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The Canyon Fire north of L.A. is getting huge.

“Exploratory” — yeah right.

Republicans are testing the waters to expand their gerrymandering playbook into other states.

New details on how Dems plan to hit back. Unfortunately there are self imposed roadblocks—laws requiring independent, non-partisan commissions to keep redistricting “fair.”

Never Vote Poilievre

Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they aren’t wrong to want it. Tell them how you’re going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

“Have these companies given thought about how this data might put their customers in danger, whether it's cops stalking their exes or aggressive ICE agents targeting yard workers? Probably not." www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

PhD level expertise, you can totally trust it to help you understand your medical diagnosis

Walmart might be in better shape than Target. That’s my prediction but we’ll see. Target stores feel like they’re struggling with what inventory to sell. This fall could be rough.

In reality, most progressives weren’t worked up much at all. Criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers, according to an analysis of social media data by The New York Times. Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.

🧵 Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."

The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney essentially never happened. Republicans made it up.

And as a former GOP media consultant, I know the "one weird trick."

How the Right Shaped the Debate Over the Sydney Sweeney Ads

As the New York Times just reported, the actual numbers show that almost no one was criticizing Sydney Sweeney for her American Eagle ad.

But Libs of TikTok decided to pretend that lefties were angry. A story about supposed leftist outrage was concocted out of thin air by liars.

This video is just incredible, a bunch of guys whose favorite movie is Boondock Saints in eBay tacticool gear doing their personal imaginary version of charging out of the LSTs onto Omaha beach but they’re in a Penske truck in a Home Depot parking lot and they’re the Nazis.

It’ll be interesting to see how the market reacts to earnings the remainder of the year. Good times.

Oh dear. The prompt typers are not going to like this.

Let’s all agree to have a set time every night we discuss Philly teams from the 90s. Tomorrow night we can tackle Eric Lindros.

Joaquin’s parents created his avatar. It’s not the same. Please leave them alone.

It’s wild to watch it all happen. Dumb policy within dumb policy. The us govt relief would then just cancel out the funds the us govt received. Lol.

I don’t know. I saw an overview that said the middle B is easy to miss.

A piñata sold in Mexico in the shape of an ICE officer

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits…

Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

The U.S. government is run by Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer, and whatever rando Fox puts on TV when Trump is watching

Texas House Speaker rules: Republicans get their salary by direct deposit. But Democrats need to show up to claim it in person... so they can be arrested.

For those who wondered just how much gaudy gold garbage could fit in one room.

Relief from the federal govt?

Which then reduces the actual monies the US govt receives, right?

US govt charges tariffs, they take in funds, company writes the loss off on taxes, reducing tax liability, and reducing funds paid to US on taxes.

Who knew that "late Saddam" finishings were so readily available at Home Depot

"how can i make this about me"

How can this be sustainable for F or any other company taking these hits? How long can they do this?

Ford Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results • Second-quarter revenue reached a record $50.2 billion; incurred a net loss of $36 million as a result of special items • Adjusted EBIT was $2.1 billion, including $0.8 billion of adverse net tariff-related impacts; operating cash flow was $6.3 billion, adjusted free cash flow was $2.8 billion • Company declares a third quarter regular dividend of 15 cents per share • Reinstated full-year 2025 guidance includes adjusted EBIT of $6.5 billion to $7.5 billion, adjusted free cash flow of $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion, capital spending of about $9 billion, and a net tariff-related headwind of about $2 billion DEARBORN, Mich., July 30, 2025 – Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) today announced its second- quarter 2025 financial results.

so ford is operated at a loss last quarter despite record revenues because they took $800m in tariff charges in q2 (when tariffs were lower than now) - and ford is just one company.

this is getting quite bad now.
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Trump: "What a great honor to get those Purple Hearts. I guess in a certain way it wasn't that easy for me either, when you think of it."

If someone told me 10 years ago that a social media post about the number of R’s in strawberry would be rage bait I would not understand what is happening.

Doubtful.