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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
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The repulsive David Miller

Hamas are Zionists now

That’s literally why any country has nukes, as a deterrent.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

In defence of digital ID In the late 1930s, a Dutch civil servant, Jacobus Lentz, designed a near-unforgeable identity card. In 1940, the Dutch government rejected his proposal as too intrusive. Weeks later, Germany occupi…

In defence of digital ID.

By Tim Harford

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She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.

This is kind of a CAPTCHA for AI

Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

A great, glorious and lasting peace Trump's ceasefire plan has deteriorated into a quagmire with no way out.

The sad state of the Gaza "ceasefire".

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How The West Was Lost China spent decades laying its rare earths trap. Then Donald Trump blundered straight into it. Now there is no way out. Some thoughts on how we got here, and what happens next

How China laid the Rare Earths Trap, and the West blundered into it.

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British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

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Incredible to hear Russell's voice. And important to note that from the very beginning, some people on the left recognised the sadism and intellectual poverty of Bolshevism.

What did Reagan really say about tariffs?

Seems like an important detail

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

Today, it rains only on you No, you're not depressed. You're just British.

Masterful writing from Ian Dunt on the seasons.

He’s right. Spring is the best.

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So much for the idea that the US has supported the Ukrainian long range strike campaign.

Andrew Fox has never claimed to be Jewish, and he has military experience & expertise entirely relevant to analysing the Gaza war.

Andrew Fox has never claimed to be Jewish, and he has military experience & expertise entirely relevant to analysing the Gaza war (unlike, for example, Owen Jones).

Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

It was always BS that Trump was going to help Ukraine with Tomahawks (or anything else).

To the world's press & politicians, FFS, stop making the same error over & over again.

Fool me once: shame on you
Fool me thirty times and counting: shame on me

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No, America Is Not Experiencing Fascism. Yes, You Should Still Worry A response to Niall Ferguson.

“No, America Is Not Experiencing Fascism. Yes, You Should Still Worry: A response to Niall Ferguson”

By Roger Partridge

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Doris Lessing shows how to react to getting a Nobel Prize

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!