constans
@constans.bsky.social
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Hardscrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam
Currently located in NYC
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The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises buff.ly/tHHM3Qj
The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises
Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemiti…
www.nydailynews.com
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New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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It feels like the energy in higher ed these days is schools that cater to kids with ~1300 SAT scores, wealthy parents, a great lifestyle, and where there's a reasonable chance of kids getting in: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students
As Trump slashes funding, schools are trying to attract the limited pool of higher-end families. High Point University is a blueprint.
www.wsj.com
No Kings gave me an odd sense of optimism after so much doom and gloom. We the People still hold the power.
Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.
Farm state Republicans are appalled by President Trump's plan to import beef from Argentina, saying it will punish U.S. cattle ranchers. This is from Sen. Deb Fischer R-Nebraska.
If the Gambino crime family shot me and I lived, I’d never shut up about it either.
“Hey Charlie, can you pass the mashed potatoes?”
“Sure, but it’s a little hard BECAUSE I WAS SHOT BY THE GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY”
“Y’know, I’ll just eat some more stuffing”
“Hey Charlie, can you pass the mashed potatoes?”
“Sure, but it’s a little hard BECAUSE I WAS SHOT BY THE GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY”
“Y’know, I’ll just eat some more stuffing”
I didnt realise the tattoo was acquired on a drunk night out in Croatia. That actually makes it way worse
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The video of Sliwa explaining the hit on him is incredibly funny.
"Hey Mac, I said turn this cab around! And that's when a gunman pops up"
"And the first face I see [waking up] is my nemesis Ed Koch. I thought I'd been sent to hell"
youtu.be/QoCtjhwt6Zc?...
"Hey Mac, I said turn this cab around! And that's when a gunman pops up"
"And the first face I see [waking up] is my nemesis Ed Koch. I thought I'd been sent to hell"
youtu.be/QoCtjhwt6Zc?...
Guardian Angels Founder on Being the Victim of an Attempted Assassination
YouTube video by Big Think
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I have a fascination for ancient jewellery.
This wide Anglo-Saxon ring features the rare prolapis lazuli.
This wide Anglo-Saxon ring features the rare prolapis lazuli.
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Jane Coaston
@janecoaston.bsky.social
· Aug 6
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.
n.pr
🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.
Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)
Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)
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I’m very skeptical of this — not because President Trump isn’t willing to grant pardons and commutations easily, but because there is zero interest from his base in this, and he has nothing to gain from doing it.
And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.
And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.
the NYT's opinion is that the Democrats should take the position which upper-class Connecticut Republicans held in 2012 and that politics should be preserved in amber in that state until the sun runs out of hydrogen and swallows the earth
Ultimately it's the yawning moral void at the heart of this type of writing that baffles me. "Oh, the best data suggests that most voters feel that—" YOU ARE THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD. I AM READING YOU FOR YOUR OPINION. TELL ME WHAT IT IS.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
