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  • Humanoid robots pull off first-ever gallbladder surgeries in major step toward human trials

    07/11/2026 4:19:05 AM PDT · by DFG · 2 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/10/2026 | Daniel Farr
    A pair of humanoid robots crossed a major medical milestone this week after successfully performing gallbladder removals in pigs for the first time, a breakthrough that researchers say could one day reshape surgery far beyond traditional operating rooms. The pioneering procedures were carried out by engineers and surgeons at the University of California San Diego, with the findings published July 8 in the journal Nature. The first operation was performed by a humanoid robot with assistance from a surgeon. In the second, two humanoid robots completed the surgery together, according to the university. Researchers say the successful pig surgeries mark...
  • The Roman Gold Mine that Ate Mountains [9:09]

    07/11/2026 4:12:30 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 1 replies
    YouTube ^ | July 10, 2026 | Garrett Ryan, Ph.D (as toldinstone)
    This video explores the spectacular remains of the Roman mines at Las Médulas, Spain. The Roman Gold Mine that Ate Mountains | 9:09 toldinstone | 21,693 views | July 10, 2026
  • DSA commies aim to take over the Democratic Party — just as they captured... the DSA itself

    07/11/2026 3:44:28 AM PDT · by Libloather · 7 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7//11/26 | Jake Altman
    How worried should Democrats be about the Democratic Socialists of America? As someone who knows the DSA inside out, I can say with authority: They should be very worried indeed. I was a DSA member for years and served in local leadership. But today’s DSA — illiberal, dogmatic and hostile to traditional American political norms — is not the organization I once knew. It includes disciplined, radicalized networks that have methodically expanded their power over the last decade in pursuit of extremist goals. As the Democratic Party grapples with the DSA’s growing influence and extremism, it would do well to...
  • Eric Swalwell’s attorneys threatened Tom Steyer campaign just before scandal erupted

    07/11/2026 3:36:16 AM PDT · by Libloather · 2 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/26 | Josh Koehn
    Eric Swalwell launched a campaign of threats and intimidation to stop the sordid details of his alleged rape and sexual assaults from being spread wide. Records obtained by The California Post show the disgraced politician used a team of high-powered lawyers to fire off legal threats to a rival campaign in an effort to suppress rape and sexual assault allegations — just weeks before his own campaign imploded over those same claims. Attorneys representing Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter on March 20 to Ryan Hughes — general counsel for progressive billionaire Tom Steyer’s campaign — accusing him of...
  • South Bay goat company faces closure as new CA law triggers massive wage increase for herders

    07/11/2026 1:51:24 AM PDT · by grundle · 8 replies
    ABC News SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) ^ | July 9, 2026 | Dustin Dorsey
    SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A Bay Area goat landscaping company says it could be forced out of business if changes are not made to a new state law that would significantly increase compensation costs for goat herders. Green Goat Landscapers in Gilroy, which uses about 1,000 goats to clear vegetation that can fuel wildfires, said the law could threaten the future of grazing operations that play a role in wildfire prevention across the state. "We really provide a needed service, and it benefits all of California. Goats go where people and machines can't go, and that really reduces that...
  • Today's Cryptogram

    07/11/2026 1:25:00 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 7 replies
    XBV UBG’S RYLL VR Y ZKUI SB LRYNI. —EKNSBZ CHBEIZ
  • Do Muslim hordes get permits to take over thoroughfares and close down traffic?

    07/11/2026 12:03:37 AM PDT · by John Leland 1789 · 14 replies
    Self | July 11, 2026 | John Leland 1789
    QUESTION: WHEN MUSLIM HORDES TAKE OVER ENTIRE THOROUGHFARES, IN CITIES LIKE CHICAGO, NYC, AND ELSEWHERE, CLOSING VEHICLE LANES, ETC., DO THEY FIRST OBTAIN PERMITS FROM POLICE AGENCIES, DOT, OR OTHERWISE ACCORDING TO LAW? OR DO THEY JUST TAKE OVER AND THE POLICE FIND A WAY TO COPE?
  • The shocking true story that inspired The Blob

    07/10/2026 9:52:59 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 23 replies
    https://www.thedigitalfix.com ^ | Jul 8, 2022 | Emma-Jane Betts
    In 1958, the world was introduced to an intergalactic horror movie about an alien gelatinous goo that consumes everything in its wake: The Blob. The '50s B-movie has gone down in history as a classic monster flick, that would later even spawn a gory remake in 1988. But, this terrifying UFO film isn't entirely fiction, and you may want to keep an eye on the sky after hearing the shocking true story that inspired The Blob.
  • After NorCal rattlesnake bite, man needs 54 doses of antivenom to survive...One bite sent venom directly into his bloodstream.

    07/10/2026 9:33:32 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    SF Gate ^ | July 10, 2026 | Gillian Mohney, News Editor
    An Idaho man visiting his parents in Oroville thought he had stepped on a sharp sticker plant or thistle when he looked down to see a rattlesnake at his feet instead. “I got bit twice, and one of the bites, where it was was kind of a shallow, but the other one got my vein,” Chris Howarth told SFGATE. “... I went inside. My wife thought I was joking.” But when Chris showed his wife his leg, she and their young children started “freaking out.” Chris had just stepped into his parents’ backyard to check the waterline when he was...
  • Volkswagen Will Eliminate Almost Half of Production Brands After Losing Market Share to China

    07/10/2026 8:48:20 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | July 10, 2026 | Sundance
    The European auto industry is a case study on how short-sighted trade policy goals, results in consequences. Previously, German auto companies like Volkswagen entered into trade agreements with China and began manufacturing their vehicles with immediate financial success in the market. However, it did not take long for Chinese auto companies to reverse the engineering and begin to deliver the same quality vehicles at much lower prices. The Chinese then stop purchasing the Volkswagen vehicles and purchase the cheaper version, while simultaneously begin exporting those same vehicles into the home market from where the technology originated. Today, with a double-digit...
  • Last U.S. Polio Survivor in an Iron Lung Dies After the Machine Started to Break Down and They Couldn’t Find Anyone to Repair It

    07/10/2026 8:39:55 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    People ^ | July 10, 2026 | Cara Lynn Shultz
    Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78. The Shawnee, Okla., resident first experienced symptoms of the disease on her fifth birthday in 1953, she told KFOR 8 days before her death. “I woke up and it was sunny outside, and I started to sit up, and my neck was killing me,” she said. “I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow.” “After four days, I went unconscious. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t move my arms or legs,” she explains. Lillard had contracted polio — just two years...
  • From dance floor to jail cell: Woman arrested after alleged biting spree at Portland bar

    07/10/2026 7:51:43 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 30 replies
    KATU ^ | 7/10/2026 | Jeffrey Kirsch
    PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A 30-year-old woman is accused of biting two people and punching a security guard during a violent altercation at a Northwest Portland bar. For the third time in recent months, Portland police have made an arrest at the River Pig Saloon. The latest incident happened on July 2, when police were contacted about a woman who had been detained by security at the bar. According to court documents, a woman told officers she was dancing with friends when the suspect bumped into one of them and pulled her by the hair. When the suspect, later...
  • The Balancing Act: Will you tell Americans which lie is the real lie, 'Dr.' Biden?

    07/10/2026 7:44:52 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 12 replies
    The Mountain Democrat ^ | 7/8/2026 | Larry Weitzman
    Recently in the news, Dr. Jill Biden shared she was afraid that her husband Joe Biden had a stroke during the June 27, 2024 presidential debate between then President Biden and Republican nominee and now President Donald Trump. Immediately after the debate, Jill said, looking at her husband in the eye while on national TV, “Joe, you did such a great job, you answered every question; you knew all the facts.” Then she turned to the partisan crowd and said, “What did Trump do? He lied.” Here we are two years later and who is the liar? It’s Jill Biden,...
  • California man doing donuts crushes own girlfriend as she flies from car in wild video

