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[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.

He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.

He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."

He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.

He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.

The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.

Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.

"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."

Here are the 9 things he changed:

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

He attacks mail‑in voting while voting by mail. He mocks vaccines while getting vaccinated. He pushes “Buy American” while selling foreign‑made merchandise. He demands action against undocumented workers while his own properties hired them. He rages about classified information while mishandling it. And now he’s falling asleep on the job after calling Joe Biden “Sleepy.” The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Between January and March of 2026, Trump made 3,600 stock trades directly from his own investment account.

For context, Nancy Pelosi has made 288 trades in her entire career.

Trump shattered the Pelosi record in 3 months.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

They thought we didn't need food inspectors or disease experts. Now we have explosive diarrhea, parasitic worms, and salmonella.

They thought we didn't need new forms of energy. Now fossil fuel supplies are disrupted, and prices have soared.

They thought we didn't need vaccines. Now measles cases are at the highest levels in over 30 years.

They thought we didn't need checks and balances. Now we have an illegal war, corruption in the White House, and attacks on the Constitution.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Corporate greed is Google quadrupling its quarterly profit to $112 billion, getting an $18.4 billion tax break last year & laying off 13,500 workers since 2023, while its founders, Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got $270 billion richer since Trump's election.

It never trickles down.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

• March 2025: Taylor Farms contributes $1 million to Make America Great Again Inc., days after the FDA delays the Food Traceability Rule.

• The FDA informs Taylor Farms that one of its iceberg lettuce products tested positive for cyclospora, prompting a voluntary recall.

• During the cyclospora outbreak: The New York Times reports Taylor Farms hires a former Trump White House official.

• Last week: Taylor Farms executives meet with White House and FDA officials, where the company challenges aspects of the government's outbreak conclusions, according to the New York Times.

• Now: Taylor Farms says the FDA apologized, calling the positive test a false positive and stating no Taylor Farms product has tested positive for cyclospora.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

So, let me get this straight-

Lettuce from Taylor Farms had been linked to the cyclospora outbreak. Taylor Farms CEO flies to the White House, makes a "donation" to Trump, and all of a sudden, the FDA walks back its finding, claiming it was a "false positive"?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Corporate greed is UnitedHealth making a $5.48 billion profit last quarter (up 60% from last year), spending $33 billion in stock buybacks since 2022, paying its CEO over $60 million last year while it works to hike premiums by up to 25% next year.

Yes. We need Medicare for All.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$2.7 billion to kill wind power. $1.125 billion to prop up coal.

That’s $3.8 billion of your tax dollars Trump has spent this year alone, not to lower your energy bill, but to make sure the cheapest electricity in America never reaches the grid.

Yes, you heard that right. The President of the United States is literally spending your tax dollars to make your energy bills more expensive.

You’re paying for this twice: once when the government spends your tax dollars to block the cheapest energy available, and again on your electric bill when utilities have no choice but to keep running expensive coal instead.
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[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).

Through all this, we've had:

1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation

2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)

3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact"

4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta

5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud

6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic

It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.

Those are the facts.

Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.

[Owen @Owennfa]

THE LABOR DEPARTMENT JUST DROPPED NEW WAGE DATA AND IT'S BRUTAL.

Corporate profits up 47% since 2020.

Worker wages up 12% in the same period.

Meanwhile groceries up 35%, rent up 40%, utilities up 28%.

Your paycheck grew 12%. Your bills grew 35%.

The math is simple: you're getting poorer every year even when you get a raise.

You can't budget your way out of this. The system is designed so your income can never catch up to your expenses.

That's not an accident. That's policy.

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states. Yet two days earlier, he approved FEMA disaster aid for six Republican-led states.

The move is raising questions on whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.
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[Bronx Hawk @Yankee_Hawk]

Averages over their last 10 games:
1. Cody Bellinger 4-39 (.103)
2. Ben Rice 8-37 (.216)
3. Jasson Dominguez 8-35 (.229)
4. Paul Goldschmidt 0-34 (.000)
5. Anthony Volpe 5-28 (.179)
6. Jose Caballero 6-33 (.182)
7. Austin Wells 1-24 (.042)
8. Jazz Chisholm Jr. 5-28 (.179)
9. Ryan McMahon 5-24 (.208)

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump on the reflecting pool: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it."

Also, Trump on the reflecting pool: "They cut it."

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

It’s hard to believe, but here we are.

[{Matt} $XRPatriot @matttttt187]

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Kobe Bryant #8 dead at 41.

Kyle Busch #8 dead at 41.

Same initials. Same number. Same age 😳

🚨Kobe Bryant won a significant settlement against a pharmaceutical company

He tragically died in a helicopter crash weeks later.

🚨Kyle Busch won an $8.5 million settlement against a major insurance company

He tragically died from a sudden & unexpected illness weeks later.

H/T @MattWallace888 @ManOfTheLibrary

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

A Chrysler 300 look like a Phantom until a Phantom pull up.

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

FIVE YEARS OF GROCERY RECEIPTS JUST EXPOSED THE MOST PROTECTED LIE IN ECONOMICS.

Since 2019, the government says cumulative inflation is about 25%.

Here is what actually happened to the things you buy every single week:

Eggs: +79%
Ground beef: +77%
Coffee: +68%
Car insurance: +55%
Electricity: +43%
Bacon: +26%
Bread: +24%

Five out of seven of those are running 2x to 3x faster than the official number. And the only two that tracked near CPI? Bacon and bread. The lowest-cost, lowest-margin items in the basket.

The things that actually drain a household budget, the protein, the energy, the insurance you are legally required to carry, those are the ones the official number keeps understating.

The CPI was retooled in the 1990s to reduce reported inflation. They added substitution adjustments. They changed how they weight housing. They smoothed out the things that spike. This is documented BLS methodology, not conspiracy.

Food overall is up 30% since end of 2019. Car insurance premiums up 54% since 2020. Electricity just hit all-time record prices. But the official line is 2.4% annual inflation and the Fed debates rate cuts.

Your grocery receipt is the only honest inflation report left.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Gregg Giannotti claims Brandon Tierney’s former producers have been celebrating his rant

[Gary M @gman5180]

There's this little place in Van Nuys, CA where you bring your own bag of chips and this guy will load em' up!

Looks good right? 😏