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@wvfunnyguy Anyone who believes this is going to hurt themselves and possibly make a MONUMENTAL greasy mess in their microwave. And who in the world would SALT bacon?

I’m truly gonna have to try this bacon cooking hack? How did I not know this?

He's in the process of declaring victory and bagging for home. He can't stand the heat.

@DaveEDanna Why is that ICE dork standing behind the TSA agent? Is there a concern the TSA guy might fall over?

I can confirm that ICE is deployed at the ATL airport supporting the TSA

@brockpierson Once, about a hundred years ago.

Have you personally ever defragmented a hard drive?

@secretcardrivre @TheTNHoller @Heritage @MarshaBlackburn And they caught her and prosecuted!! That's how it works!

@TheTNHoller @Heritage @MarshaBlackburn

Counterpoint, @Heritage: If you’re pretending non-citizens vote despite your own study showing otherwise, you’re probably trying to cheat. @MarshaBlackburn #SaveAct #VoterSuppressionNotVoterID

This video about healthcare in another country (Turkey) versus the United States will shock you.

REMINDER: Yesterday, 49 Senate Republicans voted AGAINST funding TSA.  They are REFUSING to pay TSA agents unless they get to shovel more money at ICE with no reforms.

Sunday night update from the Senate:

For my entire life it has been true that every time Republicans are in power, they increase deficit spending, and whenever they aren't in power, they complain about deficit spending and pinky swear they will reduce deficit spending if only you vote them back into power. And what do they use that spending for? Tax cuts for the rich, subsidies for big corporate donors, and wars in the Middle East. If you voted Republicans into power again in the belief they would reduce the deficit and not go to war, sorry, but you were lied to and you fell for it, despite being able to learn from the past to avoid that. Yes, you voted for all of this. You may not understand that you did, but you did. This is all just the newest variation of what we see every time the GOP gets handed the reigns of the economy. Democrats need to stop playing this game and instead use deficit spending to make our lives better by focusing on our basic needs and our costs of living. Spend less on the military and more on healthcare and a basic income floor. Also, to hell with the two party system. We need more choices. We need other parties to win via proportional representation.

@JeffGreenlee18 @jdpoc So... he started an effing war. American soldiers have died. Others have been seriously wounded. And you think the appropriate approach during a press conference is "just teasing the reporters" for "a laugh or two"? There is something wrong with him AND you.

@jdpoc Maybe he was just teasing the reporters. He likes to do that and you don't need a psychiatric convention to treat him for anything. You just need reporters with a good sense of humor who would give him a laugh or two.

It would take an entire conference of psychiatrists to diagnose whatever mental illness #Trump has ...

@Gaynotqueer1 You're not divine. You're silly.

"I am divine."

@DrClownPhD Me too! Hard shudder.

This triggered my claustrophobia instantly… I’ll never understand people who go cave crawling like this 😳 Part 2 in the replies.

There is a rule in dentistry so old and so unarguable that dental students stop questioning it sometime in their second year: enamel, once gone, is gone. Your body can heal a broken bone, regrow liver tissue, and perform all manner of biological miracles, but the hard white coating on your teeth? That it cannot do. It forms once, in infancy, and what you lose to coffee and wine and years of enthusiastic chewing simply does not come back. Researchers at the University of Nottingham have now published a paper in Nature Communications suggesting this may no longer be entirely true. The material they have developed is a protein-based gel, and it works by doing something rather elegant. It mimics the proteins that guide enamel growth in infancy, forming a scaffold that draws calcium and phosphate ions directly from saliva and promotes the organised regrowth of new mineral in a process called epitaxial mineralization.  Under electron microscopy, the results are striking: where a damaged tooth surface once showed eroded, chaotic crystal pitting, two weeks of treatment produces something that looks, and apparently behaves, like natural enamel. The gel is applied exactly as a dentist would apply a standard fluoride varnish, seeping into microscopic cracks and holes, then building out from there.  No drill. No filling. No small talk about whether you’ve been flossing. There are caveats, because there are always caveats. Testing was conducted ex vivo, under controlled conditions, and the regenerated layer is only a few micrometers thick, so its long-term durability in an actual human mouth remains unknown.  Enamel degradation contributes to dental problems affecting nearly half the global population, and current treatments do nothing more than slow the damage.  If the clinical trials deliver what the lab work promises, the drill-and-fill logic that has governed dentistry for the better part of a century starts to look rather less inevitable. Dentistry has been promised revolutions before. They tend to arrive, if at all, about thirty years after the press release. But the science behind this one is better than most. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

