This campaign ad, once again, should be enough, on its own, to end Trump's career in politics.

Be prepared to cry. This story brutally demonstrates the awfulness of Trump's judicial appointments and policies. Trump takes credit for what so many tried to do for so long: stripping women of a long-held right to manage their health care. — Read the rest

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Here we go again — another week, another Boeing breakdown, to paraphrase myself. This time, a Boeing plane carrying 135 passengers made an emergency landing after an engine cover broke after takeoff.

The Southwest flight from Denver to Houston began its journey Sunday morning, but didn't get very far when the crew noticed the engine cover — aka the cowling — beginning to peel off and expose the engine. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The next big leap forward for your productivity comes courtesy of lifetime licenses to Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus for Windows and Microsoft Office 2019 Home and Business, both an extra 20% off with code ENJOY20 and only $31.99 (Reg. — Read the rest

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Montana's Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who is running as a tough guy for the Senate, bragged at a campaign event about a bullet that got lodged in his arm during his stint in Afghanistan. But this story doesn't pass muster for those who remember Sheehy rushing to the hospital in 2015, where he told a park ranger he accidentally shot his arm in the parking lot at Montana's Glacier National Park. — Read the rest

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Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, "Gee, I'm not 20 anymore"? Well, one bright young Xitter user, sporting the coveted blue checkmark and fondness for investing in Tesla stock (which took a 33% nosedive in six months), embarked on a philosophical journey upon observing a pair of photos featuring the venerable Jim Carrey. — Read the rest

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Once Monday's eclipse fever has passed, there is an extraordinary upcoming celestial event to look forward to. Corona Borealis, or the Northern Crown, is a constellation located between Hercules and Boötes in the night sky. T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, is a binary star system within the constellation consisting of a red giant and a white dwarf. — Read the rest

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Bible salesman Donald Trump took a break from his evangelical charity work, setting aside his holy book to proudly hold up a copy of Playboy magazine to his cult devotees a LIV golf event in Miami over the weekend.

Of course it was the same issue of Playboy he always brandishes when he's feeling frisky at large events— the 1990 issue where he himself graces the cover. — Read the rest

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Excellent YT food channel Guga Foods prefers beef to duck, and so they made a Peking Picanha.

I want to eat all the food prepared in this video. The Peking duck looks impressive, the handmade pancakes delicious, and the picanha sublime. — Read the rest

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Who knew the end times would be heralded not with fire and brimstone but with solar eclipses, minor tremors, and cicadas?

On Friday, Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend sat in his car — the modern MAGA prophet's pulpit — and babbled nonsense about his fear of eclipses, minor earthquakes, and cicadas. — Read the rest

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Step inside the apartment that artist Ron Gittins transformed into a weird and wonderful fantasy world inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. Gittins, who died in 2019, lived in the Birkenhead, England rental flat for more than thirty years but took very few visitors. — Read the rest

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Autism Awareness Week won't be a thing at Trinity Christian Academy near Lake Worth in Florida: its lead pastor, Matt Baker, decided that it is "demonic." Parents upset by a rambling and disturbing email send by him to them told local media about it. — Read the rest

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A pack of wolf-dog hybrids is roaming the Northern California town of Shingletown and have managed to evade capture. According to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, the animals are some kind of "wolf/husky/malamute hybrids that belonged to a local resident and had gone feral." — Read the rest

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State GOP Chairperson Dave Williams had Police toss a reporter from their Republican assembly meeting because Republicans fear sunlight.

A reporter was uninvited from the State Republican Assembly because the Chairperson felt her "current reporting to be very unfair." Other media are assumably more friendly to the Grand Ol' Party's platform of no self-determination, no drugs, no freedom and were allowed to stay and report on the incident. — Read the rest

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Donald Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election, is suddenly concerned about the "will of the people," claiming abortions should be left up to the states.

"Now that we have abortion, where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation — or perhaps both — and whatever they decide must be the law of the land," he said in a video this morning. — Read the rest

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More than 2,000 years ago, the Tukano people of the Colombian Amazon may have documented the soundtracks to their hallucinogenic experiences in drawings on volcanic boulders. Carved into rocks at the Toro Muerto site, the dancing figures are surrounded by shapes and patterns that may represent the music sung by the Shamans during Ayahuasca-fueled encounters with gods and ancestors. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Go back to basics withe Function101 Button Remote for Apple TV and get 20% off with code ENJOY20 from 4/8 to 11:59 PM PST on 4/16, only paying $23.99 (Reg. $29.99).

