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Nightfall.

When Mike Johnson was elected speaker, there were 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats: a nine-seat majority that allowed Republicans to lose the votes of four members but maintain a majority.

Under Johnson, through both incompetence and corruption, that slim majority has only…

Important piece! Low-carb diets work. Why does the American Diabetes Association push insulin instead? | Neil Barsky | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

NPR's new CEO Katherine Maher sat on a panel with Lizzo at an invitation-only TED conference, where ticket costs started at $12,000.

The topic of Lizzo's talk? 'The Black history of twerking — and how it taught me self-love.'

Beyond parody.

Biden Plans Giant Expansion Of Two National Monuments In 130,000-Acre Land Grab thefederalist.com/2024/04/12/bid… by Tristan Justice

Biden Plans Giant Expansion Of Two National Monuments In 130,000-Acre Land Grab
thefederalist.com/2024/04/12/bid…

Biden wants to expand these two existing monuments by 130,000 acres. That area of expansion alone is larger than the entire acreage of more than a dozen national parks.

At some point, SCOTUS is going to have to deal with the Antiquities Act.

I’ve worked in fashion since 1994. In the 90s you couldn’t find a plus model. In the 2000s (until mid 2010s) if you called an agency and asked for a plus sized model they’d send you a size 8.

And a size 8 was smaller then than now.

After Promising Not To, The IRS Army Democrats Expanded Is Targeting The Middle Class thefederalist.com/2024/04/10/aft… via Tristan Justice

'The strength of our community is only as strong as the commitment we make to maintaining it.'

Chris Jacobs in The Federalist: thefederalist.com/2024/04/11/sto…

Fatness Epidemic Kills More People Daily Than Covid Ever Did

⁦Jennifer Galardi⁩ in ⁦The Federalist: thefederalist.com/2024/04/10/fat…

For anyone who thinks keto is too hard to sustain, I suggest this:
(works for me every time)

NYT Columnist Dismisses Big Pharma Skepticism As Right-Wing ⁦The Federalist⁩ thefederalist.com/2024/04/04/nyt…

'General Mills has funded at least seven scientific studies since 2019 claiming that cereals are beneficial to consumers’ health. One review found that children who ate cereal, regardless of the sugar content, had healthier body weights than children who ate other breakfast food…

The Dark Age To Come: A Book Talk with John Davidson twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…