LostInCalifornia

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2026-04-02 01:50:08 UTC

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I looked it up :-) Found the country tonite theatre and went from there.
Thought for a moment it was Branson.
(Worked on Queen Mary one summer, and learned a lot about transatlantic liners. I tried id'ing the ship based on the stacks.)

2026-04-02 01:10:25 UTC

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That's the Titanic? They got the number of stacks wrong.

2026-03-25 21:05:59 UTC

Ok, so the award is $3 million, plus $3 million in punitive damages for a total of $6 million.
Still seems low but it's to a single defendant, not a class and
That trial will also enter a second phase, in May, in which a judge will decide whether Meta created a public nuisance and if the company must pay additional penalties to address harms.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12077549/meta-google-ordered-to-pay-6-million-in-social-media-addiction-trial
#nevent1q…ugkw

2026-03-25 17:41:12 UTC

$3 million. Pfft.
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2026-03-25 17:27:28 UTC

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Don't burn bridges.
My attitude is actually "I fucking hate being bored." I was doing everyone a favor by not being there 8 hours and 15 minutes and my boss knew it.

2026-03-25 17:23:52 UTC

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I once got laid off with a year's notice. (Then we got a memo that we'd be working an extra 15 minutes every day. LOL.)
I got my transfer my workload to the other office stuff done after 3 months, then showed up at noon, and left at 2...

2026-03-25 17:20:41 UTC

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You know, you have to keep working there until you have another job.

2026-03-22 20:00:22 UTC

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I know. BUT lozenges are less nasty than cigs.
I don't know what your cravings are like. Mine were so bad I convinced myself buying a pack of Malboros was the healthy option...

2026-03-22 19:49:00 UTC

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Vape has nasty ingredients.
The mini lozenges, just pop under your tongue. Lessens the craving. (You're right, they're not fun. That's the point.)

2026-03-22 19:09:06 UTC

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Oh. Lozenges for cravings. Nicotine lozenges.

2026-03-22 19:06:53 UTC

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Welp, not sure if I'd be able to talk them into Cubans right away these days. Might take a while (one of the guys wanted to take me out on a date date). I'd have to hint around a bit.
Dirt as in rich and earthy.

2026-03-22 18:59:45 UTC

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Never did a pipe. I had a cigar when I was in Jamaica, and I know a local smokeshop that sells cigarettes to select clients.
I quit smoking after that, but Cubans might lure me back. Tastes like dirt.

2026-03-22 18:28:22 UTC

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Ever had a Cuban cig?
Tastes like dirt. Amazingly good.

2026-03-20 23:02:57 UTC

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2026-03-10 17:09:00 UTC

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There's a cure for that.
https://featheredfarmlife.com/can-chicken-poop-make-you-sick-risks-prevention-tips/

2026-03-10 05:21:34 UTC

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2026-03-04 19:08:44 UTC

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Did you know that obedience school trains the owner, and not the dog?

2026-03-03 20:57:25 UTC

Only 19.
There were better places to rent videos than Blockbuster.
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2026-02-28 11:59:40 UTC

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If people survive the war, there is the after to come.
I doubt the real estate guy Trump uses understands what happens next. (Or maybe they've made arrangements with another oppressor to run things like they did in Venezuela.)
Rn, just hoping other countries stay out.

2026-02-28 11:48:53 UTC

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I don't know anyone there rn, but I've met a few.

2026-02-28 11:44:29 UTC

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US & Israel launched a "major operation" airstrike against Iran. Trump says he wants "regime change".
Iran has launched counter attacks against US bases and Israel.
All because Trump tore up an agreement because Obama negotiated it.

2026-02-28 11:33:51 UTC

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Ooops. I forgot to mention Qatar.
(I was going to go to bed. Asshat declared war, without congressional approval, and without the eminent threat the War Powers Act requires. So, I'm awake.)

2026-02-28 10:11:54 UTC

Counter attacks in Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel.
So far.

2026-02-27 23:00:07 UTC

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Accidently put an angry react on this. I apologize. It's a lovely pic.

