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This is unforgivable.

Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl

5 hours ago

Bulldozers have begun tearing up Big Bend National Park just a stone's throw from Santa Elena Canyon. DHS waived every environmental & cultural resource protection. No surveys have been done. We don't even know what kind of cultural history they are destroying. 📷Natalie Newman.

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24-hr indian takeout place called naanstop

This boring ass planet no aliens, dragons or giants just dumb ass people & bills

Big Bend National Park has the least amount of illegal crossings of anywhere on the Southern Border. Government data says .02% of border-crossings happen here. Entirely unnecessary to destroy a crown jewel of our country for this.

Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul

a day ago

Welp. It’s happening. Bulldozers and heavy equipment arrived in Big Bend National Park today. The most rugged, pristine lands in the lower 48. Trump’s border wall is coming. CBP is refusing to inform residents, park superintendents, landowners, business owners, or Texas

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As bulldozers arrive in Big Bend National Park today, quick reminder of what specifically the govt is planning there: cbp.gov/document/envir… This really is a historic moment, where almost the entire southern edge of the park is set to become a border security construction zone.

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Holy shit... Wired reports that back in May, the U.S. Military was testing an experimental GPS jammer and and caused a civilian plane to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.

🅲🅷🆄🅲🅺 @benigma2017

3 days ago

How is this story not all over the place? futurism.com/science-energy…

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.@JamesTalarico on Texas officially banning THC: “This bill is insane. Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. Texans will still use THC — but instead of getting it safely from a local small business, they’ll go back to getting it from the black market. From the drug cartels. This ban is a gift to the cartels. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst.  Instead of fully funding our schools, guaranteeing healthcare, or making childcare more affordable — this Legislature is focused on banning a product that gives people a little peace. We’re making people’s lives harder, not easier. I want to leave you with a quote: ‘It is time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use.’ That wasn’t a Democrat. That was President Donald Trump. To my Republican colleagues, I’m asking you to oppose the cartels, stand with President Trump, and vote no on this insane bill.”

@EncrustedAnchor @japan_nobunaga Exactly. He explains the part of American culture we all understand and live in, but don't think about. The same way a fish doesn't think about water.

I needed to move a sofa. I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?" I did not know anybody with a truck. He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name. "You gotta know somebody with a truck." I asked how one acquires such a person. He said, "You just do." This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having. He said, "Ask Kevin." I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle. I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius. Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES. Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man. I had not asked for a second man. The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves. They moved the sofa in eleven minutes. I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not. I asked what I owed them. Kevin said, "Buy the pizza." That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size. Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE. We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it. Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive." I still think about that. Three weeks later, Kevin texted me. "You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge." He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge. Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF. I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms. Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck. I said, "Yeah, I got a guy." I have a guy. I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me. He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size." I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up. So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks. Here is a partial list of 86 lies: 1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising. 2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up. 3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent. 4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent. 5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920. 6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent. 7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office. 8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care. 9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment. 10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion. 11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment. 12. He said America was building more factories than ever. 13. He said factory construction was rising. 14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record. 15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain. 16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers. 17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost. 18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses. 19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions. 20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years. 21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured. 22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims. 23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits. 24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure. 25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.” 26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office. Continued in replies…

The chances of a rabbit kicking you off your scooter are incredibly low… but never zero 😭

We have a standing meeting about this word twice a week, every two weeks.

Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat

a week ago

This is objectively the worst word in the English language

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16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too. She was a student at Churchill High School in San Antonio. He was working at the Hilton Garden Inn. Neither has committed a crime. Their asylum case is pending. Now they’re both sitting at the Dilley Trailer Prison. #ShutDownDilley #FreeTheChildren

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Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

Shortly before 7:15 a.m. this morning, Texas Game Wardens in Rains County received a call about a missing boater on Lake Tawakoni. The man was participating in a local fishing tournament when he was ejected from his boat after striking a stump. (1/4)

@freedom_rpt @mellowjnr_ 100 percent. Can also get up easily for restroom.

@dfitzpa2 @mellowjnr_ Right. Also easy access to get up and go to the bathroom. I don’t need to spend that much time with any of them. But Taylor would likely be a gracious and pleasant neighbor.

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it. I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for. My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…