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The great Dick Van Dyke, 100 years old today, as celebrated in a fantastic PBS American Masters.
Full video here: www.pbs.org/video/starri...
Full video here: www.pbs.org/video/starri...
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The great Dick Van Dyke, 100 years old today, as celebrated in a fantastic PBS American Masters.
Full video here: www.pbs.org/video/starri...
Full video here: www.pbs.org/video/starri...
Sad beyond expression.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Sad beyond expression.
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While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.
October 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.
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"The right today has joined the age-old assault upon America, deprecating its system, impugning its honor, and abandoning its unique place among the nations of the Earth." From the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-left...
What’s Left of William F. Buckley Jr.
The conservative movement he built is now besotted with the kinds of characters and urges he repudiated.
www.thebulwark.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"The right today has joined the age-old assault upon America, deprecating its system, impugning its honor, and abandoning its unique place among the nations of the Earth." From the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-left...
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On conventional maps of the world the Arctic looks marginal. But adopt a polar perspective of Earth, and the Arctic becomes the crossroads of great powers
The icy cold war America is busy losing
Its weakest flank isn’t Greenland, but around Alaska
econ.st
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
On conventional maps of the world the Arctic looks marginal. But adopt a polar perspective of Earth, and the Arctic becomes the crossroads of great powers
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Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...
More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research.
www.wired.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...
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Jim Shooter death: Highly influential former Marvel editor-in chief dies, aged 73 - The Independent
July 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Jim Shooter death: Highly influential former Marvel editor-in chief dies, aged 73 - The Independent
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“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”
EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.
In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.
EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.
In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”
EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.
In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.
EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.
In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.
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DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States.
Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.
Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
My story for @propublica.org
Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.
Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
My story for @propublica.org
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
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A battle over academic freedom is being waged in Texas, where the legislature is poised to give the state power to screen faculty, programs and courses in one of the country’s largest public university systems, and experts say the outcome could reverberate for higher education nationwide.
Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities
Opponents say a bill to end “ideological bias” in higher education would amount to a damaging takeover of public institutions, with nationwide implications.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A battle over academic freedom is being waged in Texas, where the legislature is poised to give the state power to screen faculty, programs and courses in one of the country’s largest public university systems, and experts say the outcome could reverberate for higher education nationwide.
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OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part of ‘SignalGate’ - Daring Fireball
March 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part of ‘SignalGate’ - Daring Fireball
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This was no accident.
March 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This was no accident.
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A daily affirmation to keep one hopeful...
March 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A daily affirmation to keep one hopeful...
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On Amanpour & Co. yesterday… youtu.be/I3JtZlSRMAw?...
Scott Galloway on Markets, Musk, and Trump’s “Weapons of Mass Distraction” | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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March 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
On Amanpour & Co. yesterday… youtu.be/I3JtZlSRMAw?...
Unforseen consequence of climate change? Huh.
www.vice.com/en/article/u...
www.vice.com/en/article/u...
US Border Agents Are Seizing Way More Eggs Than Fentanyl
Things are getting dire at the border. Contraband is being smuggled at an alarming rate. But it’s not the contraband you’re thinking of.
www.vice.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Unforseen consequence of climate change? Huh.
www.vice.com/en/article/u...
www.vice.com/en/article/u...
