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Bob Dylan always puts things so well.

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Number is up just today, from 180 to around 240. University leaders, time to join in. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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Not so giddy today, are ya, Space Dork?

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You may be interested jayrosen.bsky.social

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Tonight six journalists talk about the future of local news at 6 p.m. Pacific in Port Angeles WA. The town's newspaper has readers across a large circulation area, from the Olympic Mountains to the Strait, but its news staff is small. Listen to the event live at m.youtube.com/watch?v=tvzE...

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I wonder where we’d be had there been a Gore presidency a lot.

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Emmanuel Macron vows to step up reconstruction in cyclone-hit Mayotte

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Global warming is a security threat and armies must adapt, experts warn

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Over 100 US universities denounce Trump administration 'political inteference'

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China calls on patriotism to save its exporters

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European intelligence services worry about future of cooperation with US

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Polling shows that Canadians are intrigued by the idea of joining the EU. But could they? 🧐 EU scholars say such a gambit is unlikely to succeed — but it's not actually impossible.

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Big Tech companies including X, Meta, Apple and TikTok should be aware the bloc is ready to enforce its full digital rulebook no matter who is in charge of these firms, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told POLITICO.

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Countries are ready to work with reliable trade partners in Europe after US President Donald Trump's blanket trade tariffs upended global markets, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told us.

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The Franco-German relationship has rarely felt more aligned. But how long the honeymoon will last will largely come down to where Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron stand on key policy.

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It turns out that Donald Trump might be the best thing to happen to free trade — for Europe, at least. Now that Washington wants to play solo, the EU is being quick to step up and cast itself as the heavyweight liberal trade bloc that is open for business. www.politico.eu/article/us-d...

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Russia is stepping up its hybrid attacks against the Netherlands and its European allies, the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said today.

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The IMF sharply downgraded its US growth forecast, while also lowering its outlook for the eurozone and China on the back of President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz.

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The UK’s growth forecast was slashed today as the IMF handed some bleak news to Chancellor Rachel Reeves just as she arrives in Washington, DC.

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More than 180 higher education leaders from around the country released a joint statement on Tuesday condemning the Trump administration’s efforts to control universities, a day after Harvard sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions in federal funds to the school. nyti.ms/3EJqnHM

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They won’t fire Hegseth unless and until they can find someone equally suited to the project of destroying American institutions and endangering American lives.

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🇨🇦 Rendez-vous MERCREDI à 20h (14h Québec) pour une ÉDITION SPÉCIALE de La Chute consacrée aux élections au Canada. Au programme : analyses des DERNIERS SONDAGES avec @jmleger.bsky.social et décryptage de l’influence de Trump dans un scrutin historique. 🔥🍿🌊 www.youtube.com/live/13gJdRe...

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@scarycutedinos.bsky.social Thanks!

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Exclusive: Representatives for the U.S. DOGE Service have received permission to access a Justice Department system that contains the addresses and case history for millions of legal and undocumented immigrants, according to documents obtained by The Post.

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New book portrays a chaotic Budapest just before the Holocaust reached Hungary https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-book-portrays-a-chaotic-budapest-just-before-the-holocaust-reached-hungary/

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White House looks for ways to raise birthrate www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

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Request for Pentagon press corps: Has anyone been able to ask Hegseth to his face, "Mr Sec., you pledged during confirmation that you would not 'take another drop' of alcohol if confirmed. 'Can you confirm that you have honored that commitment? Have you had any alcoholic drink since taking office?

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Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

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REMINDER: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

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#PeteHegseth #protest #19April #Harvard #Freevoice

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It's like a watching a Three Stooges movie. But one in which they're fooling around with live grenades, vials of nerve gas, the "launch" keys for ICBMs, and similar "toys" and have no idea what they're risking or doing.

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For people in the journalism business, and for people in general, this is the killer detail in latest Hegseth-dereliction-of-duty report: That four people on the call were willing to talk about it! Congrats to the reporters. And most obvious dead-man-walking of cabinet members perhaps ever.

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Incompetent, entirely untrustworthy, and completely unacceptable Secretary of Defense Pete “Signalgate” Hegseth sent sensitive attack plans about strikes in Yemen to yet another group chat. This time the security breach included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer — none of whom had any…

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ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

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Go figure why tourism numbers are dropping like a stone.

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Lettuce now fear who comes next

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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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A warning that all who love liberty must heed: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…

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Personalist regime watch - displease the authoritarian and he takes funding away at will. Not how things work in a society with the rule of law.

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Wow. Hegseth's paranoia and lying is out control. "Friday Hegseth fired three senior staffers. Officials working for Hegseth claim[ed] they were fired for leaking sensitive information...None of this is true. Not one has been given a lie detector test..." politi.co/4inaIfa

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Hegseth and Kennedy are the ones who, even by the exceptionally degraded standards of our time, flatly should not have been confirmed

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Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt

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