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missing alt text: A bin of Taylor Swift calendars at a Dollar Tree.

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

I think many of you already use her for therapy.

Be aware of which political party wants the American people to vote and will protect our collective right to do so…and which political party wants to restrict that right so that they may remain in power indefinitely.

The difference could not be clearer than at the present moment.

And in economics 101 we learn prices are "sticky". Yeah, tariffs are over but at most you'll see a token shave of a few cents.

Once the bastards know you'll pay $10 for eggs, they'll keep it up there. Competition won't bring it down-- collusion is the game in the anti antitrust USA.

*sigh* Yup.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and saying sucker ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and saying sucker

On the doubtful outside chance corporations ever see a refund, it'll go to the stockholders as "profit." The rest of us, as always, will wind up footing the bill. Again.

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie A Royal Reckoning

A Royal Reckoning.
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What the actual F is this?

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

“Here’s something that you’ve never seen on Big Tech social platforms…”

@sarahp.bsky.social continues to dominate the Bluesky beat, for @techcrunch.com

Check out the coverage of our atproto integration, here.

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A spoiled 80 years old child is the president of the US.

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE.

A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas.

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Never thought I'd ever see a goddess in chains.

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices'

the sums involved are incomprehensible

"AI is going to be like the asbestos of the internet and the computer industry." is my new favorite saying.

And that stuff by Snyder that Democrats were jeopardizing things even though they were the ones putting the screws to them and it was his own party leader fuming everything up. Did the house minority leader forget to apologize for expecting more of the same from Vos?

Shameless

He sounded so petulant, but that sounds par for the course for a certain party.

New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected ...

Wisconsin Assembly speaker relents: allows postpartum Medicaid extension for new moms. “Go out and take your victory lap,” Republican Robin Vos told caucus members.

A painting showing six figures stood on a river bank, and five figures in the process of crossing a waist deep river, with some horses.

It's come to light that some don't believe #MuseumBums can be #MuseumBums when not bare.

We'd like to clarify that *any* butt in art, clothed or nay, in a cultural setting, will be welcomed into the Museum Bum family 🤣👍🏛️🍑

Jared French's "Cavalrymen...", 1939, from L F P U S Courthouse

What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

California is currently weighing a ballot initiative that would institute a one-time wealth tax on billionaires living in the state.

I think it’s a good idea.

Watch what my friend Bernie Sanders had to say.

Gambatte!

Similar petulant tech bro vibes. This initiative seems like a smash up of vengeance for Greenland, an accelerant for horseshoe far right libertarians (oddly appropriate given the horse logo), data mining operation for allied right wing parties, and the most blatant honeypot ever.

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So torn about this.

I'm pro-freedom of information and supporting VPNs, but this is so blatantly its own form of Euro agitprop (and hypocritical given GOP attacks on media and VPNs domestically).

And defunding open source projects to fund a HS &CISA corporate blackbox? Who trusts Palantir VPN?

I took part in a 2012 psilocybin trial. What I’m seeing now horrifies me “I took part in a 2012 psilocybin trial. What I’m seeing now horrifies me,” writes Erica Rex, author of the new book “Seeing What Is There.”

“I took part in a 2012 psilocybin trial. What I’m seeing now horrifies me,” writes Erica Rex, author of the new book “Seeing What Is There.” www.statnews.com/2026/02/19/p...

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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.