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MacKenzie Scott could do the funniest thing right now...just build a competing newspaper with everyone fired. The Ex Post.

A dam uncovered in Jeusalem reveals an ancient climate crisis and a brilliant solution Archaeological Discoveries in Jerusalem Offer New Insight Into the Prolonged Drought That Once Struck the City, and the Creative Ways Its Residents Responded

As someone once observed, there is nothing new under the sun: www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

#auspol #climatecrisis #ourABC

People of DC, more than two weeks into being totally iced in, now get news of measles spread—brought in by Right to Life marchers.

Looking for people exposed on the Metro, at DCA, at Children's Hospital, on Amtrak.

Gee, thanks, RFKJr et al.

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Screenshot from BCCDC.ca: "In general, washing your hands well and not sharing food, drinks, utensils, etc. can help prevent the spread of measles and other infectious diseases."

Alberta Health Services measles Q&A. Highlighted portion: "As an airborne virus, mealses is spread from person to person through the air. Measles virus can survive up to 2 hours in the air even after the contagious person has left the space. Measles virus can also be spread through breathing, singing, yelling, coughing, and sneezing."

"Health Minister" Josie Osborne urges parents to get vaccinated but will not require proof of vaccination for school attendance.

BCCDC is now recommending hand-washing for the prevention of measles, a notoriously airborne virus. Screenshots from @dragginfly.bsky.social on Twitter.

Pope John Paul II, Baby Doc, and Haiti's "Little Church"--February 2026 duvalier/social justice/catholic church/liberation theology/aristide

Pope John Paul II, Baby Doc, and Haiti's "Little Church"--February 2026 open.substack.com/pub/johnacar... @crof.bsky.social

We wanted to know how Latino voters felt about Bad Bunny's criticism of ICE. So we talked to three white centrist podcasters at a Le Pain Quotidien in Dupont Ciricle.

Bad Bunny delivers a heartfelt homage to Puerto Rico on the halftime stage | CBC News The 31-year-old Puerto Rican superstar took to an elaborate set depicting his home island’s landscape on Saturday night, delivering a high-energy performance filled with hit tracks.

🪶🙌🏽 #BadBunny www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

The backlash to Bad Bunny’s halftime show reveals how MAGA defines who belongs in America The reaction to Bad Bunny’s selection as the Super Bowl halftime performer reveals how MAGA politics continues to police language, race and belonging in America.

The backlash to Bad Bunny’s halftime show reveals how MAGA defines who belongs in America
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Why corporate America is mostly staying quiet as federal immigration agents show up at its doors Federal immigration raids in Minnesota prompted a social backlash. But the business community is largely hedging its bets due to a changed political calculus.

Why corporate America is mostly staying quiet as federal immigration agents show up at its doors
theconversation.com/why-corporat...

Will a ‘Trump slump’ continue to hit US tourism in 2026 − and even keep World Cup fans away? Talk of boycotts have added to fears among the US tourism industry that foreign tourists will continue to stay away.

Will a ‘Trump slump’ continue to hit US tourism in 2026 − and even keep World Cup fans away?
theconversation.com/will-a-trump...

US experiencing largest measles outbreak since 2000 – 5 essential reads on the risks, what to do and what’s coming next Public health scholars worry that the resurgence of measles may signal a coming wave of other vaccine-preventable diseases.

US experiencing largest measles outbreak since 2000 – 5 essential reads on the risks, what to do and what’s coming next
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Opinion: The opioid crisis is hitting skilled Canadian tradespeople. Now’s our chance to support them Carpenters, roofers and plumbers are at higher risk of developing substance use disorders

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

A Startling Account of Migrant Workers in Canada | The Tyee ‘The portrait that it paints is extremely unflattering,’ says Calgary author Marcello Di Cintio of ‘Precarious,’ his new book.

A Startling Account of Migrant Workers in Canada
‘The portrait that it paints is extremely unflattering,’ says Calgary author Marcello Di Cintio of ‘Precarious,’ his new book.
thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

THIS IS THE TRUMP-PUTIN STRATEGY FOR UKRAINE
C’mon CONGRESS get involved

Reminder that children, elders and immunocompromised folks etc implicated by their bringing this plague to DC certainly don’t have a fucking choice about this at all.

“Sure, I may have created non-consensual nudes of women and full-on CSAM, but at least I never sent an email on Christmas Day begging for an invitation to Epstein Island.”

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LDP secures supermajority in Lower House election victory | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis Voters overwhelmingly gave a mandate to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Feb. 8, sending her Liberal Democratic Party to its most resounding Lower House election victory since its founding in 1955.

Japan: www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Dr. Stephen Osei-Osafo has recently relocated to Surrey, B.C., where he hopes to treat patients over the long-term.

This U.K. doctor felt he could better care for patients in Canada. So, he moved to B.C. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/u-k-doctor-osei-osafo-canada-move-9.7076170

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Seattle Seahawks: Tribal origins of NFL logo links fans to indigenous roots The Super Bowl team's logo originates with a First Nations tribe in Canada.

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He played Putin and broke NATO in three days. Alexander Gabuev, the scholar behind an alarming wargame, tells Meduza how he did it. — Meduza Last December, the newspaper Die Welt partnered with military researchers at Helmut Schmidt University to simulate a Russian invasion of NATO. The exercise involved 16 participants, including security...

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Israel to expand law enforcement in Palestinian-controlled West Bank areas The Decision, Expected to Take Effect in Areas of the West Bank Under Palestinian Authority Control, Will Include Prohibitions on Water Violations, Damage to Archaeological Sites and Environmental Haz...

www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

The risk of nuclear war is rising again. We need a new movement for global peace | David Cortright With the end of the New Start treaty, we face a potentially catastrophic arms race. It can still be prevented

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Canada is no stranger to separatism but push for Alberta to join US is a new peril While Quebec parties have long sought independence, the secret meetings by unelected Albertans with US officials have been branded treasonous by some

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...