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2022-01-02 at 12:13 AM UTC in Attic Attack!Well, now we know where he hides his smuggled drugs, don't we?
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2022-01-01 at 11:13 PM UTC in Black HolesNobody else finds this cool???
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2022-01-01 at 11:09 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-01 at 11:07 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMaking
All the
Goofy-
Assed claims go up in smoke...at Rump's own request
Newsweek
Texas Election Audit Demanded by Trump Fails to Find Significant Voting Issues
Andrew Stanton
The first phase of the Texas election audit demanded by former President Donald Trump failed to find significant voting issues, according to a report by the secretary of state's office.
The first phase of the Texas election audit pushed for by former President Trump, seen above in October 2020, found few voting issues.
The first phase consisted of a partial manual count of ballots and security assessments in four of the largest counties in the Lone Star state, the Texas Tribune reported. All counties are already required to undergo this as part of the normal process.
Remi Garza, president of the Texas Association of Election Administrators, told the Tribune nothing in the report concerned him.
"There doesn't seem to be anything too far out of the ordinary with respect to the information that's provided," he told the newspaper.
The audit found few differences between the manual and electronic ballot counts, and only 509 possible cross-state duplicate votes—less than .005 percent of the more than 11.3 million ballots cast in Texas.
Nine of these ballots were cast on Collin County, 12 in Dallas County, 27 in Harris County and 12 in Tarrant County, according to the report.
It also found only 67 possible votes cast in the name people who have died. Three of those were cast in Collin County, nine in Dallas County, four in Harris County and one in Tarrant County.
The report also found that officials removed 224,585 deceased people from voter rolls and found that 11,737 possible non-U.S. citizens may be registered to vote.
The second phase of the audit will take place this year. It will consist of an examination of election records to ensure procedures were properly followed. Officials will review records of voting machine accuracy tests, early voting rosters and forms of chains of custody for election materials, according to the Tribune.
The secretary of state's office announced the audit in September—only hours after Trump pressured Governor Greg Abbott to conduct an audit, prompting criticism from many local officials.
Of the four counties the audit focused on, President Joe Biden easily carried Dallas and Harris counties, while narrowly winning Tarrant. Meanwhile, Trump won Collin County—though Democrats made significant improvements there.
Trump pushed for the audit in Texas even though he carried the state by about 5.6 points.
"Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit!" Trump wrote in a letter to Abbott in September. "You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election."
Following the election, Trump and his allies pushed for audits in several competitive states, citing the unfounded claim that the election was stolen by widespread voter fraud. But the results of the audit's first phase add Texas to the list of states where audits found no evidence of that fraud.
An audit of Arizona's Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, found that Biden won by an even larger margin than the initial count found. Still, some of Trump's supporters falsely claimed the results showed he won the county.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said last March that 250 random audits across the state confirmed the accuracy and integrity of the election—but Trump still pushed for an audit in Michigan.
In Wisconsin, an audit conducted by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau also found no evidence of widespread fraud. A more recent GOP-led audit in the state demanded information on Dominion Voting Systems machines in cities that don't use them. -
2022-01-01 at 10:53 PM UTC in Attic Attack!First of all, I saw absolutely zero evidence of critters, so...you must be hearing things or have a ghost.
Secondly, you put a hole in a rental property ceiling! WTF were you thinking? You didn't really need that security deposit back or a good reference, did you?
Thirdly, did you check in the closets for an attic access as they are often located in them.
Lastly, where do you live? There isn't a stitch of insulation in that attic and it has to be costing you a lot of money to heat/cool that place. See if you can get the landlord to spring for some. You can even point out the wonderful access hole you made just for him! -
2022-01-01 at 9:16 PM UTC in Black HolesHAHA...TRICKED YOU!
You thought this was going to be about African-American sluts, didn't you?
Live Science
We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking's most far-out ideas
Paul Sutter
In the 1970s, Hawking proposed that dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most matter in the cosmos, may be made of black holes formed in the earliest moments of the Big Bang.
