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Wednesday morning’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” was yet another chance for Democratic ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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The Washington Post had two interesting articles about how bad domain specific imitative AI search can be. �In the first case, Amazon’s new search bot was effectively useless. �the tester could ...
by angryea
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 06:43 AM PDT
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Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ongoing battle with almost everyone not named Donald Trump has added a new GOP congressman into the mix.� On Sunday, CNN published a story about the behind-the-scenes moves ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 01:30 PM PST
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Rep. Matt Gaetz spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference�on Friday and used his time to attack his enemies—most of whom are fellow Republicans . After criticizing�President Biden’s ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 02:30 PM PST
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Shortly after 5 pm Eastern time, if all goes according to plan, a private U.S. spacecraft will land on the moon spaceflightnow.com/.... That is an achievement that we in the U.S. haven’t managed to replicate during the preceeding 50 years, and it will...
by ARodinFan
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on Wed Feb 21, 2024 at 09:55 PM PST
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On Wednesday, ABC News reported on texts House ethics probe investigators had discovered between Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and an unnamed woman. Those texts purported to show the Florida congressman propositioning the woman to come on a three-day...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 10:02 AM PST
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A report came out on Wednesday that the House ethics probe into Rep. Matt Gaetz is heating up. New text messages between Gaetz and a young woman, who was receiving payments for sex from former Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg, were obtained by federal...
by Walter Einenkel
203 comments
on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 09:15 AM PST
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THE GHOST OF RONALD REAGAN MR. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. So said former President Ronald Reagan in a speech in West Berlin on June 12, 1987. In late November1989 the Berlin Wall did indeed come down. No more communist East Germany and Democratic...
by Jeff Morris
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 01:12 PM PST
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UPDATE: Sunday, Feb 11, 2024 · 8:20:39 AM +00:00 · Dem Representative Moskowitz pointed out Donald Trump confused the leaders of Hungary and Turkey In a deposition that was of the woman he sexually assaulted and said she was his wife. Speaker Johnson...
by Dem
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 10:03 PM PST
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Ars Technica has an article about a partnership between Microsoft and news site Semaphor (also, SPELL THE COMPNAY NAME CORRECTLY YOU DWEEBS. �Ahem.) �As near as I can tell, reporters are expected to ...
by angryea
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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by angryea
33 comments
on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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Two years ago, as her confirmation hearing marched forward, Ketanji Brown Jackson, on her way to becoming the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, stood firm against withering questions posed by Senator Ted Cruz, quite possibly the most...
by Eihenetu
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 10:28 AM PST
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An ethics complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, is calling for a federal investigation into Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee. The complaint asks that Ogles be investigated for the more than “$1 million of...
by Walter Einenkel
65 comments
on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 01:13 PM PST
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued his traditional end-of-year report on the state of the courts late last month, or as Elie Mystal at The Nation deems it, his annual “long-winded ...
by Joan McCarter
99 comments
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 04:15 PM PST
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A new paper shows how RTBs (Real Time Bidding) providers enable anyone to track anyone and anyone to get sensitive information about people’s medical history, opinions, and locations. �The ...
by angryea
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Coming as no surprise to anyone familiar with him, freshman Congressman Eli Crane (R), who ran on “cleaning up the mess” in Washington, and who has joined the likes of Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert in pushing hard for the impeachment of President Joe...
by Roadrunner65
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 11:27 AM PST
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Former Rep. George Santos may be out of the House, but he’s not going�to go away quietly. On Friday, Santos was unceremoniously expectorated from Congress �for being a liar,�fraud, and likely ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 12:45 PM PST
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"I have two cats, a dog, two rabbits, a turtle and a goldfish". Said my Texan colleague. To say that I was amused might be an understatement. I was flabbergasted. My mind was boggled. Americans, or at the least Texans, sure love their pets; and so...
by HiFromIndia
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 11:49 PM PST
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The modern GOP loves their representatives to be empty-headed, self-righteous, vicious, angry, and corrupt. Wear it like a badge of honor even. When it comes to these wonderful characteristics, there are many GOP knuckleheads to choose from; however,...
by sepiasiren
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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On Sept. 1, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders held a big fun party for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks football team at the governor’s mansion. The invitation-only event took place on the eve of the Razorbacks’ first game, with head coach Sam Pittman,...
by Walter Einenkel
117 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 11:29 AM PST
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