Watching a data center burn to the ground might be the highlight of our year
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jesuschristfuckingsuperstar Paxton is the gift that keeps giving
🚨Holy crap! Ken Paxton partied on New Year’s Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two U.S. fugitives (Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail) charged in healthcare fraud/embezzlement schemes. Ahmed, a major donor, gave about $190,000 to Paxton’s campaign — including after his indictment.
Ken Paxton is selling off Texas — our land, our water, our communities. Data centers bankroll Paxton, they get tax breaks, and you get stuck with the bill. We can’t afford Ken Paxton’s corruption. (This ad was made by humans — not AI.)
"Even if he gets an hour to eat or to exercise, he's alone," attorney Mutimer said. "He's looking at having his liberty potentially taken away. ... He is looking at being removed from the military, losing his benefits and potentially spending significant time in jail." #StandWithMajorWatson #resist
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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Judge Reyes has ordered cessation of all tree removal at the golf course until at least tomorrow. Also provides remote call-in number for hearing on temporary restraining order. She wants to know, inter alia, who ordered tree removal & how long govt attys have known of this plan.
In the case over Trump's plan to convert historic DC public golf course to championship showcase, Judge Reyes sets TRO hearing for 10am today. At 4:55pm Friday before holiday weekend, govt announced it would cut down 529 trees 12 hrs later. Now it has—and wants to take down 100s more. ... 1/3
Evidence Is Evidence: The Questions Scott Bessent Couldn’t Answer emptywheel.net/2026/10/11/e...
Evidence Is Evidence: The Questions Scott Bessent Couldn't Answer - emptywheel
The far right is very frothy because, rather than answering questions about how to help struggling Americans, Scott Bessent instead trolled Elizabeth Warren.
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www.mediaite.com/politics/tha... not exactly instant karma but I'll take it....🙂
That’s How the Cookie Crumbles: GOP Senator Who Sued Patients for Medical Debt Gets Shamed into Paying Bakery Bill After Six Years
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) settled a six-year-old unpaid bakery bill after its owner accused him of stiffing the business on nearly $700 worth of cookies
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www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... These cops are really patient given the situation they're confronted with...
Florida Man Begs Strangers to Pay His Tab As He Gets Arrested For Dine and Dash Scam
A bodycam video shared by Body Cam Goat on October 9 brings new attention to a September 28, 2025, encounter outside a Cheesecake Factory in West Palm Beach, Florida. A customer insisted he had paid ....
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If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Remembering THELONIOUS MONK — born 109yrs ago today.
news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u... I think this is by design. Peter Thiel and his flunkies will find it easier to rule idiots without critical thinking skills...
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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“The opportunity for Democrats, Hinojosa believes, lies not with moderate, affluent Republicans put off by Trump’s norm-smashing vulgarity, but with disappointed MAGA populists.“ Encouraging @michellegoldberg.bsky.social report from Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
Opinion | No One Was Paying Attention to Gina Hinojosa a Month Ago. Now Republicans Are Worried.
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to plausible claims of state business.
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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🚨"We want ICE the f*ck out of our neighborhood! I am pissed off, I am outraged, ICE does not belong in the Bronx or anywhere in this city!" -Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President, after ICE shot man in the Bronx with his 5-year-old in the back seat. WE'RE LIVE NOW🔽
Greg Abbott won't be campaigning with POTUS in Texas. Scheduling conflict. Yeah right Greg.
"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president."
futurism.com/artificial-i... No surprises here...
Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It's Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed
A retired AIr Force colonel warned Americans not to live near data centers in a nwe report by a Texas-based prepper advocacy group.
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Of course James Blair and Chris LaCivita (Trump's political campaign guys) have been out of the US right before an important election but what is really insane is where they were, Republika Srpska. Traveling to a place where that has been ethnically cleansed and war crimes have occurred is brand AF
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t... If the D's can't kill this they may as well quit...
Trump Wants a New Camp David for Future Presidents — at His Own Golf Club
"Just as Camp David, Windsor Castle, or the Elysee Palace are known worldwide, so too will the Presidential Golf Course in Palm Beach County."
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