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liberalsarecool

I am unable to comprehend how everyone is not sick about what is happening.

republicansaretheproblem

misterlemonzlime

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pnglove

OCEAN CAKES ♡

progressivepower

Take no prisoners http://news.usaunify.org/TSsFjZ

comeonamericawakeup

THE WEEK May 1, 2026

So he used money from the government given to one of his companies to buy trucks from another one of his companies, so he could prop up the bottom line of his business. We the tax payers are funding his failing businesses.

worldhistoryfacts

I know a lot of people who have invested heavily in expensive gear so that they can consume their morning coffee the “right” way. This isn’t a new phenomenon. For hundreds of years, people have gone to great lengths to enjoy their stimulants properly.

There were elaborate tea chests (lockable because the tea inside was so valuable):

Tea caddies:

Sugar tongs:

And snuffboxes:

Much more here:

Early modern style

randomanimaloftheday

Day 285#: Blunt-Headed Tree Snake

Today's animal of the day is the Blunt-Headed Tree Snake (Imantodes cenchoa)!

Photo credit: Geoff Gallice

Also known as the fiddle-string snake, this species of arboreal snake can be found in the tropical rainforests of Mexico as well as both Central and South America. They can reach a maximum size of 4 ft 11 in long and are known for their long, slender bodies with comically large heads. Their eyes are also incredibly large compared to the rest of their bodies, and take up nearly 26% of their total head space. While this might look really goofy, it actually helps improve their vision significantly compared to other species of snakes, which are known for having very poor eyesight. Most other snakes rely mostly on their sense of smell as well as vibrations to detect predators and prey, but since the blunt-headed tree snake needs to be able to clearly see the branches of the trees it's climbing, they need to have better vision than the average snake. The slitted shape of its pupil even allows it to look down without moving its entire head, which most snakes are unable to do.

Photo credit: Max Hofmann

Blund-headed tree snakes are active mostly at night, which is another reason they need good eyesight, and will forage through the vegetation in search of prey. Their diet consists mostly of lizards, but they'll also often go after frogs and have been known to eat eggs when the opportunity presents itself. Females tend to be larger than males, meaning that they can take on larger prey. Size isn't the only difference between the sexes. In fact, the populations in the north and south actually seem to exhibit two very different types of sexual dimorphism. Northern males tend to have longer tails than southern males and both types of females, while southern females tend to have much larger heads.

Photo credit: Laurent Hesemans

These snakes are members of the Colubrid family, which also includes hognoses, garters, kingsnakes, and many other species of snakes. Like many of its cousins, the blunt-headed tree snake is technically venomous, but they are rear-fanged venomous instead of front-fanged. This is a useful adaptation when a good portion of your diet consists of frogs and toads, but it isn't really well-suited for injecting venom into humans, since it would require letting the snake chew on you for a good while before it could envenomate you. Luckily, even if you did let one chew on you, their venom is pretty mild, and they're not considered dangerous to humans.

dreaminginthedeepsouth

Bruce Lindner

By now I’m sure you know, CBS fired Scott Pelley yesterday. On his way out the door, Pelley published his own treatise about the situation, which I’ve copied and pasted below the dotted line. That fourth paragraph is a stunning revelation:

“For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

A few weeks ago, 60 Minutes interviewed Bibi Netanyahu. To call it an interview is a misnomer, as it came across as more of a P.R. stunt. And who was the interviewer? Major Garrett.

Who? Is he even a 60 Minutes correspondent? Nope.

Has Major Garrett EVER been given an opportunity to do a 60 Minutes segment? I’ve never seen him do one, and until just recently, I rarely missed the show. No offense to Mr. Garrett, but he’s no Mike Wallace. He’s no Lesley Stahl or Scott Pelley either, which explains why Bibi chose him for that “hard-hitting” exposé. He made his bones at Fox News after all, so this sort of “journalism” is probably S.O.P. to him. Now we know why he got the nod; Bibi no doubt tapped him personally.

Pelley seems relieved to be out of there. He had to know they were going to fire him, and it just seems that he’s at peace with how it played out. He kept journalistic integrity first and foremost, even before his career. That’s what REAL journalists do. The cowardly propagandistic types go along to get along.

Mr. Pelley:

“There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.”

Scott Pelley