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Of course. We aren't exactly known for *enlarging* them.
Shot:
Update: Grok has been patched and no longer responds to inquiries with non-sequiturs about white genocide, instead returning customary and apt responses that are on topic and elaborate on how children are ungrateful and the penis-enlargement industry has been corrupted by Jews
Oy vey
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We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
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How we got here:
*Project 2025 proposes abortion pill restrictions
*RFK says Trump asked him to review it
*FDA head says he’s open to new data
*EPPC, P25 advisor, releases flawed report
*Josh Hawley—whose wife works for another P25 advisor—writes letter, intros bill
.*Hawley presses RFK in hearing
aaaah how do i sleep when i have gigabytes of adorable gremlin footage like this!?
#birds 🐣
War for Ukraine Day 1,175 update has posted.

Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 1,175: Putin Isn't Going to Turkey Because He's a Big (Little) Chicken
A quick housekeeping note: The good news is that today went far better than I expected, but it was still long and I’m exhausted. So I’m just going to run through the basics. As of 9:55 PM EDT/4:55 AM ...
Snyder's book's entitled On Tyranny & marketed as: "On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come." & you then cut & run to save your own dupa, you've told on yourself. He's a moral & physical coward.
i don't have a strong opinion on snyder and his contemporaries moving to canada. but telling us we're not doing enough to help ourselves as you pack your bags is pretty galling.
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Kennedy, who often says the administration intends to support "gold-standard science," says NIH is phasing out animal studies because “We can accomplish a lot of those goals on safety and efficacy with AI technology.”