Kristina Newhouse

Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible

Architect James McCrery is the latest fool to think that he could contain and control the maelstrom. “I consider myself an important designer,” Mr. Trump has said. Not content to destroy the East Wing and the Lincoln bathroom, Trump is now eyeballing the West Wing.

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

Isn't writing and getting published hard enough without this nonsense in which truth is a casualty?

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A statement from Racial Unity Now of Whatcom County.

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And, the totally predictable knee-jerk.

There are tools to show you the correct positioning and order in which medals are to be displayed

Here is the result for Mark Kelly’s medals

They are correct

Hegseth continues to embarrass himself with unforced errors easily known to all in the military

He’s a joke which will get people hurt

Yes, they drank the Kool-Aid for Trump, but so what is it about Pistol Pete that the Republicans are ga-ga about? Have they checked in with their friends in the military to see how they feel about imperiled career leaders? Do they get off on the wanton war crimes being perpetrated in the Caribbean?

AI’s water problem is worse than we thought A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

Jack Smith & thousands of other DOJ alumni are calling on all Americans to join us in speaking up for justice.

We'll never stop fighting for those who served our country & for our Constitution & our democracy.

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'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

The data centers that make things worse, not better.

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Pistachio Wars Available Now! Stream on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Vimeo, Fandango, and Watermelon+.

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The Museum Donors Accused of Sucking California Dry Pistachio Wars argues that billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are harming California’s environment as they artwash their damage.

Boycott Justin Wines, Fiji Water, Cutie mandarin oranges, and the Wonderfuls (Pom and Pistachios). The Resnicks are not good stewards of the environment.

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Urge Congress to Support Critical Funding for the Office of Museum Services at IMLS Urge Congress to Support Funding for IMLS Use our template to contact your Senators and Representative in support of critical funding for the Office of Museum Services at IMLS. It takes just a f...

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NOAA Cancels Funding for Real-Time Tsunami Alerts for West Coast States: Cantwell Demands Answers | U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington

No joke. Nine of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Earthquake Center‘s seismic stations will go offline at the end of November — due to the cancellation of a $300,000 grant.

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Tis the season. 🎅 Try not to get snookered everybody.

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Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

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Fossil Fuel’s Biggest Subsidy: The US Military Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, larger than Saudi Arabia. If you think largest warship ever built, and its strike group, sailed from the Mediterranean, and are parked o…

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. If you think the US' largest warship is parked there to intercept drug runners, I have an aircraft carrier to sell you.
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Just saying, TenBlueLinks.org is a frigging miracle if you want to reclaim Google searches from AI slop.

Watch what MBS does with his hands during this exchange. He literally motions like he is washing his hands of it.

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

Absolutely not surprising.
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DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.

Distraught, betrayed, and mad as hell: Your takes on the shutdown We asked readers to weigh in on Senate Democrats' deal—and almost nobody is happy.

Nobody I know is happy about it. #canschumer

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Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.

Think about it…

Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: It's a bad deal. Everyday life - making it better and more affordable - must always be our bottom line. For months, I’ve been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket - so much that some will lose coverage altogether. Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news. Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.

There is still time to quit. His constituents deserve better.

Giuliani, Eastman, Cheseboro, and Powell are all unindicted co-conspirators in Trump indictment for the election crimes. Smith kept them off to streamline the case, with it always seemed future plans to indict. A total whitewash. Possibility remains of state charges, esp in Georgia. What a travesty.

Yes, wondering how Vance squares this with his faith.