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  Democrats now predicted to have at least 259 seats in the House, for beyond 218 required for control. This gives the Speaker enormous flexibility, because (unlike with the current GOP House) they cannot be held "hostage" by small groups of individual members on specific legislation. -L

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  Big Tech Billionaire CEOs today: "Donald WHO?"

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  Will Alito resign now? Could happen, since in two months Trump will be unable to get another Supreme Court justice confirmed.

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  Why aren't Trump and the election deniers screaming? Because ... So far, neither Trump nor the vast network of election deniers, some in positions of power regarding elections, have been screaming foul regarding these historic results resulting in the biggest Democratic gains in at least half a century. Trump says he'll be "Mr. Veto" but also that he accepts the results and wants to work with Democrats. I believe the reason is obvious. It was just TOO big, and involved so man...

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  Harry Houdini died on Halloween, exactly 100 years ago. A full century. Outside of being the most famous escapologist of all times by far, he spent much of his later career exposing the tricks of supposed "supernatural" practitioners. He died at age 52 from complications of a ruptured appendix when he was punched in the abdomen -- before he was prepared -- by a student wanting to test Houdini's famous ability to withstand such punches. He might have survived had he not...

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  Fun Fact: Even inside the most modern of today's smartphones, the modem chip that communicates with the outside world often is commanded using a vastly expanded version of the original Hayes 300 bps modems command set, remembered for its venerable "AT" prefix on commands!

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  Fun Fact: The venerable TV series "The Munsters" has a very bizarre history, reaching back to Jay Ward's "Rocky and Bullwinkle" and a battle that involved The Writer's Guild. Only in L.A.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3hL-kWoPc

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  Taking the leap and replacing a number of complex steel pull rod assemblies related to an ancient device with Kevlar cord instead.

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  Fun Fact: The creator of the "Cap 'n Crunch" cereal character was told by General Mills that the cereal would stay crunchy in milk. When he tried it, he thought it was so crunchy it could shred kids' mouths, and speculated that a better slogan than "stays crunchy even in milk" would be "stays crunchy even in hydrochloric acid" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XLBd4U36bU

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  Fun Fact: They guy at Jay Ward who created the "Cap 'n Crunch" character for General Mills in 1962 -- still being used today of course -- was paid a flat $1000 bonus for the character -- about $11,000 today. The character has of course brought in many millions of dollars over its continuing lifetime.

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  BREAKING: In disgusting attack ad, Ramaswamy tries to use child molestation against the victim in Ohio governor race, drawing wide condemnation

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  My favorite story that Bill Scott told at my Jay Ward Film Festival at UCLA in the early 80s. They submitted a "Rocky and Bullwinkle" script where the two were in a pot being cooked by cannibals. The sponsor went bonkers -- "You can't have cannibalism on a kid's show!" And the team replied, "Is it really cannibalism to eat a moose and a squirrel?" The bit stayed in.

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  Ramaswamy is a typical billionaire P.O.S.

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  This page purports to provide advanced mitigation info for the upcoming severe php bugs Use at your own risk: https://jackalsyn.com/posts/php-up-2026.html

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  It's frankly terrifying that people with so much money are obviously so utterly nuts.

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  Can't stop thinking about the 250 THOUSAND trees #Google chopped down in Finland without permission, for another goddamned AI data center. As far as I'm concerned we've reached the point where this garbage isn't worth killing a single tree.

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  BREAKING (literally): Soggy Hegseth's cronies, rather than using a skilled team, tried to move Eisenhower's historic globe -- and broke it Like everything else Hegseth touches. Ruined.

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  Social Security sending out scammy "Trump Account" email propaganda that looks like a phishing attack

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  BREAKING: Claims of massive PHP exploits being announced tomorrow with 10/10 severity affecting all versions 5 through 8 on websites (apache, etc.) blogs (wordpress, etc). ... etc. There's a lot of talk but no details. Apparently those details and patches, where available -- and apparently only newer versions will get patches -- will arrive Wednesday morning. That's all I know.

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  BREAKING: Mapquest now includes a layer showing known Flock and other surveillance cameras!

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  BREAKING: Full Starlink access to Ukrainian troops reportedly restored

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  BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court says clergy need not report horrific child abuse, due to "religious freedom"

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  Today is Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" Nuclear War Day First published in 1950, Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" describes a single house miraculously standing after nuclear attacks have destroyed the city (and presumably global civilization), the house still going about its automated duties for a time, unaware of what has occurred. Yes, remarkably prescient, and unlike much science-fiction, damned accurate on his predicted dating...

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  BREAKING: Trump calls for ABC and NBC to have licenses revoked for not carrying his deranged, political speech, saying that they are plotting election fraud

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  #Amazon users are livid over the Alexa AI Misinformation Slop Invasion features now contaminating many searches on the Amazon web site and app. This feature cannot be disabled completely without using 3rd party extensions, which on general principles I would not recommend on a shopping site where payment credentials and other personal information can appear. The Alexa sidebar replete with useless AI slop comments about your search and your prior purchase history can be closed, but will likely po...

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  BREAKING: Bipartisan panel says Musk likely broke Wisconsin law by handing out big election checks to voters

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  [Uh, no.] Signal now allows signups without phone numbers -- BUT you have to pay a $2.99 fee to Google to do so! You have to pay a fee in the Signal Android app! Uh, no. #signal #google

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  A major utility I deal with recently changed their website and phone customer services ops to an obviously AI-based system that is a serious cluster f*ck. I mean, stuff like claiming phone numbers aren't in the system that have been there for decades, and showing an online DUE amount along with "No payment due". Still possible to reach a human, but it required third-level magic to do so.

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  BREAKING: Hackers say they have [personal] data on all FBI employees https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/

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  BREAKING: Man shot by ICE and removed from hospital despite bullet still in back is now partially paralyzed and back in hospital