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Why is ANYBODY responsible for these policies still in office? Exclusive | Venezuelan migrant with links to Tren de Aragua arrested in robbery of Manhattan prosecutor

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Do you want a $200,000 bottle of cognac? Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr : Delamain L'Édition Rare du Bicentenaire

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This guy has WAY too much money (and now the artist has a bunch of it): "Comedian," banana art taped to wall, sells for $6.24 million

It’s not the original banana, and the buyer intends to eat it. Banana taped to wall sells for $6.2 million at art auction – DW – 11/21/2024

Deep thoughts about the banana on the wall: A Banana Duct-Taped To A Wall Sold For $5.2 Million At Auction—Why?

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Republicans win another House seat but due to losses in New York (the state, not the city), will likely still end up with one fewer seat than they had to start the 2023 session of Congress. Trump-district House Democrat loses Alaska seat to political scion

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I kinda hope this is true just for the nerdiness of it, though I've also read that coins have a slightly higher chance of coming up heads (but I have no idea where I read it or if it was a credible source) and I don't know if that's true either but it's unlikely that this story and the heads thing can both be true: The Way You Flip a Coin Could Mean It's Not as Random as You'd Expect : ScienceAlert

Also, it could be that spinning a penny has a significant likelihood of tails being the result: Gamblers Take Note: The Odds in a Coin Flip Aren't Quite 50/50 | Smithsonian

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Some stuff I didn't get to yesterday:

Infuriating. This kind of thing is less pervasive than it used to be but it shouldn't happen at all: Georgia mom Brittany Patterson fights child endangerment charges after son found less than mile from home

I wonder if this will turn into anything significant or if the app underperforms expectations, much as Meta's "Threads" app has: The website tracks how fast Bluesky is growing in near real time - Fast Company

Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads | TechCrunch

A difficult lawsuit following a terrible event: Club Q victims sue officials for not using red flag law to protect them

I said at the time that the Club Q shooter was the poster child for the Red Flag law. However, if the process played out in a way where the judge could not get any evidence of the risk posed by the shooter because family members refused to be served in order to testify, it's unclear that there is someone other than those family members at fault. I suppose answer that type of question will be the purpose of a trial, unless somehow it gets settled before trial (and I hope it doesn't.) I also don't like the idea of suing the club.

Two interesting questions of law: Colo. justices to examine anti-SLAPP law's constitutionality | Courts | coloradopolitics.com

Speaking of lawsuits: Why Is There a Class Action Lawsuit Against Kraft Mac & Cheese?

Seems to me the question in the case comes down to this: "Can a chemical that occurs in nature be considered 'artificial' if it is made in a lab and an industrial process rather than collected through whatever process creates it in nature?"

Kraft Heinz lawsuit not dismissed, food company will got to court: Judge

We talked the other day about how this might be coming: Exclusive | Comcast Greenlights $7 Billion Spinoff of NBCUniversal Cable Channels - WSJ
I wonder if future owners of MSNBC will keep it a far-left network. I'm not sure that network has a good alternative because they'd probably lose most of their viewers if they became more moderate.

Comcast to spin off NBCU's cable channels

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