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Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89 https://www.ft.com/content/1c647a9f-ee1c-428f-8ef6-ca0e7bb1aa4f

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☠️ PSA to Skua: Do not eat wayward human fisherman. They’re composed of various deadly toxins: Australian: 60% beer, 20% vegemite, 20% Tim Tams French: 50% cigarette , 20% bread, 30% Champagne English: 20% Builders tea, 70% chips, 10% Nandos American: 10% watery beer, 20% lard, 70% microplastics

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Done. Sneaky fuckers.

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Meet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography

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A German businessman was charged with drug trafficking in Australia after 200kg of cocaine was found in a hotel last December. Bellingcat and the Sunday Times used a running app and Google reviews to investigate the alleged link between him and the Kinahan cartel. www.youtube.com/shorts/aqZQf...

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AI companies demand huge amounts of data to train their programs. Peer inside LibGen, a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others:

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Last chance to catch up with the myth of King Midas, before we dive into Persephone tomorrow. And there could be no better time for it, considering the asinine current occupant of the White House and how we are all forced to suffer his twin fatal sins of poor judgement and bad taste.

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Xi: “You don’t have all the cards.”

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Principles are his North Star… oh, and batshit crazy.

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This is completely insane. www.wired.com/story/social...

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Would appreciate some intrepid journalists finding out and publishing the names of every tech company involved in any part of this www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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I thought these were the people who are fighting antisemitism on college campuses 🤔

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I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

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Wait, what? www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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New data point foe the Elon body count www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

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Some fantastic new legal scholarship from Prof. Michael Smith of St. Mary’s University School of Law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Reuters: JPMORGAN CEO SAYS ODDS OF A RECESSION ARE AT 50%

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The debate over TikTok’s influence has exposed many weaknesses at the heart of US democracy, but banning or changing the platform’s ownership alone will not fix these deep-rooted problems.

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon referred to AI as “A1.” We’re ruled by the stupidest, most incompetent people in the world.

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“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

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I understand the Germans developed a very efficient system using cattle cars. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“A U.S. Space Force colonel was removed from her position as the commander of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Thursday after she disavowed Vice President JD Vance’s remarks about acquiring the Danish territory.”

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court says the government must facilitate the RETURN of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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STICK WITH ME: Cathy Harris and Gwynne Wilcox have now been... Fired. Unfired. Re-fired. Re-unfired. Re-re-fired.

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Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or

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Dems should be pushing this hard. It's the exact sort of thing Fox and Newsmax et al will never report on.

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NEWS Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas. But then she voted in Hawaii.

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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Pee Wee German said last night the global tariffs were the greatest economic strategy ever. Now reversing them is.

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Some troubling information A red banner appeared on the NeMO (The Neuroscience Multi-omic) webpage. "This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives." What effing Administration directives relate to a neurosciece multi-omic repository? 1/3

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BEIJING (AP) — China raising its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84%, up from 34%, effective April 10.

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In less than one week, many Americans will no longer be able to apply for Social Security benefits over the phone, setting the stage for disruptions and upheaval. Nearly 6 million seniors live more than 46.6 miles, roundtrip, from a field office, per a new analysis. trib.al/5XSPqyL

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@jvl.bsky.social The darkest place edges closer with every press conference.

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Clear evidence of the existence of God.

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America.”

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Former Republican congressman from Michigan 👇

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"His office leadership instructed appointees to act as servers for a multicourse meal. They dispatched a US Park Police helicopter for his personal transportation. On at least one occasion, a staffer was told to remake the cookies because the batch was subpar..." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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While Rubio presides over the rendition of innocent men to indefinite slavery in foreign prisons, one of his top security men is arrested in Brussels for allegedly getting physical with cops after attacking hotel staff who wouldn't open a bar after closing time. The best people.

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They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

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Agent Orange devastates Vietnam again.

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A border patrol unit traveled 300+ miles to carry out sweeping arrests and deportations in Bakersfield, California. A new investigation from Evident, @calmatters.org & @bellingcat.com shows how warrantless raids could impact wide swaths of the nation. Premiering April 8: evidentmedia.live/youtube

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Trust me. You need this palate cleanser. Not everything is rubbish. Not everything is going backwards. The world is still full of brilliance and progress.

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💣 NEW 💣 Today, we can reveal that the director of Luxe Lifestyle – a firm that bagged a £25.7m PPE contract during Covid, when it had zero employees and a huge debt – has been arrested. We’ve been pushing for this for five years. goodlawproject.org/vip-lane-arr...

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Watch this BBC Verify video on the shocking incident where the Israeli army killed 15 emergency workers, buried them in a mass grave, and only admitted its version of events was false when mobile phone footage was retrieved from one of the bodies. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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What is with this guy and his penguins and chickens?

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