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Voyager 1 calls home!
JPL announced today that engineering data was successfully received from the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Saturday April 20, the first time since Nov 2023. A new set of commands were sent on Thursday to relocate some code around a failed memory chip in the...
by AKALib 150 comments 499 Recs
Will it finally end here? Supreme Court tells Kari Lake and Mark Finchem to pound sand
For more than two years Arizonans have had to put up with the constant legal challenges to the 2022 election brought by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem. In a year that saw all of the state-level Trump endorsed candidates in Arizona go down, Lake...
by Mother Mags 70 comments 502 Recs
Trump’s Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issue
(Please check out my Substack ) Dr. John Gartner, a former Johns Hopkins University professor of psychiatry, has gathered a boatload of evidence that Donald Trump is currently in the advanced ...
by kindler 313 comments 680 Recs
CRYBABY TRUMP is Miffed that His MAGA Cult Isn't Storming the Courts to Protest His 'Persecution'
On the first day of testimony in Donald Trump's election interference (aka "hush money") trial in New York, the defendant sat ruefully contemplating his fate. When he wasn't nodding off, he is reported to have appeared tired and annoyed as the opening...
by News Corpse 209 comments 400 Recs
DeSantis's Martha's Vineyard Stunt Allows Undocumented Immigrants to Legally Stay in US
Back September 2022, Ron DeSantis (aka Ron DeSatan) decided to pwn™ the libs by dumping a bunch of undocumented immigrants on the “librul enclave” of Martha’s Vineyard, figuring he would show them up as hypocrites and, not at all incidentally, burnish...
by Dan K 74 comments 422 Recs
Russian stuff blowing up: Russia's old Czarist ship may have survived
I can understand not wanting to part with a Patriot system, but the chances that Russia will attack Spain or Greece anytime in the foreseeable future are remote. That’s a hell of a smoke screen. The “Kommuna” salvage and recovery ship may have...
by quaoar 53 comments 264 Recs
Benny Thompson goes for the throat
I didn’t see this in a quick search, from 3 days ago: April 19, 2024 RANKING MEMBER THOMPSON INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ENSURE NO SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR CONVICTED FELONS SENTENCED TO PRISON (WASHINGTON) – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS),...
by Patriot4peace 122 comments 443 Recs
Hillary Clinton says something true and the GOP freaks out
Reposted from my Substack If you haven’t noticed, Hillary Clinton still exists. �She still has thoughts. She even has opinions. She even speaks. �Apparently, that really freaks the right wing out.
by Frank Vyan Walton 81 comments 324 Recs
Quick Note about a pet grammar peeve of mine.
Grammar pet peeves: Affect vs Effect. This pair can be confusing because each word can be used as a verb or as a noun. Perhaps these definitons can help clarify. Affect - verb: Causing a change in something. e.g. "Trump passing gas affects the comfort...
by keepiru 684 comments 339 Recs
A day of whine and posers, as Donald violates gag order again, passing gaslight, 'lighting a match'
The criminal trial underway in New York centers on an effort to bury a story about an alleged affair — the uncharged crime undergirding Trump’s charges. And it’s still about falsifying business records. Jesse Watters claims Trump’s treatment is worse...
by annieli 34 comments 108 Recs
My Summation of Day 1 of Trump's Criminal Trial
Day 1 of the Trump trial phase has ended early (at 12:40) to accommodate a juror who had an appointment. It will start late tomorrow (11:30) because the court will have a hearing in the morning on whether Trump should be held in contempt for posts and...
by KeithDB 105 comments 283 Recs
Destruction of Russian-made Air Defense System Could Have Implications for Two Wars
The destruction of a Russian-made air defense system in Iran could have implications for both the Israel-Iran conflict and Russia-Ukraine war. S-300 missile defense systems have been important in former Soviet countries and other nations for decades....
by EricAZ 76 comments 461 Recs

