So not refunding customers who already bought, just discounting for new purchases? Capitalism amirite? www.pcgamer.com/hardware/coo...
Arctic makes the most of US tariff refund with price rollback and help for community initiatives
What's cooler than being cool?
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Maybe because saying something in court filings is different than talking shit in public. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says Pirro 'folded like an umbrella' in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges
President Donald Trump says U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflectin...
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Launching tomorrow, August 1: Glimmers of Darkness, a new villains book for Lakeside Games and Mobius Worlds Publishing's superhero roleplaying game Prowlers & Paragons Ultimate Edition! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...
Coming soon: Prowlers & Paragons UE: Glimmers of Darkness
A villains book for Prowlers & Paragons Ultimate Edition
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For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
Found more of that election fraud they keep going on about.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoNEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
"one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real"
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w agoToday's threads (a thread) Inside: AI solipsists and AI cynics; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s... #Pluralistic 1/
I'm disturbed that this is the first I've heard of it. This is the start of a modern day Axis Powers. We can only hope that this version is as uncoordinated, and ultimately as incompetent, as the WWII version.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2w agoTomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
FedEx — $218,000 Enterprise Rent-A-Car — $213,000 Microsoft — $200,500 (3/3) Full report and methodology:
These consumer brands are bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress
From the outset of President Trump’s second term, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and...
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FBI not investigating ICE conflicts. DoJ not pursuing corporate crime. Where my 'but checks and balances!' people at now?
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w agoUnder Todd Blanche, the DOJ is prosecuting Trump's political foes and refusing to charge companies accused of actual criminal wrongdoing, like Chinese retailer Alibaba and Pharma giant Abbott. He stands for the rule of Trump, not the rule of law. The Senate must REJECT him.
What could it be? 🤔 theonion.com/jd-vance-str...
JD Vance Struggling To Articulate What It Is He Doesn’t Love About Baby Name ‘Rohit’
WASHINGTON—Scratching his chin as he appeared to search for the right words, Vice President JD Vance reportedly struggled to articulate Wednesday what exactly it was that he didn’t love about the baby...
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Resistance at all levels.
Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 2w agoIn February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Put this in your T pipe and smoke it, Kegseth. "when Army researchers measured the course’s grueling toll, they found that female soldiers experienced fewer physiological changes than their male counterparts." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
US Army’s Ranger School alters men’s physiology more than women’s, study shows
Researchers tracked hormone levels, blood markers and body composition over the weeks-long school and published their findings this month.
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Remember when French resistance would sabotage Nazi construction with salt and sugar?
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w agoActivists damage the building foundations of data centre 🫡 > The group said that they threw water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acrylic paint at the under-construction facility.
'Collectors, affordable prices, and big K-pop albums' Orrrrr people are just SO DONE with not owning the things we pay for.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3w ago16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
Anyone else find it suspicious that the White House is releasing a bunch of “newly discovered” findings concerning the 2020 election weeks after they conducted mass firings of career intelligence officers? 🙋♀️
Another emoluments article of impeachment that will never be used. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump Media to sell fast feed of key posts to Wall Street
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
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Florida resident who illegally ran to be an Alabama senator should shut his stupid pie hole about people getting senate seats illegally.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."
But didn't he say magnets stop working when you pour water on them? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump asks contractors to ‘do magnets’ after his son invested in rare earth company
President Trump called for defense contractors to ‘do magnets’ repeatedly, insisting the US had the materials and the companies would make money
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