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The 6th largest economy in the world is hitting 100% solar periods on a daily basis
From Electrek (Industry blog) : In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days. Stanford University professor of civil and environmental engineering Mark Z....
by umbra 100 comments 445 Recs
Just one note on the Mayorkas impeachment fiasco
Mitch McConnell: “Tabling articles of impeachment would be unprecedented in the history of the Senate.” Well, so was tabling the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Mitch. But you had no qualms with that, did you? Maybe you should just...
by Dartagnan 14 comments 91 Recs
Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.
Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...
by Pakalolo 63 comments 201 Recs
Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine launches devastating attack on Crimean airfield
Ukraine launched a strike against Russia’s airfield in Dzhankoi, Crimea. Reports indicate ATACMS rockets may have been used and that 15 were wounded and 22 are missing. The photo shows the destroyed S-400 Triumph air defense system. The strike was...
by quaoar 61 comments 380 Recs
Isn't it odd that Melania and none of his kids are at his criminal trial?
I do. I find it odd that his own family that we know of is not at his trial. Not one sibling, not any family or if he has friends...where are they? I know if my husband or family member was on trial, I would try to be there at least one day. If Melania...
by Vetwife 408 comments 437 Recs
Miscellany: Donald violates gag order (again) plus MTG wants space lasers at the border
Apparently non-senior Biden staff have a nickname for Trump. as MSNBC’s Laurence O’Donnell reports that a Trump posting on Truth Social violated the gag order. Protesters shut down San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in both directions for hours Monday...
by annieli 18 comments 53 Recs
Boeing Crisis Ignites Call for Strict U.S. Stock Buyback Laws
I hate stock buybacks. I think they are one of the most self-serving things that corporate America does. Instead of investing in workers and in training and in research and in equipment, they don’t do a thing to make their company better and they...
by thomhartmann 81 comments 259 Recs
8 weeks Post Total Left Knee Replacement Surgery Update,
Good Evening. Where to start! I am doing very good, today I was at drakestone working on the trailer, I was drilling & tapping the almost 300 fasteners in the 6 pieces of 3/16 aluminum diamond plate. (I have 100 to go) Got there at 7:15 am & at noon I...
by eeff 31 comments 79 Recs
PWB Kitties Love Bats
Today is International Bat Day…�Bats are beautiful creatures, and kitties appreciate their place in the world…�Let’s celebrate bats tonight… But first, the rules… You are all ...
by mamajo2k 42 comments 53 Recs
MAGA influencer tries his hand at jury tampering on social media. It backfires bigly
The fellah doing all the illegal jury tampering suggestin’ is one Clay Travis. What the hell is a Clay Travis? I dunno, but the apparent Megamind recently put that whole secret squirrel operation of Tank-Manhattan-Criminal-Court-Case-Against-Trump...
by sepiasiren 245 comments 632 Recs
Attacks on Amtrak are just one story in the long, sordid saga of U.S. railroad rip-offs
In Xaxnar’s excellent post The truth about Amtrak, I began a comment that started to turn into its own essay, and I decided not to hijack the discussion and to write a standalone piece instead. Xaxnar begins: President Joe Biden has made it a priority...
by Meteor Blades 13 comments 71 Recs
Arizona Republicans block repeal of 1864 abortion law ... AGAIN
Arizona Republicans pulled a lot of procedural bullshit in the Legislature today to keep a Democratic bill repealing the 1864 abortion law from being enacted, but the bottom line is this: Republicans had the chance to return the state to something...
by Mother Mags 31 comments 132 Recs

Recent Diaries

Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E160: Trump: Jimmy Kimmel And Al Pacino Are The Same Guy
Episode 160 has been uploaded. iHeartRadio this podcast all podcasts Omny.FM this podcast all podcasts ivoox this podcast all podcasts Apple this podcast all podcasts Preview is a short this time. YouTube, later A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is an...
by Proginoskes 1 comments 0 Recs
US Army Financial Counselor Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Gold Star Families of Millions
On 16 April, Caz Craffy, a US Army civilian employee (DAC) and Major in the US Army Reserve, pleaded guilty to bilking millions of dollars from Gold Star families. From May 2018 to Nov 2022, he obtained over $9.9 million from victims who received a...
by C0RI0LANUS 2 comments 1 Recs
IAN:Thursday 4/18/2024 Spring is Here, Get an Air Fryer
The neighbors have been replanting their front yard flower beds and trimming their hedges.� The birds have stopped coming for daily baths, I assume their time is otherwise engaged.� New shoots are ...
by art ah zen 4 comments 4 Recs
Ukraine Invasion Day 785 "Russian advances will accelerate, absent urgent American action"
Ukrainian forces struck a Russian military airfield in occupied Dzhankoi, Crimea, overnight on April 16 to 17. Geolocated footage posted on April 16 shows explosions at the airfield in ...
by annieli 2 comments 13 Recs
Late Night Insomniacs Vent Hole
SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you.
by sallym 8 comments 3 Recs
Overnight News Digest for April 17 2024
The Hill — Johnson turns to Democrats on Ukraine aid amid ouster threat Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will lean heavily on Democrats to move a series of bills in the coming days providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and other democratic allies overseas — a...
by jeremybloom 19 comments 11 Recs
Trying to fact-check an e-mail from my Senator. (Jim Risch - ID)
Okay, I got this in my e-mail, and since I was doing other weird research, it drew my attention, as the numbers seemed really high (On immigration). I’m pasting this all, then snipping it into bits. Democrats Blocked Secretary Mayorkas' Impeachment...
by CrystalHR 1 comments 1 Recs
Miscellany: Donald violates gag order (again) plus MTG wants space lasers at the border
Apparently non-senior Biden staff have a nickname for Trump. as MSNBC’s Laurence O’Donnell reports that a Trump posting on Truth Social violated the gag order. Protesters shut down San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in both directions for hours Monday...
by annieli 18 comments 53 Recs
Just one note on the Mayorkas impeachment fiasco
Mitch McConnell: “Tabling articles of impeachment would be unprecedented in the history of the Senate.” Well, so was tabling the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Mitch. But you had no qualms with that, did you? Maybe you should just...
by Dartagnan 14 comments 91 Recs
PWB Kitties Love Bats
Today is International Bat Day…�Bats are beautiful creatures, and kitties appreciate their place in the world…�Let’s celebrate bats tonight… But first, the rules… You are all ...
by mamajo2k 42 comments 53 Recs
Top Comments: TFG's Testimony
I’m sure he won’t testify. But that didn’t stop me from writing an approximation of how it would sound. But first, a word from our sponsor! Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker 6 comments 14 Recs
SCOTUS Suddenly Concerned About Overcriminalization...for J6 Insurrectionists: 'BradCast' 4/17/2024
Guest: LawDork's Chris Geidner Also: Scam GOP impeachment trial ends in one day AZ Repubs spike repeal of 1864 abortion law (again) Voter turnout doubles in AL's new majority minority U.S. House District... On today's BradCast: If only the corrupted...
by TheBradBlog 1 comments 3 Recs
8 weeks Post Total Left Knee Replacement Surgery Update,
Good Evening. Where to start! I am doing very good, today I was at drakestone working on the trailer, I was drilling & tapping the almost 300 fasteners in the 6 pieces of 3/16 aluminum diamond plate. (I have 100 to go) Got there at 7:15 am & at noon I...
by eeff 31 comments 79 Recs
Kitchen Table Kibitzing 4/17/24: Pony Up
Sixty years ago today was the debut of one of the world’s most successful cars, and my personal favorite, Ford’s Mustang . The first-generation Ford Mustang was manufactured by Ford from March ...
by jck 101 comments 27 Recs
Fed Chair Jerome Powell reveals the cause of persistent inflation - economy is becoming uninsurable.
Jerome Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018 and confirmed by the US Senate. President Joe Biden renominated him when he entered office in January of 2021. The job of the Fed...
by Pakalolo 63 comments 201 Recs
State Department Inertia
Brett Murphy of ProPublica reports that “SOS Blinken has not acted upon the recommendations of a Special State Department Panel that found that several Israeli military and police units do not qualify for US arms transfers under the Leahy law due to...
by AvoidAmnesia 3 comments 9 Recs
Taps...
I hadn't thought about him for months. But during the Spring and Summer the windows tended to be open we'd hear him every night just at dusk. One minute of thumpity like music. Always the same melody, always the same duration of time. Then the Fall and...
by phcarb 3 comments 16 Recs
A Serious Proposal For A New Slogan For The Trump Campaign
"Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. The Battle of Gettysburg, what an unbelievable, I mean it was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of...
by KeithDB 8 comments 16 Recs
Trump Caught Between Day(dreams) and Knight
Somehow, I stumbled upon the video shown below, and oh what delicious news it delivers! Apparently, the bond issuer chosen by Donnie DumbQuips (Knight Specialty Insurance Company) originally considered underwriting the entire $450M+ obligation set as a...
by Northern Pol 2 comments 12 Recs
Why information about the jurors could be a problem.
I know it’s public information when the jurors are questioned and things about their background are discussed. But how many of them maybe hunted down with the information published? The defense can’t say names and the judge has instructed only the...
by Dune 13 comments 16 Recs

	State Rep. Pat Garofalo (R-MN), forced to apologize for his disparaging tweet about the NBA … saying its disappearance might only negatively result in … 'an increase in street crime'
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	Russia’s currency (the ruble) which has lost around 10% of its value since the start of the year and is at an all-time low, following its intervention in the Crimean peninsula
2%	1 votes
	State Rep. Deb Sanderson (R-ME), saying that Gov. LePage’s veto of Medicaid expansion should ‘incentivize some folks’ to work more … so they can buy their own insurance
2%	1 votes
	Dietary supplements firm Herbalife, whose stock price has fallen 12% on news the Federal Trade Commission is investigating claims that its business model resembles a pyramid scheme
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	Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), forced to walk-back his remarks about a supposed lack of work ethic by using dog-whistle remarks such as ‘inner-city’ … and by citing works by Charles Murray, who blames genetics for these shortcomings
27%	10 votes
	Pinkberry frozen yogurt chain co-founder Young Lee, sentenced to seven years for beating - with a tire iron - a street panhandler in Los Angeles (who had a sexually explicit tattoo that Lee was upset his fiancée had to see)
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	Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), widely lampooned – even by conservatives – for a wordless, positive-image TV ad showing him in several scenes grinning … that Jon Stewart has dubbed 'McConneling'
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	Fast-food pizza chain Sbarro’s and sandwich chain Quiznos, both forced to file for banktruptcy protection in the same week
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	Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), using his question time at a Senate hearing (on different nations’ health care systems) to ask what he thought were damaging questions to a Canadian doctor ... only to be brought short by her responses
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	The small city of Hampton, Florida … threatened with extinction by the state legislature after being exposed as nearly bankrupt (and whose mayor is in jail) despite running a lucrative traffic speed trap that even has the county sheriff upset
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	Conservative activist Austin Ruse, fired as a (substitute) radio host by the American Family Association after his on-air remarks that the 'hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities … should all be taken out and shot'
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	Singer/actor Chris Brown, who has been living at a residential treatment center (under orders from a court), arrested for violating his probation … stemming from his 2009 assault conviction against fellow singer Rihanna
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	Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), under fire – even from many conservatives – for preaching free markets, and not government … then siding with New Jersey auto dealers (in a back-room deal) to freeze-out direct Tesla Motors sales to consumers
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	Libya’s prime minister Ali Zeidan, dismissed by parliament (and forced to flee the country) after a North Korean-flagged tanker was allowed to load up with oil (at a rebel-held port) and leave Libyan waters
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	Multiple names above ... names not listed (please specify whom in a comment)
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