.

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Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues. "I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."

These poor, struggling, mainstream white Christians. They suffer greatly, having to deal with their identity being so pervasive in our culture that they don't even realize their privilege. They're like toddlers being fed, carried, bathed, clothed, and entertained and then whining about Mothers Day.

We fail to believe it when we're young, but yes, if we're lucky, we will someday be old.

Christian Nationalism

The Trump administration will do anything to rid this country of the slightest hint of anti-Semitism, unless anti-Semites have a million dollars available to bribe the president, of course.

Holy heck, I never knew the name for this expression! Criminy!

In the firehose of cringy, questionable, immoral, and, finally, outright illegal actions, it's hard to stay on top of this battle.

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