https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719536-bill-hillary-clinton-testify-house-oversight-epstein/ Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The news marks a stunning about-face that came after months of negotiations and as the House Rules Committee was preparing to tee up floor votes on potentially holding the two in contempt of Congress. The House Oversight Committee voted last month to advance the contempt resolutions.

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.

They could have just kept quiet and you probably never would have caught it. WTF man! Leaving money on the table like that! Lol

Normally I doubt there would much appetite for a Western megapower but nowadays…who knows? Perhaps certain a region like Chukotka for purely strategic reasons but nothing much else. Russian far east though is definitely a desirable backyard sandbox for the Chinese.

I don't think I'll even watch the game this year.

True story. Link to video

@Axtremus said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you? Classy.

Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah about an Epstein joke I thought Trump had the greatest sense of humour of any President?

Linked the paywalled article, and cut out the juiciest bit that confirms his biases most.

That's been well understood by many for a while now. The ICE protests are mostly higher status whites screaming at lower status minorities, trying to do their job.

Mark makes a very valid point about how AI doesn't do everything for you. GIGO. You have to know something about the subject matter and the technology involved, what questions to ask, parameters to provide to get a decent product.

60 minutes piece (Bill Whitaker is a favorite of mine) Link to video

Meh, to me it's not about policy or credentials (hello, Trump... hello Kamala....) but how someone makes you feel. I'm not saying Gavin is warm and fuzzy, but he certainly speaks intelligently, seems affable, and doesn't cackle like a psychotic hen, something both the chicks Trump trounced enjoyed doing.

@89th said in Cincinnati chili has snowflakes too.: Also, that dude in the video is probably someone who would start talking about the merits of the tour de france while I'm trying to watch a ballgame. You say that like it's a bad thing.

Capitalize the G.

Just found out that the backup “guest teacher astronaut” to McCauliff and watched from the ground as her colleague ended up perishing in the Challenger, later was selected to be an astronaut on Columbia for a 2004 launch and in 2003 was in the chase jet meant to rendezvous with Colombia as it landed, of course it never landed. That is wild. Eventually, she went up in the Endeavor shuttle… i’d have to imagine her crew mates were not believers in bad luck.

I suppose if you drop a swamp monster big enough into a swamp, the swamp would indeed drain due to standard water displacement science.

Blacks are "people of the SUN"!! Give them July or August!!!

Except he predicted a crash in 07-09 and then lost money when it happened. It doesn’t pay to have really precise theories about just how things will go wrong. Or at least to bet on them.