This meme is actually based on a real scientific finding.
Researchers studying howler monkeys found that males with larger vocal organs producing deeper, more powerful calls tended to have smaller testes, while species with larger testes tended to have less-developed vocal organs.
So, there ya go.
In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended
It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it
Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers.
(video shared directly with me)
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Bari Weissification of CBS News: both the expert and the school used in this story take money from billionaire republican megadonor Jeff Yass, who gave $100 million to the college founded by…Bari Weiss! @oliverdarcy.bsky.social@froomkin.bsky.social
Who will write the “They/Them Won” story? The Dems that won, even the “centrists” did not throw trans under the bus. And Atlanta elected a non-binary democratic socialist for district 2 @froomkin.bsky.social
Another sign we may be regaining our senses. In Atlanta’s 5-way, open-seat, District 2 City Council race, Kelsea Bond, non-binary and Democratic Socialist (just second DS in the state), won outright. Good night for progressives. Congrats to Kelsea!
Just today read both Elon Musk and Campbell Brown are investing (she raised 3 million, he has gazillions) in turning AI republican. Dems already lost big media, social and podcast space to the right. With AI, the right will own the entire information space.
Yesterday, Khalil spoke to supporters outside the federal court.
Mahmoud Khalil: “I absolutely think, like, this shows how my case is actually just like a test for everyone’s rights here across the country.”
Do NOT miss this proof that Epstein matters: Feds are protecting Maxwell like an extreme VIP. They lockdown prison for her to have a secret meeting. There were GUNSHOTS outside and they evacuated ONLY Maxwell. Fishy as fuck.
Portland is a “war-ravaged” city that is “on fire,” President Trump warns. But I braved the artillery fire and militia checkpoints to bring you this video report from the front lines.
The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
This is amazing reporting. Data driven and heartbreakingly told. It’s hard, but you gotta hand it to WAPO, they threw a dozen people at this, to document the USAID victims
The only thing wrong with it is that @washingtonpost.com should have refused to run the government response unless someone put their name on it. Why on earth let them get away with “a spokesman”
If you missed Trump‘s speech to the military leadership, or have been snoozing since he resumed Office, it appears that he and roughly 30% of the voting population that support him, want the 70% that does not to give up our liberties and freedom. If we don’t, he will take them using our military.
Part of what’s happening here is EVERY FEDERAL EMPLOYEE is getting an email bashing Dems for shutdown (is this hatch act violation or something else?)
Employees are on socials tonight, which they trust more than government. What are they seeing on their feeds and how can Democrats get in there?
🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ shut down an FBI probe after agents caught Border Czar Tom Homan on tape taking $50,000 in cash from undercover operatives posing as contractors in exchange for promised gov’t contracts. MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian with a massive scoop. Link in reply.
Eric Swalwell wore a 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' hat in the House yesterday, stating, “There will be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone involved in these dirty deals, get a lawyer and save your records, because you’re going to be in this room answering questions.”
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
The statement that got Kimel suspended:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said in his monologue.”
The Wall Street Journal. The Guardian. All the other outlets who failed to confirm their reporting.
I want to see fewer cowardly, shrugging "editor's notes" on these stories and more statements of "wow, we really failed in our reporting on a grave matter, and here's how we're going to do better."
Haven’t seen anyone mention what a self own it was to announce the bullet engravings. They stupidly thought it showed the shooter was a lefty. They did not have to release that info