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Former lead singer of Smash Mouth (apparently retired in 2021) Steve Harwell died. I put a lot of mileage on my Fush Yu Mang CD back in the day to the annoyance of my family. RIP...

Mitch McConnell has a second episode. He should probably resign anyway because he's 81, but clearly he's got a major issue left over from his concussion a few months ago.

Arleen Sorkin, the original (and absolute best) Harley Quinn, passed away at 67 https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1327332-arleen-sorkin-dead-harley-quinn

The picture is going to be a symbol for both sides and it's going to be funny when pro/anti Trump demonstrators meet each other and everyone's wearing a shirt with the mug shot on it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733?at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_type=web_link&at_format=link&at_link_id=942367EA-41D8-11EE-BA43-AAC478A687CD&at_campaign_type=owned&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBCBreaking&at_bbc_team=editorial Less surprised by this...

This is an impressively dumb idea and he's so eager to make sure he gets credit for it.

After publicly declaring he's okay with letting China invade Taiwan after we have semi-conductor independence and don't need them... what stops Taiwan from siding with China and cutting us off the moment there's a President-elect Ramaswamy?

Biden Admin to make $6 billion available to Iran in exchange for hostages in beginning of a process that will also include prisoner swaps. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/politics/americans-released-from-iranian-prison-house-arrest/index.html The spin is this isn't us giving them $6 billion...

Beto wildly overperformed against Cruz beyond what anyone expected. That's not very effective voter suppression.

It's not limited to a European/Western geography or the Christian faith.

This is comic book villain territory

Trying to think of another example of such willful jettisoning of brand recognition. Granted, Twitter's brand name isn't exactly healthy or good nowadays, but still. Maybe Radioshack being like "Hey, we're The Shack now."

After the weird very online sociopath DeSantis video about LGBT, here's a very weird DeSantis video that ends with his face superimposed over a Sonnenrad as soldiers march towards it. Allegedly retweeted by a campaign staffer, the previous video was reported to have been made in house and...

I'd never looked into Dahl's antisemitism before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl Here I thought that was a relatively new trick.

Almost half the staff is non-white, they're not all Americans, some are immigrants, but IF there's any diversity in their backgrounds... :rolleyes:

Actually, that may have been the final straw or excuse, but the main drivers of this were her coziness with McCarthy and voting for the debt limit deal. She wasn't too stupid for the Freedom Caucus, she was too "establishment" for it.

The last major lawsuit I remember Musk being involved in was to try and get out of buying Twitter... so... seems like the emptiest of threats. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

That's an interesting assertion. Pew Research Polling shows significant majorities by race and political party oppose affirmative action. Link In 2020, minority-majority California voted against a constitutional amendment to allow affirmative action in schools, public jobs, etc with 57%...

Huh. He always said this was about the MoD and not Putin, which even if true... this doesn't seem like the kind of thing you just stop. You either see it through or you die. So very bizarre.

In 2021 during a flare up in Gaza, a group of pro-Palestinian protestors jumped a kippah wearing Jew in Times Square who was on his way to a pro-Israel rally. They viciously beat him, pepper sprayed him, called him a dirty Jew. One of the assailants later said he'd do it again if he could...