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Some gold detailing above the Oval Office entrance.

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit

Pic 1: Oval Office
Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

A genuinely good part of the old Republican aesthetic is how it sought to play down wealth, an impulse born from Protestant values. You can see this in how Bush dressed and decorated his living spaces

That aesthetic now replaced by gilt detailing designed to remind you that the occupant is wealthy.

It seems that Tim Apple is taking the company in a different direction.

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

Here's Some GOOD NEWS

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Amazon's Project Blue
to build 2 massive data centers has been SHUT DOWN

Data centers use MASSIE WATER USAGE and how INSANE to want to build in the desert where there's extreme drought and heat
Bravo Southern Arizona

Well, that’s an illegal waste of taxpayer money and law enforcement resources. It’s also a sign that their election rigging coup project is more important than their ethnic cleansing project.

Imagine being a billionaire, in charge of one the most powerful, influential companies in the history of world, and prostrating yourself to Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. Sheesh.

This is 18th century European aristocracy shit.

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...

NEW: For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration.

Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced.

do you think stede's mother was kind to him?

Operation Trojan Horse Quote Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC · 29m Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly. Underneath is a screenshot of an 8 second video showing agents lifting the door of a rental truck from the inside as they get ready to jump and out and grab people.

This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol's current CA lead Gregory Bovino called "Operation Trojan Horse."

Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.

AI is basically Theranos. It is presented as this incredible technology that would do everything but behind the scenes the are people doing stuff the same old way and hoping that the tech will eventually catch up.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

Vaccines are our greatest scientific achievement. This is criminal.

The Kentucky whiskey and bourbon industry is on life support due to reciprocal tariffs and general boycott of American goods in places like Canada.

Eight months of that asshole’s stupidity and arrogance was all it took to destroy an entire industry.

The reason Trump and Republicans are losing their minds over gerrymandering in Texas:

Texas is a majority-minority state.

My fellow pirates, I said I’d bring it here when phone banking for Zohran started up again and that time has arrived!

It’s surprisingly easy & you can do it from anywhere in the US

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Source: worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...

Do people not remember the exact same motherfuckers saying the exact same things about NFTs?

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

As of 2024, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Texas by nearly 1.5 million voters

Plus, the state used to be blue

But the real story here is the arrogance of Texas Republicans

They are "entitled" to nothing

It's the VOTERS who decide elections

NOT politicians

More journalists should be asking why they put Steve Volz, the head of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service (NOAA/NESDIS), on indefinite administrative leave.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

You ever see the entrance of a club where they're charging twenty quid to get in even though the vibes are terrible and a guy on too much coke just threw a chair through the window? Did you go in?

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

Drawing of Jim from Our Flag Means Death. They're holding a soup bowl and spinning a spoon like a knife in their other hand.

Drawing of Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. They're dancing. Their fingers are intertwined. Stede is tucked in close to Ed's cheek, his eyes are closed. They're both smiling and are framed by flowers.

Drawing of young Ed and Stede from Our Flag Means Death. Ed is half octopus and Stede is a merperson. They're swimming somewhere fast, hand in hand.

Drawing of Ed from Our Flag Means Death. His smiling face is surrounded by fluffy curly hair. There's a bunny with a long flowing hair tail sitting on top of his head. There's flowers framing him.

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I love Wikipedia even more now