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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
Add a zero and fine the club too. They'll just collect this from a few friends at the bar otherwise. www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/...
Fan who racially abused Marcus Rashford facing huge fine after La Liga 'detected' discrimination aimed at Barcelona star | Goal.com UK
Spain's anti-violence commission have recommended a Real Oviedo supporter is fined £3,521 (€4,000/$4,625) for allegedly directing racist abuse towards Barcelona forward Marcus Rashford. The incident i...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Add a zero and fine the club too. They'll just collect this from a few friends at the bar otherwise. www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/...
See: massive goodwill after US Navy helicopters flew rescues in Aceh after 2004 tsunami.
The flat-deck ships that the US currently has deployed to the Caribbean are ideally suited to running helicopter-based search and rescue/aid delivery.
We could do this. Just like we could have done this with Maria. But we won’t do it. And that’s a policy choice.
We could do this. Just like we could have done this with Maria. But we won’t do it. And that’s a policy choice.
Jamaica, in particular, will likely suffer catastrophic impacts from now rapidly-intensifying (but slow-moving) Hurricane #Melissa. A *Category 5* landfall now appears to be the most likely outcome, & 30-40+ inches of *additional* rain in mountains will lead to extreme flooding.
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
See: massive goodwill after US Navy helicopters flew rescues in Aceh after 2004 tsunami.
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Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
My new trick to keep reading the news is to imagine the entire internet is a really long novel by Kurt Vonnegut and Mary Shelley that's great despite its implausibility, and I'm only 1/3 of the way through it.
October 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My new trick to keep reading the news is to imagine the entire internet is a really long novel by Kurt Vonnegut and Mary Shelley that's great despite its implausibility, and I'm only 1/3 of the way through it.
Democrats Abroad asks we not use the word "king" at Barcelona's #NoKings event. "It's true," said a Catalan friend. "I'm probably just not clever enough to distinguish between my country's politics and your country's." It's hard to show up consistently for a party this tone deaf.
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Democrats Abroad asks we not use the word "king" at Barcelona's #NoKings event. "It's true," said a Catalan friend. "I'm probably just not clever enough to distinguish between my country's politics and your country's." It's hard to show up consistently for a party this tone deaf.
It's a bad sign when a government anti-fraud agency doesn't return calls, right? Asking for a friend.
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
It's a bad sign when a government anti-fraud agency doesn't return calls, right? Asking for a friend.
It’s cool that surfing lessons for NYers now appear to come with SoCal vocab lessons.
I have been taking surfing lessons. Still in the beginner kook trenches, but celebrating my last time on a foam board 😎
Graduating to a hard top next session.
It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽♀️
Graduating to a hard top next session.
It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽♀️
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It’s cool that surfing lessons for NYers now appear to come with SoCal vocab lessons.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
This goes like 10 levels down it’s perfect.
I will be cancelling my Disney+ as soon as I finish she hulk
September 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This goes like 10 levels down it’s perfect.
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LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.
The mid-eighties IP remakes are getting really clever. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal
Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The mid-eighties IP remakes are getting really clever. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.
Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.
www.semafor.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.
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The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
September 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
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“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
August 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
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Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
August 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
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It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.
August 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.
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“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
July 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
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One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
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July 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
The Tour de France ends this weekend. The Tour de France starts this weekend. velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra...
Tour de France Femmes Mega-Preview: Favorites, Narratives, Route, and More
Women’s Tour de France features multiple strong GC contenders, a more difficult course and could well be the best edition yet.
velo.outsideonline.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Tour de France ends this weekend. The Tour de France starts this weekend. velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra...
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