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My wife is angry that I neglected the dishes for so long. I reminded her that the Dow is above 50,000.
February 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
My wife is angry that I neglected the dishes for so long. I reminded her that the Dow is above 50,000.
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The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded"
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Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
The third party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors
kotaku.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded"
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BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
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Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
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U.S. companies lose approximately $2 billion in sales every year because of the U.S. sanctions regime against Cuba.
Cuba imports approximately 80% of its food, a need U.S. farmers could easily fill.
www.defensepriorities.org/explainers/m...
Cuba imports approximately 80% of its food, a need U.S. farmers could easily fill.
www.defensepriorities.org/explainers/m...
Move on from Washington's outdated Cuba policy - Defense Priorities
Key points U.S. policy on Cuba remains defined by a Cold War-era paradigm centered on a six-decade-old economic embargo that’s […]
www.defensepriorities.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
U.S. companies lose approximately $2 billion in sales every year because of the U.S. sanctions regime against Cuba.
Cuba imports approximately 80% of its food, a need U.S. farmers could easily fill.
www.defensepriorities.org/explainers/m...
Cuba imports approximately 80% of its food, a need U.S. farmers could easily fill.
www.defensepriorities.org/explainers/m...
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In 2008, during the last presidential election before the Citizens United decision, billionaires spent $16 million.
During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.
During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.
February 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
In 2008, during the last presidential election before the Citizens United decision, billionaires spent $16 million.
During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.
During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.
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The average rent for a market rate apartment in Manhattan has hit $5,711 — an all-time high.
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
The average rent for a market rate apartment in Manhattan has hit $5,711 — an all-time high.
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2 out of 3 Americans are worried about paying for health care.
A majority of the public also says they expect health care costs for them and their families to become even less affordable in the coming year.
www.kff.org/public-opini...
A majority of the public also says they expect health care costs for them and their families to become even less affordable in the coming year.
www.kff.org/public-opini...
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Health Care Costs, Expiring ACA Tax Credits, and the 2026 Midterms | KFF
Looking ahead to the midterm elections, health care costs are the public’s top economic concern, and many voters say the issue will have a major impact on their vote. On health care issues, including ...
www.kff.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
2 out of 3 Americans are worried about paying for health care.
A majority of the public also says they expect health care costs for them and their families to become even less affordable in the coming year.
www.kff.org/public-opini...
A majority of the public also says they expect health care costs for them and their families to become even less affordable in the coming year.
www.kff.org/public-opini...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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If we've learned anything from the part of our history where we created the extremely powerful, world-changing, uncontrollable new technology of a social internet, it should be that whatever is about to happen with AI will, if nothing else, be extremely dumb.
February 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
If we've learned anything from the part of our history where we created the extremely powerful, world-changing, uncontrollable new technology of a social internet, it should be that whatever is about to happen with AI will, if nothing else, be extremely dumb.
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On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink.
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General facing $250K bill over 2 bottles of juice | CNN
Federal court has awarded more than $277,000 to a diabetic former Dollar General employee after she was fired her for drinking orange juice without first paying.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink.
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
Dollar General fired her anyway.
Now a jury has awarded her $277,565.
www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...
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Yesterday we learned that the Department of Justice is monitoring and tracking members of Congress’s searches of the Epstein files. There’s no sugar coating it: the administration is spying on lawmakers as they exercise their constitutional oversight responsibilities. 1/10
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Yesterday we learned that the Department of Justice is monitoring and tracking members of Congress’s searches of the Epstein files. There’s no sugar coating it: the administration is spying on lawmakers as they exercise their constitutional oversight responsibilities. 1/10
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Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…
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thank you @goingmedieval.bsky.social for making me aware of this tweet
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
thank you @goingmedieval.bsky.social for making me aware of this tweet
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Every time China visits, Peru gets a new shipping port and every time America visits, Peru gets a new thinly veiled death threat
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Every time China visits, Peru gets a new shipping port and every time America visits, Peru gets a new thinly veiled death threat
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Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
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Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
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Who knew buying rotisserie chicken and juice was “splurging”
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Who knew buying rotisserie chicken and juice was “splurging”
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OH RIGHT, being at the manila airport recently reminded me of this: the ONLY instance i saw *anybody* care about non-fem presenting people using the womens bathroom, and it was a white woman yelling at a butch filipina not realizing she was shouting at a cis woman who didnt look fem enough for her
exited the bathroom just in time for a butch filipina and her male friend to walk up, guy thinks its the womans bathroom, white lady elbows the butch lady and says "this is theladysroom." while looking PISSED(she probably assumed BOTH Of them were men??idk??) butch lady enters anyway, guy leaves
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
OH RIGHT, being at the manila airport recently reminded me of this: the ONLY instance i saw *anybody* care about non-fem presenting people using the womens bathroom, and it was a white woman yelling at a butch filipina not realizing she was shouting at a cis woman who didnt look fem enough for her
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This has echoes of how CIA was reading all the work of the Senate staffers working on the Torture Report.
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This has echoes of how CIA was reading all the work of the Senate staffers working on the Torture Report.
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The price of electricity for the average household is up about 30% over the last five years.
fortune.com/2026/02/10/a...
fortune.com/2026/02/10/a...
Americans are shocked by utility bills as high as $1000: They're paying the price for aging grids, fuel-price whiplash, and extreme weather | Fortune
Many Americans are sharing monthly bills of over $1,000, cutting into their grocery budgets.
fortune.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
The price of electricity for the average household is up about 30% over the last five years.
fortune.com/2026/02/10/a...
fortune.com/2026/02/10/a...
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An Alabama House committee has advanced a bill to end the popular election of members of the state’s utility regulatory body.
www.wsfa.com/2026/02/11/b...
www.wsfa.com/2026/02/11/b...
Bill to appoint Alabama Public Service Commissioners advances out of House committee
A bill that would make 2026 the last year you can vote for who regulates your utilities is headed to the house floor after passing through the House Committee on Transportation, Utilities, and Infrast...
www.wsfa.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
An Alabama House committee has advanced a bill to end the popular election of members of the state’s utility regulatory body.
www.wsfa.com/2026/02/11/b...
www.wsfa.com/2026/02/11/b...
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Georgia is expected to lose $2.5 billion this year because of data center tax exemptions, according to @goodjobsfirst.org.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Georgia is expected to lose $2.5 billion this year because of data center tax exemptions, according to @goodjobsfirst.org.
goodjobsfirst.org/georgia-data...
goodjobsfirst.org/georgia-data...