2026-02-27 21:17:53 UTC

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I need a learner tool. So far, I'm only squeaking by with cheats.

2026-02-27 21:03:40 UTC

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I hate sudoku.
I need to learn it. (Don't ask.)
Anywhere online you can recommend?

2026-02-27 01:55:25 UTC

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WF killed Mrs Gooch. Took it over, and killed a natural food store.
And Trader Joes is cheaper.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-library-acquires-sandy-gooch-papers-natural-foods-pioneer-educator

2026-02-27 01:47:20 UTC

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I hate Whole Foods. Makes it simpler.

2026-02-24 02:32:55 UTC

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I know it's a pop culture phenom, and I thought should be more aware for cultural literacy, but I just couldn't. I couldn't finish the first book. Never watched the movies.
I have also never watched any of The Hunger Games stuff.
Dipping out of pop culture has, overall, been good.

2026-02-24 01:16:06 UTC

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Came out about the time Buffy was peaking, and I assumed it was Buffy without the social commentary.
(I didn't get very far into the books, skipped the movies altogether.)

2026-02-24 00:12:01 UTC

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I haven't listened to it, but I always figured Twilight started as a Buffy fanfic.

2026-02-20 00:30:14 UTC

Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, accountability is a serious matter
Interestingly, Andrew’s arrest is not concerning the 2011 sexual assault allegations that were brought against him by Virginia Giuffre — but it was recent stories in the British media about him passing on financial information to what the British press called “his pedo mate.” (Epstein)
It’s astonishing how much accountability seems to be possible once you cross the Atlantic.
Julie K Brown
https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/prince-andrews-arrest

2026-02-19 23:49:27 UTC

Both California and Indiana have introduced social media minimum age laws, citing Australia as an example. Good step forward, IMO.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article314732891.html

2026-02-14 06:43:18 UTC

Authorities arrested Kebin Dong, 38, and Wei Nei, 40, who investigators say owned and operated a website that openly advertised sex services.
“At one point, detectives identified more than 30 residential and hotel brothel locations operating throughout the state of California,” the sheriff’s office said. “Detectives also identified more than 60 female profiles on the website, believed to be commercial sex workers operating at the advertised brothel locations.”
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-brothel-network-with-30-locations-dismantled-in-major-bust/

2026-02-06 19:16:31 UTC

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Still waiting for all espionage and kompromat info to be pieced together.
I don't know if most will ever understand the pain, but they may be able to grasp the political sleaze.

2026-01-31 03:26:19 UTC

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2026-01-31 01:10:10 UTC

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2026-01-09 02:16:33 UTC

So, finally stream a tv show I've been interested in.
Not only is it hokie, but the star isn't even cute.
Sigh. Been a rough couple of days.

2026-01-08 19:25:16 UTC

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Massive crowd in Minneapolis last night, but no George Floyd.
Governor told them "do not take the bait" -- any violence would lead to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act and putting US military into every state.
They seem to have listened (and didn't burn Waymos to make a lot of smoke like they did in LA).
OTOH, feds have excluded state authorities from the investigation and declared the killer has full immunity.

2026-01-08 19:11:09 UTC

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Also, there's a close up
He was not in any danger whatsoever.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/08/video-ice-shooting-minneapolis/
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2026-01-08 18:37:03 UTC

So, both her mother and her ex husband both say the woman killed yesterday wasn't participating in the protest in anyway shape or form.
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2026-01-08 18:26:08 UTC

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They did. Obama gave it the good old college try to get them out, but the GOP insisted that "parents had to have control over their kids lunches", even if SNAP paid for those lunches (like kids eat what mom wants when mom is out of sight).
Meanwhile, Pepsi Frito Lay paid for a lot of Congressional lunches.

2026-01-08 18:00:23 UTC

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Now, she needs to apologize for her network championing potato chips in public schools. Not just only having them available for sale, they insisted that the government pay for them in free lunch programs.

