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@DrCatharineY @jonathanstea It the Dunning-Kruger Age

@thetomcelica Memories

Fantasy Island, the adult store next to Four Season's Landscaping, was thoughtful enough to send a get well bouquet arrangement of dildos to Rudy Giuliani. Now that's classy

"When I get out of office in, let's say, eight or nine years from now ... " He's never joking. Look at his trash palace, you think he plans on handing over the keys?

@uncledoomer Amsterdam’s worst nightmare

going to amsterdam as a tourist and visiting the local sights, smuggling in an american cheeseburger in the pocket of my tattered trenchcoat to eat in the bathroom of the anne frank house for the full experience

Almost every banana in your supermarket is a clone of the same plant. And that plant is dying. The Korean pack works because of how bananas talk to each other. Bananas release a gas called ethylene as they ripen. That gas drifts. Nearby bananas pick it up and start ripening too. Put seven bananas in a bowl and within a day or two, the whole bowl goes brown. The Korean pack ducks this by selling bananas at different stages, so each one ripens on its own. The banana in your kitchen is called a Cavendish. Around 99% of bananas exported worldwide are this same variety, and they're all clones. Cavendish bananas don't grow from seeds. Every plant is grown from cuttings, all the way back to a single Cavendish from the 1830s. Your morning banana is a genetic copy of the bananas your grandparents ate. The same thing happened 70 years ago, to a different banana. Until the 1950s, the world's banana was a variety called the Gros Michel, or "Big Mike" for short. People said it tasted better than today's banana. Then a soil fungus called Panama disease swept through the world's banana farms. It killed the roots. There was no cure. By 1961, the industry had given up on Big Mike. The Cavendish happened to be immune to that strain of the fungus, which is why it took over. A new strain of the same fungus has now emerged. It started in Asia in the 1990s and has been spreading. Cavendish has no defense. Sprays are useless. The fungus can sit in the soil for decades, waiting for a banana plant to grow back. It hit Mozambique in 2013, Colombia in 2019, Peru in 2021, and Venezuela in 2023. In late 2025, it was confirmed in Ecuador. Ecuador grows about one in every three bananas the world exports. So yes, the Korean pack is smart. But the bigger banana problem is that the entire global supply is on the same road Big Mike was on in 1955.

🚨 Big Auto Just Declared War on Your Wallet You buy a $60,000+ Cadillac or Chevy… and GM still wants to charge you every month just to use your own car. By 2028, GM plans to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all new vehicles. Navigation, music, texting, even basic connectivity? All locked behind their paid subscription service. They’ll let you own the metal… but they’ll rent you the brain. This isn’t innovation — it’s a subscription trap on wheels. You already paid for the car. Now they want a monthly fee for features that used to just work. American innovation used to mean better products. Now it means better ways to nickel-and-dime you after the sale. Who else is tired of this? Tag a car buyer who needs to see this.

@8ntmuch Deer at Itsukushima Shrine, Japan

QP or share your deer (or similar) shots. 🦌🤓

SCOTUS decided, to inject itself into an ongoing election & at this point no one can say otherwise. It has historically used the Purcell doctrine to ensure that courts aren't meddling in elections, and yet this court felt comfort in doing so. Everyone needs to understand this.

The only reason Hegseth and Trump promote this lie about Biden sending troops to polling places is because they plan to do it themselves, as I warned last year. It's an emergency; the other guys did it first; illegals are voting, etc.

It should probably be a bigger story that Donald Trump offered John Fetterman a significant “financial windfall” if he switches parties and becomes a Republican. I know nobody bats an eye at the corruption oozing out of this White House anymore, but that’s fucking insane, and we shouldn’t ignore it.

Maybe new category: “super duper” El Niño.

Sen. @ChrisCoonsforDE: Is Trump eligible to run for a 3rd term under our Constitution? Trump Judge nominee: Um... I would have to... to review the- the actual wording-- Coons: The language of the 22nd Amendment makes it clear that no, he is not eligible to run for a 3rd term. Anybody else brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President Trump from seeking a 3rd term? Trump Judge Nominees: … Coons: Nobody? Alright.

The policies laid out in Project 2025 were specifically designed to bankrupt small and midsized farms to allow for corporate consolidation of our food supply. Elections have consequences. You quite literally voted for this.

USS Higgins is seriously damaged. The USS Higgins fire was classified as an “electrical casualty” temporarily disabled the ship’s propulsion and electrical power systems and caused small explosion. The number of casualties is unknown. militarytimes.com/.../engineerin… thehill.com/.../5859512-na…

Marco Rubio was raised Catholic, converted to Mormonism in his youth, left Mormonism, became Catholic again, regularly attends a Miami evangelical church for 23 years he called “his church,” and still identifies as a Mass-attending Catholic. It’s complicated. But I’ll break it down later today. open.substack.com/pub/lettersfro…

Who benefits from a weak US dollar? Billionaires, oligarchs and corporations who refinance their debt with cheaper dollars.

The future of warfare, coming soon to Temu.

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said: “Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious. But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.” Gilbert objected: “But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.” To which Göring replied: “That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946 Doesn’t it sound familiar?

BREAKING: Trump is HUMILIATED after his “Project Freedom” gambit to open the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t even make it THREE HOURS before falling apart! This evening, the President of the United States declared that he was launching “Project Freedom” to open up the Strait of Hormuz after claiming that the world was “begging” him to do something about the crisis he created. Trump claimed that it would involve US ships escorting civilian tankers through the Strait, but the Wall Street Journal immediately reported that actually, no US vessels would be involved in escorting. Instead, Trump would be offering to “instead instruct ships on safe avenues of passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and coordinate with shipping and insurance companies,” which means it’s all a bunch of nonsense to make it LOOK like he’s doing something. To hammer home the fact that this “Project Freedom” is as real as Trump Phones, UK Maritime Trade Operations reports a tanker was struck by unknown projectiles about 78 nautical miles north of Fujairah, UAE – directly in the middle of the Strait. Seeing as it is Sunday night and the stock market opens in the morning, it is obvious at this point that this is just the latest Trump effort to manipulate the market and make money off of Polymarket bets and there will be no action, no solution to this crisis that he created, and no relief coming for the American driver facing skyrocketing prices at the pump. What a completely avoidable and unnecessary disaster.

Bombshell: Leaked audio recordings prove Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei is conspiring with the drug lord Juan Orlando Hernández -- the drug-trafficking former dictator of Honduras, whom Trump freed from prison. In a recording between Milei and the drug lord, Hernández proposed creating a right-wing fake news operation, with the support of the US government, in order to spread propaganda online to "eliminate the left" in Latin America, targeting Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and the left-wing opposition in Honduras. The self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei offered to contribute $350,000 USD of Argentine government money to help fund this disinformation operation, while millions of Argentines are suffering in poverty, and they have to eat donkey meat, because they can't afford local beef. Link: jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026/0…