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This is what local accountability looks like: In Festus, Missouri, a town of about 14,000 people, the city council quietly approved a $6 billion Ai data center to be built on 360 acres just north of Highway 67. Residents say they were never properly heard. Meetings were held in private. Documents were released too late. A week after the approval, the town held a regular election. Voter turnout jumped 129 percent. Every single council member who had voted yes lost in a landslide. A 70-year-old first-time candidate beat an 8-year incumbent by 40 percentage points. Now a recall petition is circulating to remove the mayor as well. The lawsuit against the city is already filed. Has your local government ever been held accountable like this? 🔥

Boar-lets are called Marcassins in French. Male boars are Sangliers, females are Laies.

@RichardAngwin Man.

What would you delete ??

A good photographer is worth his weight in gold

🚨 Pope Leo XIV just declared the Iran War unjust. Called it a war crime. Said it is “not solving anything.” Then told Americans directly: call Congress. End this war. The same Pope Trump called weak on crime. The same Pope Trump fabricated a nuclear quote from. The same Pope whose brother received a bomb threat after Trump attacked him. The same Pope Speaker Johnson lectured on theology. 1.4 billion Catholics heard their leader call this war a crime.

A centuries-old rule has been broken in New Zealand and it’s making history.Rawiri Barriball, a Māori sailor in the Royal New Zealand Navy, has become the first to be officially allowed to wear his sacred moko kauae (chin) and mataora (full-face) tattoos while on duty. Announced on July 23, 2025, the decision marks a powerful shift in military grooming standards, embracing the deep cultural significance of Māori heritage.The Navy says the change is part of a broader effort to honor tikanga Māori (Māori customs) and celebrate diversity in its ranks.Tradition isn’t something to hide — when given space, it stands proud and leads the way.

The most natural human reaction I’ve ever seen photographed.

@tnwebknight @Hania16836 What of Utah?

@Hania16836 I don't know who taught spelling or US geography to you, but you are incorrect that there is only ONE such state. There is at least two (and that's just the ones popping quickly into my head. There may be others.) In any case, Iowa & Ohio are those two.

Interestingly speaking here as a woman, most people who complain of 'woke feminist' agendas are in general guys who have issues with the XX Population. - their wives have dumped them - their daughters would not pay attention to them - their MILs see them as the village i. - they are 'undatable' or never get a second date - at work, it is a woman who has got the promotion they wanted to get. These are the guys who complain about woke feminist agendas. And you find them in all strata of life. You have Musk who offers his sperm all over the planet as all the planet goes politely 'err, thank you for this. It is ... interesting... You know what? We shall write you back if we are interested!'.

Lol the most idiotic take here is that the Minoans weren't the Mycenaeans No shit. But we have no evidence of Homer from Mycenae either. Our only actual evidence of Homeric epic comes from after the Bronze Age, after the Mycenaeans And it's clearly a widespread tale that existed in multiple cultures. It included all sorts of Bronze Age cultures from Troy in Anatolia to Mycenae in the Argolid to, surprise surprise, Odysseus claiming he was from Crete These people are idiots

what a stupid take. why is a Minoan fresco not relevant? It's literally just as relevant to the Odyssey as any other piece of Bronze Age art from the Aegean world people just love to score points by talking shit, while revealing themselves to be full of shit

@TheBarefootSage @DrNeilStone But private along far more aggressively ruthless private pension schemes are looking for a way to keep your savings/4-0-1k w/o redistributing back to you. Once dead, they keep it.

@morangles @DrNeilStone This is the US. "state pension" isn't really a thing.

RFK Jr wants doctors to get paid to get patients off medications That's a TERRIBLE idea And a dangerous one It's a conflict of interest I get paid the same regardless of whatever I do or do not prescribe. I do what's best for the patient. Period.

@ScotchMist31 I remember this and my retinas have yet to recover 15 years later

@morangles Yeah. Nope.

Still my favourite. You can almost hear the rustle of the fabric.

He made a memorial for his mother at his library. I love this human being because of his incredible character. ❤️

@DrNeilStone Ever heard of roe? Caviar? What do you think the minipits sitting on strawberries are?

If you stop and think about it, eating eggs is a really weird thing

A fourteen-year-old boy lay in a hospital bed weighing sixty-five pounds, his body shrinking, his breath smelling of acetone, his mind drifting in and out of consciousness. His organs were failing one by one. Doctors had already done everything medicine knew how to do. Toronto General Hospital. Early January 1922. The boy’s name was Leonard Thompson, and at fourteen years old, he was dying from Type 1 diabetes. Back then, diabetes was not managed. It was survived for as long as possible. There was no insulin. No reliable treatment. Doctors had only one desperate method left: starvation diets. Leonard was restricted to about 450 calories a day. Barely enough for a healthy child to survive, let alone one whose body could no longer process sugar. The goal was cruelly simple. Starve the disease before it starved him first. Children wasted away under these treatments. Parents watched bones push through skin while strength disappeared day by day. By December 1921, Leonard had almost nothing left. His parents brought him to Toronto General Hospital knowing what doctors would say. Their son was skeletal, weak, and slipping toward a diabetic coma. Medicine had run out of answers. But somewhere else in Toronto, a young surgeon named Frederick Banting refused to stop asking questions. Working with Charles Best in a crude laboratory, he believed the pancreas produced a substance capable of controlling blood sugar. Most scientists doubted him. The experiments looked messy. The extract looked worse. Still, the dogs they treated survived when they should have died. Blood sugar dropped. Something was working. By January 1922, Banting’s team believed they had one chance to try it in a human being. They needed someone desperate enough to risk it. Leonard Thompson was dying enough to qualify. His father was asked to approve an injection no human had ever received before. No guarantees. No safety studies. Just a possibility. He said yes. On January 11, Leonard received the first injection. It failed badly. The extract was too impure, and his condition barely improved. Most people would have stopped there. The team did not. Biochemist James Collip worked day and night purifying the formula while Leonard continued fading. Twelve days later, they tried again. This time, the impossible happened. Leonard’s blood sugar dropped. The acetone smell on his breath disappeared. Color slowly returned to his face. For the first time since diagnosis, he was not dying anymore. Word spread quickly. Families flooded Toronto with letters begging for the treatment that had saved one boy already slipping away. Soon, insulin spread across the world. Children who once faced certain death suddenly had futures. Leonard lived thirteen more years because one father took a terrifying chance and a handful of scientists refused to quit after failure. One injection changed medicine forever.

Trump is furious because Xi actually showed up to greet Obama at the airport instead of sending the “sorry busy” package he got.

F*€K @CBS and @paramountplus‼️ Will dropping Stephen Colbert affect your CBS viewing? YES or NO