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@j_fishback @ByronDonalds @benshapiro

Ben Shapiro just ENDORSED @ByronDonalds for Governor, calling him a “great ally of Israel and friend of Netanyahu.”

@anishmoonka Maybe it has something to do with those trucks that go around town at 12am spraying FUCKING CHEMICALS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A firefly spends up to two years underground as a larva, hunting slugs in the dirt. Then it crawls out, grows wings, and gets maybe three weeks as the glowing thing you remember from childhood. Three weeks to find a mate and reproduce. Then it's dead. So when the tweet says "some scientist" warned we're the last generation to see them, that's real. A Belgian firefly researcher named Raphaël De Cock said it, and the clip blew up on TikTok. But I dug into the actual science, and the picture is weirder than the headline. We know of about 2,200 firefly species worldwide. Scientists have studied fewer than 150 of them. That's less than 7%. Of the ones they looked at, about 14% are at risk of extinction. And here's the part that got me: we know so little about more than half the species we've found that scientists can't even tell if they're dying off. If those mystery species are disappearing at the same rate, 1 in 3 North American fireflies could be in trouble. We might be losing species nobody's even properly named yet. A major 2024 study by Penn State, the University of Kentucky, and Bucknell examined 24,000 citizen surveys across the eastern U.S. The number one thing killing fireflies turned out to be weather and climate shifts. Their larvae need wet soil to survive those two years underground. Too dry, they die. Too flooded, they drown. The second biggest killer: artificial light. Night skies are getting about 10% brighter every year. A quarter of Earth's land is now lit up at night. And fireflies talk to each other with light. Their whole mating system runs on flashing patterns in the dark. Flood that with streetlights and porch lights, and the signal disappears. This isn't abstract. In Hong Kong, one firefly species lived along 1.8 kilometers of a single hiking trail. Street lamps went up in 2018 and 2019. The population is gone. Critically Endangered now. In Delaware, the Bethany Beach firefly exists in a few tiny salt marshes, and coastal construction is eating them up. But your common backyard lightning bug, the one called Photinus pyralis, is fine. Ben Pfeiffer, who runs Firefly Conservation and Research, said it straight: "We won't be the last generation to see fireflies." What's actually vanishing is the variety. The weird ones. The specialists. They get replaced by the one tough generalist that can survive anywhere. One last thing that stuck with me. A firefly turns chemical energy into light at about 41% efficiency, with almost zero heat lost. Our best LEDs just recently hit about 40%. We spent decades of engineering to match what a beetle worked out 100 million years ago. And we're blinding them with the lights we built to copy them.

BREAKING: The Ohio House just passed the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act, which criminalizes s*xually explicit performances in front of CHILDREN. Every single Democrat voted AGAINST it.

@PredsNHL This is so accurate.

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@9mmsmg Im thinking of muting everyone who is covering this because its just so tiresome to see everyone run to the daily outrage. Everyone giving him exactly what he wants. Controversy = clicks and coverage. Imagine if we just ignored this fat retard.

Erika Kirk should put on blackface and a fat suit and dance around in response, then watch the outrage. She, of course, won't. Rules and societal taboos don't really apply to black people. They can pretty much do and say whatever they want. Am I offended by Whiteface? Of course not. Are black people actually offended by blackface? Only on the surface because there is absolutely no self reflection present as to why they are offended. It's simply a strange type of secondary autonomic response. Like a heart beating or drawing oxygen into your lungs.

@RickyDoggin OSHA watching this:

@ifwsaint "Im a suffering artist" Youre literally in a warm pool pretending to sink... you know what kids do for fun.

