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Captainant

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  1. Goddamn if Putin has a picture of trump blowing Clinton that would be a big surly bingo lmfao https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-bubba-trump-blowing/
  2. check out Timberline for solar shingles if you want that sort of thing - they install like normal asphalt shingles and don't put holes in your roof like installing traditional panels do
  3. Aaaaand that's why republicans attack the notion of critical thinking
  4. Huh interesting, Fannie Mae seems to be selectively leaking information to illegally collude with competition and move the mortgage rate. Love picking winners and losers https://apnews.com/article/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-firing-pulte-data-a4f8c53df74fef83ec7fd07e3d524746 WASHINGTON (AP) — A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the government-backed lending giant who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates. Emails reviewed by The Associated Press show that Fannie Mae executives were unnerved about what one called the “very problematic” disclosure of data by Lauren Smith, the company’s head of marketing, who was acting on Pulte’s behalf. “Lauren, the information that was provided to Freddie Mac in this email is a problem,” Malloy Evans, senior vice president of Fannie Mae’s single-family mortgage division, wrote in an Oct. 11 email. “That is confidential, competitive information.” He also copied Fannie Mae’s CEO, Priscilla Almodovar, on the email, which bore the subject line: “As Per Director Pulte’s Ask.” Evans asked Fannie Mae’s top attorney “to weigh in on what, if any, steps we need to take legally to protect ourselves now.” While Smith still holds her position, the senior Fannie Mae officials who called her conduct into question were all forced out of their jobs late last month, along with internal ethics watchdogs who were investigating Pulte and his allies.
  5. honestly a good bit of "double clicking" into the headline. It's a really important datapoint that "most downloaded" in that category is just 3000 downloads at $0.99 a pop. Not really groundbreaking, nor the "real" charts
  6. 100% agree - we've already seen consequences from the Crown of England over Epstein. Time will tell who all is stained, but it sounds a little qanon-adjacent when you're seemingly more concerned about the Clintons over everything else
  7. ...yes? But the Clintons aren't the ones who are spinning up situation rooms in the basement of the White House and begging people to not vote to make things public. But the most recent release by the republicans did include a snippet of epstein saying that Bill had never been to the island, for whatever that's worth.
  8. why is trump giving Guiffre's abuser such a cushy ride and a goddamn puppy in federal prison is a better question, imo
  9. people like @ChickenSandwich are VERY concerned, as they always are about mortgage fraud
  10. Why even HAVE education?? It's just gonna """undermine parental control""", like they said in their old party platform. Can't have any critical thinking skills, nosireebob.
  11. Coffeezilla has an obligatory video on this release by the dems, and following larger release by the GOP without the redactions the dems did. Notably, the [victim] in the redactions WAS Virginia Guiffre and so he 100% DID know who she was. Which makes it even more strange that the President has spoken so kindly about Maxwell and given her such a cozy prison sentence. He's even given her a fucking puppy in prison - her guards are getting fed up of "being her bitch" also, it's fucking GROSS that Michael Wolff was such a close confidant of Epstein. Had no idea that he was basically a PR person and strategist for a pedophile
  12. well at least when he's metastacizing he'll only be shedding his intestinal lining
  13. Huh wow so the emails released include Epstein talking about working with the Russian goverment on how to best work Trump. These emails were less than a month before the disasterous Helsinki 2018 summit.
  14. I feel like this is throwing a bone to the alcohol industry, which are really feeling Great Again after all these tariffs
  15. I think they've got a one year time horizon before the music stops? IDK though, there was not republican unity on this issue, I could see them doing a bill to go for some midterm votes
  16. My favorite has been Steam's relatively tiny VR group producing a significantly superior product to Apple and Meta's VR offerings. The fact that valve is contributing major open source development to x86->ARM and Windows->Linux compatability layers is wild, SteamOS running on the ARM-based headset is a BIG deal https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX Can't wait to see that lead to more games running on cell phones natively. Hell my S24U is more powerful than an Xbox One from 10 years ago, why shouldn't it be able to natively run games from 15 years ago?
  17. Yeah that's why Elon bought Twitter
  18. Honestly that's a pretty solid critique of modern country music lmfao
  19. something, something, imperfect vessel
  20. Valve just dropped a ton of news! Steam Controller 2, Steam Frame (VR headset), Steam Machine (x86 linux gaming box running SteamOS), and even friggin SteamOS for ARM https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware
  21. Most podcasts aren't 100% scripted like a book reading is - it's inherently a conversational format with reactions and participation from the narrators. An audiobook has authorial intent and can carry the author's voice forward, even if it isn't literally voiced by the author.
  22. Wow strong public rebuke from a major intelligence ally https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/11/uk-suspends-intelligence-sharing-with-us-amid-airstikes-in-the-caribbean Britain has suspended the sharing of intelligence with the US on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean amid concerns information supplied may be used to engage in lethal military strikes by American forces. Such a decision – a rare rupture between the normally close military allies – would indicate that the UK does not believe the Trump administration’s controversial practice of sinking boats allegedly used by drug traffickers is legal. The UK, which retains oversight on several island territories in the Caribbean, has long shared intelligence with the US about the movements of suspect vessels travelling from Latin America, so they can be seized by the US Coast Guard.
  23. The Independent: Epstein claimed that Donald Trump ‘knew about the girls’ in private emails In one email to Wolff dated January 31, 2019, Epstein apparently wrote: “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever...of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.” In another email from April 2011, Epstein claimed to Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours” with a victim, whose name is redacted. “i want you to realise that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump...[VICTIM] spent hours at my hours with him...he has never once been mentioned,” Epstein told Maxwell, according to the emails. Wolff apparently wrote to Epstein on December, 15, 2015 — the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary – where the author told the disgraced financier that CNN was “planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you – either on air or in scrum afterwards.” Epstein replied: “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” “I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff replied to Epstein, according to the email. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.” “You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff apparently continued. “Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.” edit: Others reporting too if that's more your speed https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html https://abc7chicago.com/post/house-democrats-release-new-epstein-emails-referencing-president-donald-trump/18147317/ and PBS has the actual emails https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-jeffrey-epsteins-newly-released-emails-about-trump
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