MDaliFitz
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March 28th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing
🦩 Mass protests in Turkey
🦩 Another student kidnapped by ICE
🦩 Trump’s war on unions
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
🦩 Mass protests in Turkey
🦩 Another student kidnapped by ICE
🦩 Trump’s war on unions
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
March 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
March 28th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing
🦩 Mass protests in Turkey
🦩 Another student kidnapped by ICE
🦩 Trump’s war on unions
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
🦩 Mass protests in Turkey
🦩 Another student kidnapped by ICE
🦩 Trump’s war on unions
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
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Trump has threatened to gut the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution with an executive order which aims to eliminate the museum network’s 'anti-American ideology.'
Trump wants to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to "restore truth and sanity to American history."
Trump wants to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to "restore truth and sanity to American history."
Trump orders removal of ‘anti-American ideology’ from world’s largest museum
Trump to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to ‘restore truth and sanity to American history’
www.independent.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump has threatened to gut the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution with an executive order which aims to eliminate the museum network’s 'anti-American ideology.'
Trump wants to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to "restore truth and sanity to American history."
Trump wants to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to "restore truth and sanity to American history."
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“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/uXU1g37J
March 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/uXU1g37J
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"The average 14-year-old boy today has seen more hard-core porn than all of the American fighting forces in the Second World War. (Probably a good thing, because we really needed to win that one.)"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Sex Without Women
What happens when men prefer porn?
www.theatlantic.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The average 14-year-old boy today has seen more hard-core porn than all of the American fighting forces in the Second World War. (Probably a good thing, because we really needed to win that one.)"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
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I know how much Irish people hate when people in the US, UK, or Canada talk about how they are 12% Irish, or whatever.
But everybody having some Irish heritage means one thing: Irish people have a reputation as the most prolific shaggers in history.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, you rides. 😘
But everybody having some Irish heritage means one thing: Irish people have a reputation as the most prolific shaggers in history.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, you rides. 😘
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I know how much Irish people hate when people in the US, UK, or Canada talk about how they are 12% Irish, or whatever.
But everybody having some Irish heritage means one thing: Irish people have a reputation as the most prolific shaggers in history.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, you rides. 😘
But everybody having some Irish heritage means one thing: Irish people have a reputation as the most prolific shaggers in history.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, you rides. 😘
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking credit for cancelling contracts that have long been dead, according to a new report.
DOGE claims credit for ‘canceling’ contracts that ended decades ago
There were errors in DOGE’s top five largest cancelled contracts, all of which have been scrubbed from its website
www.independent.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking credit for cancelling contracts that have long been dead, according to a new report.
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Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’
Satirical petition from Denmark, which owns Greenland, racks up 200,000 signatures as Trump eyes Arctic island
Since returning to the presidency last month, Donald Trump has called for Canada to become the 51st US state, suggested he might take over the…
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’
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Trump signs order handing Musk and DOGE more power to slash federal workforce
Trump signs order handing Musk and DOGE more power to slash federal workforce
The new executive order forbids agencies from hiring more than one new worker for every four who leave government service
www.independent.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Trump signs order handing Musk and DOGE more power to slash federal workforce
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In 2024, the Amazon experienced its worst drought in recorded history, Alex Cuadros writes. For the many residents who live on the water, it left them effectively shipwrecked:
Shipwrecked in the Amazon
Photographs of the worst drought in the river basin’s recorded history
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In 2024, the Amazon experienced its worst drought in recorded history, Alex Cuadros writes. For the many residents who live on the water, it left them effectively shipwrecked:
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Today on It Was What It Was, the football history podcast, as part of our series on Munich, we look at the crash itself.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Today on It Was What It Was, the football history podcast, as part of our series on Munich, we look at the crash itself.
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podfollow.com/1745066482
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Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner. It’s also free. Why does Labour say it isn’t a priority?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/690...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/690...
Will Labour cap political donations?
Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner. It’s also free
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner. It’s also free. Why does Labour say it isn’t a priority?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/690...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/690...
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Ladbrokes gambling ads shown to parents on app used as a baby monitor
Ladbrokes gambling ads shown to parents on app used as a baby monitor
Campaigners urge crackdown after user says they were shocked to see offers of free bets
Adverts for the bookmaker Ladbrokes have been shown to “exhausted parents” via a smartphone app that can be used as a baby monitor, the Guardian can reveal.…
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Ladbrokes gambling ads shown to parents on app used as a baby monitor
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“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
"If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible," Musk said of his proposal to simply ignore all federal regulation as a baseline.
www.huffpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
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This is serious. New polling shows Reform UK surging—they could win 67 seats and become one of the biggest parties in Parliament.
They’re building a ruthless campaign machine to push their far-right agenda. We need to fight back. Will you join me?
www.stop-reform.org @hopenothate.org.uk
They’re building a ruthless campaign machine to push their far-right agenda. We need to fight back. Will you join me?
www.stop-reform.org @hopenothate.org.uk
www.stop-reform.org
February 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is serious. New polling shows Reform UK surging—they could win 67 seats and become one of the biggest parties in Parliament.
They’re building a ruthless campaign machine to push their far-right agenda. We need to fight back. Will you join me?
www.stop-reform.org @hopenothate.org.uk
They’re building a ruthless campaign machine to push their far-right agenda. We need to fight back. Will you join me?
www.stop-reform.org @hopenothate.org.uk
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‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
Sam found himself getting sucked deeper and deeper in to betting, sometimes risking £11,000 in a day. Now a judge has ruled he was unlawfully targeted
At 1.17pm on 15 August 2018, Sam* logged in to his online betting account and gambled five days’ worth…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
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But Hillary Clinton had a private server.
February 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
But Hillary Clinton had a private server.
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Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System.
What could go wrong..
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What could go wrong..
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System.
What could go wrong..
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
What could go wrong..
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Sharon Van Etten: ‘Weirdest thing I have done for love? I started watching sports’
Sharon Van Etten: ‘Weirdest thing I have done for love? I started watching sports’
The singer-songwriter on the advice from Nick Cave that changed her life, acting in The OA and her guilty pleasure
What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received?
I don’t want to be name-droppy, but this advice definitely came at a time in my…
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sharon Van Etten: ‘Weirdest thing I have done for love? I started watching sports’
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Neymar heads home from £322m Saudi calamity still a prisoner of his potential | Jonathan Wilson
Neymar heads home from £322m Saudi calamity still a prisoner of his potential | Jonathan Wilson
Brazilian’s injury-blighted career highlights iniquities of the game, from inflated expectations to curse of celebrity excess
Never go back, but sometimes going back is all that remains. Just 18 months after he joined Al-Hilal, Neymar and the Saudi club…
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Neymar heads home from £322m Saudi calamity still a prisoner of his potential | Jonathan Wilson
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Lucky Liverpool? Possibly, but their spotless results make it hard to argue | Jonathan Wilson
Lucky Liverpool? Possibly, but their spotless results make it hard to argue | Jonathan Wilson
Arne Slot’s team are masters of making their opponents, Bournemouth this time, look as if they are in poor form
Liverpool this season have been very good at being good enough. There have been very few games in which they’ve dismantled the opposition.…
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Lucky Liverpool? Possibly, but their spotless results make it hard to argue | Jonathan Wilson
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‘As the heroic age of trade-union militancy recedes, so the emphasis of his work has shifted once again. It now places greater faith in civic than political solidarity.’
David Trotter on Ken Loach and ‘Kes’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on Ken Loach and ‘Kes’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter · Don’t go quietly: Ken Loach’s Fables
It's largely thanks to Loach's example that social realism remains a potent and versatile cultural resource for young...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
‘As the heroic age of trade-union militancy recedes, so the emphasis of his work has shifted once again. It now places greater faith in civic than political solidarity.’
David Trotter on Ken Loach and ‘Kes’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on Ken Loach and ‘Kes’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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If Kevin Spacey wasn’t such an odious individual, would House of Cards be in the same conversation as Sopranos, Wire, Mad Men etc?
February 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If Kevin Spacey wasn’t such an odious individual, would House of Cards be in the same conversation as Sopranos, Wire, Mad Men etc?
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‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise
Rising sea levels driven by the climate crisis will overwhelm many of the world’s biggest oil ports, analysis indicates.
Scientists said the threat…
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows