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  • 2025 FORMULA 1 Moet & Chandon BELGIAN GRAND PRIX Live Thread.

    07/24/2025 2:13:15 PM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 20 replies
    F-1.com ^ | 7.24.2025 | Carriage Hill
    2025 FORMULA 1 Moet & Chandon BELGIAN GRAND PRIX Live Thread, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, First Grand Prix: 1950, Number of Laps: 44, Circuit Length: 7,004 km, Race Distance: 308.052km, Lap Record: 1:46.286 by Valtteri Bottas (2018), Sunday, 9:00AM ET
  • Nearly all Connecticut Rite Aid stores to close by Labor Day, according to staff and documents

    07/20/2025 6:50:22 PM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    CT Insider ^ | July 14, 2025 | Luther Turmelle,
    nearly all of Rite Aid's Connecticut stores will be closed by Labor Day ... The only store that doesn't have a definitive closing is the Stratford store, which is located at 3680 Main St. A female employee there on Friday said workers haven't been told yet when that location will shutdown. When questioned about the closing date, she agreed to answer the question if she could remain anonymous, because of concerns of potential retribution by Rite Aid officials. Company officials did not respond to a request for comment about the remainder of its Connecticut closings on Friday. Rite Aid announced...
  • CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year

    07/17/2025 5:07:37 PM PDT · by pissant · 25 replies
    cnn ^ | 7/17/25 | Brian 'the spud' Stelter
    In a shocking move, CBS is ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” next year, potentially exiting the late-night television business altogether. The cancellation will take effect in May 2026, the normal end of the broadcast TV season, the network said Thursday evening.
  • Trump says he scored major new deal with Coca Cola that could change the taste of Coke

    07/16/2025 5:24:52 PM PDT · by algore · 101 replies
    Donald Trump has been applying his negotiating skills to get sugar back in U.S.-produced Coke, the president wrote on his Truth Social site Wednesday. If his intervention pans out, soon Americans could be swigging something that tastes much more like Mexican Coke. Trump famously installed a red button on his desk that allows him to quickly summon a Diet Coke, his favorite drink. Trump championed the recipe change as a 'good move' by the Coca-Cola Company, which was founded in 1892. 'I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they...
  • AOC should be sued 'into bankruptcy' over latest attack on Trump, stunned critics seethe

    07/13/2025 12:05:18 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 18 replies
    Critics reference ABC's $15M settlement with Trump after similar characterization by George Stephanopoulos New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being accused of defaming President Donald Trump by calling him a "rapist" on social media amid controversy over the Department of Justice's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. The far-left Democrat, who has traded barbs with Trump repeatedly across both of their political careers, weighed in on the current controversy surrounding disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his New York City jail cell in 2019 after facing federal charges related to child sex trafficking. "Wow who would have...
  • How Live Aid ruined music forever

    07/13/2025 12:00:56 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 82 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | 13 July 2025 | George Chesterton13 July 2025
    Forty years ago this month, Bob Geldof unleashed his “global jukebox”. With the help of Midge Ure and promoter Harvey Goldsmith, he staged a concert across two venues on either side of the Atlantic, starting at midday on Saturday July 13 1985 in London and ending at the John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia 16 hours later. Around the world, 1.7 billion people tuned in, and it is seen as one of the great charity success stories of all time, raising $140 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.* Live Aid was so big that it has its own folklore: Status...
  • Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

    07/13/2025 11:52:00 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 13, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET | Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, Coral Davenport and Megan Mineiro
    As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government’s disaster capabilities.In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say. Staff reductions, budget cuts and other changes made by the administration since January have already created holes at the National Weather Service, which forecasts and warns of dangerous weather. Mr. Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories...
  • Presidential advisor and former News Hour contributor David Gergen has died at the age of 83 after being diagnosed with Lewy body dementia.

    07/11/2025 6:16:14 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    X.com ^ | 5:48 PM · Jul 11, 2025 | PBS News✓ @NewsHour
    Throughout his career, Gergen served four presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, and spent many Friday nights offering his insights and analysis on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. @GeoffRBennett has more Gergen's life and legacy.
  • ‘Superman’ Review: Man of Steel, Feet of Clay

    07/09/2025 10:30:34 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 29 replies
    WSJ ^ | 9 July 2025 | Kyle Smith
    In the opening chapter of DC’s relaunched superhero franchise, director James Gunn mocks the mythology of his main character, played by the likeable yet limited David Corenswet....Back home, Lois Lane (a cute Rachel Brosnahan) knows Superman’s true identity and the pair have been dating long enough to get on each other’s nerves. For once, he gives Lois an interview, which devolves into a spat. Also, Superman has a super-dog, Krypto, who is annoyingly hyperactive but also keeps saving him.Despite being fake-looking and digital, the mutt is the star of the movie, because this “Superman” has the soul of a sitcom....
  • The legal attack on trans teachers’ free speech is a much broader warning

    07/08/2025 3:10:45 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 61 replies
    MSNBC ^ | Jul 7, 2025 | Katelyn Burns
    The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that a trans teacher in Florida has no right to refer to herself with the gendered honorific “Ms.” or ask to be referred to with the pronouns she/her under what critics have called Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. The trans algebra teacher, Katie Wood, sued her employer, the Hillsborough County School Board, in 2023 soon after Florida’s anti-LGBTQ law was enacted. A lower court found that the law likely infringes on her First Amendment free speech rights and granted a preliminary injunction. However, the conservative-leaning appeals court overruled the lower...
  • 'Superman' director reveals reboot will tackle politics and kindness, tells 'jerks' to 'screw' off

    07/08/2025 3:02:28 AM PDT · by SaveFerris · 191 replies
    Fox News ^ | Published July 6, 2025 9:00pm EDT | By Joshua Q. Nelson Fox News
    Director James Gunn revealed that the upcoming "Superman" movie will be "about politics," saying that the iconic superhero is "an immigrant that came from other places." ....... And obviously, there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them."
  • Director Sean Gunn on the new Superman movie: “It is about how we support immigrants…..”

    07/07/2025 7:19:38 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 95 replies
    Director Sean Gunn on the new Superman movie: "It is about how we support immigrants and if you don't like it, you're not an American
  • Sweden invented ‘flight shaming’. Now it is begging airlines to return

    07/07/2025 12:46:53 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 15 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | Sat, July 5, 2025 | Greg Dickinson
    The country that invented “flight shaming”, a concept championed by climate activist Greta Thunberg, has scrapped its air tax in a bid to boost its ailing economy. As of July 1, Sweden has dropped the levy of 76–517 kroner (£5.50–£37.40) per passenger per flight, an eco measure introduced by the centre-left government in 2018. The U-turn will be seen as a disaster by environmentalists, and it exposes a tension at the core of the aviation versus climate debate. When jumbo jets disappear emissions drop, but other things begin to dwindle too: regional growth, connectivity and – it appears in Sweden...
  • 2025 FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS BRITISH GRAND PRIX Live Thread.

    07/03/2025 10:00:24 AM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 57 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...