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A Jane's Art Monster Squaddie, gamer, big fan of dogs and cats, retired from making steering columns to spend my leisure puttering around the Tennessee river on a 1970s era trawler Starbug. Delighted to be a Nana.
This is going to be like changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico isn't it? He's going to surround himself with dictionary publishers in the oval office a s sign an executive order to change the spelling
Trump: "Nobody knows that 'dumb' doesn't have a B" (Dear reader, it has a B)
El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body, like Epstein-Barr virus. This reactivation is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID. Published today in @nature.com:
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
nature.com
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Top bank execs also knowingly withheld information from federal law enforcement about Epstein’s financial transactions until after his arrest. See here the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by JPMC before and after Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
Pretending you don't see a difference between AI that counts beans and AI that steals novels is a doltish, peevish stance. Cannot believe @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social ran this apologia for the plagiarism machine.
There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
Was watching a new to me movie critique-guy and somehow it spun up a notification to me that there's a new Bobby Fingers you tube video. Oh my Word! I love this guy's dioramas! his videos are so good!!!
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
youtube.com
in fact i've had three bowel movements since we started this interview and you have been none the wiser now check your shirt pocket yes, that's right note the pointed ends
Last May, a medevac plane took off from New Mexico and crashed, killing all 4 occupants while the US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise. #ProudBlue #NewMexico #PlaneCrash #Military www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
wired.com
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
Absolutely nobody knew who Riley Gaines was when she was swimming for Kentucky -- there wasn't a whole arena booing her at that time.
They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.
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A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
WE NEED 4 SEATS TO FLIP THE SENATE. JOSH TUREK SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM. I was researching Josh and came across one of his signature issues: Right to Repair. I had no idea how important this was. Most people in big cities probably don’t either. 🧵
You clearly haven’t read Engles’ “Dialectics of All Wheel Drive in the Proletarian Struggle”.
Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.
Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.
GOP: “Ladies, be sure to leave your miscarriage on the church steps and try not to bleed out or get an infection.” www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
politico.com
I believe in the kind of America where no matter where you grow up, the color of your skin, how you pray, you deserve equal rights in this country. You deserve to go to a good school, get healthcare when you need it, and know that you can graduate and get a good job.
DC insiders are whispering that President Trump has asked Jeanine Pirro for a secretive meeting at the Blood Palace's famous "Cannon Room for Exploding Women".