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Just so we are clear…

Selling a cake to a gay person is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn’t participating in a murder.

What a country!

I’ll put up a billboard making fun of Mike Pence IN HIS HOMETOWN if I get 10,000 follows on Twitch. Help out!
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Anne tells me that France is in flames, but I haven't seen much about it on my social networks. What's happening there, and why?
The U.S. Supreme Court justices have always had impassioned dissents, but why are they arguing out in the open like regular people? Axios dives into the high court's recent affirmative action decision that appears to have exposed some nerves:
Affirmative action exposes SCOTUS' raw nerves:
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-supreme-court-thomas-jackson
#SCOTUS #AffirmativeAction #SupremeCourt
Affirmative action exposes SCOTUS' raw nerves

There have always been impassioned dissents, but it's rare for the justices to argue the way regular people argue.

Axios

“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power…then we will start to see an undemocratic and frankly dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court. Which is what we are seeing now”

There’s a reason the GOP spends so much money trying to malign and discredit AOC

It’s because she’s right

🤔 These government agencies are suddenly finding the instability of the #Birdsite not so great. #EmergencyManagement
A touching unexpected reunion of a Ukrainian military man back from the front with his daughter at her prom
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

Awful news. Victoria Amelina died from injuries sustained in the Kramatorsk missile attack.

#Ukraine

https://pen.org.ua/en/ne-stalo-viktoriyi-amelinoyi-ukrayinskoyi-pysmennyci-ta-nashoyi-dorohoyi-kolehy

45,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man experienced a crushing blow to the head that left him partially paralyzed for life, but his bones healed and he lived into his 30s or 40s, something only conceivably possible with the help of his community.

45,000 years ago.

But let’s pretend that 45,000 years later, we “can’t afford” universal healthcare.

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/shanidar-1

Shanidar 1

The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program

Here's the thing with Elon.

At Tesla and SpaceX, he could hire engineers so passionate about electric cars and building rockets, so frustrated by the slow pace at other organisations, they willingly worked themselves to the bone and covered up for his many shortcomings. Quite how sustainable that is, we'll see.

But there are plenty of other companies with the same mission as Twitter. And software engineers are so sought after, he can't hire the best on peanuts. It can't work.