Scott Lincicome
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James Harrison's blood has unique antibodies that fight rhesus disease. So he donated blood every week for 60 years and saved the lives of 2.4M babies. Superheroes are real.
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All time champion community note. Will never be topped.
We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don’t have to do it to them, either.
Art by
@freebison
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Election Night 2016
What is the most draining and devastating single episode of television you've ever seen?
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The guy who lost money selling steaks, vodka, gambling & football may soon be piloting a global currency war I'm sure it'll be fine.
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Energy Secretary Granholm recently took 4-day EV caravan trip across the southeast to "draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars."
What happened next is like a scene out of VEEP:
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Eagerly awaiting the CDC's forthcoming "please do not eat llamas" PSA
Llama antibodies may neutralize COVID and help prevent infections, lab trial finds
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It'd mean I was a fool for responsibly paying off my loans.
What would canceling all student debt mean for you and your family?
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Such an emotional moment for the Queen and Enrico Palazzo to meet almost 31 years after he saved her life in Los Angeles.
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Cannot even imagine how hard Bernie took this.
40 years ago today, the "Miracle on Ice" took place in Lake Placid, New York, as the United States Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
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Unsurprising. That thing withstood decades of implosions.
WATCH IT: The Pontiac Silverdome failed to fall today. The implosion went off but couldn't take down the former home of the Lions.
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My mortgage is also unfair.
Elaine De Leon, a third-year medical student at NYU, borrowed $76,000 to pay for her first year of medical school. She says that if she were to pay it off on a ten-year plan, that debt would increase to $100,000.
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A new, real-world Israeli study shows the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is almost 90% effective at stopping COVID-19 transmission (not just symptoms)
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It...it's just...so...so beautiful.
Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign will limit working hours for organizers to guarantee $15 minimum wage
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"Canadian woman is diagnosed with cancer, told she has 2 years to live at most, that she is not a candidate for surgery but would she like medical help committing suicide? She declines, comes to the US, spends a lot of money, and is treated within weeks."
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We need a total and complete shutdown of Trump administration officials entering the rest of the country until our country's voters can figure out what the hell is going on.
NEW: Stephen Miller has tested positive for COVID, per senior administration official. Adds Miller has been working remotely for last 5 days, testing negative every day through yesterday, and is in quarantine after a positive test today.
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"the United States could, with a stroke of a pen, totally destroy the capacity of Russia to compete militarily or economically with us by offering a green card to any Russian with a technical degree who wishes to emigrate to the United States"
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One great cuisine vs *every* great cuisine. Not a difficult choice.
Americans *genuinely* believe they have better food than France. They really believe it. It’s truly extraordinary.
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Marianne Williamson probably isn't going to be president but I could totally see her as Secretary of Love.
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Your book was literally titled "IN TRUMP WE TRUST"
Sounds like the big sell-out is coming. Oh well. The voters did what we could. If Trump sells out, it's not our fault.
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Not all resources are finite. Take ignorance, for example.
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Imagine a big disaster in a landlocked state; residents begging their fellow Americans for food, medicine, etc; BUT DC blocks the delivery trucks unless they're US-made/owned/operated, AND there are only like 10 eligible trucks & 2 eligible rds
That's Puerto Rico & the Jones Act
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Q: How do Communists win twitter arguments?
A: They seize the memes of production.
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A *government* official closed a *public* beach for his personal use, and you blame whatnow?
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The US steel industry produced 90 million tons of steel last year (up 5%) and had 72.5% of the US market.
We must protect our country and our workers. Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!
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When you "like" tweets with a
#HappyThanksgiving
hashtag, a turkey face appears for a split second.
Who needs flying cars?
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But they banned me from the food court
(It wasn't me)
Saw me cruisin' at the high school
(It wasn't me)
I even wrote it in her yearbook
(It wasn't me)
They even caught me on camera!
(It wasn't me)
Roy Moore now claims he knows none of his accusers, contradicting his earlier defenses
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Mexico isn't paying for The Wall. We are.
China isn't paying the tariffs. We are.
The tax cuts aren't paying for the spending. We are.
Now, guess who's paying for the farmer bailouts.
(Spoiler: we are)
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Maybe the single best thing I've ever heard her say.
It's
#NationalYouthDay
which seems like a good time to ask: what does Phony Kamala think about young people?
"𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝!"
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"The study—published on June 23rd in Lancet Infectious Diseases—found that in the first year of vaccine rollout, jabs saved the lives of 19.1m-20.4m people. Without vaccines... roughly three times as many people would have died from covid in 2021 alone."
