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NateNate60

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  • Elon Musk to spend up to $120 million on Republican Senate races despite saying he ‘got too involved in politics’

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  • He said that because he thought his involvement in politics had cost him money. It damaged Tesla's brand image and hurt its sales. He thought that this could cause his wealth to decrease. That Tesla's share price would go down. That the markets would punish him for his folly.

    It did not.

    He has instead found himself richly rewarded for it.

  • McConnell faces growing questions about absence nearly six weeks after fall

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  • "growing questions" this, "demands proof of life" that, all of that is meaningless. Either declare him dead and issue the writs of election or he shows his face in public.

  • Federal Judge Nullifies Trump’s Entire January 6 Slush Fund

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  • The claims are already out of time. And Trump is only entitled to a few thousand dollars per occurrence anyway. If the IRS actually had reasonable lawyers representing them, they'd have settled this case for maybe $50,000. Ten billion dollars is a Dr. Evil-level demand.

  • Federal Judge Nullifies Trump’s Entire January 6 Slush Fund

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  • Okay, so there's a principle in law, which is that one calls a document by the thing it purports to be. If it is not valid, you prepend "purported" in the contexts where it would be ambiguous otherwise, and explain your reasons as to why and the readers will know what you're trying to say. You do not play word games with finding creative and insulting things to call it.

  • Federal Judge Nullifies Trump’s Entire January 6 Slush Fund

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  • This is what the judge ordered:

    The Parties are prohibited from referring to the purported “settlement agreement,” or using, offering, admitting, or citing any of its provisions in any judicial, administrative, regulatory, arbitration, or any other official proceeding as evidence of a “settlement” reached in this matter, Case No. 26-cv-20609-KMW (S.D. Fla. 2026).63 “Plaintiffs” means the named Plaintiffs in this lawsuit: President Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, the Trump Organization, LLC and includes any of their agents, representatives, officers, directors, employees, partners, corporate agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, or any other person acting in concert with the party or under the party’s control, whether directly or indirectly. “Defendants” means the Internal Revenue Service and the United States Department of the Treasury.

    This order doesn't seem to explicit prohibit the parties from following the terms of the settlement. Merely that the settlement is not to be spoken of again in court.

    There are two other orders. One of them is to issue a disciplinary referral against Trump lawyer Alejandro Brito to the Florida Bar. This is the court telling the bar association that they strongly believe the lawyer in question has committed a violation of ethical rules. However, I frankly do not find it particularly likely that the Florida Bar will act strongly on this referral, though I'm open to being surprised. The second order is to ban Trump lawyer Daniel Epstein from filing any more applications for pro hac vice in the Southern District of Florida. A pro hac vice application is a tool used to request permission from a court to represent someone for one case only when the lawyer in question doesn't have a valid licence to practise in the state where the case is being conducted.

  • Federal Judge Nullifies Trump’s Entire January 6 Slush Fund

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  • Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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  • If you're a hacker and use Windows, you deserve to get caught tbh

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • I feel like his novelty would wear off if he actually appeared in Parliament. He'd probably be told that the costume won't be allowed and then become an abstentionist in protest.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • You can use the Metamask browser extension. Polymarket runs on a token called USDC, which you can buy from Coinbase for US$1 a pop with no fee (and also sell it back for $1 for no fee).

    I used to use Polymarket a lot because it was previously filled with crypto bros and MAGA idiots who would vastly overvalue stupid bets (like "Will Canada join the USA") and provide easy money. But I haven't used it for a while, so I don't know if that's the case any more.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • "Count" is not a valid title in the British peerage. The equivalent rank in the UK is "earl". Though if he wins, I think it'd be a moment of immense cultural significance so he should immediately be elevated to the Lords as a life peer, just to make the title official. He can be Britain's only living count.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • Lord Buckethead and Count Binface are one and the same person, the actor had to stop using "Lord Buckethead" for IP reasons.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • You can bet with crypto on there so you don't have to actually give them your information because you can just use an anonymous crypto wallet. It used to be a lot better before it was commercialised. In the past, all the markets were fee-free, and it was just your typical degenerate crypto gambling site. Now they've started charging fees on most of the markets, and they advertise everywhere so it sucks. Now they're a for-profit enterprise or something and act exactly like any other scummy casino operator.

    But the payouts are done algorithmically on the blockchain so you can be sure that winning bets are indeed actually paid.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • Prediction markets and American bookmarkers are all offering over 10:1 on Count Binface right now. 9:2 is terrible IMO

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • Ironically, you've confused a conversation about odds with one about polls.

    It's not about polls. We're talking about betting odds here. This is a gambling conversation. They said that Count Binface winning is paid 4:1, meaning an implied probability of 20%. I asked who is paying that, because it seems like that's far too low of a payout, giving Count Binface too high of an implied chance of winning.

    If a candidate is being beat 4:1 in the polls, their betting odds would probably be 100:1 or higher.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • Then he's guaranteed to win and will be declared elected.

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • Who is offering 4:1 odds on Count Binface? The major betting markets have him at around 8% last I checked earlier today.

    Edit: This is about gambling odds not polls

  • Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

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  • He'll shirk back into his hole for two years and then pop back out as the leader of the new right-wing insurgent political party "Rejuvenate Britain" or something.

  • Trump Suddenly Opens Dozens of Gas Stations Selling Suspiciously Cheap Fuel, and Experts Are Already Warning of Impending Disaster

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  • The old owners could've been fined into bankruptcy and then the franchise was sold to someone else.

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    Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist leader’s election gamble backfires

    www.cnn.com /2026/07/09/uk/nigel-farage-special-election-bin-face-intl

  • Trump Suddenly Opens Dozens of Gas Stations Selling Suspiciously Cheap Fuel, and Experts Are Already Warning of Impending Disaster

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  • There was a filling station in my town which was also significantly cheaper. About 40-50 cents less than nearby stations. I used it for years but also wondered how it was so cheap. Then one day, I went there and the price had gone up from the bargain of a decade to merely reasonable. I was wondering why but then I noticed that someone had put a sticker next to the dispenser keypad that wasn't there before: a fuel tax sticker. It's required by law on all fuel pumps here but I guess I just never noticed that they just never had one there previously.

    No points for guessing what happened lol

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    Who do you think was history's greatest villain?

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    U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride [protest] ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

    www.oregonlive.com /portland/2025/10/us-house-speaker-calls-portland-naked-bike-ride-most-threatening-thing-ive-seen-yet.html
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    The hypocrisy of recognizing Palestine but not Taiwan

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    Colorado Attorney-General explains why the state is suing a deputy who aided ICE

    www.pbs.org /newshour/show/colorado-ag-explains-why-the-state-is-suing-a-deputy-who-aided-ice
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    DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite

    www.washingtonpost.com /business/2025/06/02/doge-vowed-make-government-more-efficient-its-doing-opposite/
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    White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

    www.washingtonpost.com /health/2025/05/29/maha-rfk-jr-ai-garble/
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    White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

    www.washingtonpost.com /health/2025/05/29/maha-rfk-jr-ai-garble/
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    Trump’s immigration ratings turn negative, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds

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