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Accountant. Father. WTA fan.

Not in that order.
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Happy New Year. The president just threatened Operation Iranian Freedom.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s ‘Operation Iranian Freedom’
How many foreign wars does the “America First” president intend to start?
www.theatlantic.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Danny Wolf bricked a shot so badly it hit Kevin Durant in the face. Durant let him know, audibly saying, "Trash-ass miss, Wolf."

ROFL
January 2, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches

An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Russia Asks United States to Stop Pursuit of Fleeing Oil Tanker (New York Times)

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January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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YEAR ONE MAHA
January 1, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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idk i'm not a lawyer but i feel like shutting down an entire state's childcare payment federal dollars because a 23yo posted a tiktok feels like a certain lack of seriousness or due process
December 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution

elink75f.mail.breakermedia.com/ss/c/u001.o7...
December 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Exclusive: The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility in Venezuela, sources told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. This is the attack Trump has repeatedly alluded to in recent days. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I wonder, if inconveniently, if Epstein's victims are able to compartmentalize well enough to have a happy Christmas. In that vein, here is a deeply poignant read by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social because we must't look away or become distracted.

Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Files Should Not Have Been Released This Way
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Kennedy Center's Christmas Eve Jazz Show Canceled After Trump Name Added to Building (Francesca Regalado/New York Times)

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December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The Intercept reports on the companies that are making millions as ICE bounty hunters: theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Indiana was the worst team in college football for 150 years and then they let you start paying players and they immediately became No. 1 and the only conclusion one can draw is they were the only ones who didn’t realize you could pay players under the table for the first 150 years.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Raised questions about her management style. He asked why she had weighed in at the last minute after not attending five screenings of the segment as it was being completed. “It’s not a part-time job,” Scott Pelley said, according to 4 people familiar with the discussion who requested anonymity.
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a '60 Minutes' Segment (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

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December 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The next year, Weiss ran this first-person piece, by a woman who worked at the Wash U Transgender Center in St. Louis.

She made many serious allegations. There was no evidence that they tried to contact the center, or the woman’s colleagues.

Not even a “no comment.”

www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-...
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.

There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.

Not even a “no comment.”

www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This sucks. CFP R1 is on TBS (HBO Max); Natty is on
@espn.com (Unlimited)
And it's not just Disney. It's the math of mixing in HBO Max and Fox's new streaming thing. You can bundle HBO with disney but not with ESPN. You can bundle ESPN with Fox, but not yet. It's madness!
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
‪CFP R1 is on TBS (HBO Max); Natty is on @espn.com (Unlimited). There is no Disney+ hbo & espn bundle.

You can bundle with Max OR ESPN. I don't need two Disney + logins (I'm aware fubo/ slingtv exist)
I just signed up for ESPN streaming this morning. Hopefully I can cancel in a month. I’m a football junkie so yeah, they got me 😖
December 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I want to “make sure that we have that ability and have access [to vaccines] and continue positive developments.”

-United States Senator Lisa Murkowski, on voting to confirm RFK Jr.
The contortions GOP senators are making for RFK Jr.
Republican lawmakers are looking past Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views as they consider his nomination to lead HHS.
www.politico.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"Commercially viable nuclear fusion is notorious for having been a decade away for almost half a century, and we’re a little doubtful that TAE quietly cracked it and decided to merge with a Trump Spac"
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Directly benefiting from experimental nuclear tech that he loosened regs to allow. Unbelievable. The economy really is the hottest it’s ever been for the orange fart.

Trump Media announces $6bn merger plan with fusion power company - The Guardian
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM