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One week ago @eddievedder performed @U2 ‘One’ at @TheOhanaFest then last night #Bono returning the compliment @PearlJam ‘Alive’ @U2sphere #U2UV #U2Sphere #LasVegasSphere #Ten #AchtungBaby #U2 #PearlJam

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TLC's Chilli says she is "not MAGA" following reports that she donated to Donald Trump's presidential campaign during the 2024 election. Chili says she "thought I was supporting causes against human trafficking and for veterans."

Absolute bombshell. The first American Pope drops a massive reality check on the Trump administration. He explicitly declares God rejects the prayers of those waging war in Iran, stating their hands are full of blood. A direct rebuke to Pete Hegseth's warmongering.

@allenanalysis WTF?

Pete Hegseth just unveiled “Greater North America.” A new strategic map — from Greenland to the Gulf of America — claiming every sovereign nation north of the equator is part of America’s security perimeter.

My kid left yesterday for Iran. Before we hung up, he wanted to discuss his life insurance policy. He’s 19. It gutted me. War isn’t a joke. It’s not something C rate celebs should be making controversial statements about for attention. Shame on you @EW for running this drivel.

🚨 Ukrainian intelligence confirms: Russia shared satellite imagery of Prince Sultan US Air Base in Saudi Arabia with Iran — right before Iran struck it and injured American troops. Russia gave Iran the targeting data. Iran used it to hit Americans. Trump lifted sanctions on Russia the same week this war started. The EU confirmed Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to kill Americans. Now Ukrainian intelligence confirms the specific targeting data for the Prince Sultan strike came from Russian satellites. Russia helped Iran hit an American base. Trump’s response: silence. No condemnation. No consequences. No sanctions restored.

American Airlines has 77 regional planes sitting in storage because they can't find pilots to fly them. The expected U.S. pilot shortfall in 2026 is 24,000. Training a new commercial pilot takes 2-3 years minimum and costs six figures. So American found a loophole. Partner with a bus company, brand the bus "American Eagle," sell the seat on aa.com with a flight number, route passengers through TSA, let them pick a seat, check bags, earn AAdvantage miles. The entire experience is designed to feel like a flight in every way except the part where you leave the ground. The economics are staggering. A regional jet on a 90-mile route needs two pilots ($100K+ each), a flight attendant, jet fuel, FAA maintenance requirements, and an aircraft that costs $20-30 million. The Landline bus needs one driver and a highway. South Bend to Chicago O'Hare is 90 miles. That route doesn't make money with a regional jet anymore. It barely made money before the pilot shortage. The bus lets American keep selling connections through O'Hare to every destination in its network without operating a single flight. This is what the pilot shortage actually looks like. Not cancelled routes. Not smaller airports going dark. The airline just quietly reclassified a bus as a flight and kept charging accordingly. The TikTok exposing it has 13 million views because the passenger cleared security, sat at a gate, and watched her luggage get loaded onto a coach before it merged onto the interstate. The word "bus" appears once during booking in small text. Google Flights lists it with a tiny bus icon. The airline says customers are "transparently informed." 72% of U.S. airports have already lost an average of 25% of their flights to the shortage, and Landline is expanding, not shrinking. Philadelphia, Chicago, and now five regional airports are on the bus network. American Airlines is solving a $28,000-per-pilot-shortfall crisis by removing the pilot from the equation entirely. The bus is the product now. The flight number is just packaging.

You have your mother's cells in your brain right now. If she ever carried you, yours are in hers. Scientists looked at the brains of 59 women after they died, ages 32 to 101. In 63% of them, they found their sons' DNA scattered across different brain regions. The cells had traveled from the womb, through the blood, past the wall that normally keeps foreign material out of the brain, and settled in. The oldest woman still carrying her son's cells in her brain was 94. In mice, those cells became functional brain cells. The transfer starts as early as 7 weeks into pregnancy. Your cells slip through the placenta into your mother's body. Hers slips into yours. One study found a mother still had her son's cells in her blood 27 years after giving birth. After delivery, between 50 and 75% of women carry their child's cells. During pregnancy, up to 6% of a woman's blood DNA comes from the baby. When a mother's heart gets damaged during or after pregnancy, the baby's cells travel to the injury, latch on, and turn into beating heart cells, blood vessel lining, and muscle. Heart failure tied to pregnancy has a 50% spontaneous recovery rate, better than every other kind. The Mount Sinai team behind the research thinks the baby's cells are fixing the mother's heart from the inside. The cancer data caught me off guard. A study compared healthy women to women with breast cancer. 85% of the healthy group still carried their children's cells. Only 64% of the breast cancer group did. That works out to about 4x lower odds of getting breast cancer if you kept those cells. The working theory is that they patrol the body and catch cancer cells before they grow. A 2022 study found that in developing mouse brains, a mother's cells controlled the brain's immune cells, preventing them from cutting too many connections between brain cells. Your mom's cells helped wire your brain before you were born. And it stacks across generations. A woman can carry cells from her kids, from her own mother, and even from pregnancies her mother had before her. Three generations of cells from different people, living inside one body.

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@RpsAgainstTrump B.S.

RFK JR: I was on the plane with Trump, He got a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map…He has this extraordinary depth of knowledge…

@TMZ @zolly_b Ummm yeah naw

🚨 TLC’s Chilli claims she accidentally shared a negative post about former first lady Michelle Obama on social media and that any political donations she made were meant to help veterans.

“No Kings” protesters assembled to form a message reading “TRUMP MUST GO NOW!” at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California today

San Diego just raised the bar. Philadelphia. Atlanta. Dallas. St. Paul. DC. San Francisco. London. Tel Aviv. Scotland. Now San Diego. 7 million Americans. Counting. Every coast. Every state. Every timezone. Across the Atlantic. Across the Pacific. No Kings doesn’t need a permit to go global.

@notcapnamerica NO WAY.

What the FUCK

Why are taxpayer-funded U.S. Army helicopters conducting flybys of Kid Rock’s home in Nashville?

Actor John Cusack: “The whole country was founded on no kings. We have masked goons roaming the streets, hiding their faces, abducting people. Go to hell. If he thinks this place is gonna be a fascist hub, no chance”

Ryan Gosling using Gen Z slang for one minute 😭

Let’s start with the Epstein files.

Trump was "too busy" to attend CPAC this year, but he has time to speak at this boondoggle Saudi investment conference in Miami. Pretty clear which organization can offer him a bigger bribe!

@sauceonside98 @allenanalysis Yes. And yet still has a +29% approval rating 😫

@allenanalysis @SoCalMusicGal He’s out of his fucking mind..

🚨 TRUMP: “Iran proposed making me Supreme Leader.” “I said no… they were insisting.” “They want a deal so badly—but they’re afraid to say it.” “Afraid of their own people. Afraid of the United States.” “We are winning so big.” You really can’t make this up.

Elizabeth Banks explains why the SAVE Act is all about voter suppression: “The SAVE Act? You gotta stop it. It’s unconstitutional. We are not gonna require people to go get a passport to vote. This is a right enshrined in the Constitution. Stop making it harder for people to vote. Start making it easier. We know who benefits and who doesn’t”