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small crab eating a grape (important)
February 8, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
February 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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MY KIDS: so why are there muppets in the AUDIENCE

ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Thinking once again about Jeff Bezos's giant boat's giant boat
February 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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We’ve paid rent for over 270 households so far in February and we currently have a waitlist that totals over $30,000.

We distributed rents one by one.
We can’t even think about March rent yet.

You can help us here: gofund.me/5d4d1a571
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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Just in case people think that house in Santa Clara is a quirk, here's another house that was recently sold in the city where the Super Bowl will be played tomorrow:
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar.

Why? This chart has the answer.
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Opened tiktok for awhile and was immediately greeted by a video saying Hunter Biden not being in the Epstein files is unsurprising since sex workers have been saying how respectful he was and how well he tipped. The video closed out by saying "Hunter Biden loved two things grown women and crack" ☠️
February 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
This is one hell of a read.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 7, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Yay! I enjoyed it a lot.
Strong linear opening for Disney's THE MUPPET SHOW. It was Wednesday's No. 1 show among A18-49 (0.52)/A25-54 (0.69) across broadcast and cable, tripling the final installment of THE GOLDEN BACHELOR in the slot last fall.

It averaged 3.1M same-day viewers, improving on ABBOTT (2.8M) lead-in
February 7, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
www.democracydocket.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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I cannot tell you how many landlords view themselves as a subjugated underclass. I spent years in Facebook groups for MN landlords and they would earnestly talk about how they were being discriminated against and how they were basically doing charity by renting out shitboxes above market.
A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images
February 7, 2026 at 1:29 AM
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Juleon Cotillon, a Bay Area native who lives in Hayward, is the brains behind the Buck Fifty — a white plastic tray for both the hot dog and soda that fits neatly on the top rack of a Costco shopping cart.
February 6, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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The other aspect of this that does not get much attention:

There is a deep grief within all of us women every single time we watch men refuse to hold other men accountable. And it happens over and over and over again, right in front of us. A constant refrain of “we don’t care about you”
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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The psychology of Right Wing authoritarianism is rooted in backgrounds of being abused as children by authoritarians and then becoming abusers when they are adults.

That happens in families and it scales upwards to culture and politics. That’s what’s happening now.
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM