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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: When the Providence Place Mall was constructed in the late ’90s, it was touted by Rhode Island leaders as a sign of urban renewal for its struggling capital city. For eight artists, it became something else — home. These friends constructed a makeshift apartment — complete with a sofa, a TV and video game system, a microwave and …

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Jeffries Roasts “MAGA Extremists” For SOTU Whining

“That was an embarrassment last night. A complete embarrassment. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s basically running the Republican conference, shows up in campaign paraphernalia, and then these people want to lecture Joe Biden because he delivered a strong and forceful speech that made them uncomfortable because he exposed their lies and shamelessness? We have one message for extreme MAGA Republicans who …

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GOP Sen. Todd Young: I Won’t Be Endorsing Trump

Evansville’s CBS affiliate reports: U.S. Senator Todd Young says he will not support former President Donald Trump in his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination. Young spoke about Trump’s take on the war in Ukraine, where Trump says Putin is not a war criminal and will not take sides as the war wages on. Instead, Young says what Hoosiers decide …

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Megachurch Pastor: Withholding Sex Is Unbiblical And Will Send Christian Husbands Into The Arms Of A “Ho”

The Christian Post reports: With the approval of her co-pastor husband, Reginald Steele of Kingdom Church in Phoenix, Arizona, Kelley Steele warned Christian women in her congregation to avoid withholding sex from their husbands because it’s unbiblical and they could push their husbands in the arms of “some trick, some ho, some homewrecker that will give him exactly what he …

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WaPo: Tech Companies Are Straining US Power Grid

The Washington Post reports: Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid. A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is …

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Iowa House Republicans Pass Bill That Criminalizes IVF

NBC News reports: Iowa Republicans passed a personhood bill in the state House on Thursday night that would make it a felony to “cause the death” of an “unborn person,” putting the conservative Midwestern state directly into the national battle over protections for in vitro fertilization. The bill in its current form does not provide any protections for embryos created …

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GOP Senators Threaten To Block Bill To Avert Shutdown

The Hill reports: A bill to avert a partial government shutdown Friday night is running into delays in the Senate. Absent unanimous consent or an agreement between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Republicans, the upper chamber might not be able to vote until final passage before Saturday — after the government shutdown deadline but before many effects of …

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