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May her memory be a blessing

Invasion of Iran and all its negative consequences are a result of Netanyahu dogwalking Trump and Kushner in war.

Elon Musk's DOGE is entirely responsible for raising grocery prices and next week he will be crowned the world's first trillionaire.

🚨Meet Lyndsey Fifield — the far-right operative now accusing Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of physical “intimidation.”

Fifield’s resumé reads like a who’s who of the conservative right: the Heritage Foundation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Action Network, Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign, and “Independent Women” — a group that’s openly supportive of Republican Senator Susan Collins, the very person Platner is running to unseat.

But here’s where it gets rich.

In 2019, Fifield wrote a glowing tribute to Brett Kavanaugh, describing Christine Blasey Ford’s r*pe allegations against him as a “desperate smear campaign” meant to stop his confirmation. She called it “ruthless” and “devastating” — to Kavanaugh.

Fast forward to 2024, and Fifield is now coming forward with her own allegations against a Democrat.

Republicans and their corporate media allies didn’t hesitate to quickly pump-out a series of uncritical articles following the report — wish-casting a “crisis” for Graham Platner (he’s still leading in the polls, by the way).

The same woman who told the world that Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser was running a smear campaign now expects Americans to take her word on faith.

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. 

At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.

Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.

The resulting experience will no longer look much like how people envision Google Search, which has long been defined by ranked links to websites that have the information you need.

With the revamped Search experience, the new search box simply expands to accommodate longer, more conversational queries, rather than making you decide what type of search experience or mode you want to choose at the start of your query. It will also have a new AI-powered query suggestion system that goes beyond autocomplete to help people craft more complex and nuanced queries, Google says.