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Lucy’s face remains That Way and it brings joy
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“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
I find him intensely over rated. Also violently fat phobic, misogynist and racist.
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Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.
• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better." Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions." perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.
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There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that
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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
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About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.
Deeply disappointed in how cowardly the writing of Vigilante became this season.

Vigilante in S1 is a literal psychopath who just happens to love his friend.

Now Vigilante is ‘manic pixie Punisher’.
I think I’m back to hating on DC because of the over the top deranged praise the Peacemaker finale is getting.

5 main characters in the show: if they weren’t men would be getting SHIT ON BY EVERY FAN BOY. Like exact same dialogue, as good or better acting: would be calls to have them lit on fire.
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Enshitification! Huge financial incentive for Google to give you less accurate answers, which keeps you searching longer and therefore it can sell you more ads and collect more data. Corey Doctorow did a great explainer in this CBC podcast series: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Understood: Who Broke the Internet? | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Host Cory Doctorow coined the word "enshittification" to describe the state of the modern internet: a broken down, decaying place, once full of promise, now overrun with intrusive ads, hateful trolls,...
www.cbc.ca
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No real emotions about any of the characters in the Peacemaker show—DC is still slathered with the rancid stink of the DCEU in my mind—except for this:

If Vigilante was not a cis het white man you would not be able to hear over the screaming about how ‘unrealistic’ and ‘stupid’ the character is.
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This is Twilight Sparkle. She was born with a bump on her head made of soft tissue instead of bone. It's led to a buildup of fluid in her brain and seizures. While there's no cure, it can be managed with lifelong medication and bloodwork. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹

15outof10.org/twilight-spa...
a tan puppy sits on a gray surface and looks at the camera. she has a bump in the middle of her forehead with a tuft of lighter colored fur, and her eyes are wideset. she's a magical unicorn. a side profile of the Twilight Sparkle the unicorn puppy. the bump on her noggin is pronounced from this angle. an x-ray of the same side profile. it appears that her skull protrudes on her forehead, and there is some extra tissue present as well.
Ah, yes. Exactly the voices comic books have been missing. (Sarcasm)
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Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.
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This is about as winning expression as a #greyhound could pull off.
Hunter (🌈)
You think looking up and seeing BATMAN is scary?
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DAY 3 without my meds.

Can you please help and or boost?

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If 11 more people can just help with $10 each, then it’s done!

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The theme of the 28 (measure of time) zombie movies are ‘People are FUCKING STUPID, right? Right?’