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    I can’t stop laughing at this.

    To be clear, I asked the newsroom if I could post this and David said yes.

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    Best team in the league.

    NFL teams doing schedule release videos has become a little tradition — and while the Cardinals are getting ruthlessly dunked on for doing AI slop, the Packers are making it clear theirs was all hand-made. (An increasing trend in advertising overall.) Anyway, disclosure: I am from Wisconsin, and the Bears still suck.

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    “Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser.”

    Sometimes the entire story about Trump and RFK’s attitudes towards public health is right there in the headline. CNN reports:

    Before he joined the Trump administration last year, [Dr. Brian] Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants […] He’s said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.

    Oh, and of course, “he once hosted a YouTube show called ‘Erection Connection,’ a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.”