Nikos Leverenz
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Wandering through the Skeetverse in Honolulu, Hawaii. Still paying attention elsewhere.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20
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#Booksky
#BookChallenge
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European stocks fall sharply as markets react to U.S., Israeli strikes on Iran | CNBC
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European stocks fall sharply as markets react to U.S., Israeli strikes on Iran
European stocks started the new trading week firmly in negative territory.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/european-markets-stoxx-600-ftse-dax-cac-iran-strikes-reaction.html
about 3 hours ago
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Not a fan, and even less of one now. Tom Cruise Was Reportedly 'Furious' With Netflix's Warner Bros. Bid And Stepped In To 'Save The Day Again' |
@yahoonews.com
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Tom Cruise Was Reportedly 'Furious' With Netflix's Warner Bros. Bid And Stepped In To 'Save The Day Again'
Tom Cruise has seemingly saved Hollywood again following his involvement in thwarting Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/tom-cruise-reportedly-furious-netflixs-161533156.html
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Bart Harley Jarvis
about 17 hours ago
Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).
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Tim Onion
about 7 hours ago
I've seen enough. Clearly this experiment is working. It is time for a Michael C. Jordan.
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Julian Sanchez
about 16 hours ago
Starfleet Academy has grown on me a bit, but one liability of having Holly Hunter running scenes with Paul Giamatti & Robert Picardo is that when it jumps to heavy drama between the 20-somethings it’s awfully hard not to notice the gap in craft & experience, even though many of them are pretty good.
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United Farm Workers
about 16 hours ago
"Leo" is pruning pistachios trees. I earn minimum wage. "This job is tiring. I use large shears that become heavy working all 8 hours with my head looking up and my arms in the air. I am very tired when the day ends."
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Wajahat Ali
about 15 hours ago
Charlie Kirk dropped out of community college and made money spreading conspiracies and hate against the marginalized. I can't wait for this regime to go down in flames.
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And yet he, his billionaire broligarchs, and others in the Epstein class can't tolerate telecommuting for working people.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
about 13 hours ago
“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son
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United Farm Workers
about 19 hours ago
"Camilo" sent this from where he is harvesting cauliflower in Santa Maria CA. "The recent rains have made the grounds extremely slippery so we have to be very careful not to slip. It makes the hard work we do even harder."
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Robert Reich
about 18 hours ago
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Tim Onion
about 13 hours ago
This would make Pravda blush.
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The illegal Iran war is the product of two constitutional democracies succumbing to leaders that gleefully sow discord to their discrete advantage. Legislative and judicial checks on executive power are enervated. Popular opinion is irrelevant. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Tom Nichols
about 19 hours ago
Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.
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Steven Beschloss
1 day ago
This is what these liars promised and what tens of millions of marks swallowed.
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Wajahat Ali
about 13 hours ago
Anyone not running on accountability and delivering results will be failing Americans. Will be a huge factor for the upcoming elections, assuming we have them.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?campaign_id=129&emc=edit_jbo_20260228&gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8ImCAJzfV2R8UlH_eHGQVjM&instance_id=171796&nl=jamelle-bouie®i_id=77958647&segment_id=215963&user_id=f84e5ac04f021896598d9107641bfee0
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*In a functional constitutional democracy...
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The tepid response to Iran demonstrates that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are latently incapable of providing the Democratic Party—and the larger nation—the leadership it needs at this urgent moment. Democratic Leaders Face Backlash Over 'Cowardly' Responses to Trump War on Iran
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Democratic Leaders Face Backlash Over 'Cowardly' Responses to Trump War on Iran | Common Dreams
"As we plunge headlong into another catastrophic war, Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries’ throat-clearing and process critique only serves Trump and the war machine."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/schumer-jeffries-iran-war
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about 17 hours ago
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Eric Michael Garcia
1 day ago
Anybody who tells you they know what happens next is lying to you.
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Senator Bernie Sanders
2 days ago
The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.
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Ron Filipkowski
2 days ago
Anthropic responds to Hegseth.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
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James Mellor
2 days ago
"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".
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Kai Ryssdal
2 days ago
The government illegally took your money. They won’t give it back.
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Wajahat Ali
2 days ago
Don't support any elected officials who take money from OpenAI. Their lobbyist Cheri Bustos, ex DCCC chair, is now President of Next America Era that is taking money from all these freaks to promote "pro growth" ads ahead of 2026 and 2028.
www.axios.com/2026/02/08/c...
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Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group
It's the latest effort by moderate Democrats to shape national politics and expand their influence.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/08/centrist-democrats-new-group-abundance
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old fruit pictures
2 days ago
valencia oranges, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez
3 days ago
“The Wrap” is a cruel, inhumane tool used to oppress, torture, and injure all those DHS considers public enemies.
