Dave LaFontaine

this is insane.

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Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.

"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg
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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

She loved her little mousie

Also: naps on my hand when I was trying to type

Lacrosse during Oktoberfest is a truly magical experience

Something about the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi river, and being able to be there at sunset to see the sunset, you feel like you can see all the way to the Pacific Ocean

Hm. I know it’s is “heavier” but it does get exported to Europe and for sure Royal Dutch Shell and Amoco had a huge presence in Maracaibo when I lived there?

Is it the PDVSA is mucking things up so bad they can only access the grubby stuff now?

What happens to oil prices when, in the invasion chaos, the Venezuelan crude is taken off the market? Do gas prices at the pump double? More? Or are there gas shortages, the way there were in the 1970s?

*record scratch*
"Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I wound up here, being loaded onto the back of a flatbed truck by people I thought that I befriended ... "

This is objectively a beautiful cat

My dear departed kitty Yuki sends love from wherever that gentle, loving soul has gone

Is this not the mechanism that killed people in the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak? Basically your body screams "AAAARGGGHHH!" and your immune system fills your lungs with fluid and you drown in your own tissues?

Not quite the same as COVID, although there are some parallels in symptoms

Remember that ceasefire everyone praised Trump for securing between Israel & Gaza?

Netanyahu just massacred 104 Palestinian civilians, including 46 children, on the mere accusation that Hamas handed over the 'wrong' corpse

HE MASSACRED 46 CHILDREN & I doubt you've heard one media outlet mention it

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Schumer not endorsing the democratic nominee for the mayor of NYC is pretty on point and why he needs to go

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

And in the face of an authoritarian dictator who's dismantling American democracy, arresting American citizens, punishing free speech, restoring the Lost Cause, destabilizing alliances, ignoring the rule of law, committing impeachable abuses of power -- every single day. Yet aunt-gate is a thing?

a woman says power is power in a gif from gifsec.com ALT: a woman says power is power in a gif from gifsec.com

“She’s doing this knowing the consequences. But she doesn’t care. That means she knows there won’t BE any consequences.”

Why are these monkeys might be a key swing group in the 2026 midterms. Democrats need to court this key voting bloc.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Thank god we have a capable and responsible federal government run by enlightened, reasonable…oh, shit, fuck, fuck

Right up there with salsa replacing ketchup as the no. 1 condiment

Crab Rangoon is worth unsheathing the katana for

YouTube video by SocialDistortionVEVO Social Distortion - Story Of My Life

Sigh.

Story of My Life

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There was an entire session dealing with the failures of synthetic research at the recent news product alliance summit in Chicago

Shorter: it’s basically astrology.

Fake users provide fake data for fake products.

Christ, I thought it was bad enough when we were divas.

As AI evolves into more and more agentic implementations, are we going to have to start digging through old books of etiquette, because interacting with an AI is going to basically be like interacting with a person?