The given explanations for words that aren't words in Spelling Bee is that it's up to the discretion of the editor
For "cirrhotic" I would imagine it's omittrd because hardly anyone would get it
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
The only thing keeping me from being a millionaire is that there's no money in my bank account
People can pledge allegiance in their own time if they choose. Public pledges, whether required or not, are icky and gross
Headline: Student, parent sue Falmouth schools for not offering Pledge of Allegiance Subheadline: The lawsuit alleges that the Falmouth School Department has not been providing Falmouth High School students an opportunity to recite the pledge, in violation of state law
It's a bad state law (via @pressherald.com )
a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”
Sooooo North Korea?
"degloving" is a fucked up medical term
Graphic with a faded image of mangled vehicles after a car collision. The main text is a quote that says “speed wasn’t a factor.“ The tagline at the bottom says speed is always a factor. The ad is from the Urban Truth Collective.
When it comes to the likelihood of car crashes, or the deadly consequences of car crashes, speed is ALWAYS a factor. #UrbanTruth
They should make bigger so it can hold like 30x more people. And run it along specific routes
I can't remember why but there was some twisted racist reason for this too I'm quite sure
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
It’s not just that Biden on 🇦🇫 is being compared to Trump on 🇮🇷. It’s that the former was shamefully treated as evidence of gross incompetence & a failing presidency, while the latter - like everything else Trump does - is getting excused, normalized, & graded on a totally different scale.
It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔
[*It is not remotely interesting to me]
Never forget who Trump appointed to be the head of our domestic anti-terrorism people.com/trump-admin-...
Trump's people will bet "yes" 5 minutes before he's canned
ECONOMY: SHAMBLES
OIL: $300 PER BARREL
COUNTRY: ON FIRE
REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-
I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.
I'm dumb
Good thing the war is over
don't forget rampant racism against people who look even remotely west Asian
I wrote about an all-time favorite media genre of mine: the Sleeper Cell Panic story. It addition to helping prop up the war effort against Iran and pressuring Dems to abandon their (token) DHS reforms, it has the added bonus of promoting mindless paranoia and racial profiling.
"easier than we thought"
AI is increasing the intensity of work rather than reducing it, according to one of the biggest studies of AI’s effects on work habits to date.
You love to see it
We're hand-wringing about who has *second place* on the single-game scoring list?
Brilliant sweepthestrait.com
Such a stupid system
