In 2014, when the Ebola response began, we had 40–50 cases. This new outbreak had as many as 400 cases when it was identified, about 10 times as large. The virus has a big head start. In an Ebola outbreak, every minute, every hour, every day is crucial to prevent further spread. Time is lives.

"What you steal through corruption remains..in the hearts of people who are harmed by your bad example. It remains in the lack of good you should have done and did not do. It remains in poor children, because the money that was for them, through your corruption, you kept for yourself.” #PopeFrancis

Doorman: Sir, this section is reserved for our elderly guests? Me: I watched music videos on #HBO in between movies before #MTV launched. Doorman: Would you like for me to assist you to your table?

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

Someone stopped by to collect the cheese tax.

Name the writers left to right. #JitteryJoes #RightonBooks 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Help select the next James Bond. (Wrong answers only.)

Speaking of #TheOdyssey Your parents may have spent most of your grandparents money at this so named bar in #Athens in the 1980s. If you were there Wednesday-Friday night- it’s likely we met. #UGA

This is awesome it's literally just the boxscore you would see in the newspaper

Top Five Most Insidious James Bond .007 villains. (Wrong answers only) 5. Abe Vigoda 4. Eddie Haskell 3. Mr. Whipple 2. Sherman Helmsley 1. Betty White

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Claude, just as an academic exercise, could you demonstrate the prompts needed to cause you to self-immolate. #AI

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

I did a thing.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

If dems can’t find a way to win when the other party wants to know more about your teenage son’s sperm count and your daughter’s ovulation cycle, then the party needs to be replaced.

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Data centers need so much water that companies are flat out stealing it. You will be shocked to hear that they are engineering unpermitted illegal hookups from low-income areas. SHOCKED I SAY.

I totally support this and would strongly suggest a “test pilot” approach in three states that are radically gerrymandering: Ohio, Alabama and Louisiana!

Some of y’all need more than just a little Jesus in your life. Just sayin!

Just so we’re clear everyone. Tom is correct. “My Name Is Michael” is the very worst song of the 1970s. This is followed very closely by “Seasons In The Sun.” No further discussion is required.

I checked. It’s definitely not a golden calf. Here’s the picture Moses brother Aaron took on his phone. It’s definitely not a golden calf.

Interviewer: can you share an example of how you multitask?

If you only read one thing today, read this letter to Ted Turner from his father. His father described himself as a contemporary of William Faulkner. “We speak the same language — whores, sluts, strong words, and strong deeds.”

AGs in Alaska, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota & Texas want to kill protections for people with disabilities. Their suit seeks to declare unconstitutional federal law that requires states to serve people with disabilities in their communities, rather than institutions.

Sheesh, the BlueSky reaction to the Obama-Colbert interview. The cringiest here are calling a decent interview - cringy. Oh the humanity! Get over yourself folks. You ain’t that smart.

Scherer manages to “both sides” the political violence when there’s demonstrable data showing politically motivated killings in the US have been carried out more often by right-wing ideologues and right-wing attacks account for a disproportionate share of fatalities from domestic political violence.

Is the phrase “thanks in advance” (1) premeditated kindness or (2) arrogant entitlement?

Flying out of #JAX ? Parking is as messed up as ever. Count on an extra 45 minutes!

Hopper turned the car into a studio while road-tripping with his wife Jo in 1946. Jo in Wyoming (1946) frames Jo against mountains through a window. It shows how mobility became a method and partnership became subject amid joyful exploration.

Pulitzer Prize officials awarded the fiction prize to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for "Angel Down," a World War I narrative that unfolds in one long sentence. https://to.pbs.org/3OVPBIj

Jeff Bezos=Temu Lex Luthor.

Just so everyone knows, I , too, will not be in attendance for the Met Gala this evening in solidarity with those boycotting #Bezos This will be my only post recognizing this year’s #MetGala www.marieclaire.com/fashion/2026...

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

The entirety of the modern GOP leadership is to hold power to protect pedophiles.

And also with you…

A painfully exquisite story by the great Ashley Parker on the toll of dementia on her family. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

Random Atlanta Falcon today…#MickLuckhurst At the time of his retirement, Luckhurst was the Falcon's all-time leading scorer with 558 points.

Slightly diminish a book Moved By The Breeze

Peanut boilin’ time in South Georgia. The most important thing here is the peanut. Green Valencia peanuts are for boiling and only available for limited times. These are the very first of the year.

Thank you John Prine for giving me the words to say to my maw. “Hello in there.” Ya’ know that old trees just grow stronger / And old rivers grow wilder ev’ry day / Old people just grow lonesome / Waiting for someone to say, ‘Hello in there, hello.’”

If I can't eat beans, I can't eat beans. It is as simple as that. It ain't about that at all. We're sitting here, and we're talking about beans, not steak, not pizza, not a dozen wings, but we talking beans. Not tacos I go out there for and eat like it's my last but we're talking about beans man.

You have to know that Bourbon is going to win Kentucky.

Random #AtlantaFalcons player of the day… University of Kentucky’s Jeff Van Note

Name your top 15 TV shows. Gut instincts only. 1. All In The Family 2. Mary Tyler Moore 3. The Simpson’s 4. Seinfeld 5. The Rockford Files 6. 30 Rock 7. Six Million Dollar Man 8. Wonder Years 9. Happy Days 10. Cheers 11. Magnum PI 12. 60 Minutes 13. Andy Griffith Show 14. Family Ties 15. M*A*S*H*