2026-01-06 22:04:29 UTC

Stephen Miller has the tiniest penis in the wolrd.

2026-01-04 01:48:48 UTC

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It mentions cocaine. Trump made his case on fentanyl.
And my I add, Trump making the case that it was election fraud takes some orange colored balls.
Yes, Maduro cheated. Trump just as fuck tried to cheat, and failed to go to jail only by lawerly tricks.

2026-01-03 23:05:12 UTC

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2025-12-30 20:51:26 UTC

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I don't think they'd have lives if they didn't flirt with everyone and everything.

2025-12-28 01:24:19 UTC

Psst. He's not your friend.
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2025-12-26 23:15:38 UTC

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(Wrightwood is north of San Bernardino and Victorville, in the Angelus Forest. I mentioned San Jacinto near PS because there is always the possibility you visited it when you were in PS -- if you haven't, you should take the drive next time.
Take the highway from Banning, and stop by Convict Lake (picnic; and admire the rock) then drive on to town and stop by the old fashioned general store and sometimes the music conservancy does a show. Hemet is also nearby, and then there's Fern Valley. The vanilla pine trees, and the Amerindian corn mortars built into the rock --- my gawd, there's a lot to see in the mountains! I'll stop my boosterism now....)

2025-12-26 12:00:46 UTC

Look at that. Mudflow but the table and chairs are still standing.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-26/southern-california-wettest-christmas-extreme-weather-swings
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2025-12-18 01:27:51 UTC

There's a reason they didn't want him testifying in public.
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trumphad criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press.
Smith also said investigators had accrued “powerful evidence” Trump broke the law by hoarding classified documents from his first term as president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and by obstructing government efforts to recover the records.
https://apnews.com/article/jack-smith-congress-justice-department-d35557d525fcfe51a20d08c6abb7f71d

2025-12-16 19:43:26 UTC

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sorry you're feeling poorly

2025-12-09 17:14:11 UTC

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she needs are new batteries
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2025-11-30 05:36:54 UTC

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You bigot!! Humblebragging about your "I need Midol" privilege!!
Drinking lots of water used to help me. Hydrate, hydrate and hydrate.

2025-11-25 16:25:06 UTC

I mean, c'mon. Everyone can see it.
Now the BBC has overcorrected—albeit in the other direction. On Bluesky, historian Rutger Bregman just charged that the broadcaster cut a line from a BBC lecture he delivered in which he described Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/203648/trump-bbc-fury-maga-edit

2025-11-25 15:43:14 UTC

Socialism for me, but not for thee.
Trump turning the US economy into a state run "capitalism" to prop up the fossil fuel industry and other pet projects. (State run economies are not good at innovation, ICYMI)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/trump-intel-steel-minerals-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.XIMx.3WcQ8CbWM3Tm
https://archive.ph/WTRHx
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2025-11-14 15:39:43 UTC

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I don't toke or chew, but I think the war on MJ and hemp is ridiculous.

2025-11-14 15:03:27 UTC

Conservatives. Bringing back all the hits of the past 50 to 100 years.
President Donald Trump has signed a spending bill that includes provisions to ban most consumable hemp products.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congress-passes-bill-to-recriminalize-hemp-thc-products-sending-it-to-trumps-desk/

2025-11-13 21:44:41 UTC

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2025-11-13 21:37:11 UTC

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While pedophilia is not in and of itself a Federal crime in the United States, if this psychiatric disorder causes a person to commit such crimes as child abuse or the acquisition of child pornography, then a pedophile may be subject to arrest and punishment by U.S. Federal authorities.
It's defined as a 9 year age gap in psychiatric lit, and that would be the guidance (until Bondi, et least). The gap is there to distinguish for relationship which might fall under "statutory rape" - an age appropriate relationship between teens vs genuine paedo tendencies.
You have to go to the individual states for specifics.
https://criminal.laws.com/assault/sexual-assault/pedophilia

2025-11-13 19:38:39 UTC

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And so we arrive at the essence of the movement: a collective that knows it is lying, yet believes lying to be its most authentic act.
https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-vacancy-of-the-maga-mind

2025-11-12 16:17:31 UTC

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Yer. They're dependent on ad dollars, and companies put their ad money on shows they think will benefit their own bottom line, and fighting over "inclusivity" may not be it.
And we've seen how current people in DC are more than willing to interfere with the "free market" at the drop of a hat. Entertainment execs are rarely brave.
It's not just viewers.

