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2025年1月9日 · He was amazing to call in to The BradCast and let us all know how he is doing. Below is a rush transcript of the show: BRAD FRIEDMAN: Welcome back to the Bradcast, Brad Friedman from bradblog.com. On Tuesday afternoon, our old friend John Amato, who you may have heard on this program over the years ...

2024年12月22日 · Carlos Turcios of the Dallas Express went looking for the missing congresswoman and was surprised by what he'd found. Not only had Granger's Washington and Dallas offices been closed since Thanksgiving (the only way you could reach anyone was by voicemail), but a tip led him to find that Granger was living in an assisted living facility and was suffering from dementia.

2025年1月12日 · A few months ago, Elon Musk became the world's top Diablo IV player. People wondered how that was possible, as typically gamers devote all their waking hours to reach those echelons. Many suspected it wasn't him, and on a recent stream that was confirmed. He's paying someone else to play in his name ...

2024年12月30日 · No one is coming to save us. Trump (and Musk) will be in charge of the United States in a few weeks. Watching the MAGA civil war is awesome but the fact remains that the people who will soon run our country do not have the best interests of Americans in mind.. Historian Thomas Zimmer explained why the second …

Bloomberg has the scoop on 19-year-old Edward Coristine, fired from an internship after boasting how he had accessed “every single machine” and was suspected of leaking propriety information to a competitor.. Unelected President Elon Musk thinks Coristine is just the guy to access our federal government’s most sensitive information. “Trump's administration has not …

2025年1月5日 · A new vacuum cleaner with a claw arm. I can see the killer claw arm movies coming. It was only a matter of time before robot vacuums reached a new stage of evolution. Over the years, they have become faster, smarter, and can even climb. So, it should be no surprise to anyone here at CES 2025 that we ...

2025年1月4日 · The Needle Fish: In selecting Wise Up for the emotional climax of his film, Paul Thomas Anderson understood that it needn’t be interpreted specifically, that it wasn’t about anything granular at all, or at least didn’t have to be. It’s about personal crisis, painful introspection, and those rare moments of self-awareness when we realize, whatever our circumstances, that we’ve been ...

5 天之前 · Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly demanded Elon Musk be subpoenaed for his outrageous actions against government workers but was shot down by Chairman Comer, who jumped in to protect the richest man in the world.. CONNOLLY: Who is this unelected billionaire that he can attempt to dismantle federal agencies, fire people, transfer them, offer them early retirement, and have sweeping changes to ...