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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

Ohmygod… A Raid by Nancy Pelosi’s Gazpacho Police - The Atlantic

theatlantic.comA Raid by Nancy Pelosi’s Gazpacho PoliceA dish best served cold

A lot of dumb stuff happens in the news, but Greene talking about "Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police" resulted in some very funny jokes, this Atlantic article was by far the best.

Axios @axios

EXCLUSIVE: While Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper, @maggieNYT scoops in her forthcoming book, "Confidence Man."

trib.alMaggie Haberman book: Flushed papers found clogging Trump White House toiletAxios was provided an exclusive first look at some of Haberman’s forthcoming book.

In only slightly more serious news, more stuff is coming out about Trump's treatment of classified documents. Has he not heard of paper shredders? Is this why he thinks you need to flush the toilet 15 times to get things moving? January 6th Investigators found gaps in phone logs, flushed perhaps? Will this get as much coverage as Hillary's emails?

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

A billion and a half dollars a day (USD) in trade crosses the US-Canada border ever day. This is a big deal.

Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove

The latest on the Canada anti-vaccine mandate protest is that three U.S. border crossings are now fully blocked, up from ~1.5 yesterday. Supply chain crises are mounting. Protesters are purposefully flooding the 911 line in Ottawa, per the police, & jamming up the airport there. https://t.co/ilE7r61dOi

The Truck protests in Canada are starting to result in economic impacts in the US. I'm not sure at what point you should start picking trucks up with helicopters, but analogies to other problems seem to point towards the necessity of some sort of police or military action.

Robinson Meyer @yayitsrob

Macron wants to build six new nuclear reactors in France, adding to its 56 in operation. Worth understanding France’s nuclear capability as the latest in its long line of state-led, high-tech industries: the Concorde, railroads, warships, handbags, etc.

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The handbags comment wasn't a joke, apparently the French state invested significantly in that industry in the 17th century, high tech at the time.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I like this @alexeyguzey post because it’s full of wild claims that I believe but have been too cowardly to espouse in public.

guzey.comTheses on Sleep - Alexey GuzeySummary: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it. It appears that the evidence for all of th…

I'm definitely not going to start cutting back on how much I aim to sleep based on this article, but I'm definitely going to feel a bit less anxiety about the nights when I don't get as much sleep as I was aiming for.

Olivier Knox @OKnox

Whoa. Senators say CIA has been conducting a bulk collection program “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight."

wyden.senate.govWyden and Heinrich: Newly Declassified Documents Reveal Previously Secret CIA Bulk Collection, Problems With CIA Handling of Americans’ Inf…The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

Not great if you ask me.

dev @astrodeven

The world’s largest and most powerful rocket. 📸: Me for @SuperclusterHQ

When your photo is going to necessarily have a lot of sky in it, it really helps for the clouds to be interesting that day. Amazing photo. I’m almost embarrassed to follow up with mine, but I’ll go with a different scale to differentiate

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