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Blue-collar white voters are, for the first time, seriously doubting Mr. Trump’s handling of the economy.

I still hear “I voted for Trump three times, but…” on a regular basis. Trump voters by-and-large aren’t repentant and they don’t give the appearance of the cognitive capacity necessary for “doubting”. That would imply reconsideration based on available facts. What they are doing now would be better described as “musing idly about the specific self-serving details of”.

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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI

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Google was really awesome at a point in time. You could throw it the most obscure query using natural language with in-text Boolean operators and the number one result would direct you to an html-only geocities page that hadn’t been updated since 1999 with the EXACT answer you needed and citations from 3-4 actual, physical books to back up that answer. IMHO, those were peak times for the internet as an information resource; approximately 1998-2008.

Now every page just seems to be a bloated, poorly-coded monument to engagement baiting, subscription model services, and ad revenue generation. It’s genuinely sad to have watched the degradation over the years…

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Asus won’t say how it escaped the US router ban / Asus is not publicly committing to US manufacturing.

This is not information we should expect from Asus, and Asus is right to not provide it to the press. This information should come directly from the United States government in an honest, transparent, and verifiable release. If the government is unable to provide such a release, then we are left to wonder what the government did that was so shady that they won’t follow even the most mundane of bureaucratic processes. Par for the course for the current administration, unfortunately…

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Inside [the Concentration Camp Called] Delaney Hall’s Black Box

We must acknowledge the probability that the US government is engaging in an ongoing neglect and torture campaign against ICE detainees. The only possible reasons I can conceive for this level of obfuscation are either what I’ve mentioned above or an ongoing epidemic of some nearly untreatable disease in their facilities. Neither explanation makes their actions moral or legal.

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Have you been sexually assaulted or coerced into sex?

My ex (and her friends) from over 20 years ago peer pressured me (and probably her, too) into having sex way earlier than I intended. Then she regretted it and became increasingly distant. Then I resented her for becoming distant. Then I started having non-sexual relationships with others and she resented that, so she started having casual sex with my bandmates. It was terrible for everyone involved. Should have just stood my ground when I said no the first time…

Not a typical “me too” story and I won’t pretend that the experience was anywhere near as traumatic as others have had, though it was traumatic for me and destroyed years of my young life.

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Republican Tries to Get Journalist Arrested After Disastrous Debate

Andy Harris should be arrested for being an insufferable and dangerous piece of sxxt. This is the man who tried to bring a handgun into the House chamber right after January 6th. He is by far the worst part of living in the state of Maryland, and I say this as someone who believes many of our democratic governor - Wes Moore’s - policies are an EXTREMELY distant second for that title.