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I just heard someone on TikTok say "this is the first time in history women are dating men for their character. And that's why no one is dating." and she was right.

@RyanWGME I mean that sucks but great for the drought

Do you have plans late next week? The trends have brought in much cooler than average air Thursday through next weekend with 40s for highs. To make it even worse, the likelihood we see a steady and potentially heavy rainfall late week is increasing. A multi-day event possible.

@Frog521987 @NewsNation 90 percent of men carry HPV. It's not some big shame thing.

@NewsNation I can’t believe she’s being this vocal about having cancer that is predominantly from STDs

Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi revealed she will undergo a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. After discovering the cancer through a routine Pap smear she had been putting off, Snooki is using her experience to encourage other women to get tested and stay on top of their health. MORE: newsnationnow.com/entertainment-…

I'm proud to live in a state that feeds our children.

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia voters approve new US House districts that could aid Democrats in midterm elections.

AI chatbots misdiagnose in over 80% of early medical cases, study finds ft.trib.al/cRifiz2

Wtf

@EdKrassen B

How does the war in Iran end? A) Trump nukes them B) Trump Chickens Out and Declares Victory C) Iran surrenders and new Regime takes over D) Another way (explain)

😳😳 PENTAGON: Only 23% of young Americans (17-24) are eligible to serve in US military mainly due to poor academic performance on testing, obesity, and criminal records. No wonder they increased maximum age for enlistment to 42. -ABC

@TheMaineWonk Is there a link to the source? I'm just interested in reading more

‼️IRAN COMMENTARY: America has the greatest military in the history of the world, we should be achieving battlefield victories every time we engage. From a military standpoint, Epic Fury has been a successful operation. However, Grunts and Operators think every conflict can be solved with just military force. They think the work stops when dominance is shown and battlefield victory is achieved. That’s why grunts and operators don’t and shouldn’t make foreign policy. Foreign policy doesn’t stop at battlefield victories. War isn’t just waged and won on battlefields and in the skies. It’s why policy makers and operators have to work together and plan together. War plans, especially those with regime change as primary objective, MUST include plans on how you progress from war operations to in country stabilization to new governance & maintaining it. Otherwise you risk mission creep, regional and global instability and long term engagement quagmire or worse without off ramps or clear exit strategy. You’d think after Iraq and Afghanistan, we’d learn this lesson by now. But it seems we still have a lot of learning to do. That’s why American administrations for 47 years never engaged in a regime change operation in Iran: no feasible plan with greater probability for successes to go from battlefield ops to stabilization to sustained democratic/monarchical governance than a result of regional instability, global financial market chaos, and/or a wider conflict involving China and Russia, or worse has ever existed. It’s why for 47 years the policy has been containment and counter terror. Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t. We will not achieve the regime change objectives with bombing sorties and no armed and trained opposition on the ground or a pre-planned arrangement for leadership change like we saw with Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela who met with US intermediaries in secret months before in Middle East. We will not achieve the regime change objective from the air and hoping a member of regime will eventually bend to our will. Now we have market chaos, restricted Hormuz, regime still attacking, Allies not interested in engaging and American ground troops on the way. America may have military dominance/success thus far in Iran but the success of changing the regime and eliminating threat for long term global stability is failing and was always destined to— which is why this “excursion” was a mistake from the start. Now we will have to deal with ramifications of choice ahead for Trump: cut losses, declare victory and leave without achieving regime change objective or double/triple down with ground forces etc. Both of which aren’t good and has been the gamed out choice for 47 years, if an operation like this was conducted. Buckle up. We are in this for long haul thanks to what will go down as the biggest foreign policy blunder by an American President, in the very least, since the invasion of Iraq.

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@fan_cornell What are you doing with all that brie! 😂

I went to the grocery store today. One bag. Half and half. Dozen eggs. 5 packages of cheddar cheese. 5 packages of Brie. $84 Our son and DIL have 6 children plus one large dog. I have no idea what their grocery bill is

@DavidLeavitt Reading Lindsey Graham's post about how mad Trump is. I laughed and laughed

What made you smile today?

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS Why should they involve themselves. We didn't develop a strategy together, we just went in.

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

Andrew Yang is right. Taxing AI companies will be a cornerstone of a post-labor economy. But we should go further. AI was trained on our data, our writing, our code, our images. Society created the raw material. So society should own a piece of it. Not just taxes. Shared ownership and AI dividends. If AI becomes the most productive technology in history, the wealth it creates should flow back to the people who helped create it.

@nirav_maine Universal health care!!!

Wherever I go in Maine, the number one issue on people’s minds is health care. It’s too expensive and doesn’t cover nearly enough. Last night when I met with the Cape Elizabeth and South Portland Dems, we talked about the pillars of my health care plan: lowering costs for patients and families, training and keeping more health care workers in Maine, protecting and expanding access to women’s health care, and protecting public health. But these would just be a starting point — as your Governor, my North Star is universal health care for all Mainers.

@NewYorker Ugh no

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@nirav_maine Dr Shaw, for over 2 years I've been trying to ask the licensing board questions that come up during my degree program in an attempt to become licensed in Maine to help. No one ever returns my calls or emails me back. I'm told this is common. We need help!

I’m grateful to the team at Sweetser for meeting with me last week to discuss the various challenges and opportunities they face: staffing shortages, long wait times for patients, and inadequate health insurance coverage. We also talked about the incredible work the team at Sweetser is doing to provide care for people of all ages, from their special-purpose K-12 school to the first ever psychiatric residential facility being built right on their 200 year old campus. We have a lot of work to do across the board when it comes to health care in Maine. This is why it will be one of my top priorities as your next governor.

@liminal_warmth they have poor problem solving skills now

30 years ago it was common to let 14-year-olds babysit multiple children (including babies) for entire evenings unsupervised, solo Weirdly I would feel genuinely more concerned about a 14-year-old today doing this than the 90s teen Hard to say why? Things actually have changed

@UnofficialOA As a substitute it amazes me how suddenly groups of children are afflicted simultaneously with an intense urge to go.