Now, three astronomers have developed a theory that explains not only the existence of dark matter, but also the appearance of the largest black holes in the universe.
"What I find personally super exciting about this idea is how it elegantly unifies the two really challenging problems that I work on — that of probing the nature of dark matter and the formation and growth of black holes — and resolves them in one fell swoop," study co-author Priyamvada Natarajan, an astrophysicist at Yale University, said in a statement. What's more, several new instruments — including the James Webb Space Telescope that just launched — could produce data needed to finally assess Hawking's famous notion.
Black holes from the beginning
Dark matter makes up over 80% of all the matter in the universe, but it doesn't directly interact with light in any way. It just floats around being massive, affecting the gravity within galaxies.
It's tempting to think that black holes might be responsible for this elusive stuff. After all, black holes are famously dark, so filling a galaxy with black holes could theoretically explain all the observations of dark matter.
Unfortunately, in the modern universe, black holes form only after massive stars die, then collapse under the weight of their own gravity. So making black holes requires many stars — which requires a bunch of normal matter.Scientists know how much normal matter is in the universe from calculations of the early universe, where the first hydrogen and helium formed. And there simply isn't enough normal matter to make all the dark matter astronomers have observed.
Sleeping giants
That's where Hawking came in. In 1971, he suggested that black holes formed in the chaotic environment of the earliest moments of the Big Bang. There, pockets of matter could spontaneously reach the densities needed to make black holes, flooding the cosmos with them well before the first stars twinkled. Hawking suggested that these "primordial" black holes might be responsible for dark matter. While the idea was interesting, most astrophysicists focused instead on finding a new subatomic particle to explain dark matter.
What's more, models of primordial black hole formation ran into observational issues. If too many formed in the early universe, they changed the picture of the leftover radiation from the early universe, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). That meant the theory only worked when the number and size of ancient black holes were fairly limited, or it would conflict with measurements of the CMB. .
The idea was revived in 2015 when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory found its first pair of colliding black holes. The two black holes were much larger than expected, and one way to explain their large mass was to say they formed in the early universe, not in the hearts of dying stars.
A simple solution
In the latest research, Natarajan, Nico Cappelluti at the University of Miami and Günther Hasinger at the European Space Agency took a deep dive into the theory of primordial black holes, exploring how they might explain the dark matter and possibly resolve other cosmological challenges.
To pass current observational tests, primordial black holes have to be within a certain mass range. In the new work, the researchers assumed that the primordial black holes had a mass of around 1.4 times the mass of the sun. They constructed a model of the universe that replaced all the dark matter with these fairly light black holes, and then they looked for observational clues that could validate (or rule out) the model.
The team found that primordial black holes could play a major role in the universe by seeding the first stars, the first galaxies and the first supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Observations indicate that stars, galaxies and SMBHs appear very quickly in cosmological history, perhaps too quickly to be accounted for by the processes of formation and growth that we observe in the present-day universe.
"Primordial black holes, if they do exist, could well be the seeds from which all supermassive black holes form, including the one at the center of the Milky Way," Natarajan said.
And the theory is simple and doesn't require a zoo of new particles to explain dark matter.
"Our study shows that without introducing new particles or new physics, we can solve mysteries of modern cosmology from the nature of dark matter itself to the origin of supermassive black holes," Cappelluti said in the statement.
So far this idea is only a model, but it's one that could be tested relatively soon. The James Webb Space Telescope, which launched Christmas Day after years of delays, is specifically designed to answer questions about the origins of stars and galaxies. And the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, especially the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), is poised to reveal much more about black holes, including primordial ones if they exist.
Together, the two observatories should give astronomers enough information to piece together the story of the first stars and potentially the origins of dark matter.
"It was irresistible to explore this idea deeply, knowing it had the potential to be validated fairly soon," Natarajan said. -
2022-01-01 at 8:46 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Bloomberg
Cases Rise ‘Through the Roof’ as Omicron Sweeps Across U.S.
