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  • 2025 FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS BRITISH GRAND PRIX Live Thread.

    07/03/2025 10:00:24 AM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 30 replies
    Carriage Hill | 7.03.2025 | Carriage Hill & mabarker1
    2025 FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS BRITISH GRAND PRIX Live Thread Silverstone UK Circuit First Grand Prix: 1950, Number of Laps: 52, Circuit Length: 5.891 km, Race Distance: 306.198 km, Lap Record: 1:27.097, Max Verstappen (2020), Sunday, 10:00am EDT.
  • Lily Allen Says She 'Can't Remember' How Many Abortions She's Had

    07/02/2025 6:54:40 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 60 replies
    People ^ | 07 02 2025 | Hannah Sacks
    Lily Allen says she "can't remember" how many abortions she's had. On an episode of her podcast Miss Me?, the British singer, 40, shared that she used to "get pregnant all the time" and noted that she's had several abortions. "Abortions, I've had a few. But then again, I can't remember exactly how many...I think maybe like, I want to say four or five," Allen said as her co-host Miquita Oliver added that she's also had "about five." As she recalled one of her experiences, Allen said, "I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion, and...
  • House Republicans Threaten to Sink Trump’s Megabill

    07/02/2025 12:12:25 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 130 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 2, 2025 | Olivia Beavers
    Some House Republicans are already lining up to oppose President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” with conservatives and centrists blasting the legislation just hours after Vice President JD Vance cast his tiebreaking vote on the Senate version. The number of House Republicans vowing to oppose the Senate version is enough to block the bill’s passage, though past standoffs have been resolved after successful pressure campaigns by the president and party leaders. Given Republicans’ thin 220-212 majority, the bill would fail if more than three House Republicans join Democrats in opposing it. Holdout lawmakers headed to the White House on Wednesday morning....
  • Army ‘considering terminating’ General Dynamics’ oversight of new 155mm production lines

    07/02/2025 1:05:29 AM PDT · by Reverend Wright · 39 replies
    BreakingDefence ^ | June 30, 2025 | Ashley roque
    The US Army is considering scrapping General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) management of three new 155mm artillery round production lines in Mesquite, Texas, according to a “show cause” letter obtained by Breaking Defense. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the heavy use of artillery, the Army rushed to bolster 155mm production and produce 100,000 shells per month. As part of that broader push, it opened a new government-owned facility in Texas, tapping GD-OTS to operate it and stand up three Universal Artillery Projectile Lines (UAPL) to produce the metal parts for artillery projectiles, including the shell...
  • Trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas to have titles stripped as university bends the knee to Trump admin

    07/01/2025 2:19:56 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 80 replies
    NY Post ^ | By Chris Nesi
    Transgender swimming champion Lia Thomas will be stripped of past University of Pennsylvania Division I swimming titles after the Trump administration put pressure on the school to award the titles to competitors who were born female. The university will also issue formal apologies to every biological female competitor who lost out to a biological male, following an investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which found UPenn violated Title IX by “allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only intimate facilities.” “Today’s resolution agreement with UPenn is yet another example of the...
  • Felt Carsick In An EV? Scientists Say You’re Not Imagining It And They Know Why

    06/30/2025 11:08:07 AM PDT · by TexasKamaAina · 23 replies
    CARSCOOPS ^ | 06/28/2025 | Chris Chilton
    “Greater sickness in EVs can be attributed to a lack of previous experience, as both a driver and as a passenger, where the brain lacks accuracy in estimating the motion forces because it relies on previous experience in other types of cars,” William Emond, a PhD student researching car sickness told The Guardian. “When discovering a new motion environment, the brain needs to habituate because there is no knowledge of previous experience in such a context. This is, for example, why almost everyone becomes sick in zero-gravity environments,” he explained.
  • G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power

    06/29/2025 11:33:00 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 58 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 29, 2025, 12:00 p.m. ET | Brad Plumer
    Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.The tax provision, tucked inside the 940-page bill that the Senate made public just after midnight on Friday, stunned observers.“This is how you kill an industry,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of...
  • List: 2025 Pride events happening in San Francisco this weekend

    06/27/2025 5:54:00 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 24 replies
    KTVU ^ | June 27, 2025 | By Skyler Winston
    SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Pride kicks off this weekend and there are several events happening across San Francisco open to all.
  • Palantir to help make nuclear reactors faster, better with new AI platform

    06/27/2025 2:50:15 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 13 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | June 27, 2025 | Atharva Gosavi
    Data analytics giants Palantir Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with The Nuclear Company on Thursday to develop NOS, an AI-driven software system designed specifically for nuclear construction projects. The investment comes at a time where the nuclear sector has seen rapid growth in interest from investors and corporations. The software platform’s main aim is to simplify he construction process by enabling faster and cost-efficient deployment of nuclear plants. Palantir will receive approximately $100 million over a five-year period to build the software platform, according to the sources. Alignment with government policiesThe agreement is well aligned with the four executive orders...
  • GOP assemblyman calls out AOC's suburban roots with yearbook proof after Trump spat

    06/25/2025 5:47:54 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 34 replies
    Fox ^ | By Louis Casiano
    NY state assemblyman shares yearbook photo showing Ocasio-Cortez attended suburban high school nearly an hour from the Bronx A New York state lawmaker called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., over her upbringing after she referred to herself as a tough "Bronx girl" during an internet spat in which she traded jabs with President Donald Trump. State Assemblyman Matt Slater, a Republican, called out the progressive firebrand, who represents portions of the Bronx and Queens, and shared an image of her during her freshman year in suburban Yorktown High School, almost an hour north of the Bronx. "If you’re a BX...
  • First mouse with two biological FATHERS has its own babies - in breakthrough that could pave the way for gay men to have children

    06/25/2025 10:55:23 AM PDT · by aimhigh · 90 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 06/24/2025 | JONATHAN CHADWICK
    For the first time, mice born to two fathers have grown up and produced offspring, scientists in China have revealed. The researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University managed to insert two sperm cells - one from each father - into a mouse egg whose nucleus had been removed. A gene editing technique was then used to reprogram parts of the sperm DNA to allow an embryo to develop – a process called androgenesis. The embryo, featuring the genetic material from two fathers, was transferred to a female womb and allowed to grow to term. Finally, the resulting offspring (male) managed...
  • Teachers Union Head Gleefully Declares That Her Union Owns American Children

    06/24/2025 5:09:41 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 22 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | Jun 24, 2025 | Jaryn Crouson
    Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) president Stacy Davis Gates said on Monday that “all children belong to” the union. At the City Club Chicago event, Gates bashed President Donald Trump for lessening the power of teachers’ unions, calling his education agenda a “relitigation” of the Civil War while complaining about the failing state of Chicago schools. Quoting civil rights activist James Baldwin, Gates tells the crowd, “The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe.” Gates then mocks parents who would respond by saying “CTU thinks your children are its children.” “Yes, we do,” Gates said....
  • Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights

    06/23/2025 1:59:27 AM PDT · by Cronos · 42 replies
    New york times ^ | 21 June 2025 | Ezra Klein
    .. every objective metric, support for trans rights is worse now than it was six or seven years ago. And that’s not isolated to just trans issues. I think if you look across issues of gender right now, you have seen a regression. Marriage equality support is actually lower now than it was a couple of years ago in a recent poll. support that we saw for trans rights in 2016, 2017 — it was a mirage of support in some ways. Because I think, in the postmarriage world, there was a transfer of support from the L.G.B. to the...
  • The terrifying reality Trump’s megabill creates for trans people {barf alert}

    06/22/2025 11:50:18 PM PDT · by Cronos · 22 replies
    MSNBC ^ | 28th May 2025 | Katelyn burns
    Imagine going to the doctor and being told that the medication you’ve been taking for years is now illegal to prescribe to you. The doctor can give it to other people who are different from you — people experiencing depression, for example, or women going through menopause, or cancer patients — but it’s no longer allowed for people like you. ...news broke of a manager’s amendment to the budget that changed what was initially a ban on gender-affirming care for youth on Medicaid into a ban on adult transition care on Medicaid. A change to one line in the budget...
  • Katie Miller’s Washington Rise Takes a Musk Detour

