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Washington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…

#Wildfire in Metro #Vancouver regional park being held, evacuation alert rescinded
Was wondering where the smoke was coming from
Fire quite close to town

Wildfire in Metro Vancouver park ‘nearly contained,’ regional district says
The wildfire that sparked in a Metro Vancouver park Wednesday was “nearly contained” as of Thursday morning, according to the regional district.

Bread and Circuses to distract from crimes and failures.
#DC

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In case you were wondering what the corrupt planet-destroying assholes were up to, this floated into my keywords:
https://oneway2day.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/alarmist-newspeak-is-poisoning-the-climate-debate/

Alarmist “Newspeak” is poisoning the climate debate
I’ve been engaged in some comments on Substack with an individual committed to the Climate Change hysteria. This cross post is inspired by that interchange. Thank you Canada Free Press! JRH 10/4/26…

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Gemini 4 Argon has a 1M-token output limit, up from 64K for prior models; it initially costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-gemini-

Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn't take a clear lead
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but can't keep up with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The per-token price is low, but Argon burns through more than twice as many tokens per task as Astra. Select testers get access first, with the API and paid tiers following later.

The city of Saint Paul is destroying an encampment of unhoused people at Pig's Eye Park today— or trying to, i don't know how many people might come out in defense of it.

Thomas Smith withdrew from the Republican primary contest for Michigan’s eighth district last month.
On Tuesday, he won the nomination.
Unofficial results show Smith with more than 50% of the vote, according to the Associated Press,
defeating the man he endorsed,
anti-abortion activist Al Lemmo,
and the man Donald Trump endorsed,
former federal law enforcement officer Amir Hassan.
In a statement on Wednesday, Smith said he was “humbled and honored th…

Republican who withdrew last month beats Trump-backed rival in Michigan
Thomas Smith, whose name remained on ballot, beats Republican rivals in primary contest for eighth district

Michigan is not the only state with primaries on Tuesday.
In Missouri, voters will weigh whether to nominate former US representative Cori Bush, who is running to return to the chamber against Wesley Bell in a race punctuated by the war in Gaza and outside spending by pro-Israel groups.
And in Washington state, voters will decide which two candidates to elevate in the third congressional district, where blue-dog Democratic representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is seeking re-elec…

Michigan votes in key Senate primary as Democrats battle over party’s future
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed leads in polls against centrist Haley Stevens as party looks to regain control of US Senate