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Nick Brooke
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Hi, everybody! 👋 Dad, mathematician, freelancer, nerd. #OKC. A fact is just a fantasy unless it can be checked. #ScienceRules
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Somebody go wake the president and tell him we needed an emergency unscheduled national holiday tomorrow. He’ll probably do it. #WorldSeries
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Canadian radio & TV calls of the not-Ball Four:
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NEW: We have yet another Notice of Violation of TRO filed in the Chicago Headline Club (journalists) v. ICE/CBP case, this time for events on Saturday in Irving Park.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...
Apparently the strike zone comes all the way up to the batter's neck these days.
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Oh.

Why would they do *that*?
> "a September contingency plan, since deleted from the USDA’s website...said Congress intended 'that SNAP’s operations should continue' and that contingency funds 'are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs [mid-fiscal year]'"

www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
Trump Administration Buries Legal Memo Suggesting It Could Pay November Food Benefits
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the food program, says its hands are tied by the shutdown.
www.huffpost.com
I'm pretty sure they sell pocket Constitutions in the Capitol gift shop.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
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NEW:

A federal judge "anticipates live testimony" at Tuesday's hearing about the enforcement of her order barring excessive force by federal agents in Chicago.

She previously ordered Border Patrol sector chief Greg Bovino in court. www.allrisenews.com/p/greg-bovin...
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consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them
My business logo is cyan... because it's one of the three printer colors. 😂

When you use 2-color process, letterhead is cheaper to print. And it always turns out right—no fancy color matching required.
Yellow ran so cyan could walk
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Yellow ran so cyan could walk
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Joe Rogan is confusing measles with chicken pox
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oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD

(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)
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A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
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Good evening from Queens.

New York is not for sale.
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Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾
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Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
The man cuts hair like Edward Scissorhands. He thinks like his brain has been left to ferment in a big vat of Fox News for much, much too long.

I just shut up and let him do his thing.
He gives a really good haircut!
Lmao i remember that i had the conspiracy theory barber for a while 😭😭😭
This has been sending tf outta me 😭