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Defying expectations the Trump administration keep out-moron themselves, again and again…

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U.S. to require foreign tourists to submit 5 years of social media history — CBS News
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from countries with visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit five years of their social media history before they can enter.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Yosemite loses MLK Day and Juneteenth free entry as Trump adds his birthday, June 14 - I say that’s the day animals have the park free of visitors, no revenue loss for Park Services

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Yosemite loses MLK Day and Juneteenth free entry as Trump adds his birthday — San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area visitors hoping to take advantage of free-entry days at Yosemite, Muir Woods and other national parks will see major changes next year, as the Trump administration removes free entry on Marti...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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★ Bad Dye Job - Daring Fireball

My favorite reaction to today’s news is this one-liner from a guy on Twitter/X: “The average IQ of both companies has increased.”

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★ Bad Dye Job — Daring Fireball
In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company), I wrote:
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December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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we have entered the IDGAF period of the second Trump administration

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Trump Just Completed the Most Legally Indefensible and Politically Stupid Act of His Career — Esquire
It appears we’ve entered the IDGAF period of the president’s second term.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🤦🏻‍♂️ Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed - Futurism

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Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed — Futurism
What are they cooking? Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. In the United States, where having a car is all but mandatory for 92 percent of the population, ever-higher car prices are causin...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Solar device converts salt water into drinking water at record speed - Earth.com
Earth and Environmental News, Videos and Images
At Earth.com, our goal is to provide the internet with a homepage for anything and everything about our planet Earth and the environment.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way - New Scientist

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A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way — New Scientist
Jacob, an 11-year-old lion, has defied expectations by surviving for years after losing a leg – now we know his success is down to an innovative hunting strategy
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November 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Phœnix Embryo?!

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Webb Captures a Stunning Cosmic Structure We've Never Seen Before — Gizmodo
The aging pair of stars swing by one another once every 190 years, producing four spirals of dust.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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#TruthInterference 60 Minutes Edited Out Trump's Response to Questions About Crypto Corruption - Gizmodo

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60 Minutes Edited Out Trump's Response to Questions About Crypto Corruption — Gizmodo
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November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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If you’re having a Great Gatsby-themed party, you’ve never read the book.
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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This what happens when you give bozos the keys of the circus…

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Lawyer says Halloween terrorist plot FBI Director Kash Patel described 'never' existed — USA TODAY
A Michigan lawyer says five young suspects arrested by the FBI on Halloween drew scrutiny over their recreational gun activity and online chats.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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This is — by far — the most decisive factor in the NY mayoral election.

Literally no other factor even comes close.

And yet somehow this factor is almost never mentioned in all the coverage of the race, even though it could be replicated across America.
How Zohran Mamdani Fought The Master Plan
The key factor isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Roosevelt: “The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery”

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How Zohran Mamdani Fought The Master Plan
The key factor isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A 13-year-old invented a new technology to help his family.

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A 13-year-old invented a new technology to help his family. It actually works. — USA TODAY
Kevin Tang is an eighth-grader in California who won $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” for his science fair project.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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That’s what you get electing a weak egomaniac sociopath to the presidency. It was predictable and unfortunately unfolding as predicted. I hope people who voted for him are ready to roll their sleeves to help fix the mess they created, and are also suffering from.

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Trump Says He Will Raise Tariffs on Canada by 10% Over Ontario Ad — The Wall Street Journal
The measure was in response to what the U.S. president called ‘misrepresentation’ of Ronald Reagan’s comments
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October 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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French fishing nets find new purpose on Ukraine's front lines - AFP News

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French fishing nets find new purpose on Ukraine's front lines — AFP News
Once used to scoop fish from the sea off the coast of France, recycled fishing nets are finding new life in Ukraine to protect the country's roads and military infrastructure from Russian drone attack...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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PSA: Those who think the president is full of shit can now turn that belief into a reality, with a little help from man’s best friend

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Shop Talk: Berkeley resident is selling dog poop bags with Donald Trump's face — Berkeleyside
Stefan Schuch’s latest brand aims to enlist canines in the “fight against fascism” and a president who’s “full of shit.” Also: Paisley Vintage closes and a new business teaches mahjongg.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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PSA: Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide? - POLITICO

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Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide? — POLITICO
Right and left have bought the narrative of a crushing triumph. They’re wrong.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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That’s got to hurt, Donald

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University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week — San Francisco Chronicle
The University of California made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Chinese lab develops incredible window tech that could transform homes and offices: 'Optical efficiencies' - The Cool Down

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Chinese lab develops incredible window tech that could transform homes and offices: 'Optical efficiencies' — The Cool Down
It's all good news for the future. Oct 06, 2025 What if windows could generate electricity? In pursuit of an answer, a team of Chinese researchers found a way to drastically improve a type of glass th...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies — Gizmodo
Newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most important mi...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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California lawmakers pass game-changing bill that could save residents $10 billion on power bills: 'This is a win-win' - The Cool Down

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Lawmakers pass game-changing bill that could save residents $10 billion on power bills: 'This is a win-win' — The Cool Down
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October 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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🤣 They can’t even do that themselves, but sure… « Trump administration is committed to restoring truth and integrity to higher education »

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Nine Colleges in Hot Seat as Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Sparks Sharp Reactions — The Wall Street Journal
Schools weigh whether to sign on to president’s operating principles in exchange for funding advantage
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October 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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This will end

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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 George Floyd protests — The Washington Post
The agents’ firing comes amid a broader wave of terminations at the FBI, which some see as a form of political retribution.
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September 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Peace’s one doesn’t look too good… But this is the increasingly stable genius’s Medicine Nobel prize right there. 🤣

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Trump links autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, despite decades of evidence it’s safe — CNN
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration will be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased ri...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM