@scottlincicome We’re going to pay them not to blow up us or anyone else.
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Viscount John Smith
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Eggs, beef, datacenter inputs...
Imports to the rescue again?
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
☢️🇺🇸🇮🇷Scoop: U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks. @MarcACaputo and I wrote for @axios axios.com/2026/04/17/ira…
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@UndercoverIndy @YouTube Older records sound good because there’s no click track or drum machines. The fluctuations in the BPM allow the music to breathe.
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@Pittsburgh1Pete Rudy’s is the best chain BBQ in Texas. You have to hit up one of the independents to top it.
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I may have given Texas some smack talk earlier about Whataburger, but I’ll give credit where credit is due
Rudy’s “country store” and bbq ABSOLUTELY SLAPS!
Great food, affordable pricing, amazing sauces! Oh, and you can get some gas there too!
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@neoavatara Not ridiculous if you’re a grifter for supplements and snake oil.
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I can't imagine anything more useless than this.
Secretary Kennedy@SecKennedy
More than 50 medical schools have committed to expand nutrition education from an average of just 2 hours to 40 hours.
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@DavidAFrench Taking my away the obvious blasphemy- in politics,if you’re explaining, you’re losing, and this is one long explanation.
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This is sad to read.
Franklin Graham@Franklin_Graham
I had received some questions about President @realDonaldTrump's recent posts, and here are my thoughts: I do not believe President Trump would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ—that would certainly be inappropriate. I’m thankful the President has made it very clear that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing—he thought it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post. When I looked at the illustration, I didn’t jump to the same conclusion as some. There were no spiritual references—no halo, there were no crosses, no angels. It was a flag, soldiers, a nurse, fighter planes, eagles, the Statue of Liberty, and I think this is a lot to do about nothing. There is so much ill-intended speculation. I think his enemies are always foaming at the mouth at any possible opportunity to make him look bad. And the illustration from someone else he reposted on Truth Social yesterday, I must say that I like the fact that this is a picture of Jesus whispering in his ear, or at least His hand on his shoulder, guiding him. We all need that—we all need to be listening to Jesus. Again, I think there is an attempt to spin this into something that it isn’t. Remember, President Trump didn’t draw this, he didn’t create it, he reposted it on his social media because he thought it was nice—I would have to agree. I’m not a Catholic, I’m an evangelical, but I appreciate how President Trump has defended religious freedom for people of all faiths, including millions of evangelicals and Catholics in the U.S. and around the world. He is the most pro-Christian, pro-life president in my lifetime, and he doesn’t shy away from it. I would hope that the President and Pope Leo can meet at some point, and that the Pope would have the opportunity to thank the President for his efforts to protect religious liberty for Catholics and people of all faiths.
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@neoavatara This hell site is a continual daily demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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This is like trusting a radiologist (Me) instead of Generals in the Defense Department when fighting a war.
I have opinions - lots of them, that I'll voice surely - but if your Generals know less than me, you have a big damn problem.
Neil Stone@DrNeilStone
If you trust an anti vaccine lawyer more than a pediatrician with vaccine advice then you have poor judgment.
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@EsotericCD Much ado about nothing. As if groups and artists in the past didn’t do all they could manipulating the system to achieve record sales, airplay, and to sell concert tickets.
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For all those worried about the artificial online bot-hype surrounding recent breakout indie-rock band Geese, I want to assure you I have never listened to a single note of this group yet.
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@Robert_E_Kelly It’s THE MOST IMPORTANT counter datapoint. You can’t have true authoritarianism if the leader and party can be voted out and leave office.
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Douthat has spent 11 years publicly talking himself into a permission structure to vote for Trump, even though he knows better & despite J6. It’s depressing
He clearly hasn’t spent much time in the democratic backsliding political science. He blithely dismisses 20 years of theory & data - including Trump & Orban cases - with one counter-datapoint (the recent Hungarian election) to protect what really matters: his cherished ideological prior that it’s morally acceptable to vote for Trump
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler
1. The new MAGA line on Orban—“if your entrenched ruling party can lose everything in a wave election, you are not living in an authoritarian state”—is fallacious, and something they plainly don’t believe. Unless maybe they’re prepared to abide Trump-style abuses turned on them.
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@mikenelson586 5 seems kind of obvious if you’re a person of faith interested in philosophy.
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Well, you know you're talking about Ulysses in Seat 1
University of Austin (UATX)@uaustinorg
You’re on a long flight to UATX. Which seat are you taking?
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@Pittsburgh1Pete This isn’t an airport. You don’t have to announce your departure. Just keep eating sucky McDonald’s and In-N-Out and if you’re in Texas, better keep your mouth shut about Whataburger.
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The most OVERRATED burger chain, is WHATABURGER!
The food is repulsive, bread is dry, trash Ketchup, and overall very mid product from Texas.
The only reason it has expanded is for nostalgic purposes from Texas transplants. 100 better places to get a quick burger!
I said what I said!
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@allrockmusic No click tracks, mostly. If you measure BPMs in most songs prior to 1980, you’ll get slight fluctuations and that allowed the music to breathe.
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But honestly why does rock music from decades ago still feel more alive than most things now.
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@KKriegeBlog The publisher just discovered that the colonists had rifles and were expert marksmen. I’m sure he went to a school that emphasized a different viewpoint on firearms, like the Continental Army fought with wooden swords and sticks, so it was a surprise to him.
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I spit out my drink at the "unknown" part of this blurb
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@EvilMopacATX To all the bastards politicizing HEB: thanks for trying to take out one of the last bastions of common ground. When I’m hungry or when the hurricane hits I DO NOT CARE about whatever politics the owners or corporation profess. I am simply happy to get food & supplies.
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You're either with HEB or you're a fucking taintlord
Choose wisely
Evil MoPac@EvilMopacATX
HEB is Texas' real government
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@davidclowery GAS is a disease, and the only cure is more gear.
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You should probably buy that. Sell some plasma if necessary.
Lee (Greater)@shortmagsmle
The masculine urge to spend money
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@DGodfatherMoody @PSterling9512 @NASCAR @CARSTour @IMSA And as soon as the number of subscribers stopped paying the total bill, the series would be back to selling advertising for races and programming.
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@PSterling9512 @NASCAR @CARSTour @IMSA Unfortunately, at $300 per year ($12/month), it would take approximately 3.7 million subscribers to equal the $1.1B per year the TV partners currently pay.
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It's interesting that many of the people who dislike streaming also struggle with having multiple TV outlets. I hate to say it, but if the entire NASCAR schedule ever does end up in the same place, it will almost certainly be a streaming service.
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@cole_beans @Turbinetraveler Who meows and barks on guard? Think maybe they should be the ones disciplined.
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@Turbinetraveler Fire the person at the ATC center immediately. Who tf tells a pilot flying an aircraft with people on board that “I guess you missed a pretty big Ritalin dose this morning” 😯
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Delta and American Airlines CRJ pilots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are going viral after an ATC clip caught them making "meow," "ruff," and other animal sounds over the radio, but the controller wasn't having it. In the audio, ATC quickly shuts it down, telling them to act like "professional pilots."
📹: Flight Fantasy Simulator
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@RiverOaksPrblms You didn’t hear? It landed in the passenger seat of Musk’s Tesla roadster and is on the way out of the solar system.
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My man is still looking for that Pujols ball
Daniel Meyer@TheAstrosLocker
From All-Star to Archaeology. Former Astros and Phillies closer Brad Lidge is now an archaeologist researching the Etruscan civilization. This was not on my 2026 bingo card, but it's cool as hell. penn.museum/blog/major-lea…
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@PPistone On-line NASCAR loves to complain and this is just another in their litany of grumblings. If you can navigate social media or call into a talk show, surely you can find the broadcast.
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To follow up our TMD conversation about NASCAR airing on different TV outlets - in 2000 the Cup Series aired on 7 different channels (CBS, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNN TBS and NBC) - people found those telecasts - not sure why for some it’s hard to find where things air in 2026
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@SouthernKeeks Tribalism. Here in 2026, we have proof that we haven’t gotten a long ways past squatting around a fire and grunting about who we hate in the group of people in the next cave over.
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@nascarman_rr The track is and has always been a bad fit for stock cars. The race initially drew fans but snoozer after snoozer coupled with the general decline of NASCAR is what killed the BY 400.
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My TED Talk: The decline in the Brickyard 400 is mainly due to the vanity of IMS themselves. In the 90s-00s, they restricted the infield crowds for the Brickyard just so the 500 could stay as the biggest race attendance. They wouldn't sell infield general admission. The 500 thrives because it's a party with many people who just go to drink and dont care about the race. The Brickyard never got a chance to grow that party atmosphere, and therefore, the crowd was much more tied to the racing quality. They had a chance to plant the seeds for an event that could become an annual party and they blew it.
nascarman@nascarman_rr
April 14, 1993: NASCAR's Bill France Jr. and Indianapolis track president Tony George announced the creation of the Brickyard 400, to be first held in August 1994 Some sources said the track got 1.9 million ticket requests for the landmark first race
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