Charles Barbour 🔥🔥🔥🧊🔥🔥🔥

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Midwest nerd. All opinions my own. That doesn’t mean they’re right.

DURBIN: You wrote an article in which you claimed 'Black inmates are most like to become sexual aggressors.' Why should people of color believe you've changed? CRONAN: I co-authored the article. I haven't re-read it in a long time. DURBIN: Do you believe it? CRONAN: I'm not in a position to opine

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

TRUMP: I watch your show all the time. Sometimes I tape it and watch it. It's okay. I don't know what they call it today. They used to call it TiVo. Maybe they still do. But I love TiVo or its equivalent GALLAGHER: DVR

Here's a photo of JD Vance's new chicken coop, from the Washington Post. It's in Queen Anne style and cost around $120,000. I am reminded of Marie Antoinette playing peasant at her Hameau de la Reine.

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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

The campaign finance expert for the Independence Institute, which is often aligned with Colorado Republicans, says Victor Marx's claim he's funneling unlimited contributions through a merch shop "requires some kind of explanation." A formal complaint was filed today.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Trump: Who are you with? Reporter: I’m with ABC. Trump: BBC? Reporter: ABC. Trump: Oh, that’s worse. I like BBC better.

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

The 30 July 2026 Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a remarkable shot of the Sun photographed through a wildfire smoke-filled sky that turned the star a deep red. So I tweaked it to look like we're orbiting an M-class red dwarf star with a close-in system of rocky planets, like TRAPPIST-1.

A blood-red star seen through thick clouds. Added to the original image is a transiting planet at upper left of the Sun's disk, and the illuminated crescent of a closer planet that occludes the lower right of the Sun.

The planning behind Trump’s war was nonexistent. He started a war without congressional approval, and even Fox is reporting America’s stockpile of defense interceptors is running so low that military planners aren’t sure we can keep up the current pace. Are we great yet?

Stephen Miller appeared to rewrite history in terms of Trump's first term and the COVID-19 pandemic. I've included a reminder of how Trump actually handled the crisis. He suggested disinfecting people with light through skin or maybe an injection or some other way.

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.