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Alaska’s Republican-run state government on Saturday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race,
writing that there is “no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any longer.”
The scathing filing from the state’s attorney general’s office comes as U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason set a deadline of Saturday for argu…

What's the Devil's favorite food?
Filet of Soul
#halloween

Diejenigen, die älter sind als wir waren einfach zu unflexibel und haben daher keine Ahnung von all der tollen Technik, die wir nutzen, und wie man sie höchst sinnvoll einsetzt.
Und denjenigen, die jünger sind, fehlt einfach die Lebenserfahrung, um zu sehen, daß all dieser bunte neue Kram keine wirkliche Innovation darstellt, sondern nur Marketing ist, vor allem aber können sie sich die gesellschaftlichen Folgen dieser Nutzung ja mangels Erfahrung und Einschätzungs­vermögen gar nicht kl…

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over.

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The new owner really appreciates the new drivetrain on the restored bike. #BikeTooter #halloween2026

At the current natural gas price of around €100 per MWh, a 4.2 MW onshore wind turbine getting 3,500 full-load hours* saves us €2.5 million per year in LNG imported from Trump's US, Putin's Russia (until the end of the year) and other places.
*) like the ones of Betuwewind at Deil in the picture

Binance says it has reserved $6.34B in company funds, including $5B already held in impacted token assets, to deal with the fallout from the $6.3B hack (Rajveer Singh Pardesi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional…

Next step: charge both officers with perjury or falsifying an official document for claiming he failed to signal.
I know, it'll never happen. But a guy can dream, right?
https://reason.com/2026/09/28/the-5th-

5th Circuit rejects qualified immunity for cops who made a bogus traffic stop
Dashcam footage contradicted the officers' claim that the driver failed to signal before they questioned him about drugs and searched him.

Steel was once the foundation of Pittsburgh’s economy.
After the industry collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s,
it ‘left a hole that needed to be filled’,
says John Buechli, senior construction manager
Mill 19,
-- once part of the Jones and Laughlin steel mill in Pittsburgh,
-- has been repurposed into a hub for tech, robotics and advanced manufacturing
The Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (RIDC),
Is a non…

Mill 19: a creative hub built into a former steel factory
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylviania, a post-industrial site gets a second life

The Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to cast doubt on the midterm elections,
discount some ballots
and prevent the finalization of results
is entering a frenetic new phase.

The litigation strategy has failed so far,
but appears designed to give the Justice Department more time to contest results after the election.

Trump, worried about a Democratic takeover of Congress and a third impeachment,
has tilted the Justice Department away from…

Trump administration retools its battle over elections to keep fights alive after Election Day
The newest phase in Trump’s fight includes lawsuits and investigations that would preserve the administration’s ability to cast doubt on the results.