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Tim Scott: Trump's legacy is on the midterm ballot. Vote as if he were on the ballot.

Tim Scott: I want to make sure the next generation of young people can grow up like I did. Maybe in poverty.

3 top Mike Collins staffers have been charged with crimes, including cruelty to children, sexual battery, family violence simple battery, failure to report child abuse, and fraud.

An inspection report commissioned by the contractor Donald Trump chose to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool last summer found that the blue coating applied to the bottom “failed in at least 85 places because of errors in the renovation,” as The Washington Post s...

Remembrance of Poohs past.

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Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel says Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites -- but their only real competition is each other. “Ordinarily, we have entrusted the future of our civilizations to people we elect to office,” Tyrangiel tells Terry Gross. “We now have folks with a tremendous amount of power over our future, particularly if you view the future as being partially in space, and we have to reckon with it.”


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Ross Douthat has a fantasy novel for young-adult readers: The Falcon's Children, the first in what reportedly will be a trilogy from the respectability-conservatism peddler, who left his sinecure as a columnist at the New York Times earlier this year so that he could lower television's aggregate charisma level by 944 percent as a correspondent for Bari Weiss's 60 Minutes. That is virtually all I will ever know about The Falcon's Children, and I beseech you, tender reader, to follow my example. I am here today to talk about fantasy maps.

Here, via Douthat's Substack (where he first published at least some of the text of The Falcon's Children), is the hand-drawn map of his fantasy world:

Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.

Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use. The update, set to go into effect on October 30, will include news publishers with business accounts. These accounts allow companies or public figures to manage Facebook pages,...

Mississippi Today had a question. Did the stories around its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting affect the way those investigations were received? It’s the kind of question local newsrooms can’t easily test on their own. But researchers from Local NExT Lab at Syracuse University could. In a national survey, 1,768 adults were shown the same investigation...

Ford’s next electric pickup will start at around $30,000 when it goes on sale in early 2027. As its official debut draws closer, a disguised Fathom prototype popped up outside of Ford’s World Headquarters.

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Our Thursday Green Deals this week has a nice mix of deals across EVs, power stations, security systems, and tools, starting with Velotric’s FREE $550 extra battery bundle on the Nomad 2 Off-Road e-bike at $1,999 that gives it up to 130 miles of travel range. Alongside the ...

OpenAI is retiring four GPT-4 models from its API on January 14, 2027. The deprecation notice the company sent developers

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Children in a Garden at Eragny, 1897 #impressionism #camillepissarro

Between Trump's corrupt flunkies trying to take out rival vultures and other corrupt flunkies trying to get ahead of the midterms scapegoating, we're getting an unprecedented flood of infighting among a lot of contemptible people.

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Ultrawealthy donors have spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to convince voters to keep their taxes low via the ballot this November.

Trump: Maybe we should play a little music so you don't have to talk to each other. Some of you don't like each other. Some of you are very at very uncomfortable tables.

Trump: Anybody that murders a firefighter going up a ladder, and they shoot them — death penalty

It feels like just yesterday we were on Air Force One together, trying to save this country from itself. And if there’s one thing I know about you, you always show up for the people — it’s in your DNA. Blessed to call you my friend and big brother.

Happy birthday, Governor Wes Moore!

Hydras, the tiny freshwater invertebrates that resemble tentacular palm trees, are often considered immortal. They fasten themselves to rocks with their sticky foot, stretch out their tube-shaped body, and unfurl the stinging tentacles that halo their mouth to catch prey tha...