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Do not obey in advance.

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Cats of Yore

She writes:

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Kevin M. Kruse

Excellent points. One additional bright—Vance doesn’t help Trump in any traditional electoral sense, but I suspect the pick helped bring Elon, Sacks, Ackman, and Thiel on board. Or, to put it another way, “funding secured”

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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This is how you do it.

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Has anyone asked the Republican candidate for governor — the one who recently insisted “some folks need killing” — about political violence?

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If the donation was made by him, and not someone with the same name, it's odd that it was made on inauguration day. Did he lose a bet?

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Congratulations to @annewyllie.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Saliva-based tests offer an alternative to nasal swabbingwww.nature.com Drooling into a tube is not only more comfortable than nasal testing, it could also detect disease earlier. Drooling into a tube is not only more comfortable than nasal testing, it could also detect d...

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fwiw People magazine has a over 80 million monthly subscribers while the NYT only has about 10.5 million.

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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I wonder if this new program of targeting elite tax dodges has impacted the social circles of Viscount Arthur Gregg Fitzroy Gervaise Brook-Hampster Oliver St John-Mollusc "Dash" Sulzberger the XXXVIII in some way

The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

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We are still paying for the failure to put the "Enhanced Interrogation" torture goons in prison.

FUN. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

He Wrote the Bush-Era ‘Torture Memos.’ Trumpworld See Him as a ‘Guiding Light’www.rollingstone.com Trump and his allies are fans of John Yoo’s work and his views on punishing their enemies and expanding presidential power.

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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Completely mind melted by how amazing this embroidery by peacocksandpinecones.co.uk is. Zoom in on the detail

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Fun fact: Back in 2022, the FOMC was widely derided for predicting only a small rise in unemployment with core inflation rapidly falling. Those projections turn out to have been almost exactly right. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...

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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

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"President Biden, who seemed fully conscious and did not drool on himself, warned that an asteroid would wipe out all life in three days. Though he's been long dogged by questions about his physical and mental stamina, the president remained upright as he briefed the nation on the coming apocalypse"

What the actual fuck, NYT?

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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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Absolutely infuriating that we have no infrastructure to notify the population of these trends. City public health departments should be monitoring local wastewater and sending alerts to the entire population when it crosses a specific threshold.

Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

x.comx.com

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There's nothing particularly savvy and wise and profound in the observation that Trump is a monster, and his election would have republic-endingly bad consequences to everyone living in the US, but it is still true, and it is still the most useful thing newspapers could write about the race

The rule only applies to Democrats. Especially Black Women Democrats. It's a subset of Murc's Law.

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There are many people capable of being Washington Post's publisher. Why did Jeff Bezos choose one with all this baggage?

Will Lewis Says He Helped Hacking Investigation. Scotland Yard Had Doubts.www.nytimes.com Mr. Lewis, now the Washington Post publisher, gave ‘green light’ to delete News Corp. emails during a major journalism scandal.