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Corporate Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Reap $50B in Government Contracts, Watchdog Finds

Zelenskyy to Putin: End the war. In an open letter, Ukraine's president calls for direct talks, saying many Russians are weary of the conflict and ready for peace. #Ukraine #Russia @volteuropa.org @ec.europa.eu www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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“I’m not being rude,” Mr. Pelley responded. “You know what was rude? Black Thursday was rude.” Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/b...

Good show, but crowded. My take: it’s trying to be a neighborhood satire, a midlife crisis story, a crime caper, a marriage fallout drama and a rich-people-behaving-badly ensemble all at once. That can work, but only if the characters sharpen fast. 1/2

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Destiny of the Daleks (1979) #DoctorWho

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🚨 Trump is reportedly posting all night long on Truth Social — sometimes nearly 100 times before sunrise. Now even one of his longtime biographers says the behavior would alarm “any psychiatrist.”

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Hantaviruses are zoonotic viruses that naturally infect rodents and can occasionally spread to people. Here’s what you need to know about #hantavirus What they are, how they spread, the symptoms, and how to prevent infection

I chat with Dr. Dawn Pauling, whose career has taken her from tracking wildlife in the Alaskan wilderness to researching one of history’s most misunderstood diseases: the plague. We also talk about #hantavirus and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I chat with Dr. Dawn Pauling, whose career has taken her from tracking wildlife in the Alaskan wilderness to researching one of history’s most misunderstood diseases: the plague. We also talk about #hantavirus and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Counting the kilometers over which the front lines move or don't move is missing what's really happening in Ukraine. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social on Ukraine's successful adaptation:

The rebooted Galaxy Magazine has been published. This is number one, of the reboot, tho they numbered it in accordance with the old Galaxy which ended decades ago. I'm in this, Robert Silverberg is in this. A kick ass science article is in it, many many #sff writers and much art...

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Pilate’s Cross, the first John Pilate Mystery, is doing a Kindle Countdown Deal through May 7. That means the price is temporarily dropped, then climbs back up when the clock runs out.

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Gas prices rose 37% in the last year because of Trump. Had enough yet?

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Pilate’s Cross, the first John Pilate Mystery, is doing a Kindle Countdown Deal through May 7. That means the price is temporarily dropped, then climbs back up when the clock runs out.

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Britain and nine European nations move to form a joint naval force alongside NATO, signaling Europe is strengthening its own deterrence against Russia. #NATO #Europe #UK #Navy #EU #Alliance @volteuropa.org @ec.europa.eu www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Europe will be out of jet fuel in 4 weeks. This means widespread flight cancelations and inability to travel by air for most people.

Feels like reality is setting in that there's been no oil getting through the strait of Hormuz for 2 months and countries are literally going to run out. Europe is on the verge of being out of jet fuel. Meanwhile, the stock market is st all time highs. None of it makes any sense.

History isn’t as settled as we like to pretend. I’ve got a new piece up, Who Owns the Past, along with a few others that circle around the same uncomfortable idea: we’re not just living in the present, we’re negotiating with the past whether we realize it or not. substack.com/@alexgreenwo...

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

"If the farm economy is really suffering and continues to get worse... Iowa and Kansas, I think, really are in play." "For all the talk about Texas; Iowa, Nebraska, Alaska, very well could end up being much closer." Bill Kristol and Tim Miller on Democrats’ widening Senate map.

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All of these cute stories about robots running sub-4 min miles during a half marathon fail to mention how terrifying it will be when these things are hunting us for sport in 2029.

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