In 1979, Madison; Wisconsin, a woman sits in a basement office, writing code line by line on a computer most hospitals don't even know they need yet. Her name is Judy Faulkner. She's started with $6,000 to $7,000 of her own money, plus contributions from friends and family totaling around $70,000. No venture capital. No Silicon Valley connections. Just a conviction that the American healthcare system is killing people because doctors can't access the information they desperately need. She had watched it happen. Medical records stayed trapped in filing cabinets and incompatible systems when patients moved between cities and providers. Doctors made critical decisions in the dark, lacking the patient histories they needed. People died from preventable mistakes. That systemic failure became her mission. Faulkner began building software that would let patient information follow the patient, no matter where they went. It was a radical idea in an era when most hospitals still relied on paper charts and metal drawers. Decades later, she controls Epic Systems, the most powerful health technology company in America. Her software manages medical records for over 300 million patients worldwide. Roughly half of all U.S. hospital beds run on systems she created. Her wealth sits between $7 and $8 billion. And almost no one knows her name. She never took Epic public. Never accepted venture capital. Never sold out. She believed Wall Street would force her to chase quarterly profits instead of patient outcomes. So she kept control, kept her wealth locked in private shares, and kept building. Now in her eighties, she's methodically dismantling that fortune. In 2015, she signed the Giving Pledge. Then went further, committing to give away 99 percent of her wealth. She and her husband created the Roots & Wings Foundation, named after advice she once gave her children when they asked what they needed most from her. "You need roots and wings," she told them. Values to anchor you. Freedom to grow. Everything else is noise. Today, that foundation distributes tens of millions annually, aiming for $100 million a year. Food security. Healthcare access. Education. Housing. She's not waiting until she's gone to make an impact. She's converting ownership into action right now, while she's still here to see it work. In an age of billionaire spectacle, Judy Faulkner built an empire in silence, accumulated unimaginable wealth without chasing it, and is now giving it all away with the same quiet determination she used to write that first line of code in a Wisconsin basement. Faulkner still runs Epic Systems from its headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin, where the campus has become legendary for its design. Buildings are themed after famous works of literature and fantasy, with conference rooms modeled after Hogwarts, Alice in Wonderland, and Star Trek. Employees traverse tunnels decorated like subway stations and walk through spaces that feel more like theme parks than corporate offices. It's Faulkner's way of making grueling work feel a little more human. Unlike most tech billionaires, she lives modestly and avoids the spotlight. She doesn't own yachts, doesn't collect estates, and rarely seeks media attention. Her focus remains on Epic's mission: building software that saves lives by making sure critical information is always available when it matters most. Faulkner majored in mathematics and computer science at a time when women made up less than 10 percent of the field. Before founding Epic, she taught herself programming languages and worked on developing systems for hospitals while teaching at the University of Wisconsin. Another fascinating detail: Epic remains one of the largest privately held software companies in the world, with thousands of employees and zero outside investors. Faulkner retains control by design, ensuring the company answers to patients, not shareholders. #archaeohistories

LMAO who made this 😭😂🤣 Trump would go crazy if he had seen this

This is characteristically vile and predictably deranged, but the important thing to remember is that Trump never said anything remotely so negative or definitive about the death of his long-time best friend Jeffrey Epstein. And he wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well. Think about that.

Rock songs turning 50 years old in 2026. They got some good ones in here, but I can’t believe they’re 50 years old. I think they must be wrong. I can’t be that old🤣

@mikelotus @lrozen Of course it's a pawn! It's a tool the Dems have to get ICE under control. And it's a tool the Rs have to keep funding ICE's hideous behavior without limits or rules. If the Rs want to fund TSA, they can. They've blocked every effort the Dems have made to get that done.

Why doesn’t Trump just move some ICE/CPB funds to TSA?

There is always a tweet.

I want to be crystal clear: Democrats SUPPORT funding TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. In fact, we've tried to fund these agencies MULTIPLE times. But what we won't support is writing a blank check for ICE's unchecked lawless violence.