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  Susan Collins Is Corrupt. She Still Might Be Reelected. Susan Collins should never be underestimated. She won her first Senate election 30 years ago, and her sheer tenacity in staying in power is formidable, especially since, over the course of her political career, Maine hasn’t been hospitable ground for Republicans (the state last gave the popular vote to a GOP president in 1988). But Collins’s undeniable gift for pork-barrel spending could now come back to haunt her, thanks to a new pay-fo...

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  Texas Abortion-Ban Author Admits Affair, Denies Claim He Funded Abortions State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione acknowledged having an affair years ago but rejected Alex Grace’s claim that he secretly funded abortions. The Texas Republican, who was the primary author of the state’s Human Life Protection Act, made the admission after Grace, a woman who says she had a 17-year relationship with him, accused him of quietly paying for abortions. Capriglione, a Southlake Republican, said he had ‘selfis...

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  96% of people we polled believe Donald Trump is the 'dumbest President ever' Roughly 96% of people polled by the Mirror US believe Donald Trump is the “dumbest president ever.” The survey, conducted last week, asked 15,000 people to assess President Trump’s decision-making as the crucial 2026 midterm elections approach. “‘Dumb’” is such a polite word," one commented. “I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone with an IQ over 90. Even kids think he’s stupid,” another joked.

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  James Talarico’s campaign could do lasting damage to the GOP All politics are identity politics. Republicans have long mocked this notion, treating the very concept of “identity politics” as a left-wing fixation. In reality, the GOP’s success is entirely due to the cheapest form of identity politics: For decades, but especially now, they have worked to distract voters from the party’s ruinous policies with appeals to their identity as white, provincial and, most importantly, Christian. This cam...

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  'Mind-melting incompetence' hides behind Trump's big 'bully' veneer: ex- official Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during Trump’s first term, tore into the administration’s handling of its relationship with Canada in a new Substack post. “Canada is demonstrating, for every democracy watching, that the response to Trump’s bullying should be neither submission nor hysteria… but the calm construction of alternatives,” he wrote....

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  Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective A Tennessee grandmother who spent six months in jail after facial recognition tech falsely linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation now wants compensation for what happened. Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo and a Fargo Police Department detective for $10 million over the incident, which led to the loss of her home, car, and dog. In July 2025, a team o...

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  LG responds to TV spying allegations Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.” LG released a statement in which it claims that its “TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversati...

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  Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway Georgia college student reportedly received a ticket from a cop after a Flock camera flagged her newly purchased vehicle as having no insurance when it did. According to a WSB-TV report, posted by podcast host Kacee Allen, the car has a temporary license plate, but the student presented a valid insurance card. Despite this, the officer reportedly still issued a citation. The incident reportedly happened t...

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  Trump posts map renaming New Mexico to 'New America' President Donald Trump — whose approval ratings continue lagging — posted a social media image suggesting renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.” U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, of Las Cruces, in a response to Trump on X stated, “You don’t get to erase New Mexico. Not our name. Not our history. Not our culture.
The President may want to call us ‘New America,’ but we know who we are.”

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  Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her lapto...

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  National Park Service backs Trump's arch, despite its impact on Washington's sightline WASHINGTON – A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects to the sightline between a host of iconic landmarks in Washington, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. The report released Friday says the 250-foot-tall (76-meter) memorial arch is likely to disrupt the historical significance of do...

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  Medicare for All Is Making a Comeback The situation is dire. Millions of people in the United States are months away from losing their health care. On January 1, dramatic changes to Medicaid outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBA, will take effect, impacting who is eligible for Medicaid. The new law excludes some groups completely (like most immigrants), introduces “community engagement” requirements (defined as 80 hours a month of work, volunteering, or school) for most people (ap...

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  The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

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  HP is a garbage company. My laptops typically last until the hardware is well past obsolete, but not HP's crap. My HP X360 laptop's motherboard failed completely and the hinges just fell apart for the 2nd time. This POS didn't last for 3 years of occasional use. Never again.

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  Qualified Immunity does not protect the ICE Gestapo when they violate Constitutional rights. Hopefully each and every one of these assholes will spend the rest of their lives trying to stay out of jail and avoid civil suits. Or better yet in jail.

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  Running Mint for apps like Jellyfin and Icecast that aren't critical, and Debian for apps like Frigate that are. Mint is easier to manage and more convenient, but Debian is amazingly reliable. Docker is used for everything. Consider adding Wireguard or similar for anywhere access. I have Tasker automatically connect whenever I'm not on home wifi so everything is always available without having detectable open router ports.

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  My brother's a textbook malignant narcissist who will literally lecture everyone around him about how great he is. He pulls shitty, manipulative BS, lies about his behavior with a straight face and then does it again the next day. My brother is what he is and there's nothing he could ever say or do that would convince me otherwise.

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  A Super Bowl ad for Ring security cameras boasting how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs has prompted some customers to remove or even destroy their cameras. Online, videos of people removing or destroying their Ring cameras have gone viral. One video posted by Seattle-based artist Maggie Butler shows her pulling off her porch-facing camera and flipping it the middle finger. Butler explained that she originally bought the camera to protect against package thefts, but decide...