Starbuckler
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Starbuckler
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Poor mama deer has a damaged leg. Something wrong with the right knee. She just hobbles around. Fortunately, there’s few predators around so she’s got a decent chance to lead a full life.

Saw the rabbit less than a hundred feet from the deer.
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We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is insane
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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During his time in office, Trump has taken advantage of one of the greatest powers of presidency by pardoning or granting clemency to nearly 100 people for drug-related crimes despite promises to crack down on America's drug crisis.
Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Three golf clubs walk into a bar.

The putter orders a beer.

The wedge orders a tequila.

The third one says, "Nothing for me. I'm the driver".
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs.

"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.
Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
AI is only going to get better and the number will just get worse. If/when we get commercial AGI it’s going to be a bloodbath in the jobs market.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/m...
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts..."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Amazing Epstein email from George Conway gtconway3 ® on Threads:

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath. @realdonaldtrump
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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AAA gas prices: up w/w, down y/y

Today’s National Average: $3.084
One Year Ago: $3.107
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Consumer sentiment by income-level tells you everything.

#UMich @sofiabaig.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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As our electricity costs go up.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US.

Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.

He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Ohhhh….the new building plans have been leaked…
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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😲🤣
October 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM