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Gritty HBO series is a beacon for what's possible when one is allowed to get creative with the tropes.

A primer on the joys and pains of building your own head-mounted display.

Trump started his morning lashing out at federal Judge Ana Reyes, labeling her a “crazed lunatic” and questioning her sanity. He then announced that work would begin “IMMEDIATELY.”

Ricardo Gonzalez, a 40-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding his e-bike in Long Beach, California, when ICE agents struck him with an unmarked vehicle and tased him twice. ICE thought he was someone else.

North Carolina deserves justices who are dedicated to upholding the law. That's why I'm proud to support @anitaearls.bsky.social in her campaign for reelection. Thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to knock on doors in support of Anita and Democrats up and down the ballot.

No one believes America’s economy is fine just the way it is … except for Washington Republicans. It’s time to vote them out.

Last week, when the Jacksonville Jaguars played the Philadelphia Eagles in London U.K., I devised a typically great "bit." My idea was to write a piece casting Philadelphians as clumsy oafs, juxtaposed with Jacksonvilleans, who would be portrayed as urbane sophisticates. The...

It's funny, in hindsight, that the first two seasons of Jim Harbaugh's Chargers tenure were considered disappointments. The team won 11 games in each of those seasons and made the playoffs, but two dispiriting losses in the wild-card round produced a feeling that the Charger...

The Iran War Has Changed the World Forever.

More than 60 undercover drug buys helped build a federal case against eight people accused of running an open-air crack market. Continue reading…

7 endangered red wolves have a new home in the Hudson Valley! Here's where the rare animals are living and how this New York conservation center is helping protect their future. Continue reading…

Ohio Congressman Mike Turner told CBS' Face The Nation that voters do not care about Republican corruption even though poll after pool shows the country is very upset that Trump, his family, and friends are enriching themselves by using the White House and his bully pulpit....

Trump’s new executive order excludes Russia from major sanctions in a law Congress passed in September. The president's October 16 executive order is a betrayal of Ukraine, and his financial gift to Russia came within days of an “outage” of Elon Musk’s Starshield military s...

NEW: In Texas, Ken Paxton successfully defended a near-total abortion ban before Roe v. Wade was struck down, and he blocked federal guidance for emergency abortion care.

His allies see an opening to further restrict abortion if his Senate bid is successful.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-texas-abortion-senate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KenPaxton #Texas #Law #Senate #Election #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics

NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DHS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Trump #USPolitics #Cybersecurity

Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s board in February.

That’s one of several details in the filing that line up with a Tesla-SpaceX merger. There’s a three-item ballot, an auto-voting program that kicks in for the next vote, and Musk pay terms that pay out on a deal price alone.

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Buying an e-bike without a battery might sound a little like buying a car without a motor. But that’s exactly what Minnesota-based e-bike company Monarc is now offering – and there’s actually a pretty good reason for it.

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The plug-in hybrid BYD Denza B8 didn’t set the sales charts on fire, but its high-tech suspension promised a smooth ride across just about any terrain, adjusting damping and ride height while independently controlling hydraulic pressure at each wheel. It’s a neat trick, but one driver has figured out a whole new use for it: avoiding traffic boots.

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