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Bomb cyclone leaves most of California under a flash flood watch, at least two killed (Update)
Yesterday I wrote about the bomb cyclone in the Pacific making landfall in northern California. The expectation was for high waves, high winds and lots and lots of rain. As expected this has created a mess statewide with…
Here we go again: Seventh time the charm for McCarthy? Nope
Did Kevin McCarthy offer enough concessions overnight to finally win over enough dissidents to win election as Speaker? Or did he give away so much that McCarthy risks alienating his previous supporters? Either way, McCarthy…
Armageddon, or tempest in a teapot?
The current fight over who should be Speaker of the House has certainly inspired a lot of heated rhetoric.Read More
Woman passing as a Indigenous artist in Wisconsin is exposed as a white woman
Did Kay LeClaire learn nothing from Rachel Dolezal? Both are white women who were passing as Native American, in the case of LeClaire, and a black woman, in the case of Dolezal. Or maybe LeClaire should have learned from…
Musk: Maybe some political ads on Twitter are okay
Back in 2019, as the presidential race was starting to seriously heat up, Jack Dorsey banned all political advertising on Twitter. In early 2020, Facebook followed suit with a similar rule. This week, however, facing serious…
BREAKING: Stabenow announces retirement in 2024 — ahead of brutal Dem cycle
Is Debbie Stabenow truly "inspired by a new generation of leaders"? Or is she despairing in the face of a brutal 2024 campaign cycle with Joe Biden at the top of the ticket? The Senate session has only just opened,…
Trump is his own worst enemy
It's no secret that a lot of Republicans have been abandoning former president Trump since the disastrous midterm elections. For some reason, Trump seems to keep finding new ways to alienate his supporters and lose…
Final chapter closes on Operation Varsity Blues scandal as Rick Singer is sentenced to prison
Rick Singer, the mastermind behind the Operation Varsity Blues scandal, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. His sentence is the final action needed to close the chapter on those who participated in the college admissions…
Reality bites: We don’t currently have a House of Representatives
As the clown show in the House of Representatives stretches into its fourth day, a disturbing reality has begun to set in. By any functional definition of the institution, we currently do not actually have a House of…
Garbage in, garbage out…
Open AI is very proud of its new chatbot ChatGPT, and has been encouraging people to interact with it.Read More