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  • Crowds march with giant phalluses at Japan's fertility festival

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  • That probably goes back to JH Kellogg and his Seventh Day Adventist religion, and possibly back to the Puritans.

  • ‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran

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  • I can't wait for the GOP to get their electoral whomping in the next few elections. They needed to think of the good of the country instead of their republican political club.

  • Rice’s whales predate modern humans. Now Trump could make them extinct | The US has invoked national security to remove protections for the endangered cetacean, of which only about 50 are left

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  • I wanted to highlight a couple paragraphs:

    Usually, a complaint from a state or business triggers lengthy reviews before a God Squad hearing. But in this case, the fate of imperiled whales, sea turtles and other at-risk species was in the hands of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, who invoked “national security” for the exemption, the first such rationale given since the 1973 passage of the Endangered Species Act.

    “When development in the gulf is chilled, we are prevented from producing the energy we need as a country,” Hegseth said at the meeting. “Recent hostile action by the Iranian terror regime highlights yet again why robust domestic oil production is a national security imperative.”

  • Untaxed wealth hidden offshore by richest 0.1% surpasses entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity

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  • Laws are for little people.

  • Trump issues warning to 5 Democratic states, says raids already started

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  • In the facilities shut down, what happens with the patients? They can't just up and walk out like healthy folks.

  • Trump says he will sign order to pay all DHS employees – live

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  • There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

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  • What’s the equivalent of this cardio for our ailing brains? A good candidate is reading. Making sense of written text exercises our minds in important ways. We develop what the cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf calls “deep reading processes” that rewire and retrain neuronal regions in ways that increase the complexity and nuance of what we’re able to understand. “Deep reading is our species’ bridge to insight and novel thought,” she writes. Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.

    Honestly I think this read-more tactic has gone too far. Install a word counter and start paying attention to how many words are in news articles. I have been doing that, we have a large number of articles around the 5000 word length, with some significantly more. This opinion piece is over 3100 words, shorter than many articles posted. Assuming a 250 words-per-minute reading speed, this article takes 12 minutes to read. We can easily spend the entire day reading the top news stories in their entireties. In the old days, news items almost always had a lede summarizing the article. Today, many stories keep you reading by not having a lede. When we are reading, we do not have time for activities such as going out and holding up a First Amendment grievance sign, or writing a grievance letter to our legislators. We can all too easily get caught up in stories about Ms. Leavitts supposedly-unflattering double-chin photo, a manufactured controversy, simply as a method of wasting our reading time to stories of little importance to our civics-assigned task of being informed citizens.

  • The $79 Trillion Heist | We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.

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  • Money in politics is a topic that's been discussed ever since I was old enough to read newspapers, 50+ years....

  • Pentagon says every national guard soldier deployed in Washington DC ‘is now armed’

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  • Search says open carry is illegal in Washington DC.

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    15 Year Olds are Children and they Need Protection

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  • When I grew up in the 1970s, after Woodstock, Christian private schools were very clear that nobody ever had sex. Look at Mary. Immaculate conception.

    I suspect it was a reaction to the Hippies of the 1960s and their free love flower children generation. My my how the pendulum swings.

  • Iran: Leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of the country’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic -- [Opinion]

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  • Does Wilhoit's law apply to Islamic Theocracy?

    Frank Wilhoit said, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

  • ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn

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  • I do a lot of recipe-ingredient research on AI, and it'll steer me wrong more often than I'd like. Fortunately, I know enough to be persistent and questioning. I would not take medical advice from it, though I'd use it for supplemental research.

    Morrin concluded that the AI chatbot could “miss clear indicators of risk or deterioration” and respond inappropriately to people in mental health crises, though he added that it could “improve access to general support, resources, and psycho-education”.

  • White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories

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  • Trump seems to want complete press fealty, like a king.

  • Trump rages over ‘seriously retarded Governor’ Tim Walz in furious Thanksgiving message

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  • When Thanksgiving became Insultgiving!

  • JUST IN: Trump Announces He’s Canceling All Biden Autopen Orders in Truth Social Tirade: ‘Hereby Terminated’

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  • Biden issued a number of pardons via EO.

  • Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders

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  • I had to read a bit more than this article to understand why. Search reminded me of Trumps often repeated phrase, "Crooked Joe Biden". It's Trump's way to keep the opposing-party scapegoat alive.

  • Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Long a Defender of States’ Rights, Embraces Trump’s Push to Expand Presidential Power

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  • Wouldn't it be nice if we only owed taxes when the party in power is the same as ours? We could call it "partisan taxpaying".

    Abbott’s arguments then and actions now are an example of what Jessica Bulman-Pozen, a constitutional law professor at Columbia University, calls partisan federalism, a term describing how state leaders’ fervor for defending their sovereignty increasingly depends on whether their party is in power in Washington. She said Abbott’s support of the guard deployments is particularly alarming because it diminishes the traditional power of governors to manage law enforcement in their states.

  • 'I did not vote for a neutron bomb': Pro-Trump CEO says administration killing small businesses

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  • What I never see in any of these recent articles about Trump-voter regret is any rationale for why they voted for a convicted felon. Journalists seem to be skipping that topic for some reason.

  • Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics

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  • Was this a targeted theft, or merely a crime of opportunity?