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This is, if I say so myself, going to be a huge amount of fun. 👇🏻

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CARNEY: “Seventy-five cents of every (Canadian) dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That's not smart.” 🇨🇦 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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> @pkrugman.bsky.social 🔥 open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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“…elections have consequences and Virginia can’t afford to sit this November out… All 100 House of Delegate seats are up for election… Make a plan to vote…in 2025 ! …my campaign here in the 71st district…is…ready to FLIP !” @jess4va.com @downwithtyranny.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/story/2025/5...

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Marco Rubio, in his current job, took the official actions that led to Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk being abducted and imprisoned for their speech in the United States.

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Who said the following: If you would know what God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it Jonathan Swift? Dorothy Parker? Martin Luther? Alexander Pope? Anne Marsh-Caldwell? quoteinvestigator.com/2025/05/28/g...

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I'm a HarperCollins author and I signed this letter.

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Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, originally published in 1917, is a stunning six-foot-long map that depicts the worlds of various myths, fairytales, and folklore on one single landscape: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

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Absolutely love that this DOGE flunky's mewling justification of his work starts with his talking up that he wished there had been a voter-canvassing app in 2016 — which there was. But this is the pattern: know nothing and assume you are ahead of the game. sahillavingia.com/doge

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Almost half of COVID deaths were in senior care homes pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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We decided to outsource NASA to a fucking loser and we are getting what we deserve

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The guy was at BLM 30 years.

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🚨 Massive security breach: Russian nuclear weapons infrastructure exposed online Danwatch & Der Spiegel uncovered blueprints, layouts, and internal systems of Russia’s most sensitive nuclear missile sites—including Avangard-equipped silos—via leaked procurement docs.

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A traffic cop can't ticket them all, but sincerely. Studies of Chicago, NJ, Sydney speed cameras showed that the ratio of black to white drivers ticketed by cameras was more equal than the tickets issued in person by police officers.

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The only people who should refer to the President as the “commander in chief” are people in the military chain of command.

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(Reuters) - Global makers of surveillance gear have clashed with Indian regulators in recent weeks over contentious new security rules that require manufacturers of CCTV cameras to submit hardware, software and source code for assessment in government labs […]

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A large industrial shed in the Olympic Park has gained the V&A logo on its roof as it prepares to open as the museum group’s latest outlet – a warehouse that’s also open to the public. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/vas...

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Exactly

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“.. He has a long-held fascination with ostentatious military displays.” - @thehill.com 🤡 thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Hugely exciting to see five-star reviews everywhere for V&A East Storehouse. Go, go, go. londonist.com/london/museu...

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WSJ: “.. The lowest-earning seniors already pay no federal income taxes, so they wouldn’t benefit. The highest earners make too much to qualify.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

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I don't think it's a coincidence that as the Democrats became the party of college-educated Americans they also became the party of incrementalism and poll-testing. Gift link: wapo.st/4kDw61g

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Except for the weather balloons we are not launching because of DOGE

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Yes, she says, we need more tradespeople - but not her. She means the plebs, you see. She went to St. Anselm's College (softball scholarship) and majored in communications and minored in poli sci.

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The problem with Watergate wasn’t that Nixon was drunk.

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major, major update: it appears that this bill has died. the legislation did not advance in the Texas House as a key deadline passed today.

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This is fucking ridiculous—but not surprising: The Missouri Supreme Court just effectively revived the state’s abortion ban, ignoring the fact that voters passed a pro-choice amendment in November.

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From a disinformation and media literacy perspective, this completely vile piece of writing is a really interesting modern artefact. statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f... Why on earth would the US Department of State need a Substack to write nonsensical and vaguely fascistic op eds?

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Officials are issuing a boil-water advisory Tuesday in parts of Virginia's capital city, leaving many residents without drinkable tap water following an operational issue at the city's water treatment plant for the second time this year.

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Breaking: Czechia accuses a group-linked to China's Ministry of State Security of launching a "malicious cyber campaign" against its Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Having been involved in different iterations of what is now the Online Safety Act over many years, and been an Ofcom NED for a term, I wholeheartedly agree that the current legislative and regulatory situation is nowhere near sufficient to solve this problem.

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Is this 'making America great again'? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he could may government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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A @nytimes.com report card on congestion pricing in lower Manhattan: It seems to be working without many of the feared costs. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Day 1900 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Portrait of Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby” (1896) James Jebusa Shannon. @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social This hauntingly beautiful portrait was painted by American-born artist, James Jebusa Shannon.

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Grinding teeth It is more expensive to not spend the money to act to reduce carbon emissions than it is to try to save it.

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This would be a good time to have a serious government stocked with professionals able to imagine innovative solutions to complex challenges, and capable of defining how democracies will work when AI tries to make everything stupid Alas, we have a carnival of sadism www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

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Turns out that getting pillaged by Vikings was great for your economy if not your longevity. A brilliantly enlightening and entertaining conversation with friend of the pod Duncan.

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Lutramania is an obsession with otters. A lutrinacy would be a society run by otters. Happy Otter Day. www.comedywildlifephoto.com

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☀️ Restive MPs, dire polls, the looming spending review… Is Keir Starmer in for a long hot summer? ⛱️ New edition with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @jonnelledge.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social 📳 Listen now linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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🎙️ Fancy a bit of politics talk that WON’T make you jump out of the window? 🎙️We're LIVE in London on Weds 11 June with regulars @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @jonnelledge.bsky.social and special guest @marcusbrig.bsky.social 🎫 Tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oh-god-wha...

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A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

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The Appeal reports on how the Democrats running for governor in New Jersey say they'll respond to federal immigration enforcement: theappeal.org/new-jersey-g...

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YouTube keeps making YouTube for Publishers worse -- now it appears YouTube Premium subscribers are forced to see ads on the embeds on our site. Can't fix it unless biz side makes the decision to accept less revenue with the standard embed. :( www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/2...

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