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BioNTech, a 🇩🇪 company founded by a 🇹🇷 immigrant (& the daughter of one), developed their vaccine in March (pre-OWS), & then partnered w/ Pfizer(🇺🇸), run by a 🇬🇷 native, to make it at 🇺🇸/🇧🇪 facilities (using 🇨🇦/🇪🇺/🇺🇸 inputs), & then ship it using their own 🌎 network.
VP Pence: "Only in America could you see the kind of innovation that's resulted in the development of a vaccine in record time."
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let's do it.
US cheese surplus reaches record high; there is now enough cheese sitting in cold storage to wrap around the U.S. Capitol.
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Nobody ever tells you that parenthood is basically an infinite series of petty negotiations.
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Walmart's contribution to America's & the world's poor (plus the millions of jobs) is worth many times that $144B. And it's not even close.
Meanwhile, the Walton family of Walmart has a net worth of $144 billion. This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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First question: why is a "Grande" the medium?
I love our country, and I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent.
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1. The Biden request is alone sufficiently impeachable
2. The quid pro quo is pretty darn clear if you've ever watched a single episode of the Sopranos
3. The Crowdstrike request is (at best) equal parts nuttery & personal obsession
4. And this is the helpful stuff!
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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
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The easiest way to get the feds to stop the Chinese Spy Balloon is to load it up with American-made goods and try floating it between 2 US ports.
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This is the equivalent of being awakened by a phone call from your college freshman son, who then leads with "the important thing is that I'm totally fine and everything is totally fine"
Today I convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation's six largest banks. See attached statement.
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And you'll never believe what happened next!
Hugo Chavez declared the oil belonged 2 the ppl. He used the oil $ 2 eliminate 75% of extreme poverty, provide free health & education 4 all
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Lifeless stare after impact. Definitely concussed, if not worse. Almost unBEARable to watch.
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TARIFFS NOT ONLY IMPOSE IMMENSE ECONOMIC COSTS BUT ALSO FAIL TO ACHIEVE THEIR PRIMARY POLICY AIMS AND FOSTER POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION ALONG THE WAY
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3 of every 4 🇯🇵 cars sold in 🇺🇸 are made here
Toyota, Nissan, Honda make more cars here than Big 3
🇯🇵 cos made 3.9M cars here, employing 88k
Pres Trump asks Japanese auto makers if they could build their cars in the US and not just ship them over.
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Why is my daughter learning cursive? Might as well learn binary.
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A modern day Monty Python sketch. Delightfully hilarious.
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Upon hearing the news, his wives were speechless.
Bodybuilder who wed two sex dolls is now open to dating humans
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Every sentence here is wrong. It's honestly kinda impressive in its wrongness.
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"The death tolls in Italy and New York probably did more to change behavior on the ground than all of Trump’s press conferences or Dr. Anthony Fauci’s TV appearances." Yep. In my experience, most ppl here are staying home bc they believe the risk. Not bc govt is telling them to.
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1. Almost all of the tariff revenue came from US companies/consumers
2. Those billions primarily went to large agribusiness (often more than they lost)
3. Farmers are still worse off over the longer term, & your trade deal is in tatters
Those cleaners are looking pretty good rn
Biden failed with China. They took us to the cleaners! I got $Billions out of China, and gave much of it to our targeted farmers!
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"The movement of these industries is toward three states that have one thing in common—no state income tax. And these are the only three states with no income tax in the southeastern quadrant of the US"
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A globalist is just a nationalist mugged by apparel supply chain reality.
Like many American small business owners, Alexo aims to be Made in America. We are working towards that. A message from Alexo CEO Amy Robbins.
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Seizing the means of production to own the libs.
Breaking: Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life, a move that would represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.
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You guys will never believe what happens when localities build more housing:
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When Rural America struggled, it fueled resentment. BUT, now that Rural America is booming...
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Everytime a news report prefaces a Biden staff announcement with "In a move certain to upset the party's progressive wing,..." a NeverTrumper gets her wings
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FOR THE LAST TIME FOREIGNERS AREN'T PAYING THE TARIFFS
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Did I miss the USA's parallel initiative or no? At the same scale, we'd accept ~175,000.
#BREAKING
Canada to accept 20,000 Afghan refugees, prioritizing the most vulnerable women leaders, human rights defenders, journalists, religious minorities, LGBTQ+, and families of already resettled interpreters
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We're 145th in the world in population density
Tucker Carlson: "This is becoming a crowded country and crowded countries are ugly, unhappy countries."