Carey Goldberg and Michael Smith
(Bloomberg) -- In Boston, coronavirus levels measured in wastewater are spiking to more than quadruple last winter’s surge. In Miami, more than a quarter of people are testing positive for Covid. And a San Francisco medical leader estimates that, based on his hospital’s tests, one of every 12 people in the city with no Covid symptoms actually has the virus.
As the omicron variant sweeps the country, daily cases are reaching unheard-of levels, crossing the half-million mark, and are only expected to go much higher.
Some projections are for a peak of more than one million cases a day by as early as mid-January. “That seems totally plausible to me, given that we’re already at almost 600,000,” said Sam Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute.
On the plus side, hospitalizations and deaths have been rising more slowly, and it remains to be seen whether omicron’s casualty toll will reach levels of previous surges. The variant so far appears to naturally cause less severe illness, and widespread immunity, whether from vaccines or previous infections, has also been critically important.
However, the sheer numbers of those falling ill could continue to cause havoc in communities and in essential services ranging from schools and hospitals to airlines and subways.
“If the teachers and custodial and cafeteria staff are sick, if all the people who make the schools run are sick, it may be out of our hands whether we have the schools close,” Scarpino said.
Dependable Indicator
As more and more Americans rely on rapid tests, the results of which are not reported to public health authorities, the official case numbers become less reliable. That’s why other ways to measure the spread are gaining in importance. Wastewater, for example, has proven a dependable indicator of virus prevalence, and the latest measurements confirm an unprecedented spike.
Around this time last year, analysis found 1,500 copies of Covid RNA per milliliter in Massachusetts water, said Newsha Ghaeli, co-founder and president of Biobot Analytics, which is tracking wastewater Covid in 20 states. Now, it’s up to 7,000 copies per milliliter, she said.
Past research suggests virus spikes in wastewater precede spikes in clinical cases by four to ten days, she said, though those studies predate vaccines. “The data might look scary but we’re prepared,” she said.
Covid levels in sewage are spiking elsewhere in the U.S. In Florida’s Orange County, which includes Orlando, Covid levels this week were double previous record highs from the summer, as the delta variant peaked.
“Because both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers of the virus shed remnants in their waste, this data provides an accurate picture of how the virus is spreading in our community regardless of the number of people tested,” Ed Torres, Director of Orange County Utilities, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Omicron’s aggressive assault pushed new daily Covid cases in Florida to a record 58,013 on Dec. 29, more than double pre-Christmas levels, according to the CDC. The surge is starting to stress hospitals, where reported daily cases have been breaking records all week. On Thursday, some 4,000 people were hospitalized for Covid in the state, almost doubling in three days, according to the Florida Hospital Association. That’s still a long way from the summer surge of the delta variant, when hospitalizations from Covid peaked at 17,121.
Testing Chaos
The arrival of omicron, though, has sparked chaos at Covid testing sites around the state. In Miami, cars have been lining up for 10 blocks or more at massive, drive-through testing sites in county parks that two weeks ago were nearly empty. When two dozen public libraries began offering free at-home test kits, people began lining up at 4 a.m., quickly emptying stockpiles. As of today, almost 28% of those tested were positive for Covid, CDC data shows.
In Puerto Rico, Covid cases have jumped 45-fold over the past two weeks, even as the island boasts being the most vaccinated U.S. jurisdiction. As of Friday, the health department said 80% of the eligible population has at least two shots.
In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott asked the federal government to send medical staff, therapeutic drugs and testing equipment to aid the state’s fight to help contain the latest wave. The request targets six counties that include the Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin areas, all of which are experiencing alarming growth in positivity rates and hospitalizations, Abbott said in an emailed statement.
Ultimately, said the Rockefeller Foundation’s Scarpino, the rise in cases is so steep that it looks to him and his colleagues like someone was playing with a mathematical model of disease spread, and tweaked a parameter to make infections “shoot through the roof.” -
2022-01-01 at 6:48 PM UTC in Douglas Dennison aka Speedy Parker aka TheDickRodent claims to have ratted to the FBI for moneyNot any of you?
