Jim Woster

[Jim Woster @jimwoster]

How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job

Bulky “nanobubbler” machines were carted off ahead of a promotional event for President Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship birthday party.

https://t.co/pFwoeWRDwz

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[Per NY Times]

Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Create a Prediction Markets App

The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.

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[This seems like a book not to start unless you have a big chunk of time — no subscription needed.]

THE YAHOO BOYS: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, by Carlos Barragán

https://t.co/DIq1PalDPY

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2/2: “I don't think there was enough evidence to say he started the first fire," said a jury member … referring to the Lachman Fire. "But say he did? I don't see why everybody else's negligence [means] he needs to be responsible for the whole Palisades."

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1/2: LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A mistrial was declared Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of setting what eventually became the Palisades Fire. Prosecutors said they will try again. … https://t.co/4EILgaLegC

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“The reading list states that excerpts from [Jonah & Psalms] will be required reading beginning in seventh grade. Additional excerpts from several parts of the Bible, such as [Lamentations & Genesis], will become part of the curriculum for high school ...” https://t.co/cFn8ZMBLt5

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An ambulance went by as “Come Undone”’played on the radio — it was like a remix …

[Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor @marykarrlit]

Though the church condemned #Scorcese's LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST as heretical when it hit (MS faced death threats) it's played a role in many conversions. My friend Antonio Spadaro SJ dubs it christologically correct, which the Holy See now agrees to. Amen

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Employers in Springfield OH love to hire Haitians. Their work ethic towers over ours and they don’t take Fentanyl …

[The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow]

Megyn sends a message to the Haitians who lost their TPS today:

"Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us... GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!"

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Hmmm … need to ponder this one …

[Bulldog @bulldogrobbrown]

@mtaibbi He is sorta correct. The media has gone from Democrat friendly to DSA friendly.

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[Two New York Times headlines this morning]

Supreme Court Lets Trump End Deportation Protection for Haitians and Syrians

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at Border

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2/2: https://t.co/VpXP4bQ8VZ and Microsoft to Bank of America and Eli Lilly, is coming together to develop a new “people strategy” for the artifcial-intelligence era. Called RAISE US, it launches [today] …

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[WSJ]

1/2: Just how many jobs will AI upend? A new coalition of companies and policymakers said it is time to ready the U.S. workforce for major disruption, no matter the ultimate scale.

[The coalition] includes state governments, philanthropic groups and employers ranging from

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Oh, yeah, so now that’s settled …

[Jameson Draper @jamdraper]

Not a big fan of superlatives these days but it’s obviously this

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“Trump handed Pulte control of our entire intelligence apparatus in the middle of a foreign war …”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist with zero national security experience, is now Acting Director of National Intelligence. And it is going about as badly as you would expect.

Trump handed Pulte control of our entire intelligence apparatus in the middle of a foreign war and directed him to start firing personnel, telling the Wall Street Journal he wanted Pulte to move without worrying about the “shackles” of congressional oversight.

Days into the job, Pulte ordered staff to identify roughly 400 employees to cut from our National Counterterrorism Center. That is the office our government built after 9/11 to track terrorist threats and share warnings across federal agencies before an attack can happen.

Former intelligence officials are already saying what should be obvious to anyone. Gutting the National Counterterrorism Center weakens our ability to detect and stop terrorist plots before they reach American soil.

In my eight years in Congress, I have not seen such incompetence or recklessness.

Pulte is sidelining national security and waving off expert warnings because the President told him to. That is an unforgivable gamble with the safety of American families.

And where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

They took the same oath I did.

Their silence right now is its own kind of betrayal.

https://t.co/YNuiWo3yuS

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A mailer from South Dakota First Action, a conservative PAC:

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@mtaibbi https://t.co/CFAfpJFzhk

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@harryfisherEMTP “I am seeing rapid cancer case after rapid cancer case.”

Where?

[Jim Woster @jimwoster]

Fox News said nothing about it’s being a “press conference,” and I can’t find video about it (and the “broadside” link goes to a story from ‘25): https://t.co/VqfvzXrEaE

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Joe Rogan and Taylor Sheridan just had a raw conversation about Tulsi Gabbard’s final act as Director of National Intelligence exposing Fauci.

ROGAN: “Tulsi Gabbard gave that press conference about Fauci and she talked about how he lied in front of Congress and that he absolutely used American tax funds to fund gain of function research through EcoHealth Alliance and through the Wuhan lab… and you know no one's covering it.”

SHERIDAN: “Didn't we all know that already?”

ROGAN: “Well, we knew it, but my parents didn't. People that just like just read the newspapers and watch TV, they don't know.”

SHERIDAN: “I've never seen anything as flagrantly obvious as COVID coming from the Wuhan lab.”

“You've got news anchors keeping a straight face saying it came from the wet market.”

ROGAN: “This was a courageous step… calling it out and saying that it came from a lab in Wuhan, China was somehow conflated with racism.”

SHERIDAN: “Fauci had attorneys reaching out to Biden's camp the last day when he got the pardon. Geez, it's just a preemptive pardon is nuts.”

ROGAN: “By every definition, it's gain of function research. And Fauci is still saying, ‘You do not know what you are talking about.’”

“If you read RFK Jr.'s book, The Real Anthony Fauci… he ran this exact same playbook during the AIDS pandemic. The villain is Anthony Fauci.”

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@SharylAttkisson What did the several true experts tell you?