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California Election Count: Three More Storage Units of Ballots Democracy Continues Heroic Battle Against the Tyranny of Deadlines LOS ANGELES – California election officials urged residents to remain calm Tuesday after discovering what they described as "an entirely routine" collection of approximately 47,000 additional ballots stored inside an unmarked warehouse between a kombucha brewery and an abandoned WeWork. Officials assured the public that the chain of custody was secure, though the chain of kombucha remains under investigation. The latest batch arrived just hours after authorities had confidently announced they were "nearly finished counting," a phrase that in Los Angeles carries roughly the same legal weight as "five more minutes" from a teenager. The Great Pratt-Fall of 2026 Spencer Pratt supporters reacted with concern as the reality television star's early lead slowly evaporated over several days of ballot processing, a collapse in...
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Silicon Valley's Most Valuable Commodity Turns Out To Be Someone Willing To Listen AI Millionaires Pay $23,000 A Day For Human Connection, Follow-Up Questions, And The Occasional Explanation Of Why GPUs Matter SAN FRANCISCO, California. In a stunning rebuke to decades of technological innovation, Silicon Valley's wealthiest AI millionaires have reportedly concluded that the one thing they cannot automate is a woman nodding attentively while they explain tensor processing units for the fourth consecutive hour. According to reports, a growing number of AI millionaires are paying premium rates of up to $23,000 per day for companions capable of discussing graphics processing units, cryptocurrency markets, venture capital strategies, and the future of humanity without visibly checking the exits. The men are paying by the hour, but emotionally they are paying by the token. The development has shaken the technology sector, which had previously assumed that replacing human interactio...
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Is Al Jazeera Bias? It Wrote "Iran Claims To Strike Back." The New York Times Just Believed Iran. Tehran Announced A Devastating Retaliation That Mostly Failed To Show Up. One Newsroom Used The Word "Claimed." It Was The One Americans Are Warned About. NEW YORK, New York. Somewhere in Brooklyn right now there is a man with an NPR tote bag staring at his phone like it just insulted his mother. He typed is Al Jezzeera bias into Google during the Iranian missile crisis, spelled exactly like that, because it was 2 a.m. and he was upset. Google knew what he meant. Google always knows. What broke him was one word. Seven letters. "Claimed." When Tehran announced its devastating retaliation against American forces, Al Jazeera, the network his uncle calls "terrorist TV," ran the one headline of the night that would pass a freshman journalism class: Iran claims to have struck back. The New York Times went with Iran strikes back, filed the retaliation as ...
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Iran Strikes Back: Top 10 Reasons Not to Believe a Word of It Iran retaliation claims hit the wires this week, and American journalism promptly face-planted into the punch bowl. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced it had carried out 21 devastating attacks on US bases across the Middle East, destroying four targets including an entire F-35 hangar in Jordan. The New York Times, the BBC, and the Guardian ran headlines saying Iran struck back. Al Jazeera, a network headquartered roughly 140 miles from the missiles in question, wrote that Iran "claimed responsibility." One little word. Claimed. And just like that, a Qatari news channel out-journalismed three newsrooms with a combined 400 years of experience and a Pulitzer cabinet the size of a Buick. The Word "Claimed" Is Doing 21 Attacks' Worth of Work Here is what actually happened, according to people who were standing under the sky at the time. Jordan said it shot down five missiles. Bahrain sai...
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World Cup 2026 Opener: Mexico Wins as Three Red Cards Fly FIFA Officials Confirm Opening Match Was "Exactly The Kind Of Calm Diplomatic Exchange We Expected" MEXICO CITY – Mexico launched the 2026 World Cup in front of 85,000 delirious supporters at the legendary Estadio Azteca by defeating South Africa 2-0 in a match that featured enough red cards to qualify as a small constitutional crisis. Football historians were quick to note that Mexico had finally won a World Cup opener after decades of stumbling nervously into tournaments like someone arriving late to a wedding carrying six folding chairs. This time, however, Mexico decided to make an entrance. Julián Quiñones scored early. Raúl Jiménez added another. And referee Wilton Sampaio distributed red cards with the efficiency of a parking officer discovering an illegally parked Ferrari convention. By the final whistle, South Africa had finished with nine men, Mexico with ten, and FIFA executives had quietly updated their...
Puppet Master Suspected After Sixth Musician Accidentally Uses Same Excuse Federal Investigators Discover Nation's Musicians All Suddenly Developed Identical Vocabulary — And Possibly the Same Publicist, Therapist, and Astrological Chart WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alarm bells began ringing across America this week after several musicians withdrew from the Freedom 250 celebration using statements that experts described as "different enough to avoid suspicion but similar enough to make your uncle start a podcast, a Substack, and an entirely new personality." The controversy erupted after country singer Martina McBride announced she had been "misled" about the nature of the event, shortly before Bret Michaels — a man who once rode a mechanical bull through an open flame for entertainment — explained, with the gravity of a UN ambassador, that the event had "evolved into something divisive." Within hours, additional performers began issuing statements featuring...
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Democrat Discovers Explaining Marxism Slowly To Texans May Not Be A Winning Statewide Message Candidate Confident Voters Will Embrace Redistribution Once He Finds The Right Slide Deck AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate race between James Talarico and Ken Paxton is already turning ugly, and James Talarico has settled on a bold theory of the case: Texans haven't rejected his politics, they simply haven't had it explained patiently enough. According to The Texas Tribune, Talarico opened with the line "I have a legislative record — Ken Paxton has a criminal record," apparently unaware that to most Texas voters a legislative record reads like a list of things that got more expensive. Political analysts say Talarico faces a unique challenge. He must convince millions of Texans that a seminary-trained former middle school teacher from Austin knows how to run their lives better than they do. He calls this "public service." Everyone outside the 512 area code calls ...