This headline is excellent clickbait. Yet, it suffers from the fact that it’s false. I should know as I happen to be pretty close to that fella you slandered. And, strange you used a picture of someone who has literally nothing to do with the conversation at hand. I get it, outrage not understanding is the name of the game today. One could hope for better, but so it is. Yet, for those rare few who actually desire understanding, I’ll share a few clarifying thoughts. Let me break it down. Talarico joyfully advocates for the right for babies to be murdered in the womb. He also knowingly twists the Scriptures to suggest God supports the murder of babies. This is impressively horrifying. Now, I don’t think it’s good to celebrate the right to murder babies. In fact, I think it’s quite egregious — especially when elected officials, the ones who are charged by God to promote righteousness and to condemn wickedness (Romans 13:3-4), do so. I also believe ministers have a moral obligation to rebuke magistrates who pervert justice and promote wickedness in the name of God. Now, as it turns out, God in His wisdom has given us imprecatory psalms where He calls for His people to ask that He’d bring low and frustrate the plans of evildoers. Yes, He even says so in capital terms. Yet, I understand the imprecatory psalms, like I do all of Scripture, first and foremost in light of Christ. And so, as a Christian, when I pray imprecatory psalms about those who celebrate baby murder, I am not, from my heart, praying for their death. I’m praying for their conversion. That the “old man” would die. That he would be “crucified with Christ” (Pauline language for conversation) and raised to new life, and given a new heart with new desires. Interestingly, you neglected to quote where I said my desire is for him to become “Talarico of Tarsus” (i.e., a man who formerly breathed out murderous threats — like Saul — who is changed by Christ and becomes a force for the gospel). Strange to wish for a man’s death while also saying what man I’d like him to emulate. You are free to disagree, but does not journalistic integrity require you to present my view honestly.

@OnlyInBOS Another step towards immigrants getting housing while native borns are pushed out.

Boston is converting another empty office into housing: 150 Milk Street will be turned into 18 new homes, including income-restricted units, plus ground-floor retail. Another step in the city’s push to turn offices into housing.

@PaulRieckhoff Fuck off to ukraine.

Does everyone realize how wrong and unAmerican this is to come from a government account??

Controversy = clicks and coverage and all you fucking retards are just feeding into it.

Applause line at protest in Philly: "For every US soldier who comes back in casket, we cheer!"

“The weapon that has done the most for the conquest of Europe, for its colonization by Africa, for its Islamization, for the destruction of Europeans in Europe, for genocide by substitution, more than family reunification, more than widespread nocence, more than the migratory submersion itself, is the accusation of racism. It has paralyzed three hundred million people and made them accept the unacceptable, the worst that could happen to them: their own annihilation, their erasure as a civilization.” [March 25, 2019]

Sitting down… 1970: 8 welfare programs 2026: 80+ welfare programs 1970: 1 million illegals 2026: 18 million illegals (3-4 x this) 1970: 88% white population 2026: 56% white population 1970: $371 billion deficit 2026: $38 trillion deficit Planned demolition of America. Sick

@Uncommonsince76 @MarkDice warned you.

This Ashley St. Clair drama is nuts… This woman basically pretended to be a “conservative”, entrapped Elon, had his kid.. now gets tons of money, completely changed her face with plastic surgery… and now is going around acting like the victim, and is “pro trans rights again…” It’s like Jerry Springer with a lot more money…

@Rainmaker1973 What's the incessant need to add background music to everything

In 1991, Michael Moschen turned juggling into kinetic poetry, weaving balls and a triangle with rhythm, balance, and physics like never before.

@Variety "Oh fuck, oh FUCK!" - literal quote from me when I read this.

NEW 'LORD OF THE RINGS' MOVIE Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (working title), which will go into production after "The Hunt for Gollum." The synopsis: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo - Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began." Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and franchise veteran Philippa Boyens. variety.com/2026/film/news…

@JoaquinCastrotx Extra ICE please.

We cannot normalize ICE inserting itself into our daily lives. Here is a reminder: ICE agents do not belong at airports. ICE agents do not belong at polling stations. ICE agents do not belong undermining our rights and hurting our communities.

@Rothmus Im literally not shocked at all. Infact, I didn't need a study to tell me this.