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  • JellyDazzle and KoiKnife Are Out on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android

    Two apps from LIBCSystems are now out everywhere: JellyDazzle, the music-reactive kaleidoscope, and KoiKnife, the Swiss Army Knife of koi knowledge. Both are on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and on Google Play for Android. Both are free on…

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  • It’s 4:20 Somewhere. Now a Free, Open-Source API Tells You Exactly Where

    The Official 420 World Clock at 420.menow.us shows, live, exactly where on Earth it is 4:20 right now, and how long until it is 4:20 everywhere else. And everything behind it is a free, open-source API that anyone can build on: no…

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  • Jack Smith Had the Goods on Trump: All the Evidence, and What It Takes to Finish the Job

    Jack Smith Had the Goods on Trump: All the Evidence, and What It Takes to Finish the Job

    Former special counsel Jack Smith built two federal cases against Donald Trump and told the Senate on Sept. 29, 2026 his evidence proved serious crimes beyond a reasonable doubt. Here is everything he had, why neither case reached a jury, and the…

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  • You Turned Off the Body Cam. You Don’t Get a Bodyguard.

    You Turned Off the Body Cam. You Don’t Get a Bodyguard.

    A man with a lifelong mental illness sits strapped into a restraint chair in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland, Ohio. His arms are bound. A mask covers his face. He cannot run, cannot block, cannot do anything at all. A corporal…

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  • Five Days, One Smile, and a McDonald’s: How Luigi Mangione Caught Himself

    Five Days, One Smile, and a McDonald’s: How Luigi Mangione Caught Himself

    The internet built him a legend. The record shows a fake ID he used twice, a smile for the hostel camera, and a backpack full of evidence at a McDonald’s in Altoona. The whole ordeal, start to now.

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  • The Coke Was in His Car, the Lie Was in His Report, and He’s Never Spent a Night in Jail

    The Coke Was in His Car, the Lie Was in His Report, and He’s Never Spent a Night in Jail

    Picture the sally port of the Drew County jail, December 17, 2023. A woman named Amanda Prince is standing in front of an Arkansas State Police cruiser, handcuffed, arrested for driving on a suspended license. She knows she’s wrong on that one.…

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  • Sept 29, 2026: Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Six-Hour VP Audition — Just the Facts

    Sept 29, 2026: Sen. Eric Schmitt’s Six-Hour VP Audition — Just the Facts

    Above: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.). Sen. Dirtbag? You decide. (Photo illustration: the egg is ours.) This timeline is about Sen. Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri: the morning he was floated as a 2028 running mate for Vice President JD Vance, and the…

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  • He’s a Convicted Felon. So Where the Fuck Is the Cell?

    Thirty-four felony counts, and the sentence was nothing. Michael Cohen did prison time for his part in the same payments. This post lays out what the laws from part one would carry for anyone else, names the people who actually served time…

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  • Why the Fuck Are We Putting Up With Trump?

    Two hundred and nine days into a war Congress never declared, both chambers told Trump to stop, and he kept going. This is how every brake we built for exactly this situation got cut, and what walked through the gap: the ballroom,…

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  • Daddy’s Big Orange Mouth

    In February the US and Israel killed Iran’s head of state, and Trump announced it himself. Six months later Iranian state TV is running a segment about his twenty-year-old son and a ten million dollar bounty.

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  • The Long Docket

    The Long Docket

    Three years ago today, a future president sat for a booking photo in Fulton County. Here is the whole record behind it — fifty-three years of Donald Trump’s legal history, from the 1973 housing discrimination suit to the case that died last…

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  • She Called For Help

    She Called For Help

    Sean Grayson died in prison on Sunday. This post is not about him. Sonya Massey was 36, a mother of two, and she called 911 because she thought someone was outside her house. The deputy who answered shot her in the face,…

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  • Five Hours

    Five Hours

    A ten-month-old died in the back of an SUV in Baker County, Florida, while the woman being paid to watch her was inside her house. A jury convicted her of murder. She is out on an ankle monitor pending appeal. If your…

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  • Does It Actually Make It Better? The Bar Weighs In on Weed

    In which the bar addresses the question every adult has whispered at least once. The question “Does it actually make it better, or do we just think it does?” The bar gets this one weekly, usually about cannabis, usually from someone already…

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  • Letters to the Bar, Vol. 1: The Stranger on Stool Three

    Letters to the Bar publishes reader stories — composites and fictions, every name invented, every participant enthusiastically consenting. This is the letters page, not the news. The letter Dear BITCHLOVE, Nineteen years married. Two kids, one mortgage, a shared calendar that could…

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  • House Rules of Pleasure

    The neon’s warm, the door’s shut, and what happens at this bar gets written down. Welcome to the back room. This blog is where BITCHLOVE talks about the thing every bar is actually about, underneath the bottles and the jukebox: pleasure. Wanting…

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  • 52 Minutes

    52 Minutes

    Original graphic. The build numbers are pulled from my own action log, not estimated. Great Ideas While You’re a Student — and the Thing That Actually Stops You Yesterday…

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  • The Rap Sheet

    The Rap Sheet

    The United States Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol, public domain. Eight Years of Republican Crime — And the Pardon Pen That Erased It This started with one story. Rep.…

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  • Chud Suit Tossed

    Chud Suit Tossed

    Kash Patel. Official FBI portrait, public domain — googly eyes added here, with the court’s blessing. Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation. Judge Tosses Kash Patel Lawsuit,…

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  • Trump Loses at the Supreme Court — and Threatens the Justices

    Trump Loses at the Supreme Court — and Threatens the Justices

    Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 After losing his case at the Supreme Court of the United States, Donald Trump took to social media and threatened the very…

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