Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict. Damn you, Tim Walz! www.theregister.com/security/202...
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HEADLINE: "Trump rages after Jeanine Pirro abandons his imaginary Reflecting Pool vandals" ALT HEADLINE: "Jeanine Pirro sacrificed 100% of her credibility to support the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party but never thought leopards would eat HER face" www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Trump rages after Jeanine Pirro abandons his imaginary Reflecting Pool vandals
“I don’t know what she was thinking," the president argued after the Justice Department admitted that there was no vandalism as it asked a judge to drop charges against an innocent man.
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This day in history. 1981. Ronald Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers but you can't blame him for destroying the American middle class because his wife's astrologer made him do it.
In the November elections, to be radical is to be pragmatic.
“Buying Things and Owning Them” now no.1 search result on Pornhub in Canada
“Buying Things and Owning Them” now no.1 search result on Pornhub in Canada
MONTREAL - Pornhub owner Aylo has disclosed the top search term on the website for the first half of 2026: “Buying things and actually getting to own them,” with the popularity of the search increasin...
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Are you ready to play my favorite game: World's Worst Billionaire? The winner might surprise you.
The World's Worst Billionaire, Revealed
Bending the knee to Trump.Taking millions in corporate welfare.Shafting workers and ripping off consumers.These are just
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Max Miller's mugshot has been unearthed and is going viral.
The "centrist" Dems here in the US are so far to the right that they would be considered right wing in every single European country.
‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
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I was thinking for a moment there should be a drinking game where everyone downs a shot when the United States Attorney's office for the District of Columbia has to drop a frivolous indictment but then I realized only the United States Attorney herself could survive that game
Tobi Lütke is German, so he will know the word “Fachidiot.” It means someone who does his job, maybe excels at it, but is an idiot about everything else. Behold!
Opinion: One person, one vote is basic democratic principle. We should try it some time
Tobi Lütke’s musings on democracy remind us of what’s at stake
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🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
When it comes to Trump’s money laundering, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump Soho laundered Russian mob money. Trump Panama laundered drug cartel money. Trump Azerbaijan laundered Iranian Revolutionary Guard money. Florida real estate was used to launder Russian oligarch money.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
NEW: Kamala Harris tells Urban League that to overcome Trump's cheating in the elections, voter turnout needs to be large enough that it's "too big to rig." Meanwhile, she expressed doubt that the Voting Rights Act will be revived anytime soon, and that should not be lawmakers' focus right now.
Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
To overcome Trump's attempts to cheat the elections, Kamala Harris told the Urban League that voter turnout has to be so large that it's "too big to rig."
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this week I learned that the singularity is when a human being fails to air gap hacking software (either accidentally due to incompetence or intentionally for marketing and media exploitation purposes)
I'm told by one involved source that it was hard to get Democrats to sign off on these letters criticizing Carr's attacks on ABC, which is pretty embarrassing, but on brand for a party that hasn't had a useful media reform strategy anytime in the last quarter century
Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV
Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril."
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whoops I told my software it didn't have access to the internet but it actually had full access to the internet THE SINGULARITY HAS ARRIVED
Data centers create heat, they create a drain on electricity, they create a lack of water, and they create worthless AI slop that allows students to cheat and Donald Trump to generate images in which he has a waist. What they *don’t* create is jobs. These people are shameless, tiresome LIARS.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
McCarthyism down south of us, milquetoast in Ottawa, and lobsters and limos at Queens Park. Worst reality TV show since The Apprentice.
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
apnews.com/article/trum... DOJ has no dog in this fight and the judge should have denied their entry in the case. It’s just Trump using taxpayer dollars for his personal benefit.
Trump and DOJ ask Supreme Court to toss $83 million defamation verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
President Donald Trump and his administration are asking the Supreme Court to dismiss an $83 million defamation verdict won by writer E.
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The Shop CEO (I hate Shop) thinks that wealthy people should get more votes, and pensioners should not get a vote because they are “dependents”. I contributed to my pension, it’s not a fucking gift! #Sheshed www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for endorsing stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke replied ...
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Local man says democracy best when purchased.
Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for endorsing stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke replied ...
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What is certainly true is that the US funded research in China capable of generating the pandemic, and those involved were not honest about it. This is a serious matter, not Fauci’s goddamn diary. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...
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Conservatives won't be happy until everyone outside of the GTA is feasting on the corpse of a starved and delapidated Toronto, washed down with one dollar beer, of course.
oh no it appears that meta's efforts to nickel and dime perv glasses customers didn't work out as anticipated
After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses
A paywall is still coming, though.
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Man the Republicans are hopeless. They did great oversight research adding to the evidence that COVID may have come from a lab, but rather than platform that serious issue, they go all Mean Girls on Fauci. Pathetic.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"