This administration is going to bankrupt America, we won’t even be able to pay the monthly interest due.
Ephraim Z. Hoogenblatter
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Cider aficionado. Tinkerer of things, perpetual student. Once drove to Canada for lunch. Dig, or split. "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.” -- George Bowerchuck
was talking about this with ganz on the podcast today, but among the many reasons that race science is obvious nonsense is the fact that it is a giant exercise in begging the question. not one person obsessed with "race science" thinks that it might prove "white" intellectual inferiority...
His first solo album finds the Beastie Boys rapper making music with his sons and embracing the unpredictability of collaboration. n.pr/4qKTcaH
Mike D thought making music was behind him. Then came 'Thank You'
His first solo album finds the Beastie Boys rapper making music with his sons and embracing the unpredictability of collaboration.
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Dead-eyed and soulless, he resembles nothing so much as a dead fish staring vacantly, yet still with malevolence, from the market case.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d agoWhen you see him, you think he's an idiot. Then he opens his mouth, and you *know* he is.
I will never forget when I was a tween, watching Marilyn Manson’s 1997 MTV Music Awards performance to upset and shock my parents. My mom walked into the room, watched Manson dancing around in his corset, said “please. Tim Curry already did it.” And walked away
"Look at the last 3 GOP presidents. One oversaw a double-dip recession with a savings & loans scandal that looted the Treasury. That was Bush I. Another oversaw near meltdown of the whole capitalist system. That was Bush II. Then the next presided over a pandemic-driven collapse. That was Trump I."
Are voters finally realizing GOP presidents are disasters?
Michael Tomasky makes the case that they are.
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OpenAI had warnings before its agents broke out. This does not inspire confidence. www.axios.com/2026/08/26/o...
OpenAI had warnings before its agents broke out
The AI lab released an anticipated deep dive into the Hugging Face breach.
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ICE finds (probably) evidence of a scheme to vote illegally. www.wbtv.com/2026/08/24/f...
Former US Border Patrol czar Gregory Bovino lives in Mecklenburg County, records show
Bovino led Operation Charlotte’s Web in November 2025
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Because it's so cheaply made that only a precious few last long enough to be considered "vintage".
Yabbut it's *still Android*. Google surveils enough of my day.
USA finally gets the modular smartphone owners can repair themselves
As right-to-repair rules spread and buyers grow weary of sealed, disposable slabs, a handful of companies are betting that people will pay for a device they can actually open up and keep going for yea...
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Jesse Watters has a face that just begs to be slugged.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 6d agoWatters: Do you think men should play in women’s sports? El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports
More than one person at Good Good greenlit that ad. More than one person acted in it, and more than one person produced it. More than one person in Callaway management saw this ad, and concluded that yes, it did reflect their corporate values. This merits more than Callaways half-assed "apology".
#callaway #goodgood #pga
TikTok video by Jay
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I'm old enough to remember when tech like this came from American ingenuity and American manufacturers. Then Lee Atwater sold the GOP a racist bill of goods, got Reagan elected, and set off the slow-motion trainwreck that's culminated in the loose coalition of chodes and groypers we have today.
China's colossal tunneling machine bores AND blasts through raw ground
China has unveiled the world's largest multi-tool as it rolled out the world's first Boring and Blasting Machine (BBM) that combines a tunnel-boring machine with the ability to set explosives to blast...
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In any right-thinking country, especially one that's ostensibly pro-life, these people would be locked up for child neglect and manslaughter. Instead, they're permitted to do this ridiculous crap under the guise of "God said so". Appalling. link.propublica.net/view/63de8a8...
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
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Tracking grade school kids into blue-collar work? Seriously? Aim high, Linda. Aim high.
Republicans excel at making their personal bullshit everybody else's fucking problem.
“In the mercurial life of Donald John Trump, here is one great truth: When he’s riding his highest, he is also at his most frenzied, his most volatile — his most self-destructive.” www.ms.now/opinion/dona...
Opinion | The hubris of Donald Trump
The president reportedly thinks that he is a “Top 10” world historical figure who is meant to change the world. That level of self-aggrandizing often doesn’t end well.
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Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
