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And another one.

State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, said in a post on X. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”

Though with Paxton it is indeed another one. 

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America's Worst University

Harvard University.

Sure Why Not

At least under the great financial crisis there were some houses, now we've just got fake companies on top of magic beans built on more magic beans.

In the annals of Donald Trump’s crypto corruption, the $100 million Aqua 1 Foundation deal stands out for more than just its size: There’s very little evidence that Aqua 1 Foundation exists at all. The Aqua 1 website, which was registered on May 28, 2025, contains no information about the company beyond some fintech buzzwords and an e-mail address. The company’s original X account was suspended, as was an account for an apparently affiliated company called BlockRock RWA (“RWA” refers to the practice of creating blockchain tokens for “real world assets”). Searching public databases, including of businesses in the United Arab Emirates, I’ve been unable to find any corporate registration, official filings, or other documents attesting to the existence of World Liberty Financial’s newest and biggest investor.

What if we built a fraud system based on fake money and then got Congress to make our fake money real? I anticipate no problems.

Over To You, John and Sam

* US JUDGE BLOCKS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER IN NATIONWIDE CLASS ACTION @reuters.com

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Still Embarrassed Years Later

I don't even remember which country he was from, but I remember once in grad school I praised the English of someone who had grown up speaking it and I am still mortified over 30 years later.

US President Donald Trump praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for his strong grasp of the English language on Wednesday. But the African leader was educated in Liberia, where English is the official language.

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I Did Not See That Coming

Linda Yaccarino has quit as the CEO of MechaHitler (formerly X formerly Twitter), the everything app.

In Which Larry Summers Discovers People

Baby steps, I guess.

I want to return to the topic after conversations with health professionals, including my daughters, who practice medicine and social work in rural New Hampshire. They made me realize that a focus on macroeconomics, while valid, misses the human brutality that I now see as the most problematic aspect of the legislation.

Nothing is real until Larry notices it.

America's Worst Newspaper

That fucking newspaper.

They Aren't Secret Police, Just Police Kept In Secret

Consider the mind that wrote this paragraph.

The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to protect agents from doxxing.

Full Nazi

What happens when yout train your AI on 4chan and your worst users and then turn of any guardrails. It seems the Hitler dial goes up to 11!

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries.

Is Journalism On

According to google news, the FEMA director has been mentioned just once by name in a month, in a NYT story. One mention near the bottom of the story:

Cameron Hamilton, FEMA’s former acting head, was pushed out of the agency in May after he testified before Congress that he did not believe the agency should be eliminated. David Richardson, his replacement, has no background in disaster response and told employees last month that he did not realize the country had a hurricane season. It was not clear if Mr. Richardson was joking.

FEMA director isn't always newsworthy, but at the moment...

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Captain Planet Wasn't A Woke Environmentalist When I Was A Child

Please make a superhero movie that has little except Nazi punching so they can get mad about that, too.