they keep referring to the LSU coordinator as just "Charlie Weiss" but there's got to be at least a "Jr." in there, or better yet, a slight alteration like "Charles Weiss" or "Carlos."
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every nice apartment building i've ever lived in has the shittiest air conditioning unit you could find and every shitty motel i've been in has some industrial freezer device that could cool lava. you should able to buy them the way people sometimes get mattresses after trying them at a hotel.
it's been long enough now that i think starbucks is probably undervalued as an entity. does a job.
I wrote this speech and am very pleased with how well he delivered it.
Trump claims Hollywood stopped using Italian names in mob movies because of discrimination fears. “You weren’t allowed to use Italian names,” Trump says, speaking at an event to honor Christopher Columbus. “I said, no, no, you have to understand the Italians, they love it.”
if you go out of your way to witness somebody dying you're a sick fuck!
you should not feel sorry for the other guy at all, but this is a really funny way to start a debate. imagine walking to the room and Jon Ossoff just starts off like that.
Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."
you should get something for winning a debate, like a health boost or a new sword
i feel like ken paxton might be getting orient expressed here
second episode of our MIDTERMS SHOW where we talk about MIDTERMS and someone in Ohio named "DATA CENTER DEREK"
Most Americans can agree on one thing, regardless of their political affiliation. We hate data centers. So why does Trump love them?
"secretariat by 12. secretariat by 14 lengths on the turn."
Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego
"I asked one of those insiders recently, speaking on background about the problems the party faced this year, whether he thought the party might mature a little if Paxton managed to lose. 'Arizona,' he said sadly." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Texas Republicans Might Finally Lose. Will They Learn Anything?
This November could be the beginning of the end of Trumpism. The state GOP is adrift.
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I got to talk about one of my favorite pivots of the cycle, in which Marcy Kaptur—facing the exact same guy she beat two years ago—has now re-branded her opponent as not just "dirty derek" anymore but "Data Center Derek" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NWb...
"The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms": How America Turned on Data Centers
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John Urschel has his CV on his MIT professor page and if you scroll past 7 pages of his mathematics achievements and awards and theorems and theses it says, briefly, "former NFL (American) football player" math.mit.edu/~urschel/job...
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just your everyday standard retired NFL offensive lineman
states that elect their governors every two years instead of four...they're not fooling anyone. that's just an act.
1. sports are for everyone or they're for no one at all 2. that is an INCREDIBLE shirt arktimes.com/food-and-cul...
Can a Black gay man still call the hogs? - Arkansas Times
White heteronormativity has long dominated the University of Arkansas. What does that mean for Black gay Arkansans?
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This is an all-timer for “Private equity is anything I don’t like” type glonzoism.
people talk about a Texas Republican dummymander but unless they net -1 seats it is not a dummymander, just a really bad year!
man eric adams really hit the ground running
Balkans this week: Kosovo 🇽🇰 elected first Catholic President Serbia 🇷🇸 got first Lesbian President Bosnia 🇧🇦 elected 3 Presidents (2 female) Albanian 🇦🇱 capital Tirana's mayor will run the city as an Al avatar from prison
Cut from this video: most of the agents didn’t care I was there, but one ICE agent did ask a state trooper to give me a jaywalking ticket for crossing an empty street while recording (the trooper laughed and said no).
With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:
"I think it is important, because it is the truth, to clarify a few things before talking about Denmark" is a tremendous opening sentence of a novel.
just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy it's incredible
"a best-selling British author, politician, philanthropist, athlete and one-time jailbird" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86
In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.
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In which Texas Republicans refer to Muslims as "infestations" and argue that "we basically have to make it so uncomfortable for them that they want to leave."
Texas Faith Fest speakers propose plans to make Muslims ‘more uncomfortable’
At Texas Faith Fest this year, speakers suggested policies that would limit Muslim religious practices and reshape the government's relationship with religion.
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don't really think the president was suggesting California should be nuked but maybe the president should speak English?
the glut of AI-generated images on anti-data-center Facebook pages is really something to behold
"The commissioners were still dealing with the fallout from 'the fairground debacle,' the weeks of outrage and apologies resulting from its decision to end subsidized horse stall rentals at the county fairground without sufficient public input." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.
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