John M. Gamble

Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

Aaand there you go: Trump’s sudden about-face on the most important Canada-US border crossing came after meeting with the billionaire family that owns the rival bridge. Nice scoop, confirming suspicions of everyone who has followed this file and is familiar with Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...

Trump’s threat to block Gordie Howe bridge is pure oligarchy - Detroit Metro Times President Donald Trump’s threat to block the opening of the publicly owned Gordie Howe International Bridge stands to benefit one politically connected billionaire family.The Morouns, who own the riva...

The billionaire Moroun family, which owns the rival Ambassador Bridge, has spent years and millions of dollars fighting the new U.S.-Canada crossing.

So that makes him the 31st ICE employee arrested, and the 21st arrested for sexual crimes.

Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Edited by Timothy R. Granger and Michael W. Phillips Jr. Volume 1: The Black Stockings by William Thomas Smith + Tales of Black Robin by H.L. Faggett Introduction by Cauleen Smith, cover art by Daimon Hampton A Black guerrilla group fights against a racist presidential candidates, plus an undercover avenger rights racist wrongs one punch in the jaw at a time. Volume 2: The Creeping Thing by Cora Jean Moten + The Baron of Harlem by Nick Lewis Introduction by Charlotte Carter, cover art by Julie Anderson One of the first zombie stories in English, and one of the best. Plus a white gangster changes places and skin color with a scheming Black musician. Volume 3: From Outer Space & Orbit of Doom + short stories about Jacques Lenglet and Jiggs Bennett by James H. Hill Introduction by Ytasha L. Womack, cover art by Maurice Buckley Aliens visit Earth with a dire warning about humanity's nuclear ambitions, plus stories about a Black WW1 ace and a reporter who punches racists in the face. November 2026.

Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips.

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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

Nope, not readable. So, which UM are you talking about?

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
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YouTube video by Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV Future of Gordie Howe Bridge questioned after Trump post despite testing phase

Argh!

youtu.be/DDy6uNR5pbw

Definitively one of the most momentous events in legal history. It should be a public holiday.

Chicago Water Department civil engineer and Catholic Theological Union.student Yunus Emre Tozal, fair warning, if you keep writing half-baked commentary about transportation for the Tribune, we're going to keep critiquing it. 🧵

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Huh. Don't like him, but he didn't seem the type to me. In my opinion he took his very conservative beliefs very seriously, including the monogamy one.

I could see an attempt to get him to fund something, but he and Kraus or Summers (the Larrys) don't appear to have mixed socially.

As many people are pointing out, they never tell Republicans that voting does no good.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

An oil painting of an impossibly tall tower suspended in the sky. The tower is half cast in shower at it's base, but at it's top catches the bright arch of dawn, illuminating the white of the tower's stone. A pinnacle shines at the towers top.

"On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place,
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."

-Stephen St. Vincent Benet

View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.

Which I think is the authors' way of saying "Aw c'mon guys, did you really have to do this?"

"Advancing plant behavior science beyond pseudoscience requires strict adherence to falsifiable hypotheses, sufficient statistical power, stringent experimental controls distinguishing correlation from causation, and rejection of unfalsifiable speculation regardless of public appeal."

Amusingly, this would explain why this account isn't there, but my bridged Mastodon account is.

This is one of the times when I want campaign promises.

Promise to abolish ICE. Pledge to break up DHS. Campaign on congressional subpoenas. Give details. Be loud about it.

Don't pretend your endorsements and voting record of the past ten years matter this time.

I've been getting them for a few days (I am in IL-9) now, and frankly they're all sort of meh.

They can all (not just Fine's) be summed as "and while in office I did my job". Which, given you're working against a Republican majority, doesn't leave much to brag about.

Yup. I owned a '97 Saturn for over two decades and it's what I immediately thought of.

Huh, he's still in Minnesota after getting water ballooned in January?

Far-right influencer Jake Lang arrested for damaging 'Prosecute ICE' sculpture | FOX 10 Phoenix Far-right influence Jake Lang, who was pardoned for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, has been arrested after he damaged a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Far-right influencer Jake Lang, who was pardoned for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, has been arrested after he damaged a “Prosecute ICE” sculpture at the Minnesota State Capitol.

YouTube video by TazG2000 The definitive Voyager torpedo inventory log

Reminds menof this. youtu.be/PIGxMENwq1k?...

What is fascinating is how this article is going over in r/RomanceBooks. Sleuths have already identified her other pseudonyms, and are unequivocal that what this AI evangelist "author" is doing is not writing, and its not producing romance books

> @theatlantic.com

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Well, well, well.

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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

Farewell to the mass market paperback (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

On Feb 7 2020, Dr Li Wenliang, known as one of the first whistleblowers on COVID, died from the disease in Wuhan.