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Verizon Gives OAN The Axe, Upsetting The Six People Who Still Watch The Channel

2 years 11 months ago
When last we checked in with One America News (OAN), it was trying (with the help of numerous Republican AGs) to pretend that DirecTV’s decision to boot the barely watched conspiracy network from its cable lineup was part of a vast, diabolical cabal to censor conservatives (it wasn’t). OAN more recently attacked Verizon, the last […]
Karl Bode

Flipping burgers and keeping a St. Louis original alive for nearly 70 years

2 years 11 months ago
Chuck-A-Burger is one of the most iconic places to get a bite to eat in the St. Louis area. It is a spot in North County cloaked in nostalgia. It will take you back to the days of big-bodied cars with big chrome fenders. “You are literally driving into 1957. The atmosphere just reeks of 1957,” said restaurant owner Ron Stille. 1957 is when Chuck-A-Burger was established and became a hangout for local cruisers. “Friday nights and Saturday nights, it was packed,” said Stille. The way the…
Rene Knott, KSDK

ISP Probes Three-Vehicle Fatal Crash

2 years 11 months ago
WILLIAMSON COUNTY - Illinois State Police is investigating a three-vehicle fatal crash at Illinois Route 37, just south of Kellville Road in Williamson County at 9:45 a.m. on July 20, 2022. This is the preliminary information being released by Illinois State Police District 13: WHAT: Three-Vehicle Fatal Traffic Crash WHERE: Illinois Route 37, just south of Kellville Road, Williamson County WHEN: July 20, 2022 at approximately 9:14 a.m. VEHICLES: Unit 1 – 2012 White IsuzuTruck Unit 2 – 2006 White Freightliner Truck-Tractor Semi-Trailer Combination Unit 3 – 1985 Blue International Truck-Tractor Semi-Trailer Combination DRIVERS : Unit 1 – Charles M. Hedges, 70-year-old male from Carterville, IL – Deceased. Unit 2 – Darwin E. Titzer, 62-year-old male from Mill Shoals, IL Unit 3 – Monty D. Millenbine, 65-year-old male from Mill Shoals, IL – Flown to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. PASSENGER: Unit

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Polling The Public About Social Media Policies Turns Up Nothing Particularly Useful

2 years 11 months ago
Someone emailed to call my attention to some new survey results out of the University of South Florida’s Center for Cybersecurity, which contained public opinion polls about internet regulation (and gas prices, but that’s a bit outside our wheelhouse). The key part that was highlighted to me was: More than half of Floridians (52%) say […]
Mike Masnick

Friday Cat Blogging – 22 July 2022

2 years 11 months ago
This is Charlie about to attack Hilbert's tail—though Charlie is hardly to blame for this. There are, after all, limits to what you can expect when you start waving your tail in somebody's face.
Kevin Drum

Going Postal

2 years 11 months ago
Today on TAP: Progressives win some small victories. What will it take for them to add up to big victories?
Robert Kuttner

Jury convicts Bannon of contempt of Congress

2 years 11 months ago
“This case is not complicated but it is important,” Molly Gaston, an assistant U.S. Attorney, said in her closing argument Friday. “When it came down to it, he did not want to recognize Congress’s authority or play by the government’s rules.”
Harper Neidig