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@rachelhamburg so pure 🥹

here is video bc it makes me happy. her name is layla and she was my foster puppy for a month and a half, my neighbor's friend adopted her, and this is us randomly encountering each other in the street 8 months later:

I just ran into my former foster dog in the street and it was like that guy who sees his lion friend for the first time in ten years

1/Months in the making, here's the final cut of my story on the long-awaited wealth transfer, no longer in the future tense: We're closer to 2053 than 1992. Elites are already disbursing to heirs while alive. The masses likely need luck or a paradigm shift nytimes.com/2023/05/14/bus…

Our findings have a lot of relevance for policymakers interested in Court expansion. But one particularly salient one: without Court expansion, Democrats are unlikely to retain control of the Court until...2065.

"Anger Transference" by Richard Sargent, 1954.

When people ask me what single thing has had the most impact on homelessness in our district, my answer is always the same: We were able to convert a hotel into a shelter site. It changed everything. The process was VERY difficult – but it can be replicated all over LA. 🧵

when it’s 3 hours later and the water still isn’t clear…

Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency than his own, and was a teenager while Civil War veterans were alive. During his first campaign for the U.S. Senate, he shared a ballot with Richard Nixon and campaigned on a “a quick end to the Vietnam war”.

🚨NEWS: Fox News says it can claim a tax write-off for its defamation settlement with Dominion. The deduction would lower the company’s tax rate, effectively forcing taxpayers to provide up to a $200 million subsidy to the company for its election lies. levernews.com/fox-can-claim-…

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Time for perhaps the most damning stat of all: One in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday. No parent should ever have to bury their child, but on average across the US one set of parents from every kindergarten class most likely will.

@FarnoushAmiri 👏🏽 love Jamaal

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/42I9bK8

Beef emits 31 times more CO₂ per calorie of food than tofu does. By cooking so many cows, we are cooking ourselves, too. Forgoing steaks may be one of the most efficient ways to reduce our carbon footprint econ.st/405qnrh

My latest episode on how this guy became mayor of New York is out: youtu.be/AfYZhPZehCM

44% of non-parents between the aged 18-49 reported they weren't likely to have children in the future, up 7% from 2018. #populationdecline

the worst month of the year starts next week and this is still the best video on the internet twitter.com/_lil_i_am/stat…

The Daily Show went to the Atlanta forest to cover the movement to stop cop city, and it’s better than 99% of the mainstream coverage. twitter.com/micahinATL/sta…