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Might need to watch this every day for the next 4 years. Dogs are the greatest teachers.
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David Simon
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...is seriously contemplating a ground war in Iran, there is nothing he can do to protect Iranians on the ground from Khameini's bullets. But as with Eisenhower and Dulles seventy years ago, he isn't measuring the cost of his hype on Iranians. He's talking trash; others can pay if they believe him.
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David Simon
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...and certainly not with a ground campaign that risks a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. The uprising is crushed and the cost of all that prideful rhetoric about supporting a Hungarian rebellion is borne not by American Cold Warriors, but by Hungarians only. Unless Trump is...
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David Simon
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The cynicism of this -- and the real risk to the lives of those willing to confront the Iranian theocracy -- calls to mind Hungary in 1956. "Rollback" rhetoric encourages dissidents to rise up against Soviet domination; when they do, the U.S. is in no position to intervene militarily...
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer šØš¦šŗš¦š¬š±š²š½šµšø
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Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
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āItās surrealā: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/
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Catherine Rampell
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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
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The Washington Post
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Breaking news: Sparklers placed on top of bottles of champagne appear to have been the source of a fire that tore through a crowded bar in southern Switzerland on New Yearās Day, killing 40 people and injuring 119, a local official said.
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Swiss bar fire started by sparklers on champagne bottles, officials say
Fire rapidly engulfed the Constellation bar at the Crans-Montana resort, triggering at least one explosion, officials said. Forty people are dead and many more injured.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/02/switzerland-fire-crans-montana-valais/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Schooley
about 15 hours ago
Iāve never seen a video or photo from a Mar-a-Lago party that didnāt look like some nightmare event in a fictional Eastern European country that the scrappy hero has to infiltrate undercover in act two to eventually save the world.
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evacide
about 13 hours ago
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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Mehdi Hasan
about 4 hours ago
Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kidās daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*. Find me one.
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Max Kennerly
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The billionaire President is mad that a member of Congress didn't help him enough with his pedophilia scandal, so rural Colorado has to keep drinking contaminated water.
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Trump vetoes bipartisan bill to provide clean water to rural Colorado
The legislation to complete the Arkansas Valley Conduit passed Congress with unanimous support but was branded an āexpensive and unreliableā project by the President.
https://www.cpr.org/2025/12/30/trump-vetoes-arkansas-river-valley-conduit-funding-bill/
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PĆ© šŗš§æ
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I'm not even sure how you can stop an AI picture/video generator from creating CSAM. The shit needs to be regulated out of existence.
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Oliver Willis
about 1 hour ago
elon made his bot make kiddie porn and its ridiculous to pretend otherwise
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia šØš¦šš
about 2 hours ago
Newfoundland fishers donate cod to those who lost everything in summer wildfires
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...
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Newfoundland fishers donate cod to those who lost everything in summer wildfires
More than 300 pounds of cod donated by a Newfoundland fishers co-operative are en route to an area devastated by wildfires for distribution on Old Christmas Day.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfoundland-and-labrador/article/newfoundland-fishers-donate-cod-to-those-who-lost-everything-in-summer-wildfires/
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
about 2 hours ago
Kaikai woke up with a spring in her step ā she was off to spend the day with her big friends. Mwinzi flopped on the ground, trying to get her to play. Korbessa? Jealous. She kept trying to lure Kaikai away to form a āgirls onlyā club.
swt.bio/kaikai
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Aaron W. Gordon
about 2 hours ago
One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.
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Don Moynihan
about 2 hours ago
Before we get into what Mamdani did talk about, its also worth noting what he didnāt talk about. A striking aspect of the speech was the relative inattention to Trump. The only time he named him was to welcome former Trump voters into his tent:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...
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Butser Ancient Farm
about 2 hours ago
Are you ready for this weekend's Super Wolf Moon? No matter where we are in the world - or even in history - we all see the same moon. We've put together a guide to all the Full Moons of 2026 on the Butser blog! Find it here:
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2025/1/...
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Full Moon Calendar 2026: Dates, Names & Insights ā Butser Ancient Farm
Ancient Mesopotamian farmers, Celtic druids, Roman philosophers, Aztec priests - and you. No matter where you are in the world - or even in history - we all see the same moon. The full moon has been ...
https://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/blog/2025/1/7/full-moon-calendar-2026-dates-names-and-astrology-zodiac-insights
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Jameel Jaffer
about 3 hours ago
Trump is a big fan of free speech rights so long as they are exercised by protesters in Iran and not in, say, Los Angeles or Portland or Minneapolis. (Also, nothing would delegitimize the protesters in Iran more quickly than Trump "coming to their rescue.")
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/w...
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Trump Says U.S. Is āLocked and Loadedā if Iran Kills Protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/middleeast/trump-iran-protests.html
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Peter Jukes
about 7 hours ago
Well spotted on the date. In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies thisā¦. And yetā¦.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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Just Jack
about 2 hours ago
Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 19 hours ago
My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.
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Rep. Robert Garcia
about 19 hours ago
Donald Trumpās illegal deployment of the National Guard in California is over. The courts have once again rejected the President and returned control of the guard to our Governor. California will continue to lead the fight against this administration.
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š½LOLGOPš½
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I think Rogan is a genuine reactionary and is fine with most fascism. But he's also a genuine mark. What he shares with Trump is that he's both the perfect purveyor and consumer of his own BS.
