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Chopper

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  1. Article https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-stop-using-facebook-and-x-to-warn-people-about-disasters/ "I wish I could tell you that Kerr County's dangerous over-reliance on a single, massively flawed social media platform was just a small-town Texas thing, an unfortunate but thankfully rare aberration in American disaster communications practices. Unfortunately, it's not. I suspect that the terrible truth is that far too many local authorities are now communicating important messages to the public exclusively via Facebook, Twitter, or some combination therein. And while I say this with the clear caveat that I've been unable to find little recent academic research or reporting on this issue, I've seen enough anecdotal evidence pointing in this direction to scare me. It's 2025. We're living in a time when social media oligarchs have stopped even pretending to care about the greater good, their platforms have been intentionally engineered to hide non-brainrot information from its users, young people have largely fled to TikTok, and the federal government is starting to mandate using Twitter for official communications. In other words, we may be glimpsing the leading edge of a big problem with how American local governments communicate with the public about stuff that can kill them. " very interesting article, the rest is at link
  2. Obtained because a brave soul in Vancouver snuck into the US for the wifi
  3. That the potus' attorneys in a 1st Amendment case don't know what a fucking "exclusive" is for a newspaper.
  4. WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if they actually showed it to people? https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.693830/gov.uscourts.flsd.693830.1.0.pdf No word on fake citations yet!!
  5. You have zero knowledge about how criminal investigations work.
  6. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-fbi-durbin.html “Who made the decision to reassign hundreds of New York Field Office personnel to this March review of Epstein-related records?” Durbin asked in his letters. “Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned?” he asked. An FBI spokesperson told CNBC in an email, “The FBI has no comment,” when asked about Durbin’s letters. ... Durbin said his office had learned that after that, the “FBI was pressured to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division … on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline.” “This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests,” the letter said. “My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”
  7. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5471281/aca-health-insurance-premiums-obamacare-bbb-kff https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/obamacare-insurers-seek-double-digit-premium-hikes-next-year-454f1e1c?st=nz7mzn&reflink=article_copyURL_share
  8. https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/obamacare-insurers-seek-double-digit-premium-hikes-next-year-454f1e1c?st=nz7mzn&reflink=article_copyURL_share
  9. cross posting
  10. Your favorite band is coldplay. stfu.
  11. It has dotard threatening to sue the wsj and claiming it's fake. I guess the qtards won't like it.
  12. archive link https://archive.is/6Tsa1 for such an obese piece of shit he sure is incredibly thin skinned
  13. Andy was not known for being good in a crisis.
  14. I don't have time to excerpt some of the info from here but it's nauseating - a large scale operation of human trafficking. article spoilered https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/epstein-banks-wyden-trump.html?partner=bloomberg
  15. Concert kiss cam goes very wrong...or very right depending on your pov.
  16. Health insurers in CO are looking for a 28% rate increase in 2026. The full cost to consumers doesn't count the substantial decrease in subsidies that have been available to make health care affordable for millions of people. I did a quick search and I didn't see similar reporting about rate filings for Texas though they'll probably be out soon (?). https://coloradosun.com/2025/07/17/colorado-health-insurance-prices-one-big-beautiful-bill/ ...
  17. "Imbecile" and "dementia" are somehow CR? Also fyi if you want to police thread, go get fucked instead. To @UTPhil2006please accept my apologies for sarcastically calling you sweetie.
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