Dave LaFontaine

Can we all just stop expecting Trump to be empathetic or a good person . Hes a dangerous monster. Hes crashed our economy and now hes crashing the world's economy. Its just a sandbox game for the toddler bully . Winning for him is human suffering.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

YouTube is now the world’s largest media company, and it is only getting bigger YouTube’s 2025 revenue topped even Disney’s media properties and is poised for ongoing growth both in advertising and subscriptions, MoffettNathanson said.

I was an ME at Filmson.com one of the early online-video companies, and our tech wound up getting integrated into YouTube

What they’ve grown into is amazing; education, health care, news, home repair - they touch so many areas now!

www.marketwatch.com/story/youtub...

This is what impunity looks like. They can do whatever they want, because they know that Fox News will never say a word about it, and cover it up with lies if it ever does penetrate the echo chamber

GOP base is fed angertainment to distract them

(WHAT SHOULD HAVE COME NEXT)
Reporter: But if you don't know enough about it, why did you feel confident that it was Iran doing this? Didn't your generals explain to you that Iran doesn't have cruise missiles? Or did you miss that somehow?

Like everything else, all he has to do is repeat “we won!” over and over, repeated diagnosing in the right wing echo chamber

Much like he declared the collusion with the Russia in 2016 to be a hoax, and now it’s just generally accepted with shrugs that he was puppeteered by Vladimir Putin

I can't compete with this.

Really appreciate this from CAJ:

Well, Cowboys fans can look forward to watching Gary half-heartedly jog behind Saquon

Yeah, I get market rates & etc.

Things is, QBs can’t pass when getting steamrollered bc OLine is clumsy doofuses & WRs have butterfingers & can’t get open/run routes

Ie last 14 seasons of Packer football

So … sort of a 2nd Life-meets-Sims where you just watch your avatar do stuff to/with/for other avatars?

Like watching the intro screen sequences in video games?

This makes sense to Zuck & Musk but not to actual humans w capability for emotions other than greed

Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

In a five-part series, "Sick in a Hospital Town," @ProPublica examined this nationwide health care crisis and Albany’s epic fight to get quality care at an affordable price from a hospital system focused on profits over preventive care. projects.propublica.org/albany-georg... 5/7

There's a mundane reason for Alabama's high power bills. Our leaders don't want to hear it. | Alabama Reflector The current system benefits state utilities at the expense of consumers. But Alabama leaders are embracing conspiracy theories.

My column this week. Alabama GOP leaders knew who to blame for the failure of a bill that would have canceled Public Service Commission elections: George Soros. Soros wasn't responsible for that; he's not the reason your power bills are high, and blaming him is a refusal to confront the real cause.

To help prevent this, remember that your Signal SMS verification code is only ever needed when you are first signing up for the Signal app. To protect people from such phishing, Signal actively warns users against sharing their SMS code and PIN. 4/7

These attacks, like all phishing, rely on social engineering. Attackers impersonate trusted contacts or services (such as the non-existent “Signal Support Bot”) to trick victims into handing over their login credentials or other information. 3/7

For-profit prisons and no-bid contracts to cronies is my guess

This is what a $30 billion blank check for ICE with zero accountability looks like.

This all reminds me of the Milwaukee Bucks thinking having Dame and Giannis and a bunch of Smurfs was the way to a ring

And then Dame got hurt

We saw what happens when Parsons is out; this team is unbalanced

At some point the ad fraud that sustains “content” that is never seen by a human (and thus leads to NO SALES) will become too onerous even for the dimwits

you see this in media pretty broadly as well

they want to create a giant (badly) automated ouroboros of engagement slop that shits ad engagement money without the need for pesky human labor

whether anything produced is actually useful, ethical, or even seen by a human is a distant afterthought

Wait WTF? Until robots start eating Skittles and wearing Crocs, I don’t see where $$ enters this supposed “value” chain?

“Aw, c’mon! Really? I mean …”
Energy here. Even demons get exasperated by their working conditions

Truly amazing how people have always underestimated Trump's stupidity. From Mattis onward, people keep thinking he's not really as dumb as he looks on TV, only to be shown over and over that he's actually worse than they could possibly have imagined.

Not like they go cap room to sign anyone anyway - $60MM to Love & $50MM to Parsons eats up the cap

And then there’s Hobbs and Banks …

Epstein's War is Not even two weeks old And everything is already a spectacular disaster The price of oil skyrocketed to over $100 a barrel, stock markets dropping like a rock Dead soldiers, Innocent Dead children Remember-You voted for the 'No More Wars President'

'𝑵𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕'
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Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

BREAKING: the 52.0c/gal weekly rise in the national average price of gasoline is now the fifth largest ever recorded by GasBuddy data going back to 2000.

Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level? <meta charset="utf-8">A keen reminder to analyze data with a careful eye.

When your political base is comprised almost exclusively of mouth- breathing illiterates, pictures carry outsize weight (and yes, the widely reported statistic is more complicated than it seems, but the point still stands)

www.snopes.com/news/2022/08...

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

2000 Meters to Andriivka (full documentary) | FRONTLINE YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

This documentary about the experience of Ukrainian infantry soldiers is devastating. Hard to watch but also one of the most extraordinary depictions of war I've ever seen, a kind of moral reset if you've been ingesting the 'hit 'em hard' platitudes of US politicians www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4C...