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Co-host of America’s pre-eminent podcast about Chester A. Arthur.
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TopatoCo
about 19 hours ago
These Fresno Nightcrawler legs were made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do, one of these days these Fresno Nightcrawler legs are gonna walk all over YOU 🫵 👖
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Jay Willis
about 12 hours ago
Next time you hear about a sportsbook’s commitment to responsible gaming I encourage you to remember FanDuel sending a user who was down $1.5 MILLION a fun little thank-you clip of Bryce Harper wishing the guy an “extra special Thanksgiving.”
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FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/bryce-harper-fanduel-vip-video-gambling-addiction-20260709.html
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling
about 17 hours ago
We are on the verge of revolutions in solar energy and in mRNA medical research, but the USA won't participate in them because our leaders are retrograde morons who would rather see people burn and die than change.
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦
about 15 hours ago
Really interesting approach to looking at the regulation preventing plug in solar - compare the barriers to level of regulation for gas and diesel generators
cleanenergy.org/resource/plu...
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White Paper: Disproportionate Regulation of Residential Plug-in Solar - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
https://cleanenergy.org/resource/plug-in-solar-white-paper/
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Micah
about 17 hours ago
the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable
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Tina Vasquez
about 16 hours ago
I have a theory that when an immigration agency kills someone or engages in other forms of public state violence, DHS goes on a very transparent media blitz, ramping up its claims against so-called sanctuary cities and circulating more of its "worst of the worst" allegations against immigrants.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 21 hours ago
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extravirgin
about 23 hours ago
Weird that it happened twice, though!
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jamelle
1 day ago
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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David Roberts
2 days ago
There's a revolution happening in urban transportation across the world. It's not EVs, not even autonomous EVs. It's got nothing to do with AI. No tech mogul is getting rich off it. Instead, the revolution is centered on an older, simpler technology: bicycles.
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/09/forget-evs-cycling-is-revolutionising-transport
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Budd
2 days ago
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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Virginia Scharff
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David Roberts
3 days ago
"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."
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Renewables remain cheapest new power option, and avoided $US480bn in fossil fuel costs in 2025
Renewables described as not only the cheapest new power source around the world, but also a “prime geopolitical shock absorber” in new report.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-remain-cheapest-new-power-option-and-avoided-us480bn-in-fossil-fuel-costs-in-2025/
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YouGov America
3 days ago
NEW Economist/YouGov Jul 3-6 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump U.S. adult citizens 35% | 61% (-25) Last week 38% | 58% (-20) Start of term 49% | 43% (+6) Dem 3% | 96% Ind 21% | 71% Rep 83% | 15% 18-29: 25% | 67% 65+: 40% | 56%
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Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming For Online Speech
Last week marks four years since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for people seeking abortion care. Anniversaries are a moment to tak…
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/07/four-years-after-dobbs-anti-abortion-lawmakers-keep-coming-for-online-speech/
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Lord Businessman II
3 days ago
Its silly that we still talk about the ceasefire
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Radley Balko
3 days ago
They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.
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Musk’s USAIDead - Digby's Hullabaloo
Elon Musk's legacy: Hundreds of thousands of dead children Lawrence O'Donnell Monday night covered the fallout from Elon Musk's destruction last year of USAID. Part of the story came in an online exch...
https://digbysblog.net/2026/07/07/musks-usaidead/
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Joel
3 days ago
Every president since the assassination of Lincoln has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover
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Boing Boing
3 days ago
China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.
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China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing…
https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html
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Jen Bendery
4 days ago
Just asked Mitch McConnnell's office for any updates on his health, including whether he's even conscious right now. He reportedly had a heart attack on June 14th and was discovered unconscious at his house. A McConnell spokesperson shared the same comment they put out on July 2, w/ no details.
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Bill Corbett
5 days ago
Just talked to Mitch McConnell and he confirmed that he is dead. He said move on, I am not coming back, I’m very dead, more dead than most people get.
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Kashana
4 days ago
Their next statement: “whether he’s alive or dead, Senator McConnell looks forward to continuing his efforts to kill Americans”
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Jen Bendery
4 days ago
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Mitch McConnell's Office Won't Confirm If He's Conscious
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a4b6bc0e4b05c9d0338a117/liveblog_6a4bcfdce4b0c806bbeed2f9
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Attorney at Leisure
4 days ago
No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter
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Bill Krause👊❄️👍
4 days ago
One of the things that really brought a smile to my elderly mother-in-law was hearing what her visitor counts were to her quilting website. Now she's in hospice, so I'm going to try to drive some visitation numbers up
quiltsbymarlene.com
This is just a fraction of her 50 years of quilting.
