With the car press going nuts about Duffy babbling on about the "Freedom Car", why do I have a feeling they're gonna get the big three to give us a new PF 126p, Trabant (complete with no fuel gauge and two stroke engine with blue smoke!), or every dictatorships favorite default, rebadged Fiat 124s.

I'm seeing that Dish Network is now pushing ads for that fundy Ark Museum in Kentucky on the Polish Channels (tvn24, itvn, etc). I'd rather take back the useful PSAs in Spanish instead please. Even with my moms complaining about it at least has things that are useful.

Now the real question is how did they start the rush over? This all reminds me of when Luka and Vlad tried to use migrants to zurg rush the border of Poland from Belarus.

Trump blames Spain for migrant chaos despite return of tens of thousands to Morocco

US President Donald Trump and other far-right leaders on Friday seized on Spain's migration crisis to bolster their political messaging on immigration, while over half of the migrants who had crossed…

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Got my sample ballot in the mail. Now playing the game of "what is this judge on the ballot about?" At least I know who NOT to vote for school board chair, and that's the Mom's for Liberty lady who doesn't even send her kids to public school....

Ukrainian intelligence confirms what many laypeople on BlueSky had already suspected: Russia is using satellites to help Iran target American bases in the Middle East. And Donald Trump will do *nothing* about this because he cares about Putin far more than he cares about American troops.

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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Oh look! Another Trump Tax placed on medicine people need! Won't take place until August of 2028, so it'll hit in the middle of elections, and likely folks won't see it until after the election depending on their meds...

Trump announces 100% tariffs on imported generic pharmaceutical drugs

US President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on imported generic pharmaceutical drugs on Tuesday. The tariff, which aims to bolster US pharmaceutical production, is set to go into effect in Augus...

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I don't know much about Binface tbf, but I do find it interesting how profiles speaking out the loudest against him seem to be filled with reposts of Nigel Farage and Reform UK group posts. Definetly not sus at all!

RIP. An early-'70s crush with one of the all-time great names in TV. And yes, it was real. His actual name was Randy Mantooth, which is...just...impossible. I wonder if he ever got my fan letter. www.tvinsider.com/1274911/rand...

Randolph Mantooth, 'Emergency!' & 'Loving' Star, Dies at 80

Mantooth, best known for his portrayal of paramedic John Gage on 'Emergency!,' was also beloved for his many roles in daytime and primetime TV.

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Orwell only warned us about Big Brother. He didn’t anticipate Drunk Racist Uncle Brother. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/oh-and-tru...

Oh, and Trump Now Says Charlottesville Was Fake

The Search For The Dumbest Conspiracy Theory Ever Told

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More than 300 failures in a single day. Record-breaking temperatures have disrupted Poland’s rail network, forcing PKP Intercity to cancel 21 train services due to overheated infrastructure and damaged overhead lines that caused widespread problems.

Polish rail operator cancels services due to heatwave

The cancellations occurred as temperatures soared to record highs.

tvpworld.com

Meanwhile at work: Intern (student at a major STEM school here): you should see what the other kids do during exams, they carefully hide their phones and use ChatGPT to answer questions. New grad: our boss needs to use AI to reply to all the emails they get. It would save him time. Me: 😓

So... It finally happened. Felon Muskovite is a Trillionaire. I saw someone state that $1 Million per hour can be spent for 100 years and still not hit $1 Trillion. I ran the math and it shows that only some $876.576 Billion would be spent in 100 years, and that's even accounting for leap years.

Speaking of the Qataris, we need to do a real deep dive on them. The ultimate "both siders" that can make some of these enlightened centrists on here blush. Aside from funding Trump, they also are big funders of AL Jazeera and Newsmax, two outlets with VERY contradictory messages.

People: can we FINALLY have an edit button? Bluesky: Good news, you can now chat with 50 other people in a group chat. People: -_-'

Old article from a few years back, posting because news of the 5th one is hard to find, and 2, as a reminder that every accusation they make is a confession.

Another Republican convicted of voter fraud at Florida GOP stronghold

A surprising number of Republicans from The Villages have been convicted of trying to cheat in the 2020 elections. The list grew longer this week.

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I hear (R) candidate for FL gov fishback finally saying the quiet part out loud of what the TikTok Algorithm has been doing in fueling the teen takeovers by calling them "Black Teen Riots." I'm going to be blunt. The Ellisons are gaming the TikTok algorithm to fuel these to bring back segregation.

Is Trump a dictator? Doesn’t matter because the WH press corps treat him like one, or an emperor, or Billy Mumy from the Twlight Zone, an all-powerful ruler they dare not ever speak back to. The fate of 60 Minutes is a minor issue compared to corporate media’s overwhelming obedience to the powerful.

The Coultergeist had a few thoughts.

Scott Pelley told Bari Weiss and his new boss at 60 Minutes in so many words to go fuck themselves, and upper management wants as few people as possible to know about it, so it will be reported tonight on The CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil.

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Osservatorio sul complottismo@sulcomplottismo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Greg Bovino at the far-right Remigration summit in Portugal: "Martin Sellner, you've invited me here today. Your ideas, we've talked a lot on that and those ideas mirror each other. We've never talked before face to face until yesterday and we're on the same sheet of music almost immediately".

Any time MS-21 development is mentioned: Informed posters: mentions poor customer support and a history of not being able to have aircraft meet specs. Russian bots and tankies: BuT tHE 737 MAX! ALso the SoyUZ BrInGs uS AstRTOnauTs home! IP: brings up history of the Soyuz program (Soyuz 1, 11, 23).

Oh look, governor Meemaw had just canceled election results she didn't like. Her and her neighbor, Governor Rejected Game Show Host are just some of the worst folks to ever hold anything resembling power in the US.

The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock cameras with black trash bags in part because police are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

This is a big escalation, after 4 years of Drones and missiles encroaching and passing through the territory of the EU. It was only a matter of time before a Russian drone or missile would hit an occupied structure in the EU.

Live: Ukraine ready to support Romania in 'whatever way necessary', Zelensky says

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said that his country will support Bucharest "in whatever way necessary" after a Russian drone hit an apartment building in Romania. At least two peopl...

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I just heard of that massive fever dream of a data center they want to build in Utah. 9GW power consumption? That's literally 2.25 Chernobyls (4x RBMK-1000 each) or 3 Ignalinas (2x RBMK-1500s each) worth of power output needed! Used to joke about them needing personal RBMKs too...

I just heard of that massive fever dream of a data center they want to build in Utah. 9GW power consumption? That's literally 2.25 Chernobyls (4x RBMK-1000 each) or 3 Ignalinas (2x RBMK-1500s each) worth of power output needed! Used to joke about them needing personal RBMKs too...