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Photo by Stacie Joy  With the federal government no longer producing new pennies — the U.S. Mint struck its final batch in November — retailers continue to adjust. Shop Fair on Avenue C at Fourth Street has had posted notices explaining that cash totals will be rounde...

“House Democrats are demanding a reckoning after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent over $500,000 backing a candidate in Arizona who is on track to lose her primary,” Axios reports. “This is the third time in 2026 the House Democratic campaign arm has tried and failed to intervene in a party primary, leading some lawmakers […]

“The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “In the past week, special-operations forces have deployed to the region from their U.S. bases, […]

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The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited representatives from more than 60 countries to Washington to hear an argument that many of them appear not to believe: that a transnational far-left terrorist movement called antifa threatens the democratic world. At the event, allies were asked to mobilize against that enemy despite nations like the Netherlands and Germany politely noting to their host that they cannot find evidence of any such group.

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“Oil prices rose Wednesday after President Donald Trump threatened again to bomb Iranian bridges and power plants and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tehran was not serious about reaching a deal to end the fighting,” CNBC reports.

Study of water, 1513 #leonardodavinci #highrenaissance

Let's cut the act. Republicans don't actually care about what's happening inside Delaney Hall. People are dying in our custody. If they were serious about oversight, we'd be holding real hearings on the deadly crisis this administration has created — and how we're going to fix it.

“President Trump on Wednesday took aim at Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and what he called ‘communist’ Democrats during his speech in the Peach State, calling him ‘terrible’ and likening him to the comedic character Pee-Wee Herman,” NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “Jon Ossoff and the Democrat communists want to let the Marxists into power, bankrupt your […]

Fox News Poll: “President Donald Trump’s job approval remains near a record low, more Democrats are motivated to vote, Republicans join Democrats and independents in rating the economy negatively, and 4 in 10 voters want ‘dramatic’ or ‘revolutionary’ change.” “Plus, more view the GOP as tied to elites than the Democratic Party.”

Freshly sworn-in Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) made her loyalty to President Trump and the rest of the MAGA movement...

John C. Dvorak dies at 80.

A newly graduated police officer has resigned from his position in the Hudson Valley after causing a crash. We've got footage from the crash. Continue reading…

Republicans just approved a budget blueprint that does far more than fund the war with Iran. Buried inside the $95 billion package is $10 billion to implement new nationwide voting restrictions demanded by Trump.

Plus outrageous civic firings, retracted Strib articles, and downtown Duluth scene reports in today's Flyover news roundup.

Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The Clapper became a viral sensation. When I was a kid, we didn’t have a Clapper, no one I knew had one, and I couldn’t understand why every single household didn’t have one of these magical devices.

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“A good day for House Republicans — finally,” Punchbowl News reports. ”Speaker Mike Johnson’s narrowly divided House GOP Conference eked out victories Wednesday night on three major bills: the gigantic FY2027 defense authorization package, a quasi-ban on stock trading for members of Congress and a budget resolution that will allow Republicans to pursue a third […]

A new endpoint, /uploadmedia, accepts an image from a signed-in user -- up to 2MB, sent base64-encoded in the request body with the content type as a parameter -- stores it in a new media table in the database, and answers with the address it will be served from: /media/1, /m...

Copy a screenshot or an image file to the clipboard, click into the composer, paste: a small "Uploading image..." note appears at the cursor and a moment later the picture takes its place, sized to fit the column. Publish it and the image is part of the post, served from your...