C’mon NPR Politics, I’m dying’ over here… give me that sweet sweet schadenfreude - er, analysis - I’m looking for in my feed tonight (jk, I’m sure y’all are furiously editing and mixing)

Just how big are the #KimberleyFloods? The Bureau of Meteorology, Western Australia estimates Fitzroy River flow is 60,000m3/sec. That's the highest ever recorded in Aus. Equiv to: = India's Ganges and USA's Mississippi (combined) = 1/4 of the Amazon's average flow = or, how much water Perth uses every 20 yrs

Please don't forget that once the House *finally* elects a Speaker, Republicans plan to adopt a Congressional rules package that would gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. If think this is a bad idea (like we do), call your representative at 202-224-3121 and tell them so!

Whenever GOP takes over House, they remove "Labor" from the name of the committee that deals with ... labor. "Workforce" is a word that employers, not workers, use.

#OTD in 1915, Governor James "Pa" Ferguson began expanding the number of Texas Rangers as a response to "bandit incursions" at the Texas-Mexico border. At the start of the year there were around one dozen Rangers. By 1917 when Ferguson left office there were over 1,000. /1

If you walk into an auto mechanic’s and the office/waiting room has barbershop vibes, you know it’s a keeper

The new Oozing Wound album is so sick🤘💀🤘 oozingwound.bandcamp.com/album/we-cater…

A new analysis of horse bones revealed that horses were present in the American West by the early 1600s, earlier than many written histories suggest. The timing is significant because it matches up with the oral histories of multiple Indigenous groups. bit.ly/3lVpRgy

I love the Dick Dale vibe of the pedal note guitar line intro that then sounds thrash in context with the rest of the song

Watching 🕯 Faetooth 🕯 with my 7 and 4 year old daughters while we cook alphabet soup (and rock out)🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿 youtu.be/gktwDoO3JUs

"Being 101 is really something because you feel as if you're starting all over again," Betty Reid Soskin tells us. "I don't know what comes next, but I do know that I'm ready for it." #BriefButSpectacular

Recent rainfall in parts of Louisiana has slowed but by no means stopped the dozens of wildfires burning throughout the state, Gov. John Bel Edwards warned Tuesday. nola.com/news/environme…

Kamala: I invite you to watch this meathead take the bait.

it's so funny how for weeks everyone telegraphed "she's gonna bait him" and her team was like "we're gonna bait him" and he managed to act normal for like 3 minutes and then she said one thing about his rallies and it was like feeding a gremlin after midnight

He sounds like a guy yelling at random people on 34th Street with a karaoke speaker

Trump elevating Orban and Laura Ingraham as voices of authority really shows you how cocooned he is

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Found the concepts of a plan!!

I think we were all waiting for the first name-check of the Mayor of Moscow's Wife in this debate.

All night he talked about himself and about her. She, by contrast, talked about you. Because that’s who she works for.