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Jock Rutherford
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An IT Professional with interests in economics, science, history and technology. Guelph, Ontario.
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“the trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts”
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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The New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine | Documentary films | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/06/the-new-yorker-at-100-netflix-documentary
The New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine
Film-maker Marshall Curry pulls back the curtain on the beloved institution in a revealing and celebratory new film
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Do we have to read this again? Wait a minute it says a lot of things in here about coordination with allies and mutual relationships and that we don't own everything in this space but according to the NSS, whatevs.
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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There is trolling, and there is whatever grandious name we should give to this:
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Has any police chief anywhere issued an order like this yet?
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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John Drysdale
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted | Tom's Hardware […]
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December 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Sure I’d seen the FIFA Peace Prize before.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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FIFA honoring Trump feels like the only award he’s actually earned, its a professional association for corrupt people. its like a doctor getting an outstanding service award from a medical association
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Decades-old study on common weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Frank Gehry: Legendary US architect dies aged 96

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y2p22z9gno
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM