Proposition 40, which will be on the ballot in November, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on California’s 200 billionaires,

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U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

An angular eagle behind the defense secretary departed from the Pentagon’s established branding. Critics saw echoes of the Third Reich.

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Full title: Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to ‘camouflage’ 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the ‘biomimicry’ effort as ‘lipstick on a pig’ amid a 20-year gas power deal

I knew they were big bears but not TWICE A HUMAN size! I didn’t even google this image for the polar bear I wanted to see how big a black bear is.

For the past year, Norma had parked her brown-and-beige camper van outside [Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey]…most weekends. Converted into a mobile clinic, it was stocked with sutures, glucometers and trauma and CPR kits, and offered health checks to families and protesters. That day, the clinic was busier than usual.

ICE must be abolished.

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

Progressive voters and supporters of incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left reeling after far-right surge

This is the sign that I carried around the Linux conference I posted about It originally said "Trans rights are human rights", but I’m an extremely funny person (/s), so I requested to change rights to tits instead 😂

What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to “shoot up” the Sheriff’s office. After a human reviewer examined the statements, they were reported to police.

In a letter addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, Mills asks the DOJ for an “investigation and intervention” of Georgia’s voting systems in connection with ballot secrecy, preservation of election records, and sharing of voter registration and motor vehicle data with outside organizations.

The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.

Werewolf Birthday

DETROIT (AP) — Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month, lending his support to the progressive nominee after a bruising Democratic primary exposed divisions within the party.

Found this website in the internet, I think someone else might find it interesting.

A new study from PEN America reveals that there were nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools over the past year, the highest since tracking began five years ago

The motion, adopted at conference, removes a “blanket opposition to nuclear fission” and instead commits the Green party of England and Wales to assessing nuclear projects alongside other low-carbon technologies.

Last week, as the war with Iran dragged into its seventh month, gas prices shot up to an average of $4.50 a gallon, and polling showed President Trump about twice as far underwater with American voters as he was at this point in 2018, Republican senators determined that the time had come to discuss something else entirely: youth sports. “Girls’ sports are for girls. Boys’ sports are for boys,” Senator Marsha Blackburn said in a news conference.

men of all colors

Denmark has confirmed a major data breach involving its Central Population Register, known as CPR, after unauthorized parties accessed personal records belonging to about 8.8 million people. The exposed information includes names, addresses, and CPR numbers, according to an official statement published on October 5, 2026.

I think these buses are more than 300k, but anyway T mentioned.

The Supreme Court is rebuffing an appeal from a Michigan woman fighting a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a jab at then-President Joe Biden with a coded reference to profanity.

This isn’t a swashbuckling pirate, this is your Uncle Jim who worked a gig at some kid’s vaguely pirate-themed birthday party

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