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U.S. consumers aren't just frustrated with high prices. They're angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices. https://to.pbs.org/4i4Nhup

The state of Minas Gerais flipped from mostly Bolsonaro in the 1st round to mostly Lula in the 2nd. Plus higher turnout in the rural Northeast.

Holy crap, it just occurred to me: Vucic losing in Serbia may not only end the deals Jr & Eric (& Lewandowski)* made in Serbia, it may _expose_ them. *I’m not sure but I think Javanka got in on those deals.

Vale lembrar: 4.429.907 votos de diferença. Mais do que o dobro da diferença entre Lula e Jair em 2022 (2.139.645 votos)

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Evidence mounts that the tech bros in collusion with Trump and his MAGA movement are working hard to rig the Brazilian elections for the benefit of Flávio Bolsonaro, all a part of Trump's plan overseen by Brad Parscale to install Trump-loyal leaders all across the Americas.

TRUTH 👇.......

Current* conditions near Milwaukee, WI:

This will receive less attention than Obama's tan suit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Here are 22 times Katie Zacharia blatantly lied about being a lawyer. She’s perfect for the Trump administration. She’s pathological.

If televised executions are a punishment sanctioned by the US Government for terrorist acts (even for perpetrators in wheelchairs), the people who signed off on that need to THINK about which other crimes (like treason) also merit execution.

I can't stop thinking that the AI misbehavior that’s been documented shows the agents to be cheap and smarmy little fucks. They’re just like the DOGE kids, but without any limits or moral compass.

We asked 5 high school math teachers to tell us the square root of 64, and they all said the same thing.

Somebody tell me, where in the world can I go to not be tormented by Right Wing goons? I'm 2 yrs from retirement and able to relocate.

Hey everybody, I just found a treasure trove of several vintage issues of The New Yorker from the late 1960s. But I need to pare down my "stuff" for an upcoming relocation. So I'm selling them and some other items for cheap on Ebay. www.ebay.com/usr/e_five

Milhões de dólares dos EUA para manipular as eleições, milhões de reais investidos por empresários alinhados com o bolsonarismo, redes sociais e big techs alinhadas com o movimento, um segmento religioso comprometido com o fascismo... mas o principal culpado é o povo, sempre.

Less than 1000 more votes in Florida in the 2000 election, and imagine how different the world could be today.

Oklahoma News: “What do you say to people struggling with gas/food/diesel — when can they see relief?” Trump: “We have the greatest economy in the history of our country…” 🤔

How many dozen companies is Shaq doing commercials for?

But Kamala Harris campaigning with Liz Cheney to prevent Trump 2.0 from ever happening was an unpardonable sin according to the very people backpedaling to excuse this shit.

Jan. 20, 2029 EO: Former President Donald J. Trump will be from now called Loser McAsshole. People who fail to refer to him as such will be summarily executed on the spot. See: 23-939 McAsshole v. United States (07/01/2024)

Is Meta using David Bowie's "Five Years," a song about the end of humanity, to promote AI and their products now? My God.

Just now, in Chicago.

*TEN-YEAR TREASURY YIELD RISES TO HIGHEST SINCE 2007

US ECONOMY IS LOSING EXTERNAL INVESTMENT AT RECORD LEVELS. Germany is in the lead, reducing investments in the US by $76 billion. And it moved it to China and Europe. Foreign capital is not staying in the US. Slowly but surely major companies and sovereign investors are leaving the US - and its

Here is the School of Rock in Rio....

Big Exclusive here from our new reporter: Charlottesville marcher is on his way to the Florida state legislature. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...

Antonio Fargas (still alive and kicking!!) in a scene from Cleopatra Jones as seen on Portuguese television.

This was the headline from the Chicago Tribune (a very Trump-friendly paper) five days into the 2nd term.

For people thinking, what's the big deal about the 4% cut in global oil production coming next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and 1979 Iran war oil crisis. Each followed by a major recession. Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/

Asian tech stocks slump as growing concerns over AI safety weigh on investor sentiment and put pressure on technology shares.

Name a player with 13 seasons in the majors, who led the league in home runs, was a member of 2 World Series champs, an All Star, and only has a single digit lifetime WAR.

We're gonna need more space on the gas-pump display.

There's another Conine playing for the Marlins?

Happy belated 102nd birthday to the first Black pitcher in Cardinals history, Bill Greason! From being one of the first Black Marines and fighting in the Battle of Iwo Jima, to the last surviving Negro Leagues player, to a pastor for 50 years, Bill is a LEGEND and an inspiration. Happy birthday!

Got a great lesson in feeling OK about America today. Went to a National Park. They couldn't sell me a yearly pass. They were not able to give me a sticker in my National Park Passport book. They weren't able to point to the correct stamp for my passport book. They avoided eye contact as we left.

The pleasant, temperate summers in Chicago are a thing that no longer exists. So shut up and enjoy your Soylent Green.

Here's a TV commercial I did in Seattle in 1989 at KLSY radio, with future syndicated radio legend Delilah Rene. youtu.be/YoS4_pFWSGE

Commodity vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains in single digits on Monday, data shows

Is former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao cashing her dead husband's paychecks in a fraud against the United States Government? Oh well.... whatever.