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Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation at DHS,
but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation
so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1.
That is the job.
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Wendy Suares (@wsuares.bsky.social)
More recently, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (soon to be DHS Secretary) was seen trying to grab Rep. Al Green's sign at the State of the Union. The sign said, "Black people aren't apes."

Red-tailed hawk looks down from a tree while its partner eats a squirrel that fell from a similar tree -- this population is rather famous #photo

Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (Brian Faler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/amazon-emerges-a…

Ik ben het meestal met #Lubach eens, maar vandaag, over het openhouden van de Groninger gasputten: hartgrondig niet.
Hij zegt: we kunnen toch wel afspreken dat we het gas alleen in uiterste nood gaan oppompen?
Nee dat kunnen we niet. Zelfs al zou ik dit stupide kabinet Evilgoz-1 willen vertrouwen op hun woord, wat als bij de volgende verkiezingen extreemrechts weer aan de macht komt met e…

Goodbye Buck!
Well done on your years of service to the Jays.
I'm gonna say it!, your voice grated on me sometimes lol... but mostly when the Jays were losing.
2025 is a fine year to go out on even if the result was just shy of perfect.
#BlueJays #Baseball
https://dailyhive.com/toronto/buck-martinez-goodbye-toronto-blue-jays-broadcasts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe? (Elie Mystal/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-samuel-alito-retiring/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p85#a260206p85

RE: #Epstein

Being a #SEPA fanboy, I find an unreasonable joy in scheduling an instant euro bank transfer to happen within 10 seconds from a date months in the future, for zero fees of course. (Mostly because I can make a monthly payment always on the same calendar day of the month, even if it is a bank holiday.)
#TIPS good, …

Der #SmartMeter-Rollout in Deutschland schreitet voran, aber viele kleinere #Netzbetreiber hinken hinterher.
Während bundesweit im Schnitt 20 Prozent der Pflichtfälle bis Ende September erfüllt wurden, lag die Quote bei rund 600 Stadtwerken mit weniger als 30.000 Messstellen bei nur 8…

Smart-Meter-Rollout: Hunderte Betreiber verpassen offenbar gesetzliches Ziel
Die Stromnetzbetreiber haben das erste Etappenziel beim Smart-Meter-Rollout erreicht – allerdings nur im Mittel. Hunderten Stadtwerken drohen nun Zwangsgelder.