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Her name was Josie. She was a 17-year-old blind lioness in South Africa. Her two daughters hunted for her every day. They also used her to hunt. Prey would freeze and stare at the blind lioness while Dawn and Duffy snuck around and attacked from behind. She lived in Addo Elephant National Park. She was put down this past October. She was older than almost any wild lioness on record. The oldest ever was a lioness called Mathata. She made it to 19. Most wild lionesses only make it to 15 or 16. Josie spent her last five years nearly blind, and she still got there. Her right eye went first. Then her left started to fade. She would stumble sometimes as she walked. She'd call out softly so she could follow Dawn and Duffy by their voices. Lions usually don't look after their sick or injured. Wild animals rarely do. In May 2019, Josie had three grown sons. All three were sedated for a move to another reserve. One brother took longer than the other two to come out of it. He was groggy. He wobbled when he tried to stand up. His two brothers killed him right there on the spot. Her daughters did the opposite, and the reason has a name. Biologists call it kin selection. A biologist named Bill Hamilton wrote it up in 1964. You share a lot of your genes with your kids, your siblings, your parents. So if you help those people survive, you're helping some of your own genes survive. Evolution rewards that. Female lions stay in the pride they're born into for life. Males leave. So a daughter grows up next to her mother. She shares her mother's genes. Helping her mother stay alive helps keep those genes going. A son doesn't get that same payoff. He'll be forced out of the pride eventually. A brother who can't walk straight won't help him survive what comes after. Josie lived past the age any wild lion has any right to reach, nearly blind, in the company of the two animals who had the most reason in the world to keep her alive.

JD Vance: “It's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology."

It's crazy that The Boys turned into a documentary 😭

What she said🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

critiquing this monologue for being entry level feminism is fair but i continue to believe that’s the exact point. this for the ten year old girls in the audience who haven’t learnt this yet. it’s to take the weight of their tiny shoulders for the first time. that’s a nice thing

The continued easing of sanctions against Russia does not reflect the real situation in the war or in diplomacy and fuels the Russian leadership’s illusion that they can continue the war. This week alone, the Russians have launched over 2,360 attack drones, more than 1,320 guided aerial bombs, and nearly 60 missiles of various types at our cities and communities. Every dollar paid for Russian oil is money for the war. More than 110 tankers from Moscow’s shadow fleet are currently at sea. On board are over 12 million tons of Russian oil, which, due to the easing of sanctions, can once again be sold without consequences. That is $10 billion – a resource that is directly converted into new strikes against Ukraine. That is why it is important that Russian tankers are stopped, not allowed to deliver oil to ports. The aggressor’s oil exports must decrease, and Ukraine’s long-range sanctions continue to work toward that goal. I am grateful to every one of our warriors for their precision, and I thank all partners who are helping to increase pressure on Russia for this war.

🔥🔥🔥🔥 Trump shut down the Epstein investigation a week after he was arrested. Trump shut down the Butler investigation immediately. A month earlier I was shooting a Trump rally in a small town in Pennsylvania the exact same set up as Butler. I believe it was the trial run. Kash Patel shut down Charlie Kirk shooting investigation. The gun and bullet are different. Trump shut down Renee Good and Alex Pretti investigation immediately and blocked evidence. He systematically erasing all evidence of what happened on January 6.

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This is antichrist material

y’all with ADHD, do you plan your whole life at 2am then wake up with zero motivation to follow through?

Dafuq is going on? Should I be in a bunker or something?

After Trump returned to WH, Ukraine held out hope of winning him over. But Trump revealed his affection for Putin again and again, halted American aid to Kyiv, insulted Ukrainian leaders, pressured Ukraine to cede territory. Now, Kyiv appears to have given up on US - The Atlantic

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

Putin just gave himself the legal right to invade any country on Earth. 413 votes. Zero against. In 1938, Hitler said he needed to protect the German-speaking minority in Czechoslovakia. Six months later he owned the whole country. This week the Russian Duma passed a law letting Putin deploy troops anywhere on Earth to “protect Russian citizens.” Estonia and Latvia both have large Russian-speaking minorities on Russia’s border. Trump has spent a month telling America that NATO abandoned him. The alliance didn’t show up when he needed it. Remember that. What Americans don’t understand: leaving Europe before a major war doesn’t mean sitting it out. It means handing China the role Japan held in World War Two. We are not saying this was planned. We are saying a plan between two men would look exactly like this. Full breakdown here: x.com/microinteracti…

LMAO this time they cooked Erica Kirk 😭😂🤣

Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe. That’s the new game. AI personas that sound human, post like humans, and build followings.

Big kudos to @TheAtlantic for not backing down. Lawsuits are intended to intimidate… Five minutes ago the GOP was against lawsuits. Now they rely on them to cover up their wrongdoing. I’m subscribing to the Atlantic right after i hit send on this tweet

Fuckface signs an executive order and then says “you think Biden can do that?” Yes, he can. And unlike you, Joe Biden can think, he can ride a bike, and he can walk in a straight line. Oh, and he’s not a convicted felon and a child-raping pedophile.