Tom Breen
@tombreen.bsky.social
UConn news director, former reporter, occasional traveler, very occasional writer
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Perfect screenshot
February 15, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Perfect screenshot
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Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald
How we got here
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How we got here
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Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein coverage
The Miami Herald's original series, videos, timeline and more
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February 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald
How we got here
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How we got here
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Here’s Dennis Hopper giving a dramatic recitation of Kipling’s “If” on a 1970 episode of the Johnny Cash Show. youtu.be/xlfnm9gV52w?...
Dennis Hopper reads a poem on The Johnny Cash Show
YouTube video by abargle
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February 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Here’s Dennis Hopper giving a dramatic recitation of Kipling’s “If” on a 1970 episode of the Johnny Cash Show. youtu.be/xlfnm9gV52w?...
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I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”
Spent the day working on my tax return
February 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Spent the day working on my tax return
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now if only I knew which story dammit! she's somewhere near the middle, so Ron Holmes? William Sansom? John Collier?
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
now if only I knew which story dammit! she's somewhere near the middle, so Ron Holmes? William Sansom? John Collier?
Great news, people of the United Kingdom!
February 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Great news, people of the United Kingdom!
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At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
You’re laughing? Clavicular got dairygooned by ASU gymcel moids while on stream, and you’re laughing?
February 14, 2026 at 11:22 PM
You’re laughing? Clavicular got dairygooned by ASU gymcel moids while on stream, and you’re laughing?
A belated International Pie for Breakfast Day post. That is a cannoli pie and it is as delicious as it looks
February 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
A belated International Pie for Breakfast Day post. That is a cannoli pie and it is as delicious as it looks
Happy Valentine’s Day! For complicated reasons, the relics of this 3rd century Roman martyr are held at Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin, which was built in the 19th century. It’s near a place where I had one of the best cups of coffee in my entire life
February 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day! For complicated reasons, the relics of this 3rd century Roman martyr are held at Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin, which was built in the 19th century. It’s near a place where I had one of the best cups of coffee in my entire life
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In a weird way this is an inverse of how content creators made Los Angeles more clean and glamorous than it actually is, or how Dubai etc use content creators to hide the darkness that underpins their society
London’s got a global viral video malaise www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...
Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city
Plus: Victoria Park battle over All Points East, the Hackney school war that wasn't, the AI-generated parking appeal mess, and wild swimming in the River Thames.
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February 14, 2026 at 10:11 AM
In a weird way this is an inverse of how content creators made Los Angeles more clean and glamorous than it actually is, or how Dubai etc use content creators to hide the darkness that underpins their society
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“It’s an unbelievable disaster and also none of us were ever wrong, about anything” really has been the smash hit of the 21st century. Join in at the chorus.
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
“It’s an unbelievable disaster and also none of us were ever wrong, about anything” really has been the smash hit of the 21st century. Join in at the chorus.
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
Cornering the young people at work and demanding they explain Clavicular to me
February 14, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Cornering the young people at work and demanding they explain Clavicular to me
“The combination of beauty and biohacking” is not one way our culture is headed, you wrote a gawk-at-the-freak feature, a well-established genre of journalism
February 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
“The combination of beauty and biohacking” is not one way our culture is headed, you wrote a gawk-at-the-freak feature, a well-established genre of journalism
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the Epstein congressional hearings are not going my way
February 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
the Epstein congressional hearings are not going my way
Is it good when a member of Congress who’s become an outspoken critic of the administration feels the need to state all this publicly?
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Is it good when a member of Congress who’s become an outspoken critic of the administration feels the need to state all this publicly?
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"“It was pretty surreal to listen to that, because there was nothing about Medgar Evers being murdered,” said Michele Storms."
Medgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/m...
Don’t piss me the fuck off!
Don’t piss me the fuck off!
Medgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story - Mississippi Today
Medgar Evers home visitors said park rangers told them they can no longer discuss bloodstains on the driveway or refer to his assassin as a racist.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
"“It was pretty surreal to listen to that, because there was nothing about Medgar Evers being murdered,” said Michele Storms."
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️
Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.
It’s all in our blog ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t...
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#WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive
Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.
It’s all in our blog ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t...
🧵1️⃣/5️⃣
#WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️
Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.
It’s all in our blog ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t...
🧵1️⃣/5️⃣
#WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive
Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.
It’s all in our blog ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t...
🧵1️⃣/5️⃣
#WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive
It’s 2026, and the US has only had a single president born after 1946
February 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
It’s 2026, and the US has only had a single president born after 1946
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Torrent Of Soap Issues From Wildly Unexpected Part Of Dispenser https://theonion.com/torrent-of-soap-issues-from-wildly-unexpected-part-of-d-1819574504/
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Torrent Of Soap Issues From Wildly Unexpected Part Of Dispenser https://theonion.com/torrent-of-soap-issues-from-wildly-unexpected-part-of-d-1819574504/
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ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
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February 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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