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Chris Geidner
3 days ago
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees. "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees
"The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/federal-judge-blocks-dhs-refugee-policy-minnesota
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McCovey Chronicles
2 days ago
There's no reason for Glen Kuiper to call games for the Giants this year. Let
@seankeane.bsky.social
tell you why
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Glen Kuiper back in Giants broadcast booth three years after on-air racial slur
SF Giants inexplicably hiring Glen Kuiper to broadcast team
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/san-francisco-giants-news/103764/giants-bringing-back-glen-kuiper-for-some-reason
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Marisa Kabas
3 days ago
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders
SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-republicans-sb-244-trans-drivers-licenses
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Carole King
3 days ago
Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter. With love and gratitude and condolences to his family.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...
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Neil Sedaka, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” and “Laughter in the Rain” Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 86
The Brooklynite's esteemed body of work also includes "Calendar Girl," "Oh! Carol," "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Where the Boys Are," "Bad Blood" and "Solitaire."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/neil-sedaka-dead-breaking-up-hard-to-do-laughter-in-rain-1236517870/
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Shoshana Bee
3 days ago
“Trump seems to have a special loathing for our allies. He has used some of these appointments as a middle finger to states & organizations that he does not understand” MAGA doctrine
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www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Diplomats Who Carry Trump’s Grievances Abroad
Some of the president’s ambassadors keep getting into needless conflicts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/undiplomatic-diplomats-ambassadors-trump/686183/?gift=mm7EihC-8Ui3x-vAimaWoSIyzb8uFYQVwf0iajt04FY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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ProPublica
3 days ago
“ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said Michelle Brané, a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump's DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents' anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772236811&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Wake up, Murica.
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Contingent Magazine
3 days ago
"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works . . . These books are slim and ephemeral . . . Most other repositories of rare books in the Muslim world don’t think they’re worth collecting."
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Catholic Library, Muslim Books
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.
https://contingentmagazine.org/2020/05/28/catholic-muslim-books/
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Scott Horton
3 days ago
Expect Ellison to destroy Warner Bros with the same speed he has demolished CBS. The company will have a massive, unsustainable debt overhang and is likely to implode completely before Larry is called to his maker.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/w...
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With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok
Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, and HBO. In a statement, Netflix co-CEO…
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/with-netflix-retreat-trump-ally-larry-ellison-will-soon-own-warner-brothers-hbo-cnn-cbs-paramount-discovery-and-part-of-tiktok/
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Carole Cadwalladr
5 days ago
NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by
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@thenerve.news
which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...
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Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread
When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...
https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel
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Conor Sen
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10-year yields going out at the lows:
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It's as if he doesn't have phalanx of "government" attorneys working for him.
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Congressman Greg Casar
3 days ago
Here’s a story way more people should be talking about. Donald Trump is about to try to ram through another massive tax break for the super rich. Hell no. Not one more cent for the Epstein class.
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Oliver Darcy
3 days ago
Suffice to say, the mood inside CNN is not good tonight. “We are doomed," one staffer texted me. “The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” an insider added. Details in
@status.news
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CNN Braces for Ellison's Control
With David Ellison poised to take control of Warner Bros. Discovery, a chill has settled over CNN as staffers fear for the future. "The panic at CNN right now is off the charts," an insider tells Stat...
https://www.status.news/p/cnn-david-ellison-trump-paramount-wbd-netflix-deal
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United Farm Workers
4 days ago
"Raul" has driven a tractor in Salinas, CA for 25 years. "My work is part of the harvesting of lettuce, broccoli, mustard greens, and strawberries. I work 10 hours a day, most days of the week. I'm lucky my work is year-round."
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Justin Wolfers
3 days ago
Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?" Me: "It's that he's lying."
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Tim Onion
4 days ago
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.
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I've given "Thank You and OK!" to non-Zen readers. It's an engaging and witty travel memoir. He was a colorful character in person, too. I finished "Crooked Cucumber" during Sangha Week at Tassajara in 2010. Recalling Zen historian David Chadwick | Monkey Mind
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Shunryu Suzuki Biographer And Zen Historian David Chadwick.
Recalling Zen archivist, memorist, and biographer David Chadwick. His archive Cuke.org is a critical collections of early convert Zen.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2026/02/recalling-zen-historian-david-chadwick.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=share_bar
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BeijingPalmer
3 days ago
my mum lives in Gorton and Denton and funnily enough you could predict this result simply by looking at my tweets about her political feelings over the last year.
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Sanho Tree
4 days ago
Once in decade I might say something nice about a WSJ editorial or the right-wing Manhattan Institute. Today is that day for both of them. This is an excellent op-ed about the failure of drug prohibition. Well worth reading!
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Don Moynihan
3 days ago
Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
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