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BBC Verify: Why has Google Maps renamed the Gulf of Mexico?
BBC Verify: Why has Google Maps renamed the Gulf of Mexico?
The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US. BBC Verify explains why Google made the change.
www.bbc.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for their model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts Google’s online and mobile calendars are no longer including references to Black History Month, Women’s History Month and LGBTQ+ holidays,…
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"I do think there has to be accountability. Congress has the power of the purse, of course. And we have oversight responsibility. And we’ve been vigorously using both of those powers." - Mike Johnson, May 2024.
February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"Protests by military families against a defense secretary are extremely rare..."

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
February 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This is the time to change. This is our time to build. This is the time for Canada.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKLo...
This is the time to change.
YouTube video by Mark Carney
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"Pam Bondi is the first attorney general in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force
Pam Bondi is the first attorney in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.
www.msnbc.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act.

She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.
February 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Worth noticing here that Coristine's online mates are clearly happy to talk shit about him. I've been expecting this as journalists begin to home in on the obvious targets - it's a culture that values public shiv-sticking over opsec.
🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Only hot take hacks — who style themselves as bold truth tellers and brave contrarians but are really just pathetic lapdog amanuenses — are inside the Pentagon now.
February 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Trudeau says Trump threat to annex Canada 'is a real thing'
Trudeau says Trump threat to annex Canada 'is a real thing'
The prime minister told an economic summit in Toronto he believes Trump is eyeing Canada's critical minerals.
www.bbc.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM