did they *know* they were kissing cousins, or did someone just discover that? because I don't even know if I know who all my second cousins are.
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barefootwriter
Профиль VivelyPhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com
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It's literally incredible that no one talks about the Democratic Party being so broke that they're asking for bills to be sent after the Midterms and no one wants to connect the dots and talk about why the base isn't donating and the correlation to the consultant class feeding like ticks.
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I swear to fucking god there aren’t enough paid tweets in the world to get this campaign across the finish line. If this isn’t the nadir of centrist Democratic fuckery I have serious, serious worries.
Howard Mortman"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens
this kind of hedge is par for the course in academic writing. it cannot be (and can perhaps never be) proven definitively that the origin was not a lab leak, but the preponderance of evidence is that the origin is the wet markets. this is dipshit snake oil salesmen using that as a foot in the door.
Michael HobbesThe scientists then published a research paper demonstrating that the virus showed no signs of being engineered. This paper has not been debunked or retracted. No evidence of engineering has emerged. In the conclusion the paper says, “but it could still be a lab leak.”
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i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
victoria zeller⚔️ (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)enough of this shit
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Another tally mark against cuts to education. Or against the push to use AI in everything. Take your pick.
Eric Geller"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
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It takes seven forms, three approvals and finally a mistake to happen for me to get a reimbursement for cheese eaten during a business dinner. Meanwhile:
Phil LewisAn Army National Guard officer has admitted to using his government travel card to fund a secret second marriage
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This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
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BREAKING: The 9th Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented mass detention policy — the 5th striaght appellate loss for the Trump administration and perhaps the most significant, covering California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, among others. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...