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Software engineer. Electrified transportation journalist. Climate stasis advocate. Certified NERT.

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Inside the White House in the chaotic hours after Alex Pretti's shooting NBC News spoke to 15 people about how the Trump administration scrambled to respond to a second fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

‘But as he absorbed clips of the fatal confrontation, and the news reports surrounding it, Trump grew increasingly disturbed by what he saw…

“He doesn’t like chaos on his watch,” the official said.’

LOL, WTF.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

29.01.2026 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dozens denied oath of allegiance at Indianapolis naturalization ceremony Dozens of people arrived at Indianapolis Union Station thinking they'd become US citizens only to learn their participation was 'canceled.'

The oaths of allegiance for 38 of the 100 participants were "canceled." just two weeks before the citizenship ceremony.

www.indystar.com/story/news/l...

10.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

Fact-checkers are dangerous.

“The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking…”

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

05.12.2025 23:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

27.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 340    🔁 137    💬 9    📌 77
Photo of Tom Lehrer

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

27.07.2025 17:33 — 👍 28195    🔁 4748    💬 831    📌 681
250,000 Miles and Counting, David’s Mustang Mach-E is Going the Distance In just over three years, David Blenkle, who runs a small private car service in Santa Cruz, California, has driven more than 250,000 miles in his Mustang Mach-E.

Even the (never credited) original PR piece from Ford never makes the outlandish InsideEVs article claim that “the battery still has 96% of its original capacity”.

26.07.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Somehow the InsideEVs rewrite (which never acknowledges or links to the source) is even fluffier than the original Ford PR piece. IEVs claim that “the battery still has 96% of its original capacity” is total BS.

Source: www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articl...

26.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The official Homeland Security X account posts a painting depicting some recent European immigrants invading Native American lands and inflicting cultural domination rather than assimilating peacefully and with permission from tribes.

24.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LOL.

19.07.2025 04:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

17.07.2025 22:48 — 👍 3138    🔁 1597    💬 239    📌 301
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Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues (1) Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two peopl...

This is hardly worth noting these days, but whatever…

14.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The new “Grok 4 Heavy” LLM from Elon’s xAI company is having a thing.

13.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life

Politics in the Trump era: They lied to him, set him up on a fake date, secretly videotaped him without his permission and then distorted his words to create a false conspiracy theory to justify policy changes. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...

04.07.2025 22:42 — 👍 608    🔁 134    💬 50    📌 10

There's really nothing in this opinion limiting some neo-Bob Jones University types from demanding public schools stop talking about interracial marriage on religious grounds.

27.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 194    🔁 51    💬 6    📌 3
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Critical hurricane forecast tool abruptly terminated On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.

Just another day in Trump World. The hurricane states are almost entirely MAGA. Trump wants to end FEMA support and funding as well.

It will interesting to watch the ensuing cognitive dissonance which seems more stark than usual.

www.local10.com/weather/hurr...

26.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.

26.06.2025 12:24 — 👍 22373    🔁 4957    💬 5147    📌 1300
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

Oh, Florida.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

21.06.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An excellent reality check to concerns about the future of Social Security.

21.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Elon Musk posts on X that:

“We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.
Then retrain on that.
Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.”

Elon Musk posts on X that: “We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.”

Call it Crock 4.20. It’s already feature complete and will be ready by the end of the year.

21.06.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall Did the mystery poop artist strike again? Signs point to yes.

Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

20.06.2025 02:35 — 👍 106    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 0
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New “Dictator Approved” statue appears in DC

WaPo: It sits at the same location as the poop statue did last fall.
The artwork's creators intended "Dictator Approved" as a response to the June 14 military parade and authoritarianism, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service.

20.06.2025 01:22 — 👍 234    🔁 57    💬 9    📌 7
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The fact that they have to put Trump in his kiddie fake high school uniform to look anything like patriotism when he dodged the draft is just…. Epic

14.06.2025 21:37 — 👍 4333    🔁 662    💬 363    📌 58
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The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Ame...

The Trump FCC is, by definition, up to no good.

04.06.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump is rolling back civil rights efforts across the government so it only makes sense to strip the names of civil rights leaders from our existing Navy ships. Gotta be consistent and make a 100% effort for white nationalism. That’s what a slight plurality of the voters wanted!

03.06.2025 21:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

A junkie unmoored from reality destroyed our govt:
"The drug has psychedelic properties and can cause dissociation from reality. Chronic use can lead to addiction and problems with bladder pain...Mr. Musk told people that his ketamine use was causing bladder issues"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

Among the many juicy revelations in this story about Elon Musk and his drug use: As a govt contractor, SpaceX must maintain a drug-free workforce. But Musk received advance notice of what were supposed to be random drug tests. @kirstengrind.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

30.05.2025 12:21 — 👍 212    🔁 96    💬 14    📌 10

It’s worth watching his entire speech.

26.05.2025 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wake Forest Commencement 2025 YouTube video by Wake Forest University

A few people have posted short clips of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley’s commencement address to the Wake Forest University Class of 2025.

Manually skip forward to around 48 minutes into the embedded video or click the link to view it in the YouTube app.

www.youtube.com/live/FcWa-wX...

26.05.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0