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Fun fact about the "historic" covered bridge: it was uncovered until 1972, when Long Grove added the cover specifically to discourage trucks from using the bridge

Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspi...

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie.

The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

History - Bring Your Own Big Wheel Come, sit ye round the glow of yon magic computer box and hear the tale of The Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) race! It is a glorious tale, fraught with heroism, cynicism, and stoicism!!! The race w...

History of the annual event on its website: bringyourownbigwheel.com/history/

BYOBW (0987) First heat, first turn

Noticed flickr.com/photos/jdunl... getting some attention in my #Flickr “Recent views.” My full set: flickr.com/photos/jdunl...

First turn, first heat (0993) BYOBW, Lombard Street, San Francisco

Hard (not hard) to believe it's now more than 20 years ago that I got to witness and document Bring Your Own Big Wheel #byobw #byobw2006: flickr.com/photos/jdunl...

Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

“The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

America Needs to Impeach Trump For its Own Moral Health Even an unsuccessful effort will show that many Americans reject threats of genocide to win a war

“At this stage, impeachment is not merely about accountability for a rogue president, but an assertion of our own moral limits—a reminder to ourselves that some things should still remain beyond the pale.”
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Democrats who voted for...

Noem: Fetterman, Kaine, Kim, Peters, Shaheen, Slotkin
Bondi: Fetterman
RFKjr: None
Patel: None

Senate Democrats who granted Unanimous Consent to speed up their confirmations...

All of them, multiple times.

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'This is not rewarding Russia' — US official defends extension of sanctions waiver on Russian oil "This is not rewarding Russia. That's ridiculous," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told NBC's "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker on April 19.

Sure, Russia hasn’t done anything good, so the oil bonanza billions from the US can’t be a reward. It’s just an expression of Trump’s general policy to make life easier for Putin. It serves no US interest whatsoever.
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Lemme introduce you to my chariot, which moves 1 million butts per day.

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The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“Rulings with no explanation or reasoning, like the sparse paragraph from that February night, have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts.”
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“Since that breakneck February 2016 exchange, the emergency docket has swelled into a major part of the court’s business, as the justices have short-circuited the deliberations of lower courts. The decisions are technically temporary, but are often hugely consequential.”

#BREFUL on the screen and a cold brew on the bar @soccerhouse.com

“‘One of the problems with flood management in the U.S. today is: A flood happens. It’s an emergency. The government drops a whole lot of money. They build the exact same thing that they had before,’ says Howard Neukrug, a University of Pennsylvania professor … ”

I never considered the effect of leaded gas on GenX until now. Apparently, on average, we lost 6 IQ points due to exposure to leaded gas.

We also had a lot of head injuries that were never treated. I can think of at least three likely concussions I had as a tween/teen.

A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style

We've been covering Brendan Carr's censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the FCC, we warned people that the "free speech warrior" branding was a total sham. We later dug into the…

The White House, Trump, and the DoorDash Grandmother All Said She Saved $11,000 From No Tax on Tips. The Actual Number Isn't Close - Wealth of Geeks Every major outlet that covered Sharon Simmons' DoorDash delivery to the White House on Monday ran the same number: $11,000.

I said the other day that the claim that the DoorDash grandma had saved $11,000 from the dumb, pandering “no tax on tips” policy made no sense. Yahoo Finance did the math. wealthofgeeks.com/the-white-ho...

NYT headline that says “Mamdani Endorses Lindsey Boylan, Who Accused Cuomo of Sexual Harassment.” The lede says “the endorsement, in a special election for a city council seat on Manhattan’s West Side, comes as the mayor seeks to build influence within the Council"

First & foremost, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is more than deserving of this endorsement.

Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.

Late-Night Republican Revolt Derails Trump’s FISA Surveillance Plan Republican infighting is preventing them from renewing the controversial surveillance law.

“We just defeated [Speaker Mike] Johnson’s efforts to sneak through a 5-year FISA authorization tonight,” Democratic Representative Ro Khanna said. “Now, they will have to fight in daylight.” trib.al/Ugw87Rt

Kudos to Zack - this is an in-the-weeds but really important detail that’s gotten misunderstood or just been ignored by most of the news coverage (and Members of Congress!) on FISA 702

With US spy laws set to expire, lawmakers are split over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance | TechCrunch Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires in Ap...

I wrote some words for TechCrunch about Section 702, the U.S. government's warrantless surveillance law that is set to expire on Monday.

A bipartisan pro-privacy group of lawmakers are calling for passing major reforms that they say are “essential” for protecting the privacy rights of Americans.

Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed.

'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...

I still remain astonished that despite it written into black letter law that the USIP was not an executive agency the judiciary just sort of let it be absorbed and gutted by the executive.

This was a tough one:

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