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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

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My post on why it has been so hard for Europeans to accept that America may not be their friend: davekeating.substack.com/p/federalise...

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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui giving the Nazi Salute at #CPAC

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Markus Walkowїak 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇫🇮🇪🇺🌻💙💛 🇵🇱 Deputy Prime Minister: "Poland bought Starlinks, which it handed over 2 Ukraine. We are paying and will continue 2 pay a subscription fee for satellite internet to Ukraine. I can't imagine that someone can decide to break a business contract for a commercial service .

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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It’s a cult.

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BREAKING: In a stunning moment of defiance, Maine's Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump, saying she is complying with state and federal (anti-discrimination) law, and will see him in court over his threat to withhold federal funds. This is incredible.

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This is criminal. They are dismantling U.S. science, making our country and world less safe. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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This is the template, Democrats.

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Most of the cases are among school-aged children; at least thirteen patients have been hospitalized.

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Ταινιάρα

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ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

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Also deafening and shameful in their silence: our four living presidents, especially the Republican one who should have not been a total coward & endorsed Harris in October. Where are they?

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Corporations externalize more costs than charity could ever make up. Interesting read: The Impossible Math of Philanthropy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

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Penn has always wanted to be the nation's leading university and it finally is -- in chickenshit cowardice I guess when your most famous alums are Donald Trump and Elon Musk you have a legacy to live down to www.inquirer.com/education/un...

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<..ξεχνάμε ότι είναι λίγο σαν να νομίζουμε ότι έχουμε πάρει έναν καρκίνο για κατοικίδιο. Νομίζουμε ότι εμείς τον φιλοξενούμε και τον ελέγχουμε. Αλλά στην πραγματικότητα μας τρώει από μέσα> ..εύστοχο

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Nothing screams more AUTOCRATIC DICTATOR than “He who saves his country does not violate any law"

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History will sadly record that the Vice-President of the United States, JD Vance, travelled to Germany and meet the heirs of the Nazis against whom brave American soldiers came to fight 81 years ago, dying by the thousands in the fighting. Shame on him forever 🤢🤮

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Remember the heroic Kate Winslet character in the movie Contagion? Well, they just fired the Kate Winslets... CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... via @helenbranswell.bsky.social

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A grim scene this afternoon as Emil Bove faced down lawyers from DOJ’s Public Integrity Section. One said it was “not anything any of us ever expected to see in America.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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This story from CBS is written as uncritically as anything I've read in authoritarian state media.

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ok! www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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REPORTER: Would you direct agencies to study the impact tariffs would have on prices in the US? TRUMP: No. There's nothing to study. It's gonna go well.

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The reports are from 2023, in states where abortion is banned. They contradict what doctors and researchers say is happening on the ground, raising concerns about data integrity.

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All you need to know.

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Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

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barrenmagazine.com/the-bother-o...

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In Flesh & Fantasy Krzysztof Warzycha has ☘️ #Panathinaikos 🍀 fans dreaming of a 2nd #EuropeanCupFinal appearance in April 1996, his late winner against reigning European Champions, #Ajax - 1-0 - at Olympisch Stadion edging #Tryfili within one game of the ultimate showpiece.

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Investigation on the scam which allowed “farmers” in #Greece to receive millions of EU funds for pasture land they do not own or had not leased. @nstamouli.bsky.social 🔥 #οπεκεπε edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...

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Reporter: Why do you want to be chairman of Kennedy Center board? Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace. Reporter: Have you seen any shows there? Trump: No, I didn’t go.

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JD Vance is saying the quiet part out loud: the Trump administration intends to break the law. America is a nation of laws. The courts make sure we follow the laws. The VP doesn’t control the courts, and the President cannot ignore the Constitution. No one is above the law.

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While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a 2.3% chance on Dec. 22, 2032. As NASA observes the asteroid more, the impact probability will become better known. blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydef...

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Turns out Trump does like some African refugees...

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This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Greece and Cyprus have (thankfully) joined 77 other countries in condemning the decision by Trump to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The 79 signatories make up only about two-thirds of the 125 member states of the permanent court. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

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NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science Capping these payments would ‘just grind our scientific complex to a halt,’ one researcher said www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

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Despite Trump claiming Head Start funds were unfrozen, it looks like the real president — Elon Musk — was illegally blocking them anyway. Musk claims to be a pro-natalist. This move exposes the lie. LIke all "natalists," he's just a misogynist. www.salon.com/2025/02/06/e...

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Given all of the oxygen the debate over "boys" taking over "girls" sports consumes I was curious to know how often it happens in Illinois high schools? I think you'll be as surprised as I was: wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...

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don’t know whether to laugh or cry

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NEW: WIRED has identified a DOGE engineer who now has access to the NOAA, the scientific agency that monitors and models oceans and atmosphere to predicting changes in climate, weather. NOAA workers were ordered to give him access to all Google sites by eod today.

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As our new president and his favorite broligarch move to dismantle US foreign aid in the name of making America “great again,” consider this:

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Trump standing next to Netanyahu: "I also believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades ... it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people."

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how it started at USAID > how it's going

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