Charlie Thomsen

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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"weird how musk suddenly became a nazi" is the kind of thing people like kara swisher say to avoid having to acknowledge they misread the field and missed a decade worth of cues

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Menendez’s biggest mistake was not appointing three Supreme Court justices.

Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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“Scientists” did not warn of “global cooling” in the 70s, thus proving they’re wrong now too; the consensus was always that greenhouse gases have a warming effect and there were some magazine covers worrying about how the gas crisis would affect the winter months

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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This is astounding. Over about 10 years the use of the livestock drug diclofenac wiped out nearly 50 million vultures. The result was spread of disease among humans causing an estimated half a million deaths. Just tragic all around. www.science.org/content/arti...

Loss of India’s vultures may have led to deaths of half a million peoplewww.science.org Find could offer lessons for conserving key species in other places

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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

#DomesticViolenceWheel

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Today we lost an ally. May he rest in peace.

A moment of silence for a hero. apnews.com/article/buxt...

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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So Trump called RFK Jr to discuss how "we're going to win" but not the widow of the man who took his bullet?

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A massive stand of Key Largo tree cactus, the only one in existence in the U.S., was destroyed by rising ocean waters as ice sheets at the poles of the Earth continue to melt, according to a paper published earlier this month in the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.

Key Largo tree cactus becomes 1st-ever US species to become extinct due to rising sea levelsabcnews.go.com A type of tropical cactus native to the Florida Keys has become the first species in the country to become extinct due to rising sea levels, researchers said.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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"Modern medicine has failed us. To live full, healthy lives, we must go back to what nature intended. That means real food, vigorous exercise, and a byzantine combination of unregulated dietary supplements." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/liv...

Live Like Prehistoric Man by Purchasing My Elaborate Supplement Routinewww.mcsweeneys.net Modern medicine has failed us. To live full, healthy lives, we must go back to what nature intended. That means real food, vigorous exercise, and a...

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Oh your musical taste is “eclectic?” I have a whole Spotify playlist that’s an ashtray superglued to a fourteen year old armadillo named Peony who sells encyclopedias

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How I prove my love to grace: by ending capitalism 🥰

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Me and the grad students eyeing the snacks during seminar to see if we can grab a second cookie after the talk.

Good morning! #birds

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::taps mic:: because teen girls and wine moms have a lot to lose and are some of the most realistically politically engaged people in america.

It’s weird that the last few years have involved having to wrestle with the NYT and CNN being full of shit while People and Teen Vogue of all things are doing their job for them

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Existing Trump supporters—including political reporters privately in sympathy with him—obviously experienced a powerful galvanizing emotion from the failed assassination attempt. They assumed that emotional experience would be widespread, but so far the polling doesn’t bear that out.

"In the national Morning Consult poll of 2,045 registered voters, taken Monday, Trump leads President Joe Biden 46 percent to 45 percent. The poll has a margin of error of two percentage points." www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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This seems like a grim natural experiment to show that access to mental health services isn't going to neutralize access to guns when it comes to controlling violence

Jesus, both of Thomas Matthew Crooks' parents are licensed professional counselors. "The AR-15 rifle Crooks used was one of more than a dozen registered to and legally purchased by his father, with whom he often went to the shooting range, officials said." www.wsj.com/us-news/myst...

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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If you're my friend and you've been stashing gold bars, call me

Becky, Bob Menendez won't see these jokes but your friends who illicitly stash gold bars will 😔

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Thinking about Trump wanting JD Vance to play up “the hillbilly thing” and insisting he give his RNC speech in overalls, with hay bales and wagon wheels on stage, holding a moonshine jug “y’know, like Hee-Haw, everybody loved that show”

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Just learned that the Margie’s Meatloaf Mecca billboard came down this year. I was fortunate enough to encounter it firsthand while driving to Cincinnati in 2021

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I am also now Team Mongolia.

This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

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The legal max a person can donate to a candidate is $3300. But, when billionaires like Elon Musk exploit our broken campaign finance laws to donate $45 million a month to a candidate, we’re no longer a democracy and it’s no longer an election — it’s an oligarchy and an auction.

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 19,1959

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captain ede peaches, painted by bertha heiges, 1900