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2022-01-01 at 6:44 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sLooks like Shlomo was violated too.
That explains a lot! -
2022-01-01 at 6:39 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sI think Speculum is the way he is because he was violated as a child.
Tell us all about it, Specky.
Consider this a safe place. -
2022-01-01 at 5:57 PM UTC in new pics of the last bitch who properly
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2022-01-01 at 5:43 PM UTC in Douglas Dennison aka Speedy Parker aka TheDickRodent claims to have ratted to the FBI for money
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2022-01-01 at 5:39 PM UTC in Douglas Dennison aka Speedy Parker aka TheDickRodent claims to have ratted to the FBI for money
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2022-01-01 at 5:18 PM UTC in Douglas Dennison aka Speedy Parker aka TheDickRodent claims to have ratted to the FBI for moneyWho here thinks Shlomo needs a little love?
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2022-01-01 at 4:53 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMarketWatch
Federal judge rebuffs First Amendment argument from lawyers for Proud Boys in Jan. 6 case
Associated Press
A federal judge refused to dismiss an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on Tuesday rejected defense attorneys’ arguments that the four men — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe — are charged with conduct that is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.
Kelly said the defendants had many nonviolent ways to express their opinions about the 2020 presidential election.
“Defendants are not, as they argue, charged with anything like burning flags, wearing black armbands, or participating in mere sit-ins or protests,” Kelly wrote in his 43-page ruling. “Moreover, even if the charged conduct had some expressive aspect, it lost whatever First Amendment protection it may have had.”
Nordean, Biggs, Rehl and Donohoe were indicted in March on charges including conspiracy and obstructing an official proceeding. All four of them remain jailed while they await a trial scheduled for May.
Defense lawyers also argued that the obstruction charge doesn’t apply to their clients’ cases because Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote was not an “official proceeding.” Kelly disagreed.
Earlier this month, another judge in the District of Columbia’s federal court upheld prosecutors’ use of the same obstruction charge in a separate case against two riot defendants.
The case against Nordean, Biggs, Rehl and Donohoe is a focus of the Justice Department’s sprawling investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection. More than three dozen people charged in the Capitol siege have been identified by federal authorities as Proud Boys leaders, members or associates, including at least 16 defendants charged with conspiracy.
Last Wednesday, a New York man pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members. Matthew Greene is the first Proud Boys member to publicly plead guilty to conspiring with other members to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote. He agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Other extremist group members have been charged with conspiring to carry out coordinated attacks on the Capitol, including more than 20 people linked to the antigovernment Oath Keepers.
Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the group’s national “Elders Council.” Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Donohoe, of Kernersville, North Carolina, also served as president of his local chapter, according to the indictment.
Lawyers for the four men declined to comment on Tuesday’s ruling.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Proud Boys members met at the Washington Monument and marched to the Capitol before President Donald Trump finished addressing thousands of supporters near the White House.
Just before Congress convened a joint session to certify the election results, a group of Proud Boys followed a crowd of people who breached barriers at a pedestrian entrance to the Capitol grounds, the indictment says. Several Proud Boys also entered the Capitol building itself after the mob smashed windows and forced open doors.
More than 700 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. At least 165 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses punishable by a maximum of six months’ imprisonment. -
2022-01-01 at 6:23 AM UTC in What if you saw a woman with giant bazongas"Excuse me, ma'am. Would you mind terribly if I motorboated those?"
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2022-01-01 at 6:20 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'slol
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2021-12-31 at 9:32 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sJust wait.
It's gonna get a whole lot better very soon. -
2021-12-31 at 9:21 PM UTC in Alcohol is the shitIs alcohol more the shit...or the vomit?
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2021-12-31 at 9:17 PM UTC in Douglas Dennison aka Speedy Parker aka TheDickRodent claims to have ratted to the FBI for money
