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A familiar name in the Hudson Valley restaurant scene is getting ready to close the doors on one of his longtime restaurants, and this time, it’s because he needs to put his health first. Continue reading…

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: A 14-year-old dog was getting their nail trimmed when the groomer, seen on security video, slammed the dog on the grooming table. Continue reading…

“Iceland has summoned the U.S. ambassador over a social media post by Donald Trump showing a U.S. flag covering the country along with Greenland, Canada, Mexico and other nations, calling it an ‘insult’ and a ‘bad joke,'” the Financial Times reports.

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

Yet another FAFO, but this is a sad one. I mean, sad because someone died who had given so many years to our country. But, an FAFO for his stupid brother, who voted for Donald Trump knowing full well how horrific his immigration policies were. Here is the story: An immigran...

Design for a flying machine, 1488 #davinci #leonardodavinci

La Violoniste, 1955 #metzinger #cubism

We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged in to sell the deal also give a pretty clear indication what kind of company we’re dealing with, and why they shouldn’t be allowed to […]

Polestar has confirmed a new concept car, the Formula 2030, and it’s the clearest look yet at where the Swedish EV brand’s design is headed.

The concept previews styling that will show up on the next Polestar 2, due in 2027, and the Polestar 7 compact SUV coming in 2028. It’s also the design centerpiece of a broader strategy the company is pitching to investors around one goal: getting to profit.

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Ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems.

“In a Virginia law school classroom, students are grappling with an event once considered unimaginable: a U.S. government debt default,” Axios reports. “This semester’s class is indicative of a nervousness that has become more widespread about America’s standing in the global financial system.”

We’re less than two months from Election Day and the broad contours of the midterm elections have come into focus. Donald Trump’s approval rating has sunk to the lowest point of his presidency. Gas prices — actually all prices — are way up. And the United States remains stuck in a costly war with Iran […]

The space economy will grow exactly as fast as we can launch rockets.

I laid out some ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump appeared to lose his grip on the last few remaining brain cells he had left to his name, after he published a barrage of three dozen unhinged, AI slop posts to his struggling Truth Social echo chamber. The topics of those posts rang...

It looks that sweet, sweet Trump merchandise money is drying up faster than Trump's rats nest wig hair. If you look around, I guarantee you have seen a huge drop in those ugly red hats, bumper stickers and lawn signs. People that based their entire identity around being on ...

There's not much to add here. Musk will issue the usual faux outrage that these characters are not nazis and that such claims are hyperbolic. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... it just might be a duck. Source: Common Dreams The far-right Alternative for ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.

The state performed just one execution in that period.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Georgia #Money #Transparency #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice

Editor’s Note: This story is the second part of a two-part series supported by the Law & Justice Journalism Project. See part one in the January/February issue. D’Mitri Davis, 36, met his younger brother Dominique Judge for the first time in 2024, when they were both in prison. The two were living at the French […]

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“When terrorists attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001, they provoked a response that, seen from today’s perspective, seems remarkable: The country immediately united across every political and ideological divide,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Within three days, the House and the Senate approved by a combined vote of 518 to 1 a sweeping measure endorsing […]