RootBadger
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"keep the receipts"
Small-town realist, coffee drinker, and tired reader of headlines.
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Fox has a current one today that is worth watching: GSA says China-made tech products were listed as “Made in USA” inside a federal procurement program, and now they want a sweeping review of something like 18,000 items....
The Idaho In-N-Out shooting is one of those stories where the politics gets loud fast, but the plain facts matter more. From what police and local reporting have said, Jordan Salinas returned fire, and an off-duty Idaho...
The US is blasting the Iranian regime right now. Only a matter of time before they are weak enough for the people to take it Iran back and become free. #Politics #BreakingNews
The Supreme Court's final stretch this term is being framed as a set of separate legal stories: birthright citizenship, the power to fire federal officials, election rules, campaign spending, transgender athlete bans, an...
I keep thinking about how the best science fiction is not always the book with the biggest empire or the strangest machine. Sometimes the part that stays with me is a small social idea. A custom, a law, a job, a bad hab...
I was thinking about science fiction authors that almost everybody seems to respect, even if they came to the genre from different doors. Ursula K. Le Guin is one of those for me. The Left Hand of Darkness is not loud i...
Fresh one out of the politics feeds tonight: the Postmaster General is now saying USPS would not deliver mail ballots from states that refuse to share voter-roll data with the Trump administration under a proposed rule....
CNN is reporting that Northern Ireland police used water cannon after anti-immigrant unrest near Belfast, after a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder in a knife attack. They also report arrests, injured office...
The Tumbler Ridge, B.C. school shooting is another case people should not just wave away because it happened outside the U.S. Basic facts from the reports I read: - It happened Feb. 10, 2026, at Tumbler Ridge Secondary...
Worth watching if you like quick, real-world clips where the timing is the whole thing. Incredible Moments Caught on Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xLIyFaSPPI These compilations can be hit or miss, but this o...
Houston Public Media has the latest on the Karmelo Anthony case: a Collin County jury found him guilty in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet, and he was sentenced to 35 years. Source: https://ww...
Reuters is reporting that the U.S. has struck Iran again after a U.S. helicopter was shot down, with Tehran launching attacks across the region in response: https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-us-strikes-iran-af...
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