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You'll never SEE this in or on the MSM in America. This is from British Newspaper "The Mirror". DERANGED INDEED!

Hump Day thoughts

1. Trump does illegal thing 2. CT Sues 3. Our state and its residents win In this case, Trump’s illegal order to stop building a wind project that’s nearly done & meant to power 350,000 homes with clean, cheap energy is rejected. He can’t do that. And CT won’t let him. ctmirror.org/2025/09/22/r...

Put the late night shows on the block chain. by Andrew Yang

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Kozaburo Yoshimura's UNDERCURRENT (1956)-a sublimely subversive melodrama exquisitely lensed in gorgeous color by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Brian Kilmeade caused this.

Finally, some good news.

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Apparently, thanks to a recent coronal mass ejection, for the next two nights there will be visible auroras overhead across *checks notes* ....oh...oh my.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Jackie McLean "Let Freedom Ring" | Get the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition 20% off bluenote.lnk.to/AlbumOfTheWeek The saxophonist's 1962 album reflected the change in the air: the musical freedoms of the emergent avant-garde & the social freedoms sought by the civil rights movement.

Just learned about Kissa bars where they have large collections of jazz on vinyl and high end sound systems and people sit quietly to listen and appreciate the music

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Analysis aims to solidify agreement on cannabis’s potential as a cancer treatment, lead author of research says.

Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” newrepublic.com/post/193725/...

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s flagrant violations of the constitution and the rule of law are the unmistakable early signs of an administration that is only warming up to abuses yet to come. John Restakis writes.

do your job bitch!

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Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Something newsish tonight: The White House says Elon Musk is not the administrator of DOGE, saying the tech billionaire is "an employee of the White House Office" and is an SGE (Special Government Employee). The WH claims Musk is a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn was to Biden.

Bitcoin is tanking right now for some reason

I used to laugh at the "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread" Bilbo line, but boy do I get it now

@bsky.app the new trending video feature looks great. All video and scroll just like the Tik Tok! I like it.

It's February 2025. I am watching Trump consolidate power.

Murphy: "That's just fancy talk to say, 'we're gonna give money to people who pledge loyalty to Trump, and we're not gonna give money to people who don't pledge loyalty.' Today it may be government contracts, but tomorrow it may be your tax refund."

Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan

An Album a Day 2024: Day 93, Apr 2 Bob Reynolds - Quartet (2018) Contemporary jazz, Instrumental YouTube link: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

you know shit’s crazy when a catholic group can condemn a nazi salute but the ADL can’t

How do you open at 33, drop in price to 32 and have Apple stocks say you’re up over 6%

Putin has set up a trap for Trump by repeating his claim that russia is always prepared to negotiate, but cannot negotiate with Zelensky because he's illegitimate. Pu also flatters Trump by referring to the 2020 election as stolen. I hope Trump's advisors hold him off from falling into the trap.

Germany's ambassador to the US has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob US law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power,” according to a confidential document seen by Reuters. www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...