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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Everywhere else in the world: Amazing! A vaccine that can defeat COVID! USA: A course of leeches is the only thing we can prescribe right now…

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JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Not all heroes wear capes

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Guess the Cold War is over then. Didn’t expect it to end by the United States surrendering however…

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Jamelle Bouie is correct here, in my view. Using the phrase “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” – the name first applied to that body of water in 1550 – has nothing to do with national pride or ideology and only to do with obedience to Tr•mp. #Obedience #Führerprinzip

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So these dudes just pushed past security? And folks are unable to physically remove them? These dudes?

submitted 32 days ago • 211 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 35 days ago • 307 comments

The crashing ignorance, the stupidity of Musk. USAid has saved untold lives across the globe. It portrayed America and its values in a brilliant light to so many people. And it was a huge source of soft power.

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

Musk claims the authority to personally destroy an independent federal agency.

submitted 35 days ago • 271 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum up at NSA. /1

submitted 36 days ago • 35 comments

This feels like the start of a trap. Deliberately cause civil unrest. Followed by Trump using the military on US soil.

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery

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Now is a great time to read WIRED magazine’s 2015 feature story, “The Untold Story of Silk Road.” There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence. www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...

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Understandable, presumably he’d have burst into flames or perhaps melted like one of the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Yep

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once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

submitted 89 days ago • 45 comments

I’m really quite upset about this. Love his work. :( www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

submitted 61 days ago • 167 comments

If you ever, for a second, imagined you were wrong to close your Twitter account - here's Elon Musk reminding you that you made the right decision.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Fantastic thread right here:

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