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  • Redistricting in Illinois

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    taiwan_girlT
    Different state, but Supreme Court makes decision on redistricting. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-02-04/supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-to-californias-new-election-map The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that California this fall may use its new election map, which is expected to send five more Democrats to Congress. With no dissents, the justices rejected emergency appeals from California Republicans and President Trump's lawyers, who claimed the map was a racial gerrymander to benefit Latinos, not a partisan effort to bolster Democrats. "Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November," Gov. Gavin Newsom said in response to the court's decision.
  • Star Trek, 30 years later - One for George

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    RenaudaR
    @89th Star Trek: Is this an unlimited buffet?? The replicator in 10 Forward can cater to all tastes and appetites.
  • Funny Pics

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  • Mildly interesting

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    MikM
    She's seen a lot of history, up close and personal. I wonder what the status of Hamas is today.
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    @taiwan_girl said in Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant: Medicine is amazing. But I am sure they were saying that back in 1926 and look how far it has come since them. eople in 2126 will look back at 2026 in the same way probably. or in 2126 maybe the population will be decimated from measles and other preventable diseases and people will wonder how ingenious people were in past times
  • The Epstein File

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    Reminds me of that Michael Jackson joke, but for Epstein. ***NSFW content***click to show I may be 50, but I feel like a 15 year old Sorry, probably not appropriate. #eek
  • First Waymo

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    jon-nycJ
    No, but it was 50%+ more than an uber
  • Jill Biden traded up when she married Joe

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    MikM
    I don’t know that I’d go quite that far. The title that is.
  • Inside SE Asian Scam Centers

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    taiwan_girlT
    @89th Interesting pictures.
  • Get out your popcorn

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    LuFins DadL
    Ahhh, I didn’t look at the timestamp on the tweet! The jury came back yesterday. They found him guilty. Apparently, he and the Au Pair planned to kill his wife and blame it on a total stranger that they also killed. So they created an account for his wife on some whackadoodle website, invited this guy to the house for some action, then shot him and stabbed her when he showed up…
  • The marketplace is changing

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    said in The marketplace is changing: I cut cable in 1994. I did buy a real diamond for Mayla. I joke that it’s the smallest car I ever purchased. Agreed re stocks - 20-somethings have app-based trading accounts at a higher rate than my peers had (say) Schwab accounts. Though many probably buy more crypto than stocks. Re paper napkins young people probably have a stash from take out orders. I bet they rarely buy condiments either. Creepy. I got Facebook ads for selling diamonds after posting this.
  • The Dark or Inappropriate Humor Thread

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    https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2018771967621669285?s=46
  • And now, the corruption.

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    @jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.: Rod Dreher (founder of the American Conservative) learns Trump is corrupt. Surely it can't be long before Hitler finally learns the truth....
  • An app I wrote using AI

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    We have some smart people here!!!!
  • This is just so fucking predictable

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    AxtremusA
    A couple more of those "predictable" developments ... https://newrepublic.com/post/206049/ice-agents-whine-massive-bonuses New hires at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are complaining that they haven’t yet received the massive bonuses promised to them for agreeing to brutally arrest immigrants. https://newrepublic.com/post/206029/ice-arrests-right-wing-influencer-trump-immigration-crackdown “A Brazilian influencer who openly backed President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday. // Junior Pena, whose Instagram account boasts almost half a million followers, was detained in New Jersey after missing a court hearing related to his own immigration status, ...
  • Nancy needs some Mace

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    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nancy-mace-is-not-okay.html She has faded from the spotlight pretty fast. Though I dont know personally, Probably some truth to the article. South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace used to make her staffers go on late-night booze runs, clean her house, and boost her on forums discussing the “hottest women in Congress”—and that was all before things got really bad. and Former staffers said Mace treated them like maids after she arrived in Congress in January 2021, ordering them to clean the multiple properties she was renting out on Airbnb, including her Washington townhouse. Ahead of election night in 2022, Mace instructed her staffers to spiff up her $3.9 million home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for a watch party, a former staffer with direct knowledge told New York magazine. Mace also started dispatching staffers on late-night runs for alcohol to keep parties going at her home. “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,” one former staffer told New York magazine. Members of Congress are explicitly barred from instructing their staffers to run personal errands, and they are not permitted to purchase alcohol for their boss’s personal consumption. One staffer alleged Mace’s excessive drinking and marijuana use became an issue. “She would definitely do it excessively,” the staffer said of the congresswoman’s drinking and marijuana usage. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”
  • Helicopter Crash in DC

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    Thanks for sharing. I just recorded the Discovery Channel documentary about what happened but haven't watched it yet. I am looking forward to hearing some details and insights not already known. Living in that area for a while, I would watch the planes and helicopters daily. The routes were...well, routine. Of course in hindsight, a route that crosses the landing path for airplanes (at night) should've been treated with so much more risk appreciation than "do you see that jet out there?" and "yeah I see it" (wrong jet, most likely).
  • The IRS doesn't fuck around

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    taiwan_girlT
    Drinks are on Jon!!!!
  • Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris

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    taiwan_girlT
    Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.
  • Serving the interests of Americans vs trying to obtain power

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    AxtremusA
    Hey @mik, here's another good one! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-rcna257098 President Donald Trump on Monday said Republicans should nationalize elections and take them over from the states as he repeated his disproven claims of voter fraud. “The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump said during an appearance on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast.