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The Valkyries Believe In Second Chances

The Valkyries Believe In Second Chances
ATLANTA — The Golden State Valkyries’ most valuable player on Saturday afternoon finished with just four points, though by the standards of Kiah Stokes, that qualifies as a scoring outburst. A player with a zero-points-on-zero-field-goal-attempts-in-30-minutes performan...

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Scapegoat Season Has Arrived For College Football

Scapegoat Season Has Arrived For College Football
There are only three undefeated teams left in the top (as in moneyed) level of college football, which suggests that the word "elite" is being replaced by "last one standing." The middle shall hold because everyone is heading for it. This forms a tight braid with the other ...

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With Foursquare acquired by private equity, Swarm probably isn’t long for this world, so I’m getting serious about adding location check-ins to our iOS app Sunlit. The Micropub APIs have been there forever. First pass will use Apple Maps, then a custom places db later.

A mobile app interface shows a list of previously visited places on the left and a new check-in screen searching for Whataburger locations in Austin, TX on the right.

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Join Us On Election Night

We’ll be sharing more details with you over the course of the next week. But I wanted to let you...

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The 49ers’ first loss: Brutal turnovers and bad penalties cost San Francisco in Atlanta

Kyle Shanahan’s team fell to 6-1 with a 29-20 defeat to the Falcons on Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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Trump's closing message: Remember when I started the war on preserving Christmas? Remember that? The stores were afraid to put up Christmas trees

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Number 8, (detail), 1949 #jacksonpollock #americanart

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Trump: Abdul El-Sayed is a nasty guy. He's worse than I am.

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Trump: Abdul El-Sayed would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector!

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Trump fearmongers: I'm here to keep a jihadist muslim brotherhood member from becoming a senator

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Trump: I'm polling at 99% in Israel

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Trump is interrupted by a protester: "Just get him out of here"

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Trump: We have to be careful with the cheating vote counters. Will you please watch it, fellas?

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A very hoarse Trump opens his rally by comparing crowd sizes:

"My competitor was here yesterday and he didn't have a crowd like this"

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Johnson Accuses The Media Of Being 'On The Other Team'

During an interview on this weekend's Fox News Sunday, after bragging about all of the money he's raised for his party and how they've supposedly delivered on all of their promises (tax cuts, spending cuts, deregulation) and lying about the economy they inherited from Biden...

Letters from an American
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A New Approach

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Techdirt
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about the Canadian YouTuber who was visited by the cops after building a Flock-like camera to track cop cars: If the cops are doing nothing wrong, then they have nothing to hide. In second place, it’s a comment about Malcolm Gladwell’s […]

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'Come On, Man!': Blanche Rages At Dana Bash For Mentioning January 6th

Trump's corrupt Attorney General didn't take too kindly to CNN's Dana Bash bringing up January 6th while asking him about their latest attempt to pre-steal the Alaska Senate race. As we discussed here, the DOJ lawsuit filed this past week seeks to block the certification o...

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Went to church for the one-year memorial service for my mom this morning. The last year has been a blur. So much has happened, yet it also feels like almost no time has passed.

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XCMG debuts new, fully autonomous electric terminal tractor [video]

The new XCMG SDA411 concept terminal truck is fully electric, has no cabin, and an L4 autonomous tech stack that’s purpose-built for unmanned logistics – and, if XCMG get their way, it looks like the future of drayage truck operations.

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