@pschofie79 There's a line of acceptable floor sleeping, and unless you're using a bag, sweater, carefully arranged hair bun... to support your head, you're on the wrong side.
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Colleen Blick
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A year ago today, my dad had brain surgery. The procedure took 9 hours. I slept it out on the floor of the Cleveland Clinic. My family has teased me about this but I think it shows I’m gritty/not above sleeping on the ground (like a sheep would do, or a goat).
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@KyleBazgo @jessesingal Both were sad. They were not equally tragic. Losing a grandparent sucks. Losing your dad as a kid is huge. Old age deaths are sad but normal. Political assassinations are far more socially explosive and require a much more sensitive response.
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Generally try to ignore DJT's posts (except the funny ones) but this one really does highlight the fraudulence of the whole... thing. MAGA was *gleefully* trying to ruin randos' lives for making tasteless Kirk deaths. For months! This movement has no genuine kernel of anything.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.
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@MDell23298 @Legal_Fil I think it's more that Zelensky didn't help him with dirt on Biden and the crowdstrike conspiracy stuff. He was absolutely obsessed with that crap. Even if Zelensky didn't back up the Dems, he also didn't back up Trump.
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@Legal_Fil Never said it was based in reality. I’m just spitballing ideas here.
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While I will commend Trump in all sorts of ways for his Iran policy, his pathological hatred of Zelensky really is a major weak spot.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: The country that learned to shoot down Iranian drones over Kyiv is now teaching the Gulf to shoot them down over refineries. Nobody asked Trump. The Gulf asked Ukraine. President Zelensky confirmed at the UK Parliament on March 18 that 201 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, with teams en route to Kuwait and 34 more ready to go. These are active-duty government military personnel, not private contractors. They are sharing combat-proven expertise from three years of intercepting Iranian Shahed drones over Ukrainian cities, power grids, and civilian infrastructure. The Gulf states requested the assistance. Saudi Arabia explicitly approached Ukraine. The arrangement is reciprocal: Ukraine provides the expertise that no other country possesses at this depth of operational experience, and the Gulf provides what Ukraine needs most, funding, technology, and air defence systems. Zelensky specifically highlighted Patriot missiles as part of the exchange. The country that cannot get enough Patriots from the West is earning them from the Gulf by teaching drone interception. Trump did not request this deployment. No reporting in any outlet, from Reuters to Al Jazeera to the Kyiv Post, indicates American coordination or approval. The recent Trump-Zelensky tensions over aid disputes and public friction are well documented. This is not a Washington-orchestrated move. It is a bilateral arrangement between Ukraine and Gulf capitals that bypasses Washington entirely. Zelensky built a parallel channel to the Gulf that gives Ukraine what America has been reluctant to provide while giving the Gulf what America’s $23.5 billion arms surge does not include: the people who know how to fight Shaheds because they have been fighting them every night for three years. The expertise is specific and irreplaceable. Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahed-136 and Shahed-238 drones since 2022. It has developed detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small-arms interception methods, and integrated air defence coordination that no training manual teaches. The Gulf states purchased Patriot batteries, THAAD radars, and anti-drone systems through the $23.5 billion arms package. The hardware is American. The operational knowledge of how to use it against the exact Iranian drone variants now striking Gulf refineries is Ukrainian. Israel views this positively. Anything that strengthens Gulf air defences against Iranian drones reduces the threat environment for every country in the region, including Israel. Ukrainian-Gulf cooperation reinforces the anti-Iran alignment that the Abraham Accords established. Israel and Ukraine share a common adversary’s weapons system: Iran builds the Shaheds, Russia deploys them against Ukraine, and the IRGC deploys them against the Gulf. The expertise flows in one direction. The threat originates from the same factory. The Putin dimension is real but secondary. Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones for use against Ukraine. Ukraine now teaches Gulf states to destroy those same drones when Iran uses them directly. The feedback loop is elegant: every Ukrainian lesson learned from shooting down Russian-deployed Shaheds over Odesa is now applied to IRGC-deployed Shaheds over Ras Laffan. Putin’s Iranian drone supplier is being countered by the country Putin is fighting, on a battlefield 4,000 kilometres from the front line. The irony is structural. The aggravation is intentional. Two hundred and one experts. Government military, not contractors. Gulf-requested, not Trump-directed. Shahed-specific, not generic. And the country with the most relevant expertise on Earth got there before the $23.5 billion in hardware arrived. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@FormerlyCBM I liked Oppenheimer a lot better, but Parasite was incredible. EEAAO is the only other one I watched. Good, but very distant third
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Parasite by a good bit. Then Oppenheimer
TylerCWhitmore@TylerCWhitmore
If the last 10 Best Picture winners were all nominated in the same year, who would get your vote?
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@talionis_l @chabranigdo @evergreenqveen At some point you get a problem that requires several thousand, isn't guaranteed to fix the issue, and then you start looking at odds of needing another major repair soon. No reason to get a new car until that point, but spending thousands on a 12yo car doesn't always make sense
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@chabranigdo @evergreenqveen I don't think that's true. I drove an older car for a long time and I think I paid $3000 over four years for maintenance, meaning I was paying $65 a month on average to drive the car.
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People in my local mommy group are such mindless consumers they will post “should I buy a new car? I really can’t afford it and if I lost my job we would be screwed” AND EVERY MOM IS TELLING HER A NEW CAR IS SMART
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@MagnanimusEsto @AGHamilton29 @mkhammer Iran does educate women. There aren't many defenses to make for them, but women do go through college, become doctors, etc.
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@AGHamilton29 @mkhammer They won’t educate women and girls in Iran but the Iranian Muslim elites will send their daughters here? If a woman doesn’t deserve an education at home why are they here?
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It’s crazy how we refuse to have any standards for who we let into the country…
New York Post@nypost
Children of Iran's regime leaders are educating America's students at colleges from New York to Los Angeles trib.al/f9YO44l
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@KelseyTuoc Do a bunch of laws use driver's license as an identification that controls access to single sex spaces?
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@KelseyTuoc I agree that a lot of those are bad, but it's not entirely clear. What is protected under the state's anti-discrimination laws? Does it prohibit using sex not gender in bathrooms/prisons/shelters/sports/any other single sex space, or just discrimination based on trans not sex?
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This has been very frustrating to me. Republican states are moving to retroactively invalidate drivers' licenses the state issued, make it illegal for private businesses to set their own bathroom policies as they see fit, and ban adults from transitioning.
Rachel Cohen Booth@rcobooth
New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @voxdotcom gift link: vox.com/policy/482762/…
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@spencmar @samarialainen @NobletStrength I get a link to it through some grocery store that appears to only exist in Oklahoma. Every other link directed to boneless chicken chunks or shredded chicken, because yeah that's the only canned meat people are actually eating.
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@collblick @samarialainen @NobletStrength I just looked it up and didn’t see Sweet Sue’s whole canned chicken available anywhere.
Lots of canned chicken meat under this brand (not an unusual item) but not this.
Might be fake.
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Europeans post this picture multiple times a day because they think this is an American food staple and Americans are always confused because they've literally never heard of canned whole chicken until they learned about it through Europeans claiming we eat it regularly.
Daractenus@Daractenus
In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵
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@spencmar @samarialainen @NobletStrength I've never even seen it on a food bank request list, which generally have a lot of canned meat.
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@samarialainen @NobletStrength Bro, you’re posting from Finland. You eat the most disgusting food of any white people on the planet.
And for the record, I’ve lived all across the USA. I’ve never once in my entire Gen-X life seen whole canned chicken in any grocery store at any time ever.
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@aidan_mclau @mlh496 @RepCasar And their app can't be as annoying as it is unintentionally. They're definitely trying to ensure that price insensitive people pay the larger in-store menu price.
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This is called ‘surveillance pricing.’
It should be illegal.
I have a bill to ban it.
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Washingtonian 🌸@washingtonian
Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/the…
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@NielsHoven I don't understand why fighting this type of pricing discrimination is a progressive issue. Highly price sensitive poor people aren't generally the ones hit by this.
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@DistractedAnna Maybe she really hates that everybody uses lawn chairs now 🤷♀️
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You can literally go sit on a blanket at a park right now. No one stops you.
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84
Me too.
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@doobeedoo2 @afalkhatib @TadhgHickey Do you have an example of prominent Israel supporters arguing it's good to try to shoot up a Michigan mosque full of children as long as the Imam is pro Hamas? Not arrest or deport the terrorist supporters, but actually attempt to murder a bunch of children
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@afalkhatib @TadhgHickey This conversation is too personal. Israel boosters have always argued that all supporters of armed resistance were valid targets worldwide. We can't be surprised when the argument is made in reverse. We can disagree--I do--but it is absurd to say that Abubaker has zero basis.
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Remember this Hamas "football journalist" who left Gaza a year ago during the war despite opposing the option being available to other Gazans, and was taken into Europe, starting in Greece and Ireland? Now that he's in safety, this fascist is predictably cheering on terrorism in the West, using ridiculous claims that the attack on Jewish children in Temple Israel in Michigan by a Lebanese terrorist is a form of "self-defense" that's legally protected. These are the scumbags that Europe and the West are importing, while tens of thousands of anti-Hamas Gazans are rotting in the Strip and being murdered and tortured daily, desperate for an opportunity to gain freedom and leave. This is not compassion; this is not tolerance; this is not sound immigration policy - this is suicide, this is bringing intolerant fascists, Jihadis, terrorists, and ultranationalists into the West. Stop before it's too late.
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@PeterMoskos I was trying to remember senior Bush giving speeches or something 😂
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I was never a fan George H W Bush. But I will forever appreciate him for really going out of the way to prevent sectarian strife within America after 9/11.
Today? These motherfuckers today want blood, fights, and chaos.
Congressman Randy Fine@RepFine
Maybe we wouldn't feel that way if five American Muslims in four states hadn't used three guns and two bombs while screaming one prayer: "Allah is the greatest." Just a thought.
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@White_Shadow81 @ajlamesa Whether the end results will be good is a reasonable argument, but we're objectively increasing instability.
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@ajlamesa The Cuban, Iranian and Venezuelan diaspora don’t seem to think so?
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The United States is a tremendously destabilizing force in the world right now.
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@Seanfucious It's still DOD. I'd give in on Kennedy center or whatever airport well before renaming defense department by random announcement
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Why are people ok continuing to call the Kennedy Center by its official name, but have acquiesced to the administration’s demands by using “department of war” and “secretary of war”
The New York Times@nytimes
Breaking News: The head of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Richard Grenell, who is a close ally of President Trump, is leaving the role after a tumultuous year. nyti.ms/4cM2rlW
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@Arlecchinoswart @EricMGarcia @Seanfucious Yeah, I wouldn't be shocked either way, I just remember how hated she was by many around me
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@collblick @EricMGarcia @Seanfucious Sure, but they have to be motivated to go vote. I don't expect many Trumpers to vote for Acton, but how many will just stay home?
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@kittyniciaian That's funny. I've found myself interacting entirely differently with an AI I specifically open (human style politeness) vs the Google search AI mode (different phrasing style, but no more polite than regular searches)
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The thought patterns we use with AI prompts are closer to human conversation than it is to a search bar, so using habits of politeness (such as please, addressing grok or Claude by name, and thank you), can maintain those habits for interactions with humans.
Venkatesh@Venkydotdev
STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI STOP SAYING THANK YOU TO AI
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