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Trump’s new beef probably not horse, that we know of. (Salon)
How the climate is changing in Europe (RAPIDLY), which was not built for it and is still puritanically resisting air conditioning 23 years after 70,000 people died in a heatwave. The opening anecdote is about tennis and you’re like “tennis, the New Yorker is going to tell me the tennis match was too hot?” and yes, it’s going to do exactly that. (New Yorker) Meanwhile, from January, here’s some science for you on Himalayan “glacial lake outburst floods,” which we all got to see in live-action-horror-movie this week, oh lord oh lord. (Nature) And here’s Jonathan Larsen on Nepal etc., I’m going to call it “bitter and angry” not “making light.” But it’s a fine line sometimes! (The Fucking News)
Meet the smarmy little shit running the Trump Kennedy Center lawsuit for the DOJ. He’s worse than you imagined! (Our Liz at Law and Chaos)
Put on your big boy Nazi cape, Gregory Bovino, the Trump administration doesn’t want to “kill” you. God, aren’t they embarrassed that they put such puny (emotionally) lunatics in charge? (Independent via Yahoo! News)
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Woooowwwww voters are … let’s say less than informed let’s say fuckin dumb. (Bad Faith Times)
California gonna outlaw child marriage, ‘bout time. (It’s one of three states with no minimum marriage age, yuck.) And get this, the bill was even coauthored by a Republican woman! (LA Times)
Texans: Go check your voter reg right the fuck now. (San Antonio Current) North Carolina is complying with the ballot and voter list order. Shaking my damn head. (Democracy Docket)
I think former North Carolina governor and current Democratic Senate nominee Roy Cooper has a legitimate defamation case against the Senate Republicans paying for these fake news stories that he released a felon who went on to commit murder — when that was the noted felon-lovers in South Carolina. HUH. (Popular Info)
Holy shit, HPV vaccine, that decrease in head and neck cancers is SO HIGH!!!!!
They found that over the course of 13 years, the people vaccinated between ages 9 and 26 had a 68% lower risk of head and neck cancers. The percentage jumped to 91% for the same age group when looking specifically at oropharyngeal, or throat, cancers.
Oh you don’t want to vaccinate your kids against HPV? Fine, less head and neck cancer for the rest of us! (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
The Rich Dad Poor Dad financial self-help author is $1.2 billion in debt, why, is that a lot? (Vanity Fair)
Hahahahaha, Zohran Mamdani, pied-a-terrorist, made the tax too hard to escape, ahahahahaaha!
Those hoping to sidestep the extra bill are running into a big problem: The new tax leaves little daylight for the kinds of workarounds that rich, absentee property owners are floating to their trusted advisors.
Ha :) (Business Insider)
WILDLIFE PHOTOS, WILDLIFE PHOTOS! Damn they should have left out the last one, which is a stone cold bummer, and while I’m thinking about it, here’s the best book I read last year, with a Wonkette commission cut. (AOL)
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“In any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford. Since power over human beings is shown in making them do what they would rather not do, the man who is actuated by love of power is more apt to inflict pain than to permit pleasure. “ - Bertrand Russell
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