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Peter Jukes
20 days ago
Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’ We have much more on this coming soon but our new paywall allows you to buy just one article or edition
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
As the scandal around the release of the Epstein Files continues to follow Donald Trump, Peter Jukes investigates the late sex offender’s ties to Vladimir Putin-linked individuals with a curious caree...
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Aaron Sojourner
28 days ago
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025. On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data. This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data. Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025
#JobsReport
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 44 The PG Express is out. All the news direct to your inbox.
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 44
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The Bulwark
29 days ago
Reporter: “The president posted on True Social that the voting underway in California is ‘rigged.’ What evidence does he have of that?” Leavitt: “There’s fraud in California’s elections. It’s just a fact.” Reporter: “What’s the evidence of that, though?” Leavitt: “It is just a fact.”
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 42
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The Gazette explores alt-right Rebel News, which has failed repeatedly to meet the standard of a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization.
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Hate Street - Picton Gazette | The Picton Gazette
Just about a century ago, on October 15, 1925, the Picton Gazette ran a short notice, FIERY CROSS BLAZED NEAR TOWN RESERVOIR. “The fiery cross denoting activity of the Ku Klux Klan blazed forth from t...
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The Gazette explores Rebel Media's campaign against Tim Horton's.
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Rebel News comes for the Picton Tim's - Picton Gazette | The Picton Gazette
Rebel News, also known as Rebel Media, is an alt-right political commentary website. It has more than one million subscribers on YouTube, and promotes an anti-Muslim ideology it calls “counter-jihad....
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Status
2 months ago
Once praised for his moral clarity, Disney's Bob Iger now faces questions of integrity after bowing to political pressure and suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
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Iger’s Integrity
Once praised for his moral clarity, Bob Iger now faces questions of integrity after bowing to political pressure and suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
https://www.status.news/p/bob-iger-jimmy-kimmel-suspension
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2 months ago
I left 3 years ago. No Facebook, no insta. Will not participate in the amassing of personal info to enrich an *ashore that will only destroy democracy around the world.
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Adam Rose
3 months ago
What does Jimmy Kimmel really think about Charlie Kirk? His own words: "Senseless murder." "A lot of extraordinarily vile responses." "Some people are cheering this, which is something I won't ever understand." Why is the FCC is really targeting him? He went on to make fun of Trump for 10 mins.
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Trump Divides America in Aftermath of Charlie Kirk Murder & Republicans Block Epstein File Release
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Brian Tyler Cohen
3 months ago
Hiding the truth.
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
FORTUNE MAG: “.. Trump has seized control of private enterprise’s strategic decision-making and investment policies while invading corporate board rooms .. “.. This is far more dangerous to capitalism than a city-run grocery store.”
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
4 months ago
This week on the blog: Our look at the structures of life for peasant farmers continues with children and childrearing. We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing
This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last …
https://acoup.blog/2025/08/08/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiib-children-and-childrearing/
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Michigan Maple Man 🍁🇨🇦 🇬🇱🥄🌲🐓⛷️🚵🏼♀️🎻🏕️🔨💋🐝🪵🌻🌈❄️🛶💙📎🐸
4 months ago
Congratulations! Amazing!
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Dr. Tara L. Conley
4 months ago
reiterating what i said earlier today at
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: support student journalism and student media in anyway you can. they stay on folks’ necks.
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The New York Times
4 months ago
In
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In defanging the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court “would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality,” our columnist
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Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.
https://nyti.ms/4lcydc7
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Philip Bump
4 months ago
I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it.
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Blurred world
I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...
https://www.pbump.net/o/blurred-world/?s
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
4 months ago
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
4 months ago
Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths. ENOUGH. I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
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Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve
Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gaza-starvation-senate-democrats-urge-u-s-to-stop-funding-ghf-resume-support-for-un/
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Weekly Roundup of the news, weekend events, and open houses. The Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 27
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 27
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Elizabeth N. Saunders
4 months ago
Apropos of...well. Here is the letter my colleagues and I wrote in mid-March, imagining how we would respond to the Trump administration's demands. With thanks again to
@dandrezner.bsky.social
for hosting our guest post.
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GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post-we-are-professors-at-columbia
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Robert Garcia
4 months ago
🚨 We just won a forced subpoena of the Epstein files 8-2 in our
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subcommittee. This will force Chairman Comer to issue the subpoena. This is an enormous win by Oversight Democrats.
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Tony Pentimalli
4 months ago
We don’t need more files. We needed to believe the women. Epstein’s victims told the truth for decades. They were ignored, silenced, erased. Now Trump is panicking—and that’s our signal. Believe them. Demand justice. Not later. Now. Read more:
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Morgan J Freeman
4 months ago
Fuck yeah Obama. Slap that filthy orange bitch upside the head.
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Lawfare
5 months ago
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reviews "The Double Black Box" by Ashley Deeks, finding that it "provides both a useful metaphor for thinking about national security AI and a timely overview of the current known uses of this technology."
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Peering into the ‘Double Black Box’ of National Security and AI
A review of Ashley Deeks, “The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Struggle for Democratic Accountability” (Oxford University Press, 2025)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/peering-into-the--double-black-box--of-national-security-and-ai
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Philip Bump
5 months ago
And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout. To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at
pbump.net
and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
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Financial Times
5 months ago
Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots
https://on.ft.com/46bWXh3
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Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots
Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models
https://on.ft.com/46bWXh3
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Find out what to do when David Frum comes knocking.
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Molly Jong-Fast
5 months ago
How convenient! Cutting Obamacare has long been a GOP dream, something Donald Trump tried to do during his first term—and would have if it wasn’t for John McCain’s famous thumbs down, which saved the Affordable Care Act and enraged much of his party.
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Donald Trump’s Agenda Will Hurt His Base. Will They Notice?
Lawmakers voted for the BBB without reading it. Now, with nearly 12 million people at risk of losing health care coverage, the president wants voters to pay attention to his rhetoric and ignore the de...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-medicare-cuts
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Alan Richardson
5 months ago
This is disastrous news for the whole country
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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬
5 months ago
Co-sign
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David Roberts
5 months ago
Probably fine.
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The Daily Beast
5 months ago
A source close to the MAGA administration suggested the president’s “deals” are all theatrics.
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Trump Admin Insider Blows Lid Off Tariffs: ‘It’s All Fake’
A source close to the MAGA administration suggested the president’s “deals” are all theatrics.
https://trib.al/BEO8wqB
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Mike Walker
5 months ago
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians. By Anne Applebaum
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The U.S. Is Switching Sides
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/putin-trump-russia-ukraine/683414/
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enrich12
5 months ago
Don't call it Alligator Alcatraz. Call it what it is: 💥 A concentration camp. 💥
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The Crewe of the Fancy
5 months ago
Awesome speech from
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Canada MP DESTROYS Trump in MAJOR SPEECH to World
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Erika Shaker
5 months ago
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‘It’s hard to imagine an outcome in the secret Carney-Trump negotiations that would justify this level of back-tracking from a govt that promised Canadians “elbows up” diplomacy and a new relationship with the imperial heartland.’
@policyalternatives.ca
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Why did Canada just cave to Trump by scrapping the Digital Services Tax? - CCPA
A lot doesn’t sit right about the Carney government’s capitulation to U.S. president Trump on the stillborn Digital Services Tax (DST), which would have taxed the largely untaxed revenues of tech comp...
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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎
6 months ago
Well done, AOC…👇 Well done. Corrupt. SCOTUS. Impeachment. 😎✨
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AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor the justices' refusal to recuse themselves from certain prominent cases “represents an abuse of power and threat to our democracy."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/aoc-files-articles-impeachment-supreme-court-justices-clarence-thomas-rcna161121
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
6 months ago
We’re doing this because Paramount helping Trump capture the free press and weaken the rule of law would harm everyone — Paramount, its shareholders and America as a whole.
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Prominent lawyers join press freedom fight to thwart Paramount settlement with Trump
Prominent attorneys Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation's campaign to thwart efforts by Paramount to reach a settlement with President Trump over his "60 Minutes" law...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-06/freedom-press-abbe-lowell-norm-eisen-brenna-frey-trump-paramount
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The Atlantic
6 months ago
“A lot of the new media is communicating with a level of authenticity—or at least perceived authenticity—that institutional media has been unable to deliver,”
@postbaron.bsky.social
tells
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Why Are the Media So Afraid of Trump?
How Trump is bullying the media and why it’s working
https://bit.ly/3SAQdRR
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On the King's Throne Speech in Canada May 27. A salvo in advance, heard round the world — except in the U.S.
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The King's Speech - Picton Gazette | The Picton Gazette
To put my cards on the table: my mother is English. The Royals run in my blood. My entire family got up at dawn one summer morning to watch Lady Di get out of a gilded, horse-drawn carriage and slowly...
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 21
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 21
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The Picton Gazette Express is out, with big stories on Glenwood Chapel and the County's cottage country. Read all about it.
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 20
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Gary R Simonds
6 months ago
Ya gotta read this one But we ALL should always read
@hccmal.bsky.social
The mad king is deteriorating right in front of our eyes The GOP is doing all it can to hide the facts
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-202...
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May 23, 2025
I’m going to take an early night tonight, but I want to record three things that jumped out at me today because they seem to tell a story.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-2025?utm_source=substack&publication_id=20533&post_id=164287657&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1i0jl&triedRedirect=true
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 19
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Charlie Angus
7 months ago
I was honoured to be in Picton to speak about resistance to tyranny. The
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is the oldest weekly newspaper in Canada. Local/independent voices are vital in fighting the disinformation bots trying to break our country.
#elbowsup
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“This is our Moment” - Picton Gazette | The Picton Gazette
Charlie Angus’s Resistance Tour made a stop in Picton last week. An inspired speaker, Mr. Angus charged up a crowd of 325. Moderator Chris Fanning opened the proceedings by noting the house was full,...
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Brian Merchant
7 months ago
There’s a reason that the very day the GOP was introducing a bill that would *ban states from making laws related to AI* the AI execs themselves were in Saudi Arabia with Trump, minting billion dollar deals. AI has become an oligarchic project — and democracy an impediment.
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Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 18
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