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Rahm Emanuel says Democrats focus too much on bathrooms. He's wrong about which party is obsessed...and about everything else. | |
Submitted at 07-14-2025, 03:49 PM by sleeppoor | |
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In 1995, Sega rushed the Saturn to market, blindsiding retailers and fans. The mishandled launch opened the door for Sony's PlayStation and marked the beginning of the end for Sega's console business. | |
Submitted at 07-14-2025, 03:46 PM by sleeppoor | |
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.” | |
Submitted at 07-14-2025, 03:40 PM by sleeppoor | |
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To refer to X.com as a dumpster fire would be to disrespect dumpster fires. | |
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The final piece of the puzzle was discovering that Neanderthals had a smaller population than researchers previously thought. | |
Submitted at 07-13-2025, 04:15 PM by Nibbles | |
It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood | |
Submitted at 07-13-2025, 02:56 PM by B. Weed | |
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic | |
Submitted at 07-13-2025, 02:17 AM by sleeppoor | |
Order comes after California raids resulted in clashes with protesters and a shooting outside a Texas detention center | |
Submitted at 07-12-2025, 10:49 PM by B. Weed | |
The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything … | |
Submitted at 07-12-2025, 08:24 AM by B. Weed | |
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came. | |
Submitted at 07-12-2025, 03:33 AM by sleeppoor | |
It’s a familiar cycle. Texas bears witness to a terrible tragedy, and citizens soon raise questions. Could the loss of life have been prevented or mitigated? Who, if anyone, bears responsibility? Those in power respond with “Now’s not the time” or point fingers at other authority figures. And then little is done. Uvalde. The West fertilizer explosion. The 2021 winter freeze. Hurricane Beryl. Texas politicians have a knack for shifting blame and limiting their exposure to accountability.
And so the cycle begins again with the horrific flooding in the Hill Country, where at least 119 people have died, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic. Another 173 remain missing. State officials have blamed the National Weather Service for botched forecasting. The Trump administration is defending the DOGE cuts that decimated the weather service. Kerr County officials, meanwhile, are arguing, essentially, that the flooding was merely an act of God, and the loss of life couldn’t possibly have been mitigated. (Some social media users, helpful as always, are overdosing on conspiracies about cloud seeding and Egyptian gods.)
On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott lashed out when asked a question about who bears responsibility. “Who’s to blame? Know this: That’s the word choice of losers.” He then made a lengthy football analogy. Losing teams look for culprits, he said, while championship programs respond to mistakes by saying, “We got this. We’re going to make sure that we go score again, that we’re going to win this game.” | |
Submitted at 07-12-2025, 03:31 AM by sleeppoor | |
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent appeared in a Los Angeles County courtroom Friday to face felony charges for assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest while off-duty and armed with a department-issued handgun.
Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, faces four felony and three misdemeanor charges related to the incident, which happened Monday at Shoreline Village.
According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Hodgson was drunk inside a restaurant when he followed a woman into the women’s restroom. The woman alerted restaurant management and reported that Hodgson’s firearm and magazine were visible.
He fled the restaurant shortly after and was confronted by a security guard who saw the federal agent carrying his magazine is his hand while his gun was tucked into his waistband. That security guard asked him repeatedly to leave, the D.A.’s Office says. | |
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Protesters blocked the roads in and out of one of the farms, and at one point federal agents drove their vehicles through the fields. | |
Submitted at 07-11-2025, 06:35 PM by sleeppoor | |
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death. | |
Submitted at 07-11-2025, 05:13 PM by sleeppoor | |
Rather than a clever survival tactic, tonic immobility might just be ‘evolutionary baggage’. | |
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Congressmember Salud Carbajal showed up to see firsthand the ICE raid on the Carpinteria Glass House cannabis greenhouse owned by Santa Barbara county grower Graham Farrar. In an interview afterward, Carbajal said there were 45 to 50 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Homeland Security agents dressed up in military-style scrubs and armed with military-style rifles and weapons. He saw no members of the National Guard, though it was a chaotic scene. A former Marine himself, Carbajal scoffed, “They looked like they were having fun dressing up like they were in the military. I’m guessing less than half of them had ever served.”
“I wanted to find out what was going on,” Carbajal explained to the Independent. When he told them he was a member of Congress, “no one was interested,” he said. Then he sought to break through the perimeter established by the ICE agents to “find someone who was in charge,” but was pushed back. He recounted how he sought to break through more than once but was repeatedly pushed back.
“No one told me anything,” he said, and “nobody wanted to talk to me.” He asked multiple times to speak to whoever was in charge, but no one answered him. Instead, one man from ICE, Luis Alani, did hand him a business card with the phone number of a “public information strategist” he could call. Calls placed by the Independent to the number Carbajal was given have not been returned.