Technology innovations are great, but sometimes you just gotta go back to basics. — Read the rest

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AI-generated books—at best useless mish-mashes of written works and at worst lethal nonsense—are flooding Amazon and other venues. Google Books is indexing it indiscriminately, reports 404 Media, and the junk is already having an impact on search.

I was able to find the AI-generated books with the same method we've previously used to find AI-generated Amazon product reviews, papers published in academic journals, and online articles.

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A semi-truck carrying more than 100,000 living salmon crashed in northeast Oregon. Incredibly, the truck overturned into a roadside creek and the vast majority of the young fish were dumped right into the water. The driver suffered minor injuries and the fish—spring Chinook smolts—are expected to survive. — Read the rest

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When a sub-prime lender and a real estate fraud get together to post a bond, raucous hilarity ensues.

In shocking news, Donald Trump's financial savior, Don Hankey, is backfiring spectacularly in his shady attempt to curry favor with the Orange Menace. — Read the rest

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The Raspberry Pi 400 is a keyboard with a single-board computer built-in, like the old 8-bits of yore. The PiDock is a display+trackpad caddy for it which converts it into a laptop. A bulky and not inexpensive laptop with no battery. — Read the rest

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The fashion people were at it again, selling ruined clothes for astronomical prices to people who think they get it.

Following his viral SS23 'Mud' show, Balenciaga's Demna Gvasalia explained that the house now has a whole department dedicated to ageing its clothes and making them dirty.

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Re:AMP is a modern implementation of the fast, simple, handsome y2k-era music player Winamp, by Alexander Vasilchenko. To whip this llama's ass you'll be needing a Mac. For Windows, check out WACUP. On the web, Webamp. [via Hacker News]

Re:AMP is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for macOS X, fully written in Swift.

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Start your week with the best bit from a NSFW clip of a woman blocking traffic and abusively declining to move her car into a parking space. Ultimately, she utters an unpleasant remark about Hawaiians and resumes shrieking.

Assume that this person is voting all year! — Read the rest

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Some people really think techno is rotting their kid's minds. Other people think sludge metal is corrupting the youth or something. Chechnya's new BPM limitations appease two birds with one stone. Songs over 116 bpm and under 80 are verboten in the Russian republic, effectively eliminating all dubstep, gabber, nightcore, etc. — Read the rest

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And 355,000,000 pounds of butter.

Technically, the USDA owns just 300 million pounds of the cheese and is storing the remaining billion or so for a friend. Cave networks in the Kansas City area are naturally climate-controlled and so the USDA, which has a sizeable presence in the area, uses them for cheap cold storage. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Make digital magic with this refurb Lenovo Tab E8. For only $56.99 (reg. $119), you'll get up to 10 hours of battery life, Dolby Atmos technology, and so much more!

Some philosophers say that true happiness is found in the simple things. — Read the rest

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Trench warfare in WWI was infamously brutal, but it also produced remarkably delicate works of art, called leaf drawings. According to the Public Domain Review, soldiers would pluck hardy oak and chestnut leaves, then draw on them with sharp objects like a pin or knife. — Read the rest

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Emulators, long forbidden on the App Store unless baked in to a single app or game, may finally do what they're good for: downloading, storing and running retro games, apps and other software written for the emulated system. It comes after the European Union made Apple loosen up a little and comes with a large caveat. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Start taking amazing aerial photography with this 4K Dual-Camera Drone for Beginners. Usually $119, you can grab it for $69.97 today. 

Whether you love to travel, capture sports or explore your local area, drone photography is the secret to taking the best pictures and videos you've ever seen. — Read the rest

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Tardigrades are remarkable little creatures. These tiny, eight-legged omnivores can survive in almost any environment. They can be dried out, frozen, boiled, exposed to high radiation levels, and even survive the vacuum of space, although crash landing on the moon may have been fatal. — Read the rest

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