    07/10/2026 6:32:07 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 23 replies
    New York Post ^ | July 10, 2026 | By Sheetal Banchariya
    A Fourth of July celebration in Solano County turned into a gruesome scene when a 20-year-old woman was mowed down and allegedly abandoned by her boyfriend.
  • Meet Gary, an exotic cat that B.C. just outlawed as a pet

    07/10/2026 6:10:46 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 33 replies
    The Narwhal ^ | July 10, 2026 | Michelle Cyca
    On an hour-long drive from Vancouver to the heart of B.C.’s Fraser Valley, I contemplate the most professional way to ask if I can pet this cat I’m about to meet. There’s journalistic value to being able to describe its fur, I imagine arguing, as I drive past bucolic fields and cheerless industrial parks. In the end, I don’t need to ask at all. “Do you want to feed him?” Mike Hopcraft says, holding out a dish of raw chunks of beef and a pair of long metal tweezers, as the cat glowers beside me. My commitment to gonzo cat...
  • Accused rapist Graham Platner formally withdraws from US Senate bid with scathing message to party establishment: ‘Free Palestine’

    07/10/2026 6:09:43 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/26 | Josh Christenson
    Maine Democrat Graham Platner on Friday formally withdrew from his US Senate bid in a letter to state elections officials that signed off with an F-bomb. Platner posted on X a picture of the letter, which did not share any immediate details about who he hoped would succeed him to face Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in November. The missive touted the 156,084 votes he had received in Maine’s Senate Democratic primary last month, suggesting that his more than 70-percentage-point win showed: “People are desperate for change.” “Mainers voted for a new kind of politics,” the letter read. “One that...
  • Ex-Obama press secretary fired after allegedly swiping credit cards from colleagues to fund kratom habit (Fetcher)

    07/10/2026 5:57:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/10/26 | Anthony Blair
    A former Barack Obama press secretary was fired from his chief communications role in Minneapolis after allegedly stealing cash and credit cards from city employees to fuel his habit for kratom — a natural drug used to treat opioid withdrawal. Adam Fetcher, 42, was canned from his role as Chief Communications Officer (CCO) for the City of Minneapolis after just a year on the job amid a police investigation into internal workplace theft and fraud, as well as claims of substance abuse, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. Fetcher, who made nearly $200,000 a year, is accused of stealing cash and...
  • Alex Jones IS BACK BABY.

    07/10/2026 5:28:17 PM PDT · by Merrick · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | 10 July 2026 | Liberal Hivemind / YouTube
    Alex Jones clip commented on by Liberal Hivemind
  • FIFA will not take action against Argentina after stars chanted Falklands song during celebrations

    07/10/2026 5:04:46 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 8 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 09 Jul 2026 | MIKE KEEGAN and BOBBY MANZI
    FIFA will take no action against Argentina after its players sang a song referencing the Falkland Islands in their dressing room following their comeback victory over Egypt. Footage shared online by the country's football association showed the group celebrating in their dressing room post-match and belting out the song Muchachos, which includes the line 'for the Malvinas', Argentina's name for the South Atlantic islands it invaded in 1982 to trigger a war which claimed the lives of 907 people. FIFA, who have banned England player Jarell Quansah for two games following a red card, states that it strictly prohibits political...
  • Idaho law criminalizes trans people’s bathroom use. Advocates are mapping safe places to pee

    07/10/2026 4:21:09 PM PDT · by fwdude · 31 replies
    The Advocate via Yahoo! News ^ | July 9, 2026 | Jacob Ogles
    A new Idaho law may outlaw transgender people's use of public restrooms, but advocates are mapping the private facilities where anyone can pee in peace. Trans Affirm just released an online "Idaho Inclusive Bathroom Map," which shows both the safe and non-inclusive places where residents can use the restroom facilities aligned with their gender identity. The organization has been building the map in the wake of Idaho Gov. Brad Little signing one of the most sweeping statutes in the country criminalizing restroom use.