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@amandalitman “Keep those concerns to yourselves, Jews. We need to win the Senate.”

But I thought we wanted to win the Senate?

@hasanthehun What does objecting to a nazi tattoo have to do with Israel first?

straight up israel first democrats holy shit

@anishmoonka Sign me up!

A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair. The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away. His body rips in half. He falls dead before hitting the ground. And he is one of the lucky males in the hive. When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out. The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop. The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him. The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area. Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her. These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them. By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years. From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again. A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain. If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead. The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse. As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings. The drones can't fly back in. They starve or freeze in the grass within days. The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.

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@ElliotMalin Yup. I changed my registration to Indy and stopped donating. Glad I'm not the only one.

Something I’ve seen this cycle: It’s been difficult to fundraise for Democrats with Jewish donors. Exceedingly difficult.

@Coach_Yac Yes they do. This strategy—if you want to call it that—of just “play dead” until the dodgers are not invincible anymore is pathetic.

This team sucks ass

@jarvis_best Hahahaah and his first episode is gonna be dedicated to losing to Ed Gein. lol what a loser

Don’t think of it as losing a Congressman. Think of it as gaining a podcaster.

@avidseries Objective reality is a tough place to be for those folks

@Tonysmarkettips Amen.

Unless Sarah Jane Ramos is one of the 50 Associated Press Awards voters - We don't care.

@buccocapital Having been one of the “worst employees” that was among the 3999 other “worst employees” that Jack Dorsey laid off, I can confidently say you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to Block. Like at all.

Every company is realizing they’ve got once-in-a-generation air cover to fire their worst 30% of employees Many of these companies have been hoarding talent for a decade. They don’t need to anymore AND they have a free pass to unwind it You better believe they’re gonna do it

@Coach_Yac After watching the giants the last 5 years…I find it hard to say anything bad about the 49ers.

This is how the Giants night is going…

@Yukka_pukka Jack Dorsey.

@Trask156 So why are you no longer in tech?

Racists on X: Indians don't contribute, Indians are scammers, they hate America. Real-world: Indian-American philanthropist Anil Kochar just paid off the loans for 176 seniors at North Carolina State. You're being psyop'd against Indians, and the worst part is you don't even know it.

@NickKristof @mattduss Agreed. The accords being a major step toward piece instead of peace is indeed an interesting point of view and one I look forward to entertaining.

Interesting piece by @mattduss taking on the conventional view that the Abraham Accords were a major step toward piece. Instead, he argues, they fueled conflict, including the current Iran war and the marginalization of Palestinians.

Eyal Waldman is a decent and honorable man whom I have gotten to know closely since October 7, and was one of the first Israelis to reach out to me online once I had grown a presence following the tragedy of my family’s killing in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes. Despite losing his daughter to Hamas’s heinous massacre on October 7, he has been relentlessly pursuing radically pragmatic initiatives, and we have both been in multiple spaces, conferences, events, and arenas to discuss ways in which Palestinians and Israelis can both have safety, security, self-determination, and freedom. He not only supports peace and the inevitable need to establish a Palestinian self-rule because it is the moral thing to do, but he also recognizes it is imperative for protecting Israel’s long-term interests and needs as a Jewish and democratic state. The blind hatred by the so-called “pro-Palestine” activists against Eyal here is typical behavior of brownshirt-esque militias who simply hear someone’s identity and react blindly despite his goodwill gesture and outreach. The “pro-Palestine” mafia fails to appreciate that there will never be a free or independent Palestine without making alliances with broad segments in Israel, including in government, civil society, business, and faith communities. You don’t have to agree with everything Eyal says or believes to acknowledge that he is a decent, honorable, and a class-A human being, the embodiment of pursuing peace and reconciliation across entrenched narratives and deep personal trauma.

@TheBayAreaBob Tell me how. Seriously. Who figures it out at the plate? Because I was at the series in the Philly and they looked as lost at the plate as any team in recent memory.

The Giants, currently nine games below .500, will finish the season with a winning record and will be in the mix for a wild-card spot. Bookmark it .

When Dearborn mosques hosted memorial after memorial for the worst mass killer of our generation, Ali Khamenei, the Butcher of Tehran, nobody was protesting outside of those mosques. Please don't lecture us about what we can do in our synagogues.

No one is asking Jon Stewart to remain silent about Gaza. This is just an idiotic straw man argument

@motsdemaelys “I will only engage with people that I don’t considered flawed.” Not healthy, rational, or realistic.

honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first

@Carlos__Turcios @DallasExpress These are fellow Americans practicing their faith. What the fuck is wrong with you?

🚨FRISCO, TEXAS🚨This is not Islamabad or Mumbai. This is Frisco, Texas. Hundreds of Indian Hindus have gathered for Hindu rituals, worshiping statues of Hindu Gods. Data now estimates that at least 33% of the city is now Indian. Follow: @Carlos__Turcios @DallasExpress