2025-11-12 15:45:38 UTC

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I wouldn't put it past show biz executives to be putting the thumb on the scale in the current atmosphere but I'd guess it was never as popular as social media made it seem.

2025-11-10 15:20:47 UTC

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Cos-player at ComiCon (San Diego) 2011.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10364044@N00/albums/72157627512704502/

2025-11-10 03:17:32 UTC

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Not sure that's a hill I'd die on.
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2025-11-05 15:14:29 UTC

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or, you have cat hair floating around?

2025-11-05 15:05:17 UTC

Grapes are sour this morning.

2025-10-29 15:23:10 UTC

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I don't think I trust that quote. I think she said "pussy". She may have cleaned it up later, but I remember her saying "pussy".

2025-10-28 01:00:44 UTC

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To be fair, saw my first dedicated "Halloween store" over 20 years ago, and there are neighborhoods that have been going all out for 40 years now that get featured on the news out here.
Just a matter of time.
Always preferred making a homemade costume creatively. Went as the Ace of Spades one year.

2025-10-28 00:30:29 UTC

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It's a major party holiday in ways it didn't used to be.

2025-10-23 14:08:54 UTC

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Farah. Farah will win.

2025-10-23 00:39:02 UTC

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I'm not, but I knew it would be a dry winter.

2025-10-20 15:40:04 UTC

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Yep. I think those tweets were evidence that made them drop the case.

2025-10-11 01:24:34 UTC

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Difference between government censoring speech and the public doing it. One of the commentators seems vastly confused.

2025-10-08 23:31:31 UTC

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It's her role at CBS that's the issue.
It does not matter whether or not you like her. Her role was mandated by the government to censor CBS News.

2025-10-08 22:55:03 UTC

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She's someone the government insisted be put in place. It doesn't matter. She's a censor. She's also an opinion writer, not a news editor.

2025-10-08 01:10:05 UTC

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and yet all she had were pale insults and lies.

2025-10-08 01:04:55 UTC

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2025-10-04 19:21:34 UTC

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Love Witches. I'll add that. Addams Family is a possible, but I was always more of a Musters fan.
Never seen Hereditary. Tried Cabin in the Woods, but you're right. Bit too slasher.

2025-10-04 17:57:05 UTC

K. So my traditional "horror" movies to watch during pumpkin season.
Practical Magic and Hocus Pocus (yeah I know, but those kinda have to happen).
The Craft.
In the Company of Wolves
An American Werewolf in London
The Others
Nosferatu (the original silent)
Night of the Living Dead
Bride of Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Lost Boys
Feel free to add, but I don't watch slashers. Wicker Man isn't on the list, because that's more of an Easter film.

2025-10-02 15:37:42 UTC

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I just had my doctor insist I switch from ibuprofen to acetaminophine because my blood pressure is border line.
I've always thought "Tylenol doesn't work" so I looked up how best to take it. The 8 hour version (for my damaged knee) works.

2025-10-02 15:21:34 UTC

A Swedish study that followed 2.5 million children from before birth concluded just last year that acetaminophen is not linked to autism. On the other hand, maternal fevers are known to affect fetal development — including the developing child’s organs. Doctors stress that untreated fever poses real risks, directly contradicting Trump’s advice that mothers should “tough it out.”
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-fake-science-how-acetaminophen

2025-09-10 14:50:53 UTC

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where did you find my bio?

2025-09-10 14:49:42 UTC

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it's a busy port. you think that would be the first leak?

2025-08-22 16:54:10 UTC

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Hardly bias.
Orange Dood going after the "disloyal" absolutely reeks of corruption and authoritarianism.

