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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Fri May 01, 2026 at 04:48:32 PM EST
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Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome.
I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for the day. In the meantime, it's your turn.

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    PSA please help (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri May 01, 2026 at 05:20:49 PM EST
    It's easy.

    I have posted here about both my new gay friends locally planning a drag show and the white nationalist group harassing them.

    Short version.  There's two businesses identified with the Drag Show. They are both gay owned and are next door to each other.  
    The feckless white nationalist can't get anyone interested (it seems) in stopping the horror of a drag show so they are bombing the stores with bad reviews on GOOGLE

    please go to GOOGLE
    search (separately) for

    3 Magi Hardy AR

    Market on Main Hardy AR

    click on the reviews tab

    Give them 5 stars
    You can say something but that's not necessary

    Thank you for your attention to this matter

    Sure (none / 0) (#2)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat May 02, 2026 at 05:50:43 PM EST
    Will be glad to when I get on Chrome. On Internet Explorer at least on the first one the search comes back with no ratings. This is an antique store?

    So in Florida they are using vouchers to set up LGBTQ schools. the evangelicals are having a meltdown. Personally I don't think this segregation is a good idea for LGBT community nor do I think it's good for Christians either. But like the gerrymandering disaster, we don't or didn't make the rules and don't whine when we use your own rules against you.

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    Downloading chrome (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat May 02, 2026 at 06:37:48 PM EST
    is pretty easy

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    I find having a GOOGLE account (none / 0) (#6)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat May 02, 2026 at 06:45:42 PM EST
    very useful.  I dont really care if the track me.
    Good luck staying awake.
    It allows you to log into just about anything on the web using your GOOGLE account.

    Not sure if an account is needed

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    I have (none / 0) (#12)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon May 04, 2026 at 02:08:18 PM EST
    Chrome. I just don't use it for TL. For some reason I have problems with Chrome and TL. So when I am here I used IE.

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    Yes (none / 0) (#5)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat May 02, 2026 at 06:41:36 PM EST
    both antique stores

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    So crazy (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat May 02, 2026 at 07:00:45 PM EST
    The new deal is the previous deal.
    Trump is going to agree with this

    Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential diplomacy, the senior Iranian official said Tehran believed its latest proposal to shelve nuclear talks for a later stage was a significant shift aimed at facilitating an agreement.

    Under the proposal, the war would end with a guarantee that Israel and the United States would not attack again. Iran would open the strait, and the United States would lift its blockade.

    Future talks would then be held on curbs to Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions, with Iran demanding Washington recognize its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, even if it agrees to suspend its nuclear program.

    "Under this framework, negotiations over the more complicated nuclear issue have been moved to the final stage to create a more conducive atmosphere," the official said.

    Link

    Now it (none / 0) (#13)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon May 04, 2026 at 02:12:12 PM EST
    seems we are resuming bombing after Iran shot one of our tankers? Sorry to say with this administration we don't know what really happened. I did read that Iranian ships had gotten past the US by pretending to be Iraqi ships.

    Iran has found something stronger than a bomb...the Strait of Hormuz. They have learned they can shut down the energy sector and do an economic strike which honestly you could say is worse than a bomb.

    Trump has screwed us and a ton of other countries with his idiocy. Elect a clown and this is what happens. Hello gas at 6 bucks in the next few weeks.  

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    Giuliani swirling down the drain. (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by desertswine on Sun May 03, 2026 at 07:56:09 PM EST


    And it's all the fault (none / 0) (#11)
    by Chuck0 on Mon May 04, 2026 at 01:54:08 PM EST
    of "Radical Left Lunatics." Dementia Donnie said so.

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    I hope (none / 0) (#14)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon May 04, 2026 at 02:13:40 PM EST
    his estate has to pay out all the claims should he pass away to all the people he harmed.

    I thought Trump had put him in the garbage dumpster since he no longer has anything to do with him. I guess he's only useful to drag up when he can blame someone else.

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    May the 4th be with us (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon May 04, 2026 at 08:20:58 AM EST
    Playbook: "Six months from today, America will wake up to a new political reality. Nov. 4 -- the morning after the midterms -- is the moment Democrats expect the next phase of retaliation against Trump 2.0 ... and the moment optimistic Republicans, at least, believe the president and his allies in Congress will be newly empowered to finish the job."

    "Right now, the mood among rank-and-file Republicans is desperate...

    Should be interesting (none / 0) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat May 02, 2026 at 06:40:19 PM EST

    The white nationalists are going to be there

    As will every gay person within 50 miles at least.

    I sympathize (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun May 03, 2026 at 07:47:26 PM EST
    but good luck legislating

    Government, in general, is so unprepared for this.

    Minnesota passes the nation's first ban on `nudification' apps

    The apps are one of the major ways nonconsensual AI deepfakes can be made without any technical expertise -- including by kids.

    Honestly (none / 0) (#15)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon May 04, 2026 at 02:15:38 PM EST
    government seems unable to deal with a lot of AI issues. Next president should hire some ETHICAL Silicon Valley gurus to find out what should be done.

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