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Karoline Leavitt's Mar-A-Lago Tongue

The native tongue of the devil is lies, after all...

Did Karoline bail because she was mad about being left as a decoy to maybe die, or is she looking for a gig at Fox News?

Either way, it's a win for her -- and us.

What's on your mind today?

- Karoli

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Wood Gatherers In The Snow, 1884 #realism #vincentvangogh

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How Madonna Put Motion Into Music With Her Dance Performances (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Opinion | This important cancer prevention tool is tragically underused (wapo.st)

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Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains.

Electrek
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350-ton Longking ZL230E is the biggest, baddest battery mining rig you can buy

Zijin Longking rolled into a media ceremony in Longyan City, Fujian Province this week with the all-electric ZL230E electric mining truck – a 350-ton GVW haul truck that sits in a class of its own as the single largest-tonnage battery electric mining truck in China.

WIRED
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra Review: The Right Shape

Nearly a decade after its debut, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold finally comes into its own.

WIRED
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Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star

An object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.

WIRED
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It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for the Next Two Solar Eclipses

In 2027 and 2028, there will be two spectacular, long-duration solar eclipses. Here’s what you need to know about them.

WIRED
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Someone Finally Fixed Installing Apps on a Mac

The installation utility EasyDMG makes it so you never drag and drop an icon again.

WIRED
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TerraMow V1000 Review: Show Your Lawn Some Love

With automatic mapping, Spot Mode functionality, and smart AI cameras, the TerraMow V1000 is the complete package.

WIRED
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Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos

Observatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fleeting particles.

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Unterschätzte Kühe: Verhaltensforscher entdeckt ungeahnte Fähigkeiten (faz.net)

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NATO Jets Down Suspected Russian Drone Over Romania (wsj.com)

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Angry at the Supreme Court, liberals push a slew of plans for overhauling it (wapo.st)

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After Women in India Joined Protests, Online Harassment Followed (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Political Wire
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Democrats Target Supreme Court with New Bills

“One bill proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13. Another would cut their lifetime terms to 18 years. Others would create an enforceable ethics code and place standards on how the court rules from its relatively opaque ‘shadow docket,’” the Washington Post reports. ”The latest wave of proposals to overhaul […]

Political Wire
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Midwest Red States Are Back in Play for Democrats

Ron Brownstein: “Democrats this year are seriously contesting more races for governor and senator across the industrial Midwest and Farm Belt than at any point since the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency.” “The party still faces substantial skepticism from many heartland voters, especially on cultural issues, but frustration over the high cost of living […]

Political Wire
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Trump’s Midterm Malaise

David Smith: “He was always one step ahead. Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency as a wildly unlikely outsider in 2016 and staged an astonishing comeback to win it again in 2024. Even his foes grudgingly called him a political savant with an intuition for exploiting grievances that left so-called experts floundering.” “But now they […]

Paul Krugman
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Demography, Deportations and the Trump Stall

Demography, Deportations and the Trump Stall

Why the American jobs machine is sputtering