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Nick Turse
about 3 hours ago
This you?
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Nick Turse
about 4 hours ago
Stolen image (of course)!
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Jen Rubin
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contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
No president has understood less about what makes America great than Donald Trump; none has been more ignorant of the post-WWII international framework that allowed America to remain the premier superpower.
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The Worst Foreign Policy Blunders of 2025
And the competition was fierce...
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-foreign-policy-blunders
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Jen Rubin
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In weakening alliances, frittering away our moral authority, aligning himself with international dictators, trashing multilateral organizations, hollowing out the State Department and acting as feckless, corrupt bully, he demolished US standing around the world
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The Worst Foreign Policy Blunders of 2025
And the competition was fierce...
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/the-worst-foreign-policy-blunders?r=230tr
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Don Moynihan
about 10 hours ago
Criminals fleeing New York as Mamdani takes charge
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Ryan Enos
about 4 hours ago
That a party official would write such a statement is a sign of the creeping normalization of authoritarianism. Good for Pro Publica.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
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2025 saw the rescue of orphans big (Chapeyu) and small (Kipekee, Kaikai, Daba, Tytan, and Pips, to name a few). It also saw the births of 19 elephant calves born to orphans we rescued, raised, and reintegrated back into the wild ā reminding us how one life saved leads to generations of elephants.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
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2025 was a year in which our pilots flew 347,000+ km for conservation, veterinary units conducted 600+ field treatments, and rangers covered 475,000+ km on patrols. We secured habitats, supported communities, and proudly worked with the Kenya Wildlife Service to further conservation across Kenya.
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Ellen Braaten
about 12 hours ago
You say āSundayā but I call it the week of āWhat-day-is-this-dayā Days
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Marisa Kabas
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i didnāt know you could have an entire week of sundays
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Lisa Mikolajczyk ā”ļø š¦š“āā ļø
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Maria Farmer tweeted several years ago that Tara Reade had contacted her & tried to get her to claim she saw Joe Biden on Epsteinās Island & around him. Farmer let everyone know Reade was trying to convince her to lie about Joe Biden.
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ProPublica
about 14 hours ago
Revisit one of our most-read stories of 2025: One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the governmentās main hub for combating violent extremism. (Published June 2025)
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āThe Intern in Chargeā: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trumpās Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the governmentās main hub for combating v...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1767319203&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Mark Histed
about 15 hours ago
The liberal nonprofit and political world should be classifying each SCOTUS decision since Sept 29, 2005 when John Roberts took his seat. Classified as consistent with longstanding law and precedent or not. Made-up doctrines of the Roberts court like the MQD and gun āhistory and traditionā should
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Mark Histed
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Hereās that speech from Raskin. Everyone should watch it. And especially every scientist should watch it, given the posture of the Roberts Court on administrative law principles that create the foundation on which
#NIH
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@altnih4science.bsky.social
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Ranking Member Raskinās Opening Remarks At Roundtable on Supreme Court Ethics Crisis
YouTube video by Oversight Committee Democrats
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8f3vTzGQYLc
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
about 16 hours ago
when i say that democrats have got to stop worrying about what republicans will to do us and make republicans worry about what we will do to them, this is what i am talking about
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
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Marisa Kabas
about 16 hours ago
i was just thinking about this. when a fascist squeaks by, itās a mandate. when a progressive wins by a landslide, he needs to be deferential. itās such bullshit.
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emptywheel
about 16 hours ago
We can use the date when Justin Sun funded Trump's crypto scam as the date (November 25, 2024) after which all Trump actions must be reversed.
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CREW
about 16 hours ago
DHS reportedly fast-tracked a contract worth almost $1 billion to a company led by a donor to a pro-Trump nonprofit group where one of the officials overseeing the deal previously worked. That raises serious ethics concerns.
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DHS fast-tracked $1 billion contract to pro-Trump donorās company
A DHS official leading the process previously worked at the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump nonprofit where the contractorās CEO was a donor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/17/dhs-contract-trump-donor/
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David Pepper
about 16 hours ago
šØ šØ Major scandal in Ohio! Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars sent to a for-profit organization that claimed to be helping Ohio kids, but later, turns out they couldnāt account for a bunch of the kids they claimed and were paid for. āGhostā students, they were called. 1/
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Angry
about 17 hours ago
Fair warning: If you donāt want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, Iām probably not a good person to follow. My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history. Weāre going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.
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Oliver Willis
about 16 hours ago
Cc the democrats if they retake the White House
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Melissa Jo Peltier
about 17 hours ago
Itās classic fascist to take money from the arts to make a personal slush fund.
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Khashoggi's Ghost
about 20 hours ago
You'll be shocked to learn that Trump and his buddies are using The "Trump" Kennedy Center to loot, grift, and hand out money to pals, just like he did with his charity and inaugurations. Well probably not shocked. Sheldon Whitehouse is working to expose this.
www.rawstory.com/investigatio...
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Trump accused of 'slush fund' by turning the Kennedy Center into a MAGA 'private club'
A top Democratic lawmaker revealed how an investigation has found that President Donald Trump and his allies have been accused of using the Kennedy Center for their own personal gains. Sen. Sheldon Wh...
https://www.rawstory.com/investigation-reveals/
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Richard M. Nixon
about 17 hours ago
This is a statement youāve come to play ball.
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God
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Omens.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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My man looks like someone who would sit for an interview with the Epoch Times ⦠oh wait
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