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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

meirl

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) in her introductory floor speech said she’s ready to sign the Jeffrey Epstein discharge petition right now

Pennsylvania’s top legislative leaders and Gov. Josh Shapiro have agreed to a $50.1 billion state budget deal behind closed doors, according to two sources close to negotiations. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

Fish sorting line.

"the Commissioner's Office has worked closely with its sportsbook partners ..."

During an event on Thursday, Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly struggle to keep his eyes open. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent roughly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open. New video w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In 2007, "he told the Sunday Times that he was 'inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa' because 'all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really.'"

"Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, appointed Mark Zarkin, a Michigan restaurateur and prominent Detroit-area Trump supporter ... [who] pleaded no contest to a felony sex crime involving a sexual encounter with a “mentally incapacitated” woman ..."

Under surveillance by the FBI, the Rowan University freshman left his residence in Glassboro on Tuesday, went to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and took an Amtrak train to Newark Liberty International Airport, where he was arrested.

> @gettyimages.com

?? "If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and SWEET.........."

They said, Finian, rainbows belong in the sky, not on a cold cut. But I showed them. I showed them all!

just....enjoy this

A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti

"Azuri has since been released from the hospital, but is recovering in a wheelchair because her injury — her arm was broken by the bullet — is painful when she walks," her aunt said.

🚨Chester County Voters: A court order has extended voting hours until 10 p.m. due to an error that prevented Independent voters from appearing in the poll books. It’s important that every voter has the opportunity to be heard.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

good Coffeezilla explainer on how gambling, including when it's not called gambling, is infiltrating everything

Longtime WMMR-FM host Pierre Robert was found dead in his home Wednesday. He was 70. Beasley Media Group, the station’s parent company, announced Robert’s death in a statement, calling him a “true radio icon.” 🔗 www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

Boston Dynamics does a great job of explaining how difficult and complicated everything is for humanoid robots, and all these other companies just do hand waving and try to take your money

"Bible-based AI buddy"

this new diet toothpaste really works

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages

For the love of all that's holy, please watch this with the sound on. I'm crying.

Musk put an aside in his own online encyclopedia about how he supposedly lost 20 pounds

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

Comcast is one of 37 ‘patriot donors’ paying for Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom

"The Ecuadorean man ... had also received medical evaluations and was in good health ... By contrast, the other survivor has been hospitalized in Colombia with brain trauma and is breathing on a ventilator ..."

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Who posted the salute to Jefferson Davis -- "visionary" who fought "for a more perfect union" -- on the Chester County Pa. America 250 FB page?

Stemz Foley, AL

more Philly No Kings march - Oct. 18, 2025

Signs at Philly No Kings march - Oct. 18, 2025

Philly No Kings march - Oct. 18, 2025

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

"Anyone — you, me, an Emirati prince — can put money in his pocket"

"In recent weeks, Loginova’s videos went viral, drawing hundreds of messages of support from anti-war Russians on her Instagram page. Finally authorities had enough ..."

A saying in Brazil 1943: "'It's more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe than for the FEB to go to the front and fight' .. soldiers in the division subsequently called themselves Cobras Fumantes .. and wore a shoulder patch depicting a green snake smoking a pipe." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazili...

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

Land of the free, home of the brave