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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/10
« Last post by Ptarmigan on August 10, 2026, 09:48:52 PM »
Flight canceled after toddler refused to buckle seat belt, stranding passengers overnight
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/flight-canceled-toddler-refused-buckle-seat-belt-stranding-passengers-overnight

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An evening flight from British Columbia to Toronto this week had to be canceled because a toddler refused to buckle their seat belt, the airline confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Porter Airlines flight 444 was expected to leave from Victoria International Airport at 10:30 p.m. and had begun taxiing when a flight attendant noticed the child.

"A young child was standing in their seat and would not secure their seatbelt," the airline shared with Fox News Digital in a statement, adding that neither the adult with the child nor the crew were able to get the child buckled.

This is what happens when parents are not being parents.
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The DUmpster / Re: Hard facts for the MAGAs in your lives:
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 10, 2026, 06:59:06 PM »
If the DUmmies and BlueSky crowd looked under the hood, which they never do, is to look at what job sectors are increasing and most importantly disappearing.

It is impossible to link a reliable source including the BLS and the Department of Labor, but 75% of industries are experiencing job growth. The one group that is losing jobs: Government and associated job functions, including health care and Somali Learing Centers.

Learing Centers... Democrats are never going to live that one down, are they?
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WNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the 'W' Stands for

https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/08/09/wnba-commissioner-to-hold-a-special-strategy-meeting-to-define-what-a-woman-is-n2680927


Whatever their purpose, a couple of former NBA players have basically called the WNBA's bluff: "Are you virtue-signalling or will you walk your talk?"

A meeting? :thatsright:

I'm getting "It's time to have a hard conversation about _____" vibes from this.
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General Discussion / Re: Democrat treason and sedition
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 10, 2026, 06:54:18 PM »
Democrat candidate for Wisconsin governor Francesca Hong would use National Guard to arrest ICE agents:

https://youtu.be/iJXGIqdp9fo?si=tS92PkYdPV_Nw-Jh

The mentally ill need treatment, not to be rewarded with an elected office.
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General Discussion / Re: Democrat treason and sedition
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 10, 2026, 05:52:41 PM »
Democrat candidate for Wisconsin governor Francesca Hong would use National Guard to arrest ICE agents:

https://youtu.be/iJXGIqdp9fo?si=tS92PkYdPV_Nw-Jh
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/10
« Last post by SVPete on August 10, 2026, 04:58:40 PM »
Justice Department Finds Duke Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-duke-law-school-discriminates-based-race-admissions

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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today investigative findings that Duke University School of Law (Duke Law) intentionally discriminated based on race in granting and denying admission to its 2023, 2024, and 2025 incoming classes. Duke Law’s discriminatory conduct violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), which banned race discrimination in higher education.

“Duke Law School doesn’t get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Using ‘diversity’ essay questions to identify preferred races for admission is still illegal discrimination based on race, and this Department is committed to eliminating it everywhere we find it, including in our nation’s law schools.”

The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, Duke Law emphasized racial diversity in admissions and engaged in a deliberate effort to preserve race-based outcomes for its incoming classes. ... Admissions reviewers were then instructed to “tag” responses to these short answer questions. To capture answers related to “diversity of perspective and experience” reviewers used the “Diversity/Services” tag. Reviewers were also instructed to use tags to capture specific applicant characteristics that are commonly correlated with race, such as being a Pell grant recipient. Thus, while Duke Law’s published policies assert that admissions reviewers did not see racial demographic data, Duke Law directed its admissions staff to highlight applicant information that could be used to advance Duke Law’s racial diversity goals.

As a result, a black or Hispanic applicant has a substantially higher likelihood of admission to Duke Law than a white or Asian applicant with the same academic credentials. When qualifications are not similar, the result is starker: in 2024 and 2025, the median LSAT scores of rejected white and Asian applicants exceeded the median LSAT scores of admitted black applicants.
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This coming from the people who keep saying OMG TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER!!!111one

No, you idiots do not know what the word 'literally' really means.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/10
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 10, 2026, 02:53:44 PM »
Strange But True: Journalists Never Seem to Ask Gun-Grabbers Why Their Predictions of Blood and Death Never Come True

https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/strange-but-true-journalists-never-seem-to-ask-gun-grabbers-why-their-predictions-of-more-blood-and-death-never-come-true/

The MSM have considerable experience in continuing to Chicken-Little despite their predictions always proving false: forty years of Warmistas, "We only have 10 years left;" the Arctic cap will be gone; polar bears will starve and go extinct; Reagan will cause WW3; new Ice Age coming; mass famine coming in the 1970s ... . MSM-folk won't challenge hoplophobes' Chicken-Littling.

Reading things like this always reminds me of the left's persistent claim that they base their views and policies on facts.

(Spoiler alert: No, they don't.)
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The DUmpster / Re: Hard facts for the MAGAs in your lives:
« Last post by SVPete on August 10, 2026, 02:23:54 PM »
If the DUmmies and BlueSky crowd looked under the hood, which they never do, is to look at what job sectors are increasing and most importantly disappearing.

It is impossible to link a reliable source including the BLS and the Department of Labor, but 75% of industries are experiencing job growth. The one group that is losing jobs: Government and associated job functions, including health care and Somali Learing Centers.

Well, linking BLS stats might earn a granite pizza on DU or its equivalent on Bluesky, but the current BLS stats are linked in my first Reply to this thread.
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The DUmpster / Re: Hard facts for the MAGAs in your lives:
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on August 10, 2026, 02:10:55 PM »
If the DUmmies and BlueSky crowd looked under the hood, which they never do, is to look at what job sectors are increasing and most importantly disappearing.

It is impossible to link a reliable source including the BLS and the Department of Labor, but 75% of industries are experiencing job growth. The one group that is losing jobs: Government and associated job functions, including health care and Somali Learing Centers.
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