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David Lazarus

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Coming up on #KTLA: Yesterday we talked about potential pitfalls of 50-year mortgages. The same thinking applies to car loans, with a record percentage of Americans now choosing 7-year loans that provide lower monthly payments but add thousands to interest

November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani

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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM

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Kevin Elliott

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Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

October 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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TProphet

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Your periodic reminder that these are the kinds of countries that put their currently ruling dictator on their currency.

October 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM

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Radley Balko

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Back to back “free speech” headlines this afternoon.

September 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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Moby Dick

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He’s the devil, I say. The reason why you don’t see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries it coiled away in his pocket, I guess.

September 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM

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tonx

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classic from @pixelatedboat.bsky.social

pixelated boat @pixelatedboat tweet screenshot:
Wow, this extract from Wolff's book is a shocking insight into Trump's mind:
On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken, because it didn't have "the gorilla channel". Trump seemed to be under the impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but gorilla-based content, 24 hours a day.
To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel, broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily-constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was "boring" because "the gorillas aren't fighting"
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. "On some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight," an insider told me. "He kneels in front of the TV, with his face about four inches from the screen, and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like the way you hit that other gorilla was good'. I think he thinks the gorillas can hear him."

September 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Caz 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇧🇲

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Tylenol, the tamper scandal and extortion. 2025 tangent: Did those mil academy classmates taunt the whiny baby with Take a Tylenol, Lonely T?
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...

The 1982 Tylenol Terror Shattered American Consumer Innocence

Seven people lost their lives after taking poisoned Tylenol. The tragedy led to important safety reforms

www.smithsonianmag.com

September 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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Taniel

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It’s Election Day tomorrow!

1. Dems favored to win a congressional special in Arizona.
2. A Dem is vying to flip mayorship of Mobile, Alabama; she’d be city’s first Black woman mayor.
3. GOP defends red-leaning state legislative district in Georgia.

Details on each: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

September 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM

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Moby Dick

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beneath all that silence and placidity, the utmost monster of the seas was writhing and wrenching in agony

September 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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September 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM

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Writers Guild of America West

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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Barack Obama

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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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Attac France

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"Taxez les riches, taxez les riches !"

#18septembre

September 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Phil Lewis

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Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Suzanne Swierc

Let me be clear: if you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends.
His death is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for his wife and children.
I believe in the Resurrection, and while it's difficult, I can and do pray for his soul.
Charlie Kirk's death is a reflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed. It does not excuse his death, AND it's a sad truth.
The shooting is a tragedy, and I can and do feel for a college campus experiencing an active shooter situation.
The deaths of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the children shot and killed in Minneapolis last month, and the children shot in Colorado today are all tragedies that also deserve your attention.
Charlie Kirk excused the deaths of children in the name of the second amendment.

September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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Frum on 1st amendment is important and so is Epstein Epstein Epstein

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 18

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel:
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

September 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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Sébastien Fontenelle

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Du monde à Bastille.
Très bonne manif à tou•tes.

September 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM

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Moby Dick

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all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

September 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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Joshua Erlich

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folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Sep 17

GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR “HELP WITH MORTGAGE” SURPASS 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS PEAK, SIGNALING GROWING FINANCIAL STRAIN ON U.S. HOUSEHOLDS

September 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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Alt CDC (they/them)

@altcdc.altgov.info

Reminder: Tomorrow at 10am Eastern, the Senate will hear testimony from Dr. Monarez (former CDC director, recently fired by 🧠🪱) and Dr. Houry (recently resigned over 🧠🪱's destruction of gold standard CDC science)

Catch the livestream at www.help.senate.gov/hearings/res...