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Horrifying.
"People seeking asylum in the UK could be stripped of assets including jewellery to cover the costs of their accommodation, the government confirmed on Monday."
UK asylum seekers face seizure of jewellery to pay for accommodation
New powers to confiscate high-value items are among measures intended to curb number of small boats crossing the Channel
on.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Horrifying.
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
"Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better."
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better."
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
Good read from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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It is genuinely hilarious to think Bezos adds anything to the game this late into the hype cycle other than $$$ to burn and his capacity to create infamously toxic work environments that will, in the future, spin out 10-20 startups staffed by the most psychotic and evil managers known to mankind.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It is genuinely hilarious to think Bezos adds anything to the game this late into the hype cycle other than $$$ to burn and his capacity to create infamously toxic work environments that will, in the future, spin out 10-20 startups staffed by the most psychotic and evil managers known to mankind.
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
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Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Jonathan Drouin wanted to finish his career with the #Avs. The math just didn't work, and it was time for him to look out for himself and his family.
Turns out the gains he made as a player in Denver have traveled with him to Long Island.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/16/j...
Turns out the gains he made as a player in Denver have traveled with him to Long Island.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/16/j...
Jonathan Drouin didn’t want to leave Colorado, but is fitting in well with Islanders
Patrick Roy was very familiar with Jonathan Drouin, the phenom, from his days coaching against him in the QMJHL.
www.denverpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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People have this stupid sense in their broken brains that the only two possible outcomes are total capitulation and voting to impeach a president, without dealing with the vast continuum of things that happen formally and informally between those two extremes.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
People have this stupid sense in their broken brains that the only two possible outcomes are total capitulation and voting to impeach a president, without dealing with the vast continuum of things that happen formally and informally between those two extremes.
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
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made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
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It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
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It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
the only part of Eastern Passage that vibes like a fishing village is Fisherman's Cove and as far as I know there are no plans to build a four-storey building on the boardwalk. also why isn't the golf course two minutes down the street ruining her fishing community? curious!
This is the crux of the issue.
"I want my cute fishing village but there are no jobs here, so you better make it so I can drive downtown in 20 minutes, no matter how much it costs!!!"
"I want my cute fishing village but there are no jobs here, so you better make it so I can drive downtown in 20 minutes, no matter how much it costs!!!"
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the only part of Eastern Passage that vibes like a fishing village is Fisherman's Cove and as far as I know there are no plans to build a four-storey building on the boardwalk. also why isn't the golf course two minutes down the street ruining her fishing community? curious!
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According to current tax data and a cost-to-service model by the city, Eastern Passage loses roughly $5 million per year, covering only about ~70% of its operating costs.
The fiscally responsible choices are to allow density, starkly raises taxes, or cut services to the point of "oops, no roads"
The fiscally responsible choices are to allow density, starkly raises taxes, or cut services to the point of "oops, no roads"
I would like to challenge this assertion by an Eastern Passage resident, she said: “It’s not rocket science: you don’t put high-density units in between single-family dwellings. That’s not good city planning.”
I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.
I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.
Eastern Passage housing developments a mistake in more ways than one, say neighbours
HRM looking at exceptions for waterfront developments after unintentional bylaw changes
www.saltwire.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
According to current tax data and a cost-to-service model by the city, Eastern Passage loses roughly $5 million per year, covering only about ~70% of its operating costs.
The fiscally responsible choices are to allow density, starkly raises taxes, or cut services to the point of "oops, no roads"
The fiscally responsible choices are to allow density, starkly raises taxes, or cut services to the point of "oops, no roads"
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I would like to challenge this assertion by an Eastern Passage resident, she said: “It’s not rocket science: you don’t put high-density units in between single-family dwellings. That’s not good city planning.”
I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.
I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.
Eastern Passage housing developments a mistake in more ways than one, say neighbours
HRM looking at exceptions for waterfront developments after unintentional bylaw changes
www.saltwire.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I would like to challenge this assertion by an Eastern Passage resident, she said: “It’s not rocket science: you don’t put high-density units in between single-family dwellings. That’s not good city planning.”
I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.
I would argue that it is, and a mix of densities is good for cities & their residents.
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The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.
Round Up the Usual Suspect - Truthdig
The media version of Donald Trump as the author of his own administration isn't the one leaving his DNA at the crime scene.
www.truthdig.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.
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oh hey look at that
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
oh hey look at that
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Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
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We gotta get people back into reading the whole story
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We gotta get people back into reading the whole story
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What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
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Good news.
Premier Tim Houston says the proposal from Cabot for a golf course in West Mabou Beach Provincial Park will not go ahead. He says the Natural Resources Department concluded it would not fit.
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Good news.
nose tests, mobjects, things of that nature
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
nose tests, mobjects, things of that nature
Epstein writing "donalad trup" frankly beggars "donald drumpf" sorry John Oliver
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Epstein writing "donalad trup" frankly beggars "donald drumpf" sorry John Oliver
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."