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John Singer Sargent, Peacocks, 1884–86 #americanart #themet

And loved them all Among Money Inc.'s wealthiest college towns, I've lived in numbers 2, 3, 4, 10, 13*, and 20. I've also had good hang times in 5, 9, and 15. Oddly, I've never been to #1, and I grew up in both North and South Jersey. *Same as 2, really.

"The New Jersey Department of Corrections inmate handbook claims the department is dedicated to promoting bonds with loved ones. But enforcing a policy that forbids me from comforting my son while tears stream down his face contradicts that claim."
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Antitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact.

The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.

The snipers had been shooting for nearly 10 minutes before someone called 911.

Fuck it.

The president’s weight gain is of national concern, doctors warn.

A close reading of two disappointing openings

A prolonged and dangerous heat wave is set to grip parts of the Southern United States this week, as forecasters warned that temperatures are expected to soar into triple digits, with daily records at risk of being broken.

Immigration agents appeared to comply with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals — and send the wrong person to Iran.

Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.

Americans' support for AI data centers has continued to collapse through the summer, a new Heatmap Pro poll shows.

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The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending.

Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

Sunday, August 23, 2026 Today's development version of Frontier is buggy and the kernel developer (Claude) keeps breaking the most basic verbs. You spin your wheels and wish you could get them to just get keep it together. I remember this from the work that led up to Fronti...

Vasily Kandinsky, Small Worlds XII (Kleine Welten XII) from Smalls Worlds (Kleine Welten), 1922 #vasilykandinsky #museumofmodernart

Threatening Weather, 1929 #surrealism #magritte

This video is from a group called Fail Army.

"FailArmy is the world’s number one source for epic fail videos and hilarious compilations."

People do the dumbest shit.

Open thread.

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