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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

A sharp former Georgia attorney has found Young Thug's terms of probation and, with its typical attention to detail, Fulton requires him to have guns and do crimes

i love that jd vance is the minister in charge of making the zoo more racist

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

"I'm a free speech absolutist who thinks reporters should be fired for discovering unflattering information about public officials"

All good stuff and great to see, but on the whole it seems pretty marginal given the narrow exemption criteria. Only ~7,000 units of such “passive housing” currently exist. BUT, all we have to do is persuade www.phius.org to add a new certification tier with no requirements, and we’re in business.

The congestion pricing debacle has been humiliating but nothing been worse than watching the city try and reverse-engineer the concept of "garbage bins" for the last five years, alternatively either congratulating ourselves for our ingenuity or denouncing them as foreign devilry.

Happy new york congestion pricing day to all who celebrate

Even over 11 years that’s 212 violations per year. That’s 0.58 violations per day. Violations Georg here gets a ticket every other day.

Given that it’s impossible for the graph to go up by more than 1 year per year, the uptick after 2008 where it rises to >1/2 year per year is striking.

this story is absolutely fucking insane www.propublica.org/article/thom...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsX...