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🗳️ Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

The Hill

“This change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup’s public work with its mission,” a spokesperson for Gallup said. “We look forward to continuing to offer independent research that adheres to the highest standards of social science.”

Yeah, I believe them when they say it has nothing to do with the current administration and the fact this president has the lowest approval rating ever. Makes total sense they’d stop to “align with its mission.”

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🧨 What to know about the latest fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan

ABC News

Over the last few months, the two have occasionally skirmished along their winding, porous frontier as tension has escalated. The latest confrontation is by far the most serious.

Wait! Isn’t this one of those wars the president ended..? Weird.

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💸 My Fellow Americans, We Are Richer Than Ever Before. Well, You Aren’t, but We Are

McSweeney’s

My fellow Americans, despite what everyone else says, we are living in the golden age of America. Not your golden age, though. My golden age. As in: I am very old, and everything I own is either solid gold or gold-plated or painted in gold to make it seem like it’s real gold.

Honestly, I’m not actually sure if this is funny given it’s basically a fact-based reporting. Or at the very least, more factual than anything coming out of this administration.

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🛂 Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order • Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Paper

So you’re telling me the people who are only trying to “make elections more secure” and not prevent people from voting by passing a strict voter ID law just made it harder for New Yorkers to get said ID? Hmmm…

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đź’Ł Regime Change Is Blowing Up A School Full Of Children

Defector

You wouldn’t trust anyone in the Trump administration to water your garden properly, and yet they get to decide who and what gets blown up. Everyone else has to suffer the consequences, this time none more greatly than those girls and their families.

The draft dodging head of the Board of Peace who said no more wars in the Middle East and that only terrible negotiators would bomb Iran, just bombed Iran, turning an already devastating situation in the Middle East with the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, into an even bigger chaotic mess, likely to start

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🎸 Buddy Guy — Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube

A living legend and at nearly 90 years old, he’s still got it. I’ve been lucky enough to see him live twice, both times over a decade ago, at Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, and then at Buddy’s Legends club in Chicago. Seeing him at his small, intimate club was one of my favorite musical experiences ever.

Also, very cool to see him bring out Miles Caton from Sinners for a couple songs.

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