2025-08-16 23:55:06 UTC

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no, you lapped it up like a hungry dog.
all else fails, blame The Other.
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2025-08-16 23:39:28 UTC

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Orange Dood doled out the bullshit and you just lapped it up, didn't you?

2025-08-16 22:33:02 UTC

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What wouldn't be happening? The lowest crime rate is decades?
Or do you mean the bit where a wannabe dictator prevent reforming the immigration laws so he will have a pretext to send troops onto US cities?

2025-08-16 21:56:05 UTC

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Poor baby MAGAts. So abused by brown people delivering your groceries and picking your strawberries....

2025-08-16 21:01:05 UTC

Normalizing fascism
"Through them, with attempts at Gen Z humor as the gateway, the administration reinforces an “us vs. them” mindset. Along with normalizing mass deportation, they also tap into Christian nationalist narratives and reach young men via callous jokes that have been recycled through the far-right online ecosystem."
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-dhs-white-house-deportations-meme/

2025-08-03 20:47:34 UTC

“The money for Medicaid was never spent in Ohio on abortion,” Whaley said. “It was spent on cancer screenings, on birth control, that’s the work that we were doing every day that was preventative.”
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/18/southwest-ohio-to-lose-two-health-clinics-over-federal-state-budget-medicaid-cuts/

2025-08-01 20:34:41 UTC

A Microsoft security research team focused on hacking threats today published a report detailing an insidious new spy technique used by Turla, which is believed to be part of the Kremlin's FSB intelligence agency. The group, which is also known as Snake, Venomous Bear, or Microsoft's own name, Secret Blizzard, appears to have used its state-sanctioned access to Russian ISPs to meddle with internet traffic and trick victims working in foreign embassies operating in Moscow into installing the group's malicious software on their PCs. That spyware then disabled encryption on those targets' machines so that data they transmitted across the internet remained unencrypted, leaving their communications and credentials like usernames and passwords entirely vulnerable to surveillance by those same ISPs—and any state surveillance agency with which they cooperate.
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fsb-turla-secret-blizzard-apolloshadow-isp-cyberespionage/

2025-07-31 03:53:13 UTC

The Trump FCC demanded an in-house stooge at the news division to alert the corporate bosses when the journalists get out of line and exhibit “bias.” How is “bias” defined? You already know that. In Trump-speak, “bias” is whenever Donald Trump doesn’t like a story.
https://terrymoran.substack.com/p/rip-cbs

2025-07-24 13:41:02 UTC

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So how many these days?

2025-07-22 17:31:52 UTC

Like Clockwork, Tulsi Gabbard played KGB Hack and implemented the "Black Guys Can't be President" rule, which she just made up.
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/obama-treason-tulsi-gabbards-horrific

2025-07-21 03:42:29 UTC

I told my passive aggressive neighbor I didn't want to grow cacti. I don't like cactus gardens, but I did agree to take her aloe plant since she'd run out of room.
Today she dropped off another succulent. Didn't bother to talk to me about it, just left it at my door with a short note.
Gonna have to yell at her again.

2025-07-20 20:08:32 UTC

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2025-07-18 17:34:02 UTC

In Liberia’s version of baseball, there are no bats and no men
https://apnews.com/article/liberia-kickball-women-sport-baseball-bcc8258a169b27559bba44bebdcbc2cb

2025-07-18 14:12:58 UTC

"It's not just tea and doilies" someone said that to Karen Bass back when she was speaker and the state was facing bankruptcy because of GOP recalcitrance. Step up; so she stepped up.
Good to see the rest of the country is finally recognizing her.
(Psst: if you worried about Newsom, progs and TRAs are pushing for Pritzker because Newsom is "transphobic". Pick your poison. Still 3 years out)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/karen-bass-los-angeles-wildfires-immigration.html
https://archive.ph/r68B6

2025-07-14 14:09:00 UTC

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The silver one would be a stretch, but the collection screams "Welcome to Thunderdome".