Complete Travisty

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Reluctant Texan
Still on social media way too much

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

Definitely Land Before Time

name a film with too many sequels.

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

That sigma male is clearly just Crowley from Good Omems

they keep inventing new guys

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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the United States has one of the oldest constitutions in the world and is no longer, practically speaking, capable of amending it this leaves us, on many issues, only a slight step up from strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a system of government

The problem, as always, is that the U.S. system is uniquely bad among wealthy democracies.

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There are "change" elections and there are "please don't fuck my life up" elections and I think 2024 is definitely in the latter category and if Biden really isn't getting hurt by the bad debate performance, that's why.

Kinky

Ahhhhhh!

Smile! Living skin helps robot make a happy face

Smile! Living skin helps robot make a happy facewww.nature.com Anchors inspired by skin ligaments connect cell-based composite to robotic visage.

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America isn't a conservative country. It's a center-left country with a democracy problem.

The GOP is quickly becoming a party defined by issues on which 70% of the population disagrees with them. Dobbs and gun regulation has exposed this, and now same goes for GOPs increasing embrace of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies. And yet this race is 50/50. Gift link. wapo.st/3VvKTju

Analysis | The GOP’s sudden turn away from gay rights — and acceptancewapo.st The right wing of the party has re-injected LGBTQ+ rights and issues into our political discussion in recent years. There are real signs it’s having an effect.

11/10, no notes:

"Crystral"

"People had discovered her like this before, and it always caused embarrassment. So now she reassured visitors but tempted fate by always holding, in her rigid hands, a small handwritten sign which read: I ATE’NT DEAD."

Friday night

Stealthy?

Breaking News: An influential Israeli official said in a taped speech that the government was engaged in a stealthy effort to cement control over the West Bank.

Israeli Official Describes Secret Government Bid to Cement Control of West Banknyti.ms Israeli judges have long ruled that Israel’s control of the territory is a temporary military occupation and complies with international law. A powerful minister’s recent speech, caught on tape, sugge...

Important research done thanks to ministry grants!

Walking with irregular strides may help you burn more calories

Walking with irregular strides may help you burn more calorieswww.newscientist.com Taking a combination of short and long strides as you walk increases the amount of energy used by the body

To be more fair than they deserve, identifying as a religion for cultural reasons while ignoring all its tenets is as old as religion itself. Something like a third of Catholics in some European countries have said they *don't believe in God*

I'm gonna live forever

Sedentary coffee drinkers had a 24 percent reduced risk of mortality compared with those who sat for more than six hours and didn’t drink coffee, according to the lead author of a study published recently in the journal BMC Public Health.

More good news for coffee drinkers from a study of sitting and sippingwww.washingtonpost.com Sedentary coffee drinkers had a 24 percent reduced risk of mortality compared with sedentary non-coffee-drinkers, a researcher found.

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It's really weird (it's not really weird) how states that ban abortions are also states where women can't get leave to take care of their children.

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its only a machine gun if it comes from the machinegunlandia region of America, otherwise it's just a totally regular massacre machine

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Bump stocks have no purpose outside of mass shootings, but the Republicans on the Supreme Court believe there's a fundamental right to commit mass shootings, and now we all have to live with that while they party on billionaire's yachts and ranches.

This is the Thomas opinion: a parsing of firing mechanics to assess of whether a semiautomatic rifle with bump stock meets the federal definition of "machine gun"

The Couragous Heart

Make a band milder Just as good as Ezra

Make a band milder Some doubt

NEW: Giuliani’s mugshot from Arizona fake-electors case (via Zachary Cohen, CNN)

The sub actually just spontaneously imploded while sitting on the deck of the support ship

The federal team investigating the Titan submersible disaster found that a detailed recounting of the craft’s descent that was viewed millions of times was “made up"

Frightening Log From Titan Submersible’s Fatal Dive Declared a Fakewww.nytimes.com The federal team investigating the Titan disaster found that a detailed recounting of the craft’s descent was “made up.”

Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts say They do not pose a danger to humans, but the venom could pose a threat to native spiders

Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts saywww.cbsnews.com "It is a matter of when, not if" the spiders are set to arrive, experts say, and it could happen any day now.

The Supreme Court will uphold this citing a diary entry from 1650 about how Oliver Cromwell personally castrated a man

Louisiana lawmakers approved a bill that would expand judges’ powers to sentence people convicted of certain sex crimes against children to physical castration.

Louisiana bill proposes surgical castration for child sex offenderswapo.st If the bill is passed, courts could order surgical castrations, which are more invasive than chemical ones. Rights advocates called it inhumane and ineffective.

And thus was Project Plowshare born

Today in 1952, Los Alamos theoretical physicist and nuclear weapons designer Ted Taylor used a parabolic mirror and a 15-kiloton nuclear explosion (Shot George) detonated atop a 300-foot tower in Nevada to light a Pall Mall cigarette. Taylor designed the lightweight “Scorpion” device for the test.