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Unleashing CHANG (is hard on ENG).

Dallas County judge makes change to voting hours after some Texans turned away from polls A judge in Dallas County has extended voting hours to 9 p.m. for Democrats as some say voters in parts of Texas are being turned away from the polls.

Whoop, sorry for the local Fox affiliate link, but it looks like voting hours have been extended in Dallas until 9 pm!

www.fox4news.com/news/judge-e...

That will make Markwayne Mullin's melonhead explode. He thought Khomeini, not Khamenei, was still in power. He may be dumber than Tuberville. And they said it couldn't be done!

Not even a concept of a plan.

picture of the side of Trump's head

zoom in on the new makeup spot

Trump used a coating of makeup today to cover up the rash (or whatever it is) that was so apparent yesterday behind his ear

(Win McNamee/Getty)

LFG!

He's continued making interesting, intelligent music. I've seen him live more than anyone else. Got to talk with him a bit once.

Here's what we heard from Kristi Noem today.

She refused to apologize to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

She didn't rule out using ICE agents to intimidate voters.

She defended buying a $70 million luxury plane with taxpayer dollars.

Resign, fire, or impeach — she has got to go.

Or if they mysteriously start falling out of windows.

Democratic voters in Texas scramble to find polling place amid precinct voting switch Early voting had been countywide and saw record Democratic turnout, but the switch to precinct-only locations left many voters showing up at the wrong spot and being turned away.

🚨BREAKING: Hundreds of Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas scrambled to find their polling places Tuesday after the local Republican parties refused to hold a joint primary — ending more than a decade of convenient countywide voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

How I arrived on BlueSky: I was a refugee, escaping Xitter.

Dunkleosteus terrelli (Newberry, 1873) - fossil fish skull (real) from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) The placoderms are a group of extinct, mostly predatory fish that existed during the Middle Paleozoic (Silurian and Devonian). The most famous placoderm was Dunkleosteus, which was named after David Dunkle, an Ohio paleontologist. It was not a shark - it had a bony skull, a neck joint, and remarkably, the jaws lacked true teeth. Instead, the jawbones were sharp-edged and pointed. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunkleosteus_terrelli_(fossil_fish)_(Cleveland_Shale_Member,_Ohio_Shale,_Upper_Devonian;_Rocky_River_Valley,_Cleveland,_Ohio,_USA)_21_(34001200911).jpg

The Late Devonian (~380 MYA) was an era dominated by armored fish like Dunkleosteus terrelli here. They were primarily cartilaginous, like the sharks they hunted, but covered by armor plates up to 3 in. (7.6 cm) thick.

They were also among the first animals to give live birth.

Cartoon. A woman in a company conference room is looking at her phone and saying, "Says here that Greece is sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians." In the foreground, a man is peeling Mber 2026 from the calendar and finding January 499BC behind it.

News item.

Al Stewart, "Nostradamus":

Oh, the more it changes, the more it stays the same,
And the hand just rearranges the players in the game.

I wrote an alt hist, THROUGH DARKEST EUROPE, about a world where Islam developed science and technology and Western Europe wallowed in fanaticism. My working title was God Wills It, the English for Deus Vult. Editor didn't like it.
www.amazon.com/Through-Dark...

Said the not FDR they're dealing with.

Microsoft Bans the Word "Microslop" on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.

I'm just re-upping this because it's still making me laugh

You think Trump is playing chess. I think he's playing tic-tac-toe...and losing.

Mark Kelly to Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby: "I'm trying to understand whether you believe Iran can be primarily contained by our regional partners, which is what you wrote a few weeks ago, or is it imminent threat to the US as President Trump just told the American people? Can't be both"

Trump did not say okey-doke just because MBS called him. This has other benefits for him than wrecking Iran.

You could be wrong. "I come not with peace but with a sword" is also Jesus talking. Holy (Christian) war dates back at least to the seventh century and Herakleios' campaigns against the Persians.

"Tarzhay" is like calling Jack in the Box "Jacques en le Carton." Fuhgeddaboutit.

Okay this may be the funniest effort yet

*TRUMP: I THINK IRAN MAY HAVE ATTACKED FIRST

Nothing like a bit of fascism from the top.

‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

In today's good news a single dose drug for sleeping sickness that could completely change the elimination game. Dare I hope for eradication!
Acoziborole administered as a single oral dose was ~95% effective across both early and late-stage disease in RCTs.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Ha!

Alpha and Omega Alpha and Omega - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Alpha and Omega.

I have written a book involving this.

www.amazon.com/Alpha-Omega-...