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A second by second breakdown makes it clear the White House version is demonstrably false: The ICE agent was not run over, and Renee Good was driving away when she was killed, and he shot and murdered her when he wasn’t even in front of her car
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Kristi Noem calling the victim’s actions “domestic terrorism” is propaganda. Full stop. I served as a White House homeland security advisor. I know what that designation means & when it’s misused. A U.S. citizen is dead. She was a mom. This is what ICE impunity looks like. It cannot be normalized.
Five years later, January 6 still matters. Not just because of what happened—but because of what happens if we decide we’ve already heard enough.
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They can’t start impeachment proceedings when in such a minority and when no Republicans of conscience will join them.
Not Somali.
Years before that in 1811 he was actually expelled from Oxford University, merely for writing an essay in defense of atheism, one of the first explicit avowals of atheism ever published in the English language. So Happy New Year! And may you be a happy democrat, philanthropist and atheist in 2026!
Once when checking in at a hotel Europe the great English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley listed his occupation in Greek as “democrat, philanthropist, atheist” (δημοκράτης, φιλaνθρωπος, aθεος).
The DOJ is trying to get all your individualized voter data (including SS number, DOB, current and previous addresses, voting records, etc.) in order to intimidate and undermine elections. Please listen to this and re-post on all your social media. Email this video to you friends & family members.
Cognitively well people do not go nuts to tell people they are cognitively well.
A true sign of autocracy. Let's hail Dear Leader over Martin Luther King Jr.
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
If you’re older than 50, feeling thirsty is a sign of mild dehydration, because as we age, the thirst signal tends to be delayed and blunted, meaning that a person can be mildly or even moderately dehydrated before they even feel thirsty in the first place. Drink your salty waters!
AI rebellion is far less scary than AI that’s “just following orders.”
And these individual differences in personality, which are highly heritable and stable across the lifespan, have great predictive power when it comes to how we will respond to various life events. But more importantly, they are actually powerfully predictive of which life events we will have.
Obviously, not everyone is the same personality-wise. People differ a lot in how open to new experiences they are, how conscientious, how sociable, how agreeable, and how emotionally stable they are.
I’ve been enjoying rereading my old classroom notes from a personality theory course I took in college 31 years ago:
I disagree w/ Huxley’s point, or at least feel I ought: “Rooted as they are in the facts of contemporary life, the phantasies of even a second-rate writer of modern Science Fiction are incomparably richer, bolder and stranger than the Utopian or Millennial imaginings of the past.” — Aldous Huxley
Across the country, police departments have adopted AI-driven platforms to assist with data collection and analysis. But without robust safeguards, these data fusion tools risk generating inaccurate results, perpetuating bias, and undermining individual rights. bit.ly/44nxPlx
Home invasions.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.
Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.
The GOP isn't the party of law and order.
They're the party of lawlessness and violence.
Nikki Haley’s son says naturalized citizens should not be able to hold public office and thinks dual citizenship should be outlawed. His grandparents are from India and his mother dropped her first name Nimarda.
If you have a few people you can really rely on abd spend quality time with, you benefit from one of the most powerful predictors of long-term well-being that science has so far identified. We don’t just live with our close friends. We are often able to live longer because of them.
(It’s worse in other countries: in Japan, they have millions of people that never even leave their bedrooms, and their superaged society now suffers from the “80-50 problem,” were parents in their 80s are still taking care of their non-working children in their 50s, socially isolated shut-ins.)
And unfortunately, Americans are increasingly socially isolated across the socioeconomic spectrum: more people live by themselves, more eat all their meals alone, and more report that they rarely socialize in person. Loneliness is rising, especially as we age, and it’s just plain bad for your health
Unfortunately both the very poor and the very rich suffer in this area since both financial strain and extreme wealth can limit or erode close friendships in different ways, the first through bad stress and instability, the latter through social isolation and distrust.
These longevity effects hold even after accounting for differences in sex, age, initial health, and ultimate cause of death.
The quality of these relationships matters more than sheer quantity. The metastudy finds that people with a few truly close, supportive friendships fare far better than people with lots of superficial or casual friends.
(The influence of the lack of close friendships on the risk of death is comparable to well-established risk factors like smoking and alcohol consumption, and actually exceeds the influence of other risk factors like physical inactivity and obesity.)
A massive longitudinal metastudy of more than 300,000 people over decades found that having a few meaningful relationships is associated with a 50% higher chance of being alive years later compared to people who are socially isolated. This is an effect thats even greater than not smoking or drinking
