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marketplace.org
At a time when average concert ticket prices have reached triple digits, and the labor market is cooling, consumers may pull back on spending on pricey shows. That helps tributes bands.

“[Because] the big concerts will go before tributes go,” one booking agent said.
Why tribute bands are having a moment
“It’s just like the real thing, but less expensive,” said tribute band booking agent, Michael Twombly.
www.marketplace.org
January 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. Since his return to office, President Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
That’s our FIFA Peace Prize Winner
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump: "I'm not concerned about anything that Israel is doing"
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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jamellebouie.net
we rented a chrysler pacifica for our trip down to see my folks after christmas and i now totally get why people like minivans. this thing rules.
December 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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theverge.com
Brendan Carr is a dummy
Brendan Carr is a dummy
The season finale of America’s favorite podcast within a podcast.
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
We’re losing the best and the brightest.

@ms.now
www.ms.now/news/bongino...
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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edzitron.com
CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“A-plus plus plus plus plus.” 🤡
December 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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philinvestigates.com
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles An endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris.
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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uniondrip.bsky.social
For all the mfers who say workers just serve coffee, just deliver packages, just stock shelves, just clean rooms, just prep food, or just check in guests, remember this, they keep our communities running every day. And when they’re on a picket line, you respect it.
An illustrated cartoon shows a person swinging a wooden bat into the leg of someone trying to walk past them. The text above reads, “How to kindly explain to someone that picket lines aren’t meant to be crossed.”
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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f1tv.bsky.social
This is starting to become a habit, Carlos! 🤩

#F1 #QatarGP #WilliamsRacing
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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jael.bsky.social
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
Fanttik, the ubiquitous gadget brand, started as a reset after parent company Aukey was banned from Amazon for review fraud. It’s since built its business to astonishing heights by paying over 31,000 TikTokers to hype screwdrivers. Wild stuff in our story: www.theverge.com/report/82926...
Fanttik — a play on “fantastic,” not “fanatic” — had help getting started, too. By 2021, its parent company, Aukey, seemed poised to become the next Anker — the first Chinese electronics company to become a big brand in America by starting with high-quality phone chargers. But that summer, Aukey was among the 600 Chinese brands Amazon permanently banned for review fraud. Some of those companies were caught bribing customers to leave positive reviews on Amazon or to delete negative ones. The ban cost Aukey hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, and all its profit for the year — it recorded a net loss of $90 million in 2021, according to public records. But it didn’t have much trouble bouncing back, because the flagship Aukey brand was just one of Aukey’s nearly 300 brand names. Following “the Amazon Incident,” as the company calls it, Aukey renamed itself to AuGroup, refocused on furniture, and publicly said it wouldn’t put more resources behind banned brands. But what about the 5 percent of its business dedicated to power tools? It consolidated those under a subsidiary with a new brand-first strategy: Fanttik. Before the incident, Fanttik primarily distributed other companies’ tools. But in 2021, the company’s CEO, Bo Du, rebooted the entire division, downsizing its staff to around 150 people and building product and brand development teams, he told an audience at the FastMoss Global Short Video Conference in January. Four years later, Fanttik tells The Verge it has sold approximately 5.5 million pieces of gear. One of the open secrets to Fanttik’s success is paying for reach. It spends millions to sponsor NASCAR drivers, UFC fighters, and NBA teams to build its brand — and it’s attracted a veritable army of over 31,000 TikTok creators competing to make its next screwdriver look like the coolest thing ever. This January, Fanttik CEO Bo Du revealed that 30 percent of the company’s sales come from TikTok alone. In just two years, it sold $25 million in tools that way. As of today, that number may be as high as $40 million, analytics company FastMoss estimates. The overwhelming majority of those sales and views come from creators, not Fanttik’s own channel. In one particularly successful video, a bearded man rushes the camera wide-eyed — “Ladies, mothers, wives: stop!” — before telling them to buy a Fanttik screwdriver for their husband’s or father’s next Christmas present. The video got 21 million views and sold 13,000 screwdrivers, according to FastMoss estimates. (The caption does not indicate that it’s a paid ad.)
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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theverge.com
Large language mistake
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
liz @lopatto.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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emilypeck.bsky.social
Women have had it. 2 out of 5 said they'd like to permanently move to another country.
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.

No other wealthy country has numbers like these

www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
Record share of women want to leave U.S. for good — more than double that of men
That's four times as high as in 2014.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
There goes 90+ day credit-card delinquencies. New cycle high.

(via Kev Gordon)
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM