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New. Survivors of the first boat attack on Sept 2 were shown in the video waving. Surrender? Request for Rescue? Signaling drug traffickers?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
New. Survivors of the first boat attack on Sept 2 were shown in the video waving. Surrender? Request for Rescue? Signaling drug traffickers?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Breaking news: In the past 10 months, the Trump administration has pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers and repeatedly steamrolled or sidestepped government lawyers who questioned whether the provocative policy was legal.
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Breaking news: In the past 10 months, the Trump administration has pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers and repeatedly steamrolled or sidestepped government lawyers who questioned whether the provocative policy was legal.
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“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
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Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history.
Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.
Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history.
Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.
Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.
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Detroit joins nationwide “No Kings” protests against President Trump.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Detroit joins nationwide “No Kings” protests against President Trump.
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A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website, according to records obtained by Metro Times.
Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show - Detroit Metro Times
A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid t...
www.metrotimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website, according to records obtained by Metro Times.
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Comedian Drew Lynch was onstage and had just begun his stand-up set when he saw a man in the audience who was in cardiac arrest.
After the man was taken to the hospital, Lynch resumed his set — but not as he had originally intended. https://wapo.st/4pLAXRA
After the man was taken to the hospital, Lynch resumed his set — but not as he had originally intended. https://wapo.st/4pLAXRA
September 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Comedian Drew Lynch was onstage and had just begun his stand-up set when he saw a man in the audience who was in cardiac arrest.
After the man was taken to the hospital, Lynch resumed his set — but not as he had originally intended. https://wapo.st/4pLAXRA
After the man was taken to the hospital, Lynch resumed his set — but not as he had originally intended. https://wapo.st/4pLAXRA
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Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...
theonion.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, won’t be able to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City next week after the Trump administration denied him a visa. Here’s what to know.
What to Know About the Visa Standoff Between Trump and the United Nations
The president of the Palestinian Authority won’t be able to attend the U.N. General Assembly after the Trump administration denied him a visa.
nyti.ms
September 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, won’t be able to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City next week after the Trump administration denied him a visa. Here’s what to know.
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It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!
September 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Terence Tao, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, is speaking out after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended.
“People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.
“People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.
The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.
Terence Tao, a renowned mathematician at UCLA, faced funding challenges after the Trump administration froze federal research funds.
wapo.st
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Terence Tao, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, is speaking out after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended.
“People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.
“People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.
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Gotta be honest and say that it once again feels stressful that all the evil people are doing evil things and making life worse for everyone
September 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Gotta be honest and say that it once again feels stressful that all the evil people are doing evil things and making life worse for everyone
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What we learned yesterday.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
The Times They Are a-Changin'
June 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What we learned yesterday.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
The Times They Are a-Changin'
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Birds of a feather always flock together
June 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Birds of a feather always flock together
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Leak the report. Pass it on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Leak the report. Pass it on.
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"after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrina…
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
www.texastribune.org
May 15, 2024 at 10:39 AM
"after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
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Breaking News: Alabama Republicans voted to ban state funding for diversity programs at public universities and limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race, gender and identity.
Alabama Republicans Pass Expansive Legislation Targeting D.E.I.
The measure would not only cut funding to diversity programs at public colleges, but also limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race and gender.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Breaking News: Alabama Republicans voted to ban state funding for diversity programs at public universities and limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race, gender and identity.
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It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to shut down El Paso Catholic nonprofit after it resists immediately handing over migrant client records
Ken Paxton sues to revoke an El Paso nonprofit’s state registration a…
Annunciation House, a network of shelters that serves migrants, sought relief from the attorney general’s demand to immediately release information about its clients. Paxton accused the religious gro…
www.texastribune.org
February 21, 2024 at 6:53 PM
It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...