    06/22/2025 1:17:48 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 6 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 18, 2025 | Matt Flegenheimer
    She is one half of a Trump-world power couple. But she’s on Team Elon. It’s gotten complicated. It was the three-word gavel-bang heard across Washington — the conversation-ender meant to cow colleagues and cabinet secretaries, deployed daily by a slight woman with a big job: “Elon wants this.” For months, Katie Miller, the all-purpose operative for the world’s richest man, had been entrusted to help execute Elon Musk’s merry rampage through the federal government, conveying his priorities, his vision, his likes and dislikes with the tacit force of an executive order. When she spoke, Ms. Miller implied to Trump acolytes...
  • Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

    06/21/2025 12:23:22 PM PDT · by george76 · 29 replies
    Science X ^ | June 20, 2025 | Rébecca Frasquet
    Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday. Researchers have detected the tiny, mostly invisible pieces of plastic throughout the world, from in the air we breathe to the food we eat, as well as riddled throughout human bodies. There is still no direct evidence that this preponderance of plastic is harmful to human health, but a burgeoning field of research is aiming to measure its spread. Guillaume Duflos, research director at French food safety agency ANSES,...
  • Anne Burrell, Food Network star, dead at 55

    06/17/2025 7:27:48 PM PDT · by snork55 · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 617/2025 | Ashley Hume
    Food Network star Anne Burrell has died. She was 55. A representative for the channel announced Burrell's death in a press release that was obtained by Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "It is with deep sadness we announce that Anne Burrell, 55, passed away this morning at her home in New York," read a statement from the network. "With her trademark spiky blonde hair and sparkling personality, Anne Burrell was the hugely popular and fan favorite host of Food Network’s hit show, ‘Worst Cooks in America.’ Burrell was an industry veteran and passionate teacher who prided herself on her work...
  • Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore

    06/17/2025 5:12:14 PM PDT · by CFW · 23 replies
    CityJournal ^ | 6/17/25 | Neetu Arnold
    Not long ago, blue states typically outperformed red ones when it came to education. That is changing. Blue states like Oregon and Washington experienced significant drops in reading and math scores for both fourth- and eighth-graders between 2015 and 2024, worse than the national declines during the same period. Mississippi, meantime, gained five points in fourth-grade reading and math and held steady in eighth-grade performance. Louisiana also maintained its scores, defying the negative national trends. Whether you call it the “Mississippi Miracle” or the “Southern Surge,” Republican-led states are rapidly improving student outcomes relative to blue states, thanks to a...
  • What did Americans think of ‘No Kings’ protests? Here’s what a poll found

    06/17/2025 7:01:03 AM PDT · by lightman · 83 replies
    Pennlive ^ | 17 June A.D. 2025 | Brendan Rascius
    Americans are divided over the “No Kings” protests, which were held across the country on Saturday, according to new polling. The demonstrations — which coincided with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. — were a response to what organizers called the president’s authoritarian actions. About 2,100 individual protests were held, which, in total, were attended by around 5 million people, according to an estimate from the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped organize the demonstrations. “Today’s protests are a resounding message that people across the nation will not be intimidated by...
  • Timeless Lessons from 'The Karate Kid'

    06/15/2025 1:30:38 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 39 replies
    Foundation for Economic Freedom ^ | Sunday, June 15, 2025 | Kimberlee Josephson
    The power of principles and perseverance.The first Karate Kid movie was released in June 1984, and presently, the story lives on with the new release of Karate Kid: Legends. I recently re-watched The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid Part II with my own kids, and these films were just as good as I remembered. When I was growing up in the ’80s, these films instilled lessons that still resonate. So, in light of the Legends release, I thought it would be fun to pay homage to some classic takes from the originals and point out that Mister Miyagi’s lessons...