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Man bites dog would be a better story, but dog shoots man isn’t shabby either.
A man in Pennsylvania had been cleaning a shotgun and placed it on the bed. Officers were informed that “a dog had jumped up onto the bed, causing the shotgun to go off, which openly struck the male.”
Dog Accidentally Shoots and Injures a Pennsylvania Man, Police Say
The man had been cleaning a shotgun and placed it on the bed shortly before it was fired. He received treatment at an area hospital.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Man bites dog would be a better story, but dog shoots man isn’t shabby either.
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A man in Pennsylvania had been cleaning a shotgun and placed it on the bed. Officers were informed that “a dog had jumped up onto the bed, causing the shotgun to go off, which openly struck the male.”
Dog Accidentally Shoots and Injures a Pennsylvania Man, Police Say
The man had been cleaning a shotgun and placed it on the bed shortly before it was fired. He received treatment at an area hospital.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A man in Pennsylvania had been cleaning a shotgun and placed it on the bed. Officers were informed that “a dog had jumped up onto the bed, causing the shotgun to go off, which openly struck the male.”
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What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.
As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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Interessanter Blick eines niederländischen Forschers auf die AfD - insbesondere für die CDU:
"Die AfD ist viel radikaler als Wilders - sie ist die braunste populistische Partei Europas. Keine Bewegung hat eine solchen Nähe zu Neonazis und völkischem Gedankengut."
www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
"Die AfD ist viel radikaler als Wilders - sie ist die braunste populistische Partei Europas. Keine Bewegung hat eine solchen Nähe zu Neonazis und völkischem Gedankengut."
www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
Erfolg gegen Rechtspopulisten: "Zum ersten Mal hatte jemand keine Angst"
Wie schrumpft man Rechtspopulisten? In den Niederlanden ist dem Liberalen Rob Jetten genau das gelungen. Der niederländische Historiker René Cuperus erklärt das Rezept.
www.zeit.de
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Interessanter Blick eines niederländischen Forschers auf die AfD - insbesondere für die CDU:
"Die AfD ist viel radikaler als Wilders - sie ist die braunste populistische Partei Europas. Keine Bewegung hat eine solchen Nähe zu Neonazis und völkischem Gedankengut."
www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
"Die AfD ist viel radikaler als Wilders - sie ist die braunste populistische Partei Europas. Keine Bewegung hat eine solchen Nähe zu Neonazis und völkischem Gedankengut."
www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
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I believe the proper word to use here is "theft." www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I believe the proper word to use here is "theft." www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Same town, new spot.
The “Best Friends Forever” statue of Trump and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding hands just reappeared in DC after federal authorities already tore it down twice. 🤣
The “Best Friends Forever” statue of Trump and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding hands just reappeared in DC after federal authorities already tore it down twice. 🤣
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Same town, new spot.
The “Best Friends Forever” statue of Trump and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding hands just reappeared in DC after federal authorities already tore it down twice. 🤣
The “Best Friends Forever” statue of Trump and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding hands just reappeared in DC after federal authorities already tore it down twice. 🤣
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Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
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There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
The fascist's unemployment solution: hiring some people to terrorize and cage others
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
U.S. Hires 50,000 Federal Workers Under Trump, Boosting Immigration Roles
The bulk of the new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
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BREAKING: The UK has stopped sharing intelligence with the US on suspected drug-trafficking ships in the Caribbean, saying it won’t be complicit in strikes it believes are illegal-CNN
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BREAKING: The UK has stopped sharing intelligence with the US on suspected drug-trafficking ships in the Caribbean, saying it won’t be complicit in strikes it believes are illegal-CNN
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It’s murder. Plain and simple.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It’s murder. Plain and simple.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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What‘s the end game in the brain of a malignant narcissist? An explosion? An implosion? Shrinkage to peanut size bone-dry tissue with weakening neurons? And when do people in charge of a country’s institution determine it will end? And badly?
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What‘s the end game in the brain of a malignant narcissist? An explosion? An implosion? Shrinkage to peanut size bone-dry tissue with weakening neurons? And when do people in charge of a country’s institution determine it will end? And badly?
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„Ein Tanz mit dem Teufel“ www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... dazu mein Interview mit Declan Hill, einer der besten Kenner der Materie weltweit, der seit Jahren über die Gefahren warnt www.faz.net/aktuell/spor...
NBA-Wettskandal: Amerikas Sport und das Geschäft mit Wetten
Wenn Fansein nur noch Nebensache ist: Der amerikanische Sport hat sich mit naiver Begeisterung in das gnadenlose Kalkül des Sportwettengeschäfts gestürzt. Nun ist die NBA offenkundig ratlos.
www.faz.net
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
„Ein Tanz mit dem Teufel“ www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... dazu mein Interview mit Declan Hill, einer der besten Kenner der Materie weltweit, der seit Jahren über die Gefahren warnt www.faz.net/aktuell/spor...
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No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politically inspired by a good candidate with a good message.
trib.al
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
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NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Zohran Mamdani has won more votes than people who live in the following states:
South Dakota
North Dakota
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
He will soon pass Delaware.
Could also pass Montana and Rhode Island.
South Dakota
North Dakota
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
He will soon pass Delaware.
Could also pass Montana and Rhode Island.
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Zohran Mamdani has won more votes than people who live in the following states:
South Dakota
North Dakota
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
He will soon pass Delaware.
Could also pass Montana and Rhode Island.
South Dakota
North Dakota
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
He will soon pass Delaware.
Could also pass Montana and Rhode Island.
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
What took them so long?
I know, I know. The NYT is at fault, as well.
But here's how they assess the 12 markers of authoritarianism-- and Trump has initiated them all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But here's how they assess the 12 markers of authoritarianism-- and Trump has initiated them all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
What took them so long?
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I know, I know. The NYT is at fault, as well.
But here's how they assess the 12 markers of authoritarianism-- and Trump has initiated them all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But here's how they assess the 12 markers of authoritarianism-- and Trump has initiated them all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I know, I know. The NYT is at fault, as well.
But here's how they assess the 12 markers of authoritarianism-- and Trump has initiated them all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But here's how they assess the 12 markers of authoritarianism-- and Trump has initiated them all. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Neue NBA-Saison geht heute los. Meine Vorschauberichte über einige der deutschen Spieler www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... ein guter Anlass zu einem Besuch in der #basketballhalloffame in Springfield.
October 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Neue NBA-Saison geht heute los. Meine Vorschauberichte über einige der deutschen Spieler www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... ein guter Anlass zu einem Besuch in der #basketballhalloffame in Springfield.
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SHE SAID
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.
She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."
It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."
It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
SHE SAID
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
"TECHNO-LIBERTARIANS MAKE A PHILOSOPHY OUT OF A PERSONALITY DEFECT."
IN THE YEAR 2000!
Any German politician/party ready to copy that idea?
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Any German politician/party ready to copy that idea?