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I've been told I have a face for radio. I've also been told I have a voice for print. I think that makes Twitter my ideal vehicle.

Sending Americans who are exposed to or infected with Ebola to Kenya (instead of bringing them home) is an extraordinarily bad idea and it will backfire On the surface -- it seems smart. Why not send people elsewhere instead of bringing them home For three reasons actually 🧵

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

The Dave of evolution

Sharing a watermelon.. 😊

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet. Afroman had his house raided by Ohio Adam County deputies… who found absolutely nothing… broke his door, trashed his place, allegedly had $400 go missing… and then they refused to pay for the damages. So, like any reasonable rapper would do… He turned his home security footage into music videos, mocking them. And then, the deputies sued him for FOUR MILLION dollars… because they didn’t like being made fun of. And Afroman’s response? He dropped ANOTHER music video. In his own words: “Unconfidential informant lied to Police to get out of some trouble. Adam County Sherriff officers made a mistake by believing the lie. Raided my house, found nothing, refused to pay for the damages and filed a lawsuit against me, Afroman, for exercising my freedom of speech! This is me holding trial in one song. I hope you enjoy it.” They said his videos “ridiculed” them… so he decided to show them what that actually looks like. And the best part? A jury basically said… yeah… you don’t get to raid someone’s home, end up in their surveillance footage, and then cry because they used it to make fun of you.

More on the Health Services Officer Category of the USPHS. 👇🏽

🚨 I have been told that despite bragging about her Stanford medical degree, HHS is technically proposing to have Casey Means be the first non-physician to ever be confirmed as Surgeon General - because she can’t actually be commissioned as a physician in the PHS (as every SG before her has been) because she doesn’t have an active medical license. In other words, they acknowledge that their nominee for “America’s doctor,” can’t even join the uniformed service she would be charged with leading… as a doctor (they are proposing she join in the health service officer category- which doesn’t uniformly require an active medical license. Ironically even in this category, she wouldn’t even meet the criteria to be a physician’s assistant, because it also requires an active license)🤦🏽‍♂️ They are literally attempting to lower 100+ years of merit and safety standards, so that she can take on the role. 👇🏽 A physician nominee for Surgeon General would need to meet the below Corps commissioning standards to be appointed and serve effectively in the role. While 42 U.S.C. § 205 doesn't explicitly require an active medical license for the SG position itself, the Surgeon General must be a member of the Regular Corps - and USPHS Commissioned Corps policy mandates that PHYSICIAN officers hold a current, unrestricted, and valid medical license from a U.S. state, D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam. This is required for commissioning, adhering to appointment standards, maintaining basic readiness, eligibility for special pay, promotion, and overall conditions of service. Official sources confirm this: USPHS Physician profession page: "Current, unrestricted, and valid medical license from any U.S. state..." (usphs.gov/professions/ph…) Commissioned Corps Licensure policy: Keeping licenses "active and unrestricted" is mandatory for officers whose qualifying degree requires it (dcp.psc.gov/CCMIS/Licensur… & Inst 251.01) Bottom line: the current nominee for Nation’s top doctor… can’t legally be commissioned in the Corps she would be charged to lead, as a doctor! Past Surgeons General have been required to maintain active licenses to lead credibly as the nation's top public health physician. Lacking said licensure creates a practical (and legal) barrier to commissioning AS A PHYSICIAN and undermines the role's integrity and authority, and compromises the Corps itself. 😞

The military's EV mail truck FAILURE youtube.com/shorts/ekXZfQZ…

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered? Noem: I don’t know. Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?

@IDF Where's is the next aytola 😀😂

@MarioNawfal Insider trading right before 9/11?

By digging simple crescent-shaped pits to hold rain, locals in Tanzania are turning the desert green. 📽: LEAD Foundation

Dragonflies fun facts - Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360° vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful

This made me happy. It’s a thing🤩

Hello, I’m a Possum. Probably, you don't know it, but I’m not here to cause any trouble. Actually, I’m here to help. Every night, I can eat lots of ticks, along with other insects that spread disease. I also keep snake numbers in check, even the venomous ones. My body is tough enough to survive Rattlesnake or Coral Snake bites, and yes, I even eat venomous snakes like they’re just another meal. What’s more, my blood carries something special. Scientists have used it to develop treatments for snake bites that save lives. Without animals like me, there would be more pests, more Snakes, and fewer cures for people. Despite their bad reputation, they are much more helpful than you might think. So if you see them, please don’t hurt them. They are just out there doing their part to make the world a little safer for everyone.

I wonder, amidst outrage on trump's latest racism, how many people missed the news that hundreds of workers got laid off from a major tunnel-building project, because trump is holding it hostage in exchange for... ...putting his name on stuff? INSANITY.

BREAKING NEWS | INTERNAL WIRES LEAK Washington, D.C. The walls went up quietly. No ribbon, no vote, no debate. Just a contract. Federal documents reviewed overnight confirm the Pentagon has been using a Navy overseas logistics contract to finance a permanent, nationwide ICE detention network inside the United States, effectively laundering domestic incarceration through military supply chains. The contract, known as WEXMAC, was sold to Congress as a temporary overseas contingency tool. It has since been expanded from $10 billion to $55 billion, and retooled to support long-term detention infrastructure on U.S. soil. Not a surge. A system. Under WEXMAC, DHS can now issue rapid task orders that bypass normal procurement, oversight, and public notice. Translation: a detention facility can appear almost overnight, anywhere ICE decides to plant one, with no meaningful local or congressional check. These sites are not short-term holding centers. They are plug-and-play incarceration complexes. The contract explicitly covers: * Tent cities housing up to 10,000 people * Surveillance grids and defensive perimeter barriers * Medical waste disposal and death-handling logistics * Contractor-run operations staffed by firms with overseas counterinsurgency experience The same companies that built camps in Iraq and Afghanistan are now being repurposed domestically, pointed inward, aimed at migrant communities. Congressional budget fights? Theater. Government shutdowns? Irrelevant. The money is already authorized, pre-funded, and locked in through 2029, routed through the Pentagon to keep the system solvent even when DHS funding is frozen. Oversight dies quietly when the lights go out. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats are offering cosmetic reforms: body cameras, agent ID rules, paperwork tweaks. Nice gestures, if the problem were individual misconduct. It isn’t. The machinery is already built. Paid for. Modular. Mobile. Permanent. And under Donald Trump, the United States is cementing a militarized, shutdown-proof detention empire, designed to be operational before the public understands it exists, and entrenched enough that dismantling it later becomes “impractical.” This is not a warning about the future. This is infrastructure. Source: Migrant Insider reporting on Pentagon WEXMAC expansion migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pent…

So, this woman (@/zoe_malia3 on TT) named her octopus friend Lola. One day Lola very assertively pulled Zoe closer to one of the other entrances to her cave to show Zoe her babies! That’s real trust! When Zoe got closer the little 🐙 babies swam out. These are intentional moves.

It’s election year so Lindsey Graham is begging for money on Fox News. It brings me such joy to know he probably lays awake at night trying to figure out how the hell a pediatrician is out-raising him. Let’s keep the pressure on. 🇺🇸💙

It loves the ice.