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Trump’s Energy Boss Wavers On Gasoline Price Path

“Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday cautiously predicted gasoline price relief is on the way, but stopped short of firm or precise pledges,” Axios reports. “Pump prices are at their highest Labor Day weekend levels on record, and the midterms loom less than two months away.”

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Trump Administration Launches Rip-Off Video Games at Arcade.gov

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A handful of Temu-style knockoffs of games like Flappy Bird, Snake (that’s the one where you round up border-crossing migrants), and, most notably, Tetris (the one where you “build a wall” to keep border-crossing migrants out) — the copyright to which is held by the notoriously litigious The Tetris Company, which tweeted:

At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.

P.S. The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’.

P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.

Whatever you think of these games, just like with the rebranding of Lake Ontario, Trump Arcade shows American voters that this administration is focused on their problems and concerns.

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@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky
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View of Tivoli, 1556 #bruegel #pieterbruegel

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Paul Klee, Laughing Gothic (Lachende Gotik), 1915 #paulklee #museumarchive

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Text • Amy Howe

Trump administration again appeals mail-in ballot dispute to the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on June 11, 2026 in Washington, DC.
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on June 11, 2026 in Washington, DC.

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Army Heroes’ Humiliating Nickname for Pete Hegseth Is Leaked.

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We got past the bump, and I’m getting stuff done. I write this stuff because I will probably forget most of the frustration. Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it’s got a lot of integrations, which you want when you’re using, but hard when you’re getting it all to work the […]

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Today’s song: So into you.

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Today's song: So into you.

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We got past the bump, and I'm getting stuff done. I write this stuff because I will probably forget most of the frustration. Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it's got a lot of integrations, which you want when you're using, but hard when you're getting it all to work the first time. And this port is very much like getting it work that way. But Claude does some things poorly and others spectacularly. It can play the role of a CPU and run the code and tell you where it will fail. Helpful when you don;t have a working debugger to step through the code and see exactly how and why it failed where it did. Before debuggers it was either all or nothing.

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Zheng Qinwen Survived A Near Death Experience At The U.S. Open

Zheng Qinwen Survived A Near Death Experience At The U.S. Open
Given that tennis is effectively professionalized, legalized psychological torture, a choke and an epic comeback often go hand-in-hand. Take, say, when Zheng Qinwen faced Madison Keys at the U.S. Open on Saturday. Zheng won a match in which she was down 6-1, 6(3)-7, 5-1 and ...

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A Loss Would Have Been Less Embarrassing Than Michigan’s Win Over Western Michigan

A Loss Would Have Been Less Embarrassing Than Michigan’s Win Over Western Michigan
Even before it slipped into janky comedy in its dying moments, you wouldn't necessarily say that Michigan's season opener against Western Michigan on Saturday was "a good football game." But also just making such an assessment would be missing the point to an extent. It was ...

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Treasury Secretary Compares Canada To A 'Little Yippy Dog'

Could this clown be any more condescending? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was laughing at Canada's military capabilities last week during an interview on CNBC, and this Saturday during an interview with Trump's daughter-in-law on Fox, he compared the country to a "little...

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Seriously, every developer who builds on AT Proto should also have two-way RSS support. It's so much simpler, and it leads in and out of all the web software built around RSS, and we could use some fresh blood, and as popular as ATP is, RSS is considerable in size too. Let's all work together.

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I think I would really like the foldable iPhone. But at over $2k, I can’t justify blowing that much money on a phone. It would be a crazy business expense when I could put that money back into Micro.blog hosting or paying people. Other folks may have different priorities, and that’s fine! 💰

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It’s unclear what happened to the mountain lion in San Francisco’s Panhandle

The animal was under watch by wildlife wardens Saturday night before the search went quiet — unlike January’s Pacific Heights cougar, which was captured within a day.

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Gurman on Schiller’s Departure and Ternus’s Goals for the App Store

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Mark Gurman, in his weekend Power On column at Bloomberg (gift link): The Schiller exit is a bit more notable. Unlike Maestri, he still had a real job: The veteran executive ran the App Store and Apple Events. The App Store portion alone is no joke. It generates an estim...

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How Billions in Iranian Money Passes Through U.S. Banks

“As the Trump administration tightens its economic squeeze on Iran, it faces a surprising weak link in its campaign to cut off the regime from the global financial system: America’s own banks,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Billions of dollars of Iranian funds are flowing through clearing accounts at American banks each year, Western officials […]

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Giorgio de Chirico @artistdechirico #dechirico #artontwitter

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Dickover of the Week: Slashdot Put One in Their RSS Feed

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How does this even happen? Who is this for? What possible purpose could by served by injecting a “We value your privacy” dickover into an RSS feed via iframes in the entry bodies?

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