Noteworthy News

[Thumpalumpacus]

I’m not sure if I’ve got this right, but I think the news is reporting that Taylor Swift’s boyfriend played football at an Usher concert.

Boru

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What is the music genre?

[Deesse23]

From todays carnival parade in Düsseldorf





Little AfD fish: "We are the people"
Bigger, colorful fish: "We are more"



Choke on it


Carnival clown pulling mask off AfD, revealing a rotten Adolf

[Thumpalumpacus]

From todays carnival parade in Düsseldorf

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https://www.ddorf-aktuell.de/wp-content/...4x683.jpeg
https://www.ddorf-aktuell.de/wp-content/...4x682.jpeg

Little AfD fish: "We are the people"
Bigger, colorful fish: "We are more"
https://www.ddorf-aktuell.de/wp-content/...4x683.jpeg
https://www.ddorf-aktuell.de/wp-content/...4x683.jpeg

Choke on it
https://www.ddorf-aktuell.de/wp-content/...4x682.jpeg

Carnival clown pulling mask off AfD, revealing a rotten Adolf
https://www.ddorf-aktuell.de/wp-content/...4x683.jpeg

There is so much win in those floats.

[brewer]

Democrat Tom Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip in the special election to replace serial fabulist and expelled former GOP Rep. George Santos

[Thumpalumpacus]

Former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D) has won back his old seat in the House, giving Democrats a critical pickup that will further narrow the GOP House majority, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.

Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip in the special election to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was expelled from his seat in December in the aftermath of criminal charges being filed against him and the many false claims he made about his background.

The race was seen as an important bellwether heading into the November general election, as New York will be key to Democrats’ strategy to win back control of the House. The 3rd Congressional District is one of five in the state that voted for Biden in 2020 but elected a Republican representative in 2022.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/44...-new-york/

This makes, what, three elections of one sort or another the GOP has lost since the Dobbs decision overturning RvW. And while NY is a blue state, the other two, KS and OH, are red ... and still acted to protect abortion access.

If the Dems don't paste Repubs with this decision, they deserve to lose in 24.

[arewethereyet]

Here we go again:

At least 1 killed in shooting at Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration (msn.com)

At least one person was killed and nine others injured in a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, after a rally Wednesday celebrating the Chiefs Super Bowl victory, authorities said.

Kansas City Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins said that in addition to the person who was killed, three were in critical condition, five others were in serious condition and one person had non-life-threatening injuries.

[zebo-the-fat]

It's ok, guns keeping you safe again!

[Thumpalumpacus]

I guess the Good Guy with a Gun™ was on his lunch break.

[Silver]

A coworker, upon learning about it as someone else brought it to our attention, stated, Welcome to America.

[brewer]

A moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft.

The company's Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk' SpaceX from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space...024-02-15/