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Everyone will (rightly) praise Connery for his dramatic/action roles (Bond, Red October, The Rock, Untouchables, etc), but my favorite is probably Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. So great.
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NGL, I could watch "Tucker treats basic things like they're sci fi technology" vids on repeat for days.
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The problem, as I see it, is that they 1) know you love them dearly and hate to see them suffer, 2) have infinite energy and nothing to do, and 3) are willing to contest everything - literally everything. At 7p on a Monday night, we olds don't stand a freaking chance.
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"As it happens, [
@justinamash
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Great, easily-digestible piece from my go-to impeachment guy,
@GeneHealy
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The 8YO made me a "gift" at pottery camp this week, and I don't know whether to be thankful or concerned.
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American workers making steel/aluminum: 170k
American workers consuming steel/aluminum: 6.5M
Truly amazing to watch the media’s breathless panic attack as President
@realDonaldTrump
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#AmericaFirst
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"this isn't altruism... At Costco we know that paying employees good wages...makes sense for our business and constitutes a significant competitive advantage for us. It helps us in the long run by minimizing turnover and maximizing employee productivity"
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Tomorrow and for the following 6 months, every day will have less sunlight than the day before it. Enjoy.
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If one call's legit, you must acquit.
What is Nunes doing? He’s reading a banal courtesy call between Trump and Zelensky... What is this supposed to show? Not EVERY conversation was corrupt?
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there is not enough alcohol in the world for this election season
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That both parties are not currently screaming "OUR DOOR IS WIDE OPEN TO CUBANS, HONG KONGERS, VENEZUELANS, AND LITERALLY ANY OTHER HUMAN FLEEING AUTHORITARIAN OPPRESSION REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY ARRIVE" is a massive moral and political failure
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I don't have a SoundCloud or anything so here's just some pics of Rosie.
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Median size of a dwelling in every US state vs the same thing in Europe. 👀
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"The tariffs have played out exactly as the experts—the experts that Navarro and Trump maligned for so many years—predicted".
Great
@EricBoehm87
look at Peter Navarro's decades of belligerent failure.
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NOW THEY TELL US: "The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea"
"the pause in student-loan payments caused borrowers to rack up more debt, not less"
Try not to laugh at the last sentence:
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I'm telling you, the Trump/Schumer/Pelosi Amnesty Act of 2017 is going to be so amazing you won't believe it.
Trump today: "I'm very capable of changing to anything I want to change to." Oh great.
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New paper finds that big chain restaurants (Applebee's, Olive Garden, Chili's, IHOP etc) and big chain stores have the largest positive impact on cross-class encounters and thus best bridge our current social divides:
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That little girl is all of America.
Former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak says he's running for president. The retired US Navy 3-star admiral joins a field of 23 other Democrats.
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Little-known Christmas fact: To legally fly from house to house tonight using a foreign-made sleigh and non-US reindeer, Santa Claus must certify with the US govt that he won't pick up ANY new presents along the way. All presents must originate & depart from the North Pole.
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Every once in a while I come back to this recent NYT exchange with Bono and smile
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I'm heartened to know that, in this time of intense national strife, our political leaders on both sides of the aisle are, for the most part, the same bunch of horrible garbagepeople who helped foment this time of intense national strife.
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Wait, did he actually lose $1B or did he just buy $1B in imports? 😏
Donald Trump lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994 -- more than nearly any other individual American taxpayer.
Another huge scoop from
@russbuettner
&
@susannecraig
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Does he also own a magical candy factory?
A mathematics supremo has become a crucial political figure in France
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I dunno abt you guys but I think I'm done with populism
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An erratic POTUS, against Congress' wishes, will today use a vague, 56yr-old law to hastily impose billions in arbitrary taxes & consequent economic pain, alienating allies in the process, all to "protect" a well-connected industry w steady output, 73% mkt share & healthy profits
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Today I woke up to BREAKING NEWS that all parties have agreed the US-China Trade War was nearing an end, and thennnnnnn I finished my day with BREAKING NEWS that actually nobody has agreed to anything.
So, just another day that ends in Y.
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“People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives.” 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔👇
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"The company has said tariffs on imported steel, imposed earlier this year by the Trump administration, have cost it $1 billion."
Reuters reports GM is cutting at Ohio and Michigan plants as well as the one in Oshawa, Ontario:
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Stop doing this stuff, folks. I mean it. You're going to get someone killed.
A Fulton County, Georgia elections worker is in hiding for his own safety tonight after a viral video showed him throwing something in the trash. It was an instruction sheet, but the post claimed he tossed a ballot, and the post included his name, address & pic of license plate.
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