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This Black man just became a doctor 🖤⚜️💚

BREAKING: A reporter just asked Mike Johnson for the first time at a press conference, “Why should we even ask you any questions today when you never read or hear about anything anyway?”

This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

While on that, I am a firm believer that some professions should leave no room for mediocrity. Like, competence is not enough. You need to be exceptional.

Let’s not pretend this is complicated theology. It is not. You cannot stand in front of a golden statue built to glorify a political leader, surround it with preachers, bless it, praise it and then act shocked that the rest of us might consider it a false idol. ms.now/opinion/trump-…

This is incredibly dishonest. She wasn't convicted of speech crimes. She was convicted of 4 felonies and 3 misdemeanors related to an attempted coup. Which caused $800,000 in damage to Mesa County. She also violated a restraining order to intimidate a witness. This is absurd.

Ever seen a man so EXCITED to see birds? 😅

atleast blur my kids faces??

Long lines continue in Louisiana as voters push forward to recall the Governor and Attorney General.

@rparloff You have to wonder whatever coffers are empty since they’re trying to open up this new avenue of greed

Amici (including ex-Judge Gleeson & ex-SG Don Verrilli) have told the judge in IRS v Trump of 3 “substantial defenses” in Trump’s tax case, including (1) sovereign immunity, being argued *now* by DOJ in other cases involving tax leaks by the *same* govt contractor ... 1/3

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying." nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/…

It is I. Garlic Jack. My first Selfy.

3,700 trades by a sitting president

Every Honeycrisp apple is a clone of a single tree planted at the University of Minnesota in 1962. Every one. Apple seeds are random. Plant a Honeycrisp seed and the new tree produces a small, sour apple that’s usually inedible. So apple growers do something old and clever. They cut a small branch off the original Honeycrisp tree, slot it into a slit in a young apple sapling, wrap the joint, and wait. The branch fuses to its new host and starts producing Honeycrisps. About 20 million Honeycrisp trees exist worldwide, every one a piece of that 1962 tree on different roots. Same goes for Gala, Fuji, Pink Lady, Granny Smith. Every Granny Smith on Earth traces back to a seedling found in 1868 by a woman named Maria Ann Smith in Australia. She’d thrown French crab apple cores onto her compost heap, one of them sprouted, and the apples it bore were unusually tart and good for cooking. That one tree is the ancestor of every Granny Smith in every grocery store on the planet. Wine has the bigger story. In the 1860s, a tiny aphid called phylloxera caught a boat from America to France, hidden in some grapevine cuttings. It eats grape roots. French vines had no defense and started dying everywhere. Within 15 years, French wine production crashed from about 11 billion bottles a year to 3 billion. The blight then tore through Italy, Spain, and Germany, and European wine was on the edge of collapse. The rescue came from Missouri and Texas. American grapevines had grown up with phylloxera and were immune to it. So growers chopped French grape varieties off at the trunk and joined them to American roots. Above the soil: still French grapes. Below the soil: aphid-proof American root. It worked. Today, almost every bottle of French, Italian, Spanish, Australian, and Californian wine you’ve ever drunk sits on top of an American root. The technique is ancient. Chinese farmers were grafting trees by 1000 BCE. A Greek medical text from 424 BCE describes it casually, like it was already old news. It works because plants don’t have a rejection system the way animals do. Cut two branches. Match the green layers just under the bark. Wrap them tight. In a few weeks the plumbing has fused into a single plant. A Syracuse University art professor named Sam Van Aken has spent 18 years building a single tree that grows 40 different fruits: peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, almonds. In spring it blossoms in pink, white, and crimson all at once. He’s made more than a dozen. They sell for up to $30,000 each. Without grafting, there would be no commercial apple industry, no global wine industry, and most of the heirloom fruits humans have bred over the centuries would have gone extinct. One clean cut, and you’ve kept entire species alive.

The fact that there is a pervasive sexual harassment environment toward women inside our Capital is truly remarkable. The place where women are working to seek justice for others are getting victimized themselves.

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

This young American is fighting a good fight and I am sure she is making our founding fathers proud. Give her a follow and support her work!

“We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” Internal AutoZone Memo

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