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Congressional HPSCI Report: CIA Inadequately Protects Women from Sexual Assault and Harassment
Recruiting, investigating, vetting, and training CIA (and USIC) personnel is a time-consuming process and costly to the US taxpayer, which Congress is fully aware of. This unclassified bipartisan investigation reveals that CIA leadership fails to...
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White House Picture of the Day for April 23rd 2024
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Ukraine Invasion Day 790: combat continues, spies arrested
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Insomniacs' late night venthole
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Can Canadians drive voters to the polls?
Any election lawyers out there — is it legal for Canadians to cross the border and help drive people to the polls? I live close enough to help in Niagara Falls or Buffalo or Rochester areas and could likely corral a few friends.
by open sky 8 comments 5 Recs
Her husband's on trial, but Melania Trump is online selling $245 necklaces for Mother's Day
Melania Trump might as well have been walking around Mar-a-Lago wearing her “I really don’t care, do u?” jacket on the opening day of testimony in�her husband’s election interference/hush ...
by Charles Jay 27 comments 50 Recs
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump will face the witness he fears the most in his criminal...
by justiceputnam 1 comments 1 Recs
Waging War on Woke — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 2 (Update #3)
I expect to post at least another 15-20 editorial cartoons in the comments section of this diary. Scroll down a bit for manual updates. Thanks for supporting this diary series. In case you missed my recent diaries, here are the links. Restricting...
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Top Comments: Earth Day 2024 Reducing Plastics Edition
Happy 54th Earth Day ! According to Earthday.org, the official site for Earth Day , this year’s theme is Planet vs Plastics. From the website: For Earth Day 2024 on April 22nd, EARTHDAY.ORG is ...
by brillig 9 comments 25 Recs
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Earth Day
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by strawbale 40 comments 39 Recs
'First Domino Falls' With TN Win in Landmark UAW Effort to Unionize the South: 'BradCast' 4/22/2024
Guest: Labor journalist Steven Greenhouse Also: House finally passes aid package for Ukraine Prosecutors accuse Trump of 'election fraud' in NY criminal trial opening statement... Nothing but huge news -- all of several different sorts -- on today's...
by TheBradBlog 1 comments 8 Recs
A day of whine and posers, as Donald violates gag order again, passing gaslight, 'lighting a match'
The criminal trial underway in New York centers on an effort to bury a story about an alleged affair — the uncharged crime undergirding Trump’s charges. And it’s still about falsifying business records. Jesse Watters claims Trump’s treatment is worse...
by annieli 34 comments 108 Recs
Coal to Newcastle. A Colorado State Open Thread, 4/22/2024
Sure, Colorado has quartz and fools gold. I have never seen it arranged in such a pretty pattern. So this 11 pound rock is coming to my home in Colorado. I found it in a rock shop in Hong Kong, which was crowded with all manner of beautiful spheres,...
by ColoTim 4 comments 8 Recs
"Cohen did it" "It was a legal expense" "Biden" and other lies - analyzing Trump's post-court rant
After napping through a short day in court, Trump was rested enough to comment on his case from the courtroom steps. If you like whining and repetition, it was a treat. Anyone expecting something new was disappointed. Let us look into the mind of a...
by TheCriticalMind 20 comments 74 Recs
WHAT THE MEDIA ISN'T TALKING ABOUT
Donald Trump is living on borrowed time. He lives on greasy, fatty fast food. His sleep pattern is erratic. He doesn’t exercise, unless you call waddling from a golf cart to a green exercise. It is amazing that he has lived as long as he has. But he...
by MeJean 20 comments 25 Recs
Social Media, AI, and the Unraveling Trust Fabric
In an era marked by unprecedented connectivity, the erosion of trust stands as a defining tragedy. When social media influencers Sheena Melwani and her husband, “TRID” spoke about how they met, they described how TRID’s father had gone through the...
by antiempire 4 comments 5 Recs
Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 4.22.24
It was national road work awareness week last week. There were signs all over the highway. I had no clue how to celebrate, so I bought a bunch of little orange traffic cones and tossed them on the sides of the highway as I drove about.
by ZenTrainer 147 comments 29 Recs

	George Zimmerman, arrested on domestic-violence and aggravated-assault charges
10%	5 votes
	A North Carolina foster parent couple, arrested for child abuse after police found one of their charges - an 11 year-old boy - handcuffed to his front porch … with a dead chicken around his neck
10%	5 votes
	Senate candidate Liz Cheney (R-UT), stating that despite her gay sister she will campaign ‘for the traditional definition of marriage’
4%	2 votes
	Paul Flowers, former head of a British co-operative bank, arrested for buying cocaine a few days after he testified before a committee in Parliament about the bank’s financial woes
0%	0 votes
	McAdory High School in Alabama, apologizing for a sign directed at their football team’s opponents (the Pinson Valley Indians) by referencing the ‘Trail of Tears’ - in which Native Americans were subjected to horrific atrocities
4%	2 votes
	The town of Wallsburg, Utah, forgetting for the second time in two years to elect a mayor and council members, meaning they all have to be appointed
0%	0 votes
	Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), pleading guilty to possession of cocaine … after he had voted to authorize states to drug test people on food stamps
30%	14 votes
	Swedish furniture giant Ikea (and two of its top executives), under formal investigation by French authorities after allegedly spying on its own employees at a local unit
0%	0 votes
	The University of Texas chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas, forced to call off a ‘catch an illegal immigrant’ game on campus following wide-spread condemnation
4%	2 votes
	J.P. Morgan Chase, fined $13 billion related to mortgage-backed securities that were mis-sold by the bank and settling with a group of investors for $4.5 billion in a separate case
8%	4 votes
	State attorney general John Swallow (R-UT), resigning after state investigations conclude he failed to report business interests and income on financial disclosure forms
0%	0 votes
	A 25 year-old Mississippi River valley woman (named Star) who has announced her intention to marry … convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, even carving an ‘x’ onto her forehead like him
0%	0 votes
	State Rep. Tom Brower (D-HI), forced to abandon his policy of taking a sledgehammer to shopping carts (being used by the homeless) after mounting criticism
15%	7 votes
	Johnson & Johnson, facing a proposed $2.5 billion settlement with 8,000 patients who have had to replace hip joints (that shred metal fragments after surgery)
4%	2 votes
	Multiple names above, names not listed (please specify whom in a comment)
6%	3 votes

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