BigRuckus8

BigRuckus8

@bigruckus8.bsky.social

Retired Heathen

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artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring, artificial intelligence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.

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NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

propublica.orgHow ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 HoursThe reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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President Trump fighting with the press means he doesn't have to talk about high gas prices ($4.48/gallon avg) or high diesel prices (record of $6.51/gallon)

Johnson is too stupid to understand how enormously stupid his comment is. Why would anyone think that a new technology that is consuming vast amounts of investment and natural resources that nobody in Congress knows fuck all about could safely self-regulate?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."

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Twelve years ago, Texas sportscaster Dale Hansen gives a monologue on the NFL controversy over Michael Sam being the first openly gay player. “I’m not always comfortable when a man tells me he is gay. I don’t understand his world, but I do understand he is a part of mine.”

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Quick reminder, there's still millions of files that haven't been released from Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein ETC...

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The USDA is projecting the wheat harvest to be cut by almost half in the US. The state of Kansas is the largest producer of wheat and it is projected to harvest 44% less than from 2025. The American Farm Bureau sees a continued increase of Chapter 12 bankruptcies from 2025 as well.

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🧵This is disturbing. Amazon and Meta are planning to build giant data centers powered by off the meter natural gas power plants in TX(Amazon), LA(Meta), and PA(Amazon), with 7.65 GW, 7.5 GW, and 4.6 GW respectively. Below is a satellite image of Amazon's location in TX. While gas burns cleaner..

At a time when we desperately needed environmental stewardship to survive, trump was elected President and he is single handedly burning up the planet and poisoning our air and water. 🔥 🥵

I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social

“I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!” NETWORK (1976) In a decade littered with cinematic masterpieces, Paddy Chayefsky & Sidney Lumet’s movie is right up there at the top of the list. #PeterFinch

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A federal judge just confirmed what anyone with half a brain already knew. Trump’s ten-billion-dollar lawsuit against the IRS was never a legal filing. It was cheap, poorly acted theater, and American taxpayers were forced to buy front-row tickets to the circus.

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What we are witnessing in our Country is more than a political disagreement. It is the normalization of moral collapse. It is the elevation of ignorance into identity, cruelty into virtue, and corruption into culture.

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Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

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They Put a Tracker on Every Road By Tony Pentimalli Flock cameras were sold as a way to find stolen cars. They are becoming a searchable national map of where Americans go. JC and Carolyn Herron were taking their three year old granddaughter to a doctor’s appointment when police

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I cannot believe a few guys making bets on a prediction market are driving some news coverage at CNN and CNBC. It’s clearly info slop, not news. This piece by @atrupar.com & @juddlegum.bsky.social reveals how truly bad it is & how viewers are being misled. Yikes. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

open.substack.comHow Kalshi infects the newsCNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

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NEW evidence shows executives from 3 egg companies plotted to raise your prices. Price fixing is ILLEGAL. But Trump’s Justice Department is giving them a mere slap on the wrist. How small? The largest egg company only has to cough up 0.001% of its profit last year. Shameful.