Soulpainter
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Web designer, gamer, love photography and art, politics and political satire, tech and cooking. My opinions are my own.
Officials Say They’ve Found the Cause of a Fire That Devastated L.A.
Officials Say They’ve Found the Cause of a Fire That Devastated L.A. (Gift Article)
The 2025 Eaton fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed the Altadena community, began at an inactive tower belonging to Southern California Edison, officials said.
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Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? Where do I begin? 🤬
Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? — FORTUNE
July 27, 2026, 12:00 PM ET Tobias Lütke, cofounder and chief executive officer of Shopify, speaks during the Toronto Tech Week 2026: Homecoming event in Toronto on May 27, 2026. Shopify CEO Tobias Lüt...
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Taylor Farms donated more than $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That includes a $1 million donation to MAGA Inc., the Trump-centric super PAC, and $1.1 million to other super PACs dedicated to electing Republicans.
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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At its developer keynote at this year’s WWDC, the company said its next mobile operating system update brings several platform stability improvements that will make older devices, as far back as the iPhone 11 from 2019, run a little better.
How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer
Even the aging iPhone 11 will feel a little more responsive soon, thanks to improvements in an unsung iOS feature.
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Americans are still struggling to pay higher gas prices (up 31% since before the war). Big oil, on the other hand, is raking in record profits—double or triple of what they made during the same period last year. 📸: @msnowreports.bsky.social @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social
Under Trump, U.S. federal debt has surpassed 100% of GDP for the first time since WWII. And it's on track to beat that all-time record by 2030.
President Trump used to brag about all the money we were making from tariff revenue. Last month, that trend flipped to a $26 billion loss as the government started paying back the tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal. The refund bill is just getting started.
Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing. Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same time period, Biden had created 625,000.
Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source. Obama's wealth grew from royalties from books written before office, and Bush's largely came from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior. Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.
Media should stop pretending to be shocked—Trump’s sons profiting from defense investments is just more corruption in plain sight. While they claim “transparency,” it’s blatant grift, out in the open. It’s exhausting.
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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Former NOAA employees created Climate.us, a new website providing climate information after the Trump administration shut down Climate.gov. The new site, funded by donations and grants, aims to maintain the original site’s nonpartisan, science-focused approach.
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to the state's unredacted copy of its statewide voter registration list. DOJ is now 0-11 in these cases. Elias Law Group is undefeated. It may be time to invoke the mercy rule. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-ha...
🚨 United States of America v. Scanlan
Learn more.
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The president will now be able to fire at will leaders from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Postal Service . . .
Live Updates: Supreme Court Expands Presidential Power Over Regulators, but Not the Fed
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News media is reporting Trump’s numbers are tanking and there are Trump-GOP divisions. No fucks given for the party who let an incompetent, power hungry populist with no regard or concern for the American people, destroy our democracy. They are all complicit.
A rapid sequence of major earthquakes struck Venezuela, California, and Japan, each with sharply different consequences. Venezuela was hit hardest when a 7.2 foreshock and 7.5 mainshock struck only seconds apart, collapsing buildings across Caracas and La Guaira and causing mass
There are no words to describe the profound incompetence and ignorance that this administration represents. Everything that they have done when it comes to health around the world and in America would indicate they want to cull the population.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you’re enjoying the Trump Administration’s energetic efforts to bring back - measles - whooping cough - screwworm flesh-eating maggots - and to give whole Air Force units the flu... then you’ll be super excited to see what they now have in mind for HIV/AIDS: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...
"The RACE to build #AI infrastructures is unfolding town by town across America. In some places, data centers are welcomed. In others, they are delayed, contested or abandoned altogether. . . “
Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — built or being built. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
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Reporters need to start speedrunning Trump's emotional collapse. Women only. A firm demand for evidence to support every outlandish statement. If they keep this up, it could happen any day.
@yolanda7712.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe orange buffoon is lucky I wasn't interviewing him. I would have pushed his orange ass back in the chair and said, "Quiet Piggy, I'm not finished."
It's the last 24 hours for this project from @wraithmarked.bsky.social, which features a long introduction from me as well as lots of illustrations and other excellent stuff. If you're a Douglas Adams fan, this is gonna be something you want to check out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus
42 Full-Color Illustrations. 5 Books. 1 Insane Omnibus.
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Why is this acceptable? Anyone else in any position of authority would lose their job. And why in the hell would ANYONE vote for someone gone MIA? The list of mind boggling shit that represents the ideology of the Republican/MAGA party just keeps growing.
A Congressman Was Suddenly Absent. So We Looked. And Looked.
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in my defense the directions were written VERY SMALL and I had spilled some spaghetti sauce on that grimoire page already
Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social · 2mo agothe fuck what now futurism.com/science-ener...
‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library
‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library
Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?
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Every human deserves the five basic freedoms protected by the First Amendment: religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. But freedom is not promised to any of us, not really. American freedom is a continual achievement that is secured by those willing to defend and perpetuate it.
Use It or Lose It
Freedom of speech, and of the press, can be guaranteed only if Americans exercise their rights.
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Screw #Paramount+. Cancelled my subscription today. #60Minutes, the most iconic program we have ever known was literally executed by Donal J.Trump.
Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
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