“It was overkill and disproportionate,” Carbajal emphasized repeatedly during this interview. “They’re militarizing our streets. They’re inciting fear, chaos, and trauma.”
When asked how the show of force affected him personally, Carbajal replied, “It’s outrageous. It angers me. It disappoints me as an American. And they’re violating the rights of U.S. citizens. If you’re brown, you’re going to have your civil rights violated.” | |
Submitted at 07-11-2025, 03:29 AM by sleeppoor | |

Rahm Emanuel says Democrats focus too much on bathrooms. He's wrong about which party is obsessed...and about everything else.
In 1995, Sega rushed the Saturn to market, blindsiding retailers and fans. The mishandled launch opened the door for Sony's PlayStation and marked the beginning of the end for Sega's console business.
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
To refer to X.com as a dumpster fire would be to disrespect dumpster fires.
The final piece of the puzzle was discovering that Neanderthals had a smaller population than researchers previously thought.
It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic
Order comes after California raids resulted in clashes with protesters and a shooting outside a Texas detention center
The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:
On July 4, the Guadalupe ripped our home from its pillars, pulling my family into its waters and into the night. Then morning came.
It’s a familiar cycle. Texas bears witness to a terrible tragedy, and citizens soon raise questions. Could the loss of life have been prevented or mitigated? Who, if anyone, bears responsibility? Those in power respond with “Now’s not the time” or point fingers at other authority figures. And then little is done. Uvalde. The West fertilizer explosion. The 2021 winter freeze. Hurricane Beryl. Texas politicians have a knack for shifting blame and limiting their exposure to accountability.
And so the cycle begins again with the horrific flooding in the Hill Country, where at least 119 people have died, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic. Another 173 remain missing. State officials have blamed the National Weather Service for botched forecasting. The Trump administration is defending the DOGE cuts that decimated the weather service. Kerr County officials, meanwhile, are arguing, essentially, that the flooding was merely an act of God, and the loss of life couldn’t possibly have been mitigated. (Some social media users, helpful as always, are overdosing on conspiracies about cloud seeding and Egyptian gods.)
On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott lashed out when asked a question about who bears responsibility. “Who’s to blame? Know this: That’s the word choice of losers.” He then made a lengthy football analogy. Losing teams look for culprits, he said, while championship programs respond to mistakes by saying, “We got this. We’re going to make sure that we go score again, that we’re going to win this game.”
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent appeared in a Los Angeles County courtroom Friday to face felony charges for assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest while off-duty and armed with a department-issued handgun.
Isaiah Anthony Hodgson, 29, faces four felony and three misdemeanor charges related to the incident, which happened Monday at Shoreline Village.
According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Hodgson was drunk inside a restaurant when he followed a woman into the women’s restroom. The woman alerted restaurant management and reported that Hodgson’s firearm and magazine were visible.
He fled the restaurant shortly after and was confronted by a security guard who saw the federal agent carrying his magazine is his hand while his gun was tucked into his waistband. That security guard asked him repeatedly to leave, the D.A.’s Office says.
Protesters blocked the roads in and out of one of the farms, and at one point federal agents drove their vehicles through the fields.
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.
Rather than a clever survival tactic, tonic immobility might just be ‘evolutionary baggage’.
Congressmember Salud Carbajal showed up to see firsthand the ICE raid on the Carpinteria Glass House cannabis greenhouse owned by Santa Barbara county grower Graham Farrar. In an interview afterward, Carbajal said there were 45 to 50 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Homeland Security agents dressed up in military-style scrubs and armed with military-style rifles and weapons. He saw no members of the National Guard, though it was a chaotic scene. A former Marine himself, Carbajal scoffed, “They looked like they were having fun dressing up like they were in the military. I’m guessing less than half of them had ever served.”
“I wanted to find out what was going on,” Carbajal explained to the Independent. When he told them he was a member of Congress, “no one was interested,” he said. Then he sought to break through the perimeter established by the ICE agents to “find someone who was in charge,” but was pushed back. He recounted how he sought to break through more than once but was repeatedly pushed back.
“No one told me anything,” he said, and “nobody wanted to talk to me.” He asked multiple times to speak to whoever was in charge, but no one answered him. Instead, one man from ICE, Luis Alani, did hand him a business card with the phone number of a “public information strategist” he could call. Calls placed by the Independent to the number Carbajal was given have not been returned.
“It was overkill and disproportionate,” Carbajal emphasized repeatedly during this interview. “They’re militarizing our streets. They’re inciting fear, chaos, and trauma.”
When asked how the show of force affected him personally, Carbajal replied, “It’s outrageous. It angers me. It disappoints me as an American. And they’re violating the rights of U.S. citizens. If you’re brown, you’re going to have your civil rights violated.”