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The Urbanist
5 days ago
NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Why Spokane Needs to Keep Its Transit Momentum By Holden Ringer via
@theurbanist.org
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Op-Ed: Why Spokane Needs to Keep Its Transit Momentum
Spokane County voters have an opportunity to fund transit service with a 0.2% sales tax renewal on their August 4th ballot. Here's how you can help put the measure over the top.
https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-spokane-transit/
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Charles Johnson
4 days ago
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Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
No Better Place
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Superchunk - Crossed Wires
YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube
https://youtu.be/bkUeYLHiz58?is=3Q3vrzP4BygHtIPh
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Rob
5 days ago
5 July 1852 (174 years ago): Abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York.
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utopia deferred
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babe wake up the ailing pedophile antichrist president is manic again
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[Christopher M. Federico]
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Mitch Landrieu
6 days ago
On America’s 250th birthday, we should celebrate its promise. That promise was written 250 years ago, in words so radical that kings trembled at the sound of them-- life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. One nation. Liberty and justice for all, not just some. Happy Fourth of July.
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Stephen Wolf
8 days ago
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!
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Obama Wins The Presidency Countdown in Grant Park 11/04/2008
YouTube video by Joshua Mellin
https://youtu.be/SxuGHGqVZZ4?is=eVpwsq4xFCwX98Yw
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Will Bunch
8 days ago
Donald Trump doesn't want you to read this A criminal president saw opportunity in the celebration of America's 250th birthday -- a distraction from the only story that matters: his family's more than $2 billion grift, cashing in on the presidency My July 4 column
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The America-turns-250 column Donald Trump doesn’t want me to write | Will Bunch
Americans have been showing our best selves as the nation turns 250, but grifter Trump sees this as a distraction to steal.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-2-billion-coins-crypto-20260702.html
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Bill Scher
7 days ago
They said you couldn’t write a post that absolutely no human would care about or algorithm would notice and I said you don’t know who you’re dealing with
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Julian Sanchez
7 days ago
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
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Pat Sobkowski
9 days ago
Right-wingers are waging war on Reconstruction. Yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Barbara was a narrow 5-4 victory, but the reactionaries are not going to stop. Shame on some people for serving as foot soldiers for MAGA. My essay for
@liberalcurrents.com
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www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...
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The War on Reconstruction
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is just one battle in the right's larger war on the Second Founding.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-reconstruction/
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Micah
8 days ago
pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me
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David Roberts
8 days ago
This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.
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Gabe Ortíz
8 days ago
“Where is Mitch McConnell? The 84-year-old Senate behemoth was hospitalized on June 14, and nobody knows what's happening.” "McConnell's staff has not answered questions about why the seven-term senator was admitted and whether he remains in the hospital.”
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Where Is Mitch McConnell? The 84-Year-Old Senator Was Hospitalized on June 14, and Nobody Knows What's Happening
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, 84, was hospitalized on June 14 and his office has offered few details on his condition, even as new reports suggest he was admitted for suffering a potential heart atta...
https://people.com/where-is-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalization-mystery-12011361
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Liam Hogan
8 days ago
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Covering Climate Now
8 days ago
The US's largest wind farm, capable of powering more than a million homes, came online this month in New Mexico. The industry is facing many challenges — ranging from the Trump administration’s attack on renewable energies to inflation to local opposition. By Mark Chediak for Bloomberg Green:
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Biggest US Wind Farm Arrives as Trump Policies Hit Industry
The pace of onshore turbine installations is set to slow until 2030 as the renewables sector faces a myriad of headwinds.
https://buff.ly/uB1EGSd
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Jon Cooper
8 days ago
Susan Collins has racked up tens of thousands in sponsored luxury travel ahead of her brutal battle for reelection in November. Collins took five luxury vacations paid for by private special interests during her fifth term in the Senate, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Beast.
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Vulnerable GOP Senator Rocked by Lavish Travel Revelations
Susan Collins has been gifted several luxury vacations, totaling tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vulnerable-gop-maine-senator-susan-collins-rocked-by-lavish-travel-revelations/
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Keith
8 days ago
Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.
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Walter (dead)
8 days ago
Ted wouldn’t know this since he’s always on vacation whenever the power grid is failing
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Angry Staff Officer
8 days ago
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
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