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Psychopomps: Sleep and Death
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I loved her Monday night segment with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith and remembered that it was just the most cordial and witty conversation on politics on TV. You could tell they all enjoyed their jobs and Gwen’s informal approach to moderating that segment really brightened an otherwise divisive, sometimes droll topic,

Were those the soldiers who were later reported to be working for the CIA? I feel like at any other time this would be big news, but this news cycle has been so preoccupied by Trump stories and analyses that I can’t keep track of all the articles on that topic alone. There’s the currency ban on India and the allied

The thought literally makes me want to have a tantrum. This is the state of environmental science in America: held in lower regard than religious superstition.

One of my professors told me that when Bush II came to office the NSF was told that it could no longer fund grants that mentioned the word “evolution”. Of course there was also the ban on any research using embryonic stem cells. I find the former incredibly hard to believe as someone interested in evolutionary

I audibly gasped when I saw this pop up. She was so adept at her job as an anchor and a journalist, especially in this age when journalism is so clickbaity and media is so mistrusted. On the bright side: She left us just before Trump was sworn into the presidency.

Yeah but the problem is he isn’t Democrat and he isn’t Republican. He’s Stupid. :(

my scream is harmonizing with your scream

Technically he meant a median IQ right? idk if IQ score distribution in the American population is a bell-shaped curve with the average right in the middle

I just want to say thanks for your service and congrats on your retirement (if that is for real)! Hope this is a bright spot in a depressing night.

If it’s any solace, the NPR data analysts (who are also in disbelief) argue that many of the white working class who supported Obama in 2012 turned to Trump only tonight. So, they argue, it’s not quite as much anti-Obama sentiment as it is anti-Washington, anti-establishment sentiment, though certainly it is possible

Grab ‘em by the

Guys, I was really looking forward to not having Trump coverage every single day on Gizmodo Media. Oh well, hugs everyone.

Flashing back to all the Sanders supporters who were probably a little bit right when saying that Sanders would have been the better candidate against Trump

Obama and Crooked Hillary brought them from over the border to vote, that’s why we need the wall

Maybe California will come out for us?

*Kristin

“a couple of central Florida ladies”

“multiple masters degrees”

Were you listening to the All Things Considered program yesterday? That was exactly what went through my mind when they transitioned from the Malheur story to the pipeline protest story.