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Trump backtracks after telling Todd Blanche to prosecute Mary Peltola:

"But, uh, he's gonna make his own decision. I'm not in charge"

Trump is filled with rage after being protested 3 times at his Florida rally:

"Shut up! Shut up, dope. Loser!"

Des Bishop lived in Fresh Meadows, Queens, before moving to Ireland.

I'd never heard of him before, but I stumbled upon this and laughed, since I'm Italian and have many Irish friends in Queens.

Open thread.

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Updated the now built-in SocialSpec plug-in to fall back to using your “about me” text if you don’t have an about page at /about. You can upgrade to the latest version on the Plug-ins page.

Trump is interrupted by a protester minutes into his Florida rally

Dark skies to watch Orion rise. The sky displayed interesting air glow that was detectable to the naked eye, though not as prominent as the camera captures it. Got off the beaten track, where the bears are ready to call it a season, the elk are moving down and the snow will soon take over […]

The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.

In 2025, New York utilized $2.27 billion in 'historic rehabilitation tax credits' that helped to restore and improve buildings across the state. Continue reading…

The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.

Henri Matisse, Portrait of E. Poe (plate, page 133) from Poésies (Poems), 1932 #museumofmodernart #museumarchive

On my early morning walk at a nearby park a couple of days ago I came upon this great blue heron “fishing”. While I stopped and watched, he pivoted into this position…

The Chamber of Progress is pushing Democrats to investigate Trump — but not the Big Tech companies that bankrolled and benefited from his presidency.

This week we had our CoSocial AGM and it came off just fine. I regularly tell the world that Mastodon is the only good choice for social media going forward, and I think it’s worth a few extra words on why the CoSocial model is interesting, and what it teaches

Back in March, one month after Trump employed a much larger U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran on February 28, 2026, Sen. Ted Cruz gave a prediction that is coming true.

Trump first attacked Iran in June of 2025, but continued the conflict in 2026.

"I don't believe that what is happening in Iran will be front and center on November," Sen. Cruz said. "If it extends that long, we've done something wildly wrong."

Did Cruz believe the words that came out of Demented Donald's mouth when he bragged over and over again that the Iran war was just about over, and that they've been decimated? Trump personally briefed Cruz before the February attacks took place.

Cancun Cruz is eating his words now.

There’s a lot wrong with AI. But bad things happen when we try to use copyright law to fix it. Which is what we just told the Southern District of New York, where OpenAI and Microsoft are defending themselves in several cases alleging that their training violated the copyrights of the works the AI models […]

USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.

"For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."

Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.