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Yeah, that apparently was the league office. blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli...

Obama: "Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office"

Obama in Michigan: "He is focused on home renovations. He should be on HGTV! ... He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory"

holy crap

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

Airfares .. #PPI (via Schwab)

there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.

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whoa look at this semiconductor stonk going straight whoops check that it's ground beef

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These EV chargers hang from garage ceilings – and install in hours

This map is a bonkers crazy quilt. Arkansas and NM have some of the best rates along with a good chunk of New England. Idaho, Wisconsin, Arizona in increasingly rough shape for uniquely different reasons! All to say, my elder millennial ass needs to get an updated MMR shot.

“You can’t even go to the mall no more without a parent. You can’t go to the movies no more — they’re asking for a parent and stuff like that,” said Ahmir Peterson, 16, a student at Kenwood Academy High School. “There used to be teen jobs, but those jobs are taken by adults.”

Companies lutnick has been using taxpayer money to “buy a stake.” I’m sure a lutnivk and Trump are making bank

Short list of projects

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The claim that unicorns don’t exist is not an evidence-based statement because studies have not ruled out the possibility that unicorns exist.

The voice actors for Pinkie and The Brain reading lines from pulp fiction

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

Holy shit, THAT is a fucking LEDE

New all-time high in the wealth of the top 0.00001% of Americans vs national income @FT @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.

What if taxing the rich works?

Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.

this is a masterpiece

Internal AutoZone memo: “.. We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.” (via Costa Oil) $AZO

I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

i’m not trying to be like RETVRN but this is largely true!

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This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

Greg Hogan will oversee Login.gov as the government seeks to integrate driver's license and passport information into the service, making what one insider calls "a national ID." www.wired.com/story/a-doge...

we talk about this a lot on @illconceivedpodcast.com; the big underlying birth rate trend, at least in the usa, is that first-time parents are getting older because it takes longer to get your feet under you materially to the point that raising children is feasible

in honor of The Onion officially taking over InfoWars, what’s a conspiracy theory you 100% believe? Michael Jordan was doing the exact same shit as Pete Rose (gambling on games his team played in) during his playing career and Nike+the NBA have…done what it took to keep that quiet.

The Hand & The Eye, Chicago's new $50 million magic theater, opens this weekend in Streeterville. What can visitors expect for shelling up $225 or more for tickets?

A Chicago Sun-Times journalist keeps getting mistaken for her trans colleague and has a theory: Most Americans just don't know enough trans women to tell them apart.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?