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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.

After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

No excuses please for Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad from their enablers in the medical profession. These men have decided it is good for their careers to tank the vaccine market. What evil, evil little men.
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Rubio kindly suggests replacing Western values with American interests Everybody is discussing Rubio's speech, and nobody is discussing any European's speech.

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Same here

No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

Gift article. Philadelphia Inquirer is well worth subscribing to.

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A Daily Mail news headline asking if Andrew will become the first royal to go to prison.

Oh, Daily Mail, never let history get in the way of a dramatic headline.
“Will Andrew become the first royal to go to prison?”
The Tower of London would like a word.

Ritter poses with her hand at her throat.

Remembering Thelma Ritter on her birthday 🎂
📷 Erich Hartmann, 1961

"She was never properly publicly recognized as an actress. She was a character actress, which means only that they don’t write any starring parts for middle-aged women."
- Paddy Chayefsky

Six Oscar noms & a Tony, though, Paddy!

A photo of Frodo speaking with Gandalf in the Mines of Moria: "I wish it had not happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But the Dow is over 50,000."

💥Dramatic turn in Hungary’s election race: Orbán rival Péter Magyar says that in 2024 his ex-girlfriend set a honey trap to secretly record them having sex—footage he claims Orbán’s camp plans to publish to ruin and blackmail him.

Magyar currently holds a big lead in the polls. Election in 59 days.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Ha ha

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I agree with the WHO’s Director General

The study PIs should IMHO engage with the actual criticisms of their proposed RFK Jr-funded study, instead of mounting a campaign to defend it & calling its critics (👋) silly names

Call lies lies. Call murder murder. Call fascism fascism. Name reality.

I loved the Post.

THE EPSTEIN CLASS

are…uhh…are we the penis?

Your Bluesky experience will be immensely improved simply by browsing Will Stancil’s replies and blocking everybody being a freak. This takes out like 90 percent of the shittiest people on the site and makes everything better.

/3 Bad Bunny is an American citizen, but he could have been born on Plymouth Fucking Rock and he would still fall on the “immigrant” side of the “immigration divide” to Trump and his WaPo toadies.

Washington Post CEO Quits After Cuts That Led to Bezos Backlash Washington Post Chief Executive Officer Will Lewis resigned, days after the newspaper laid off several hundred staffers in a move that triggered a backlash against billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post Chief Executive Officer Will Lewis resigned, days after the newspaper laid off several hundred staffers in a move that triggered a backlash against billionaire owner Jeff Bezos

Jack Lang démissionne de la présidence de l’Institut du monde arabe L’ancien ministre était acculé après les révélations de Mediapart sur ses liens financiers et d’intérêts avec Jeffrey Epstein. Il a annoncé sa démission au lendemain de l’ouverture par le Parquet national financier d’une enquête pour blanchiment de fraude fiscale aggravée le visant lui et sa fille, Caroline Lang.  

Jack Lang démissionne de la présidence de l’Institut du monde arabe

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What‘s a little MERS between friends..

Wow

Anyone shocked by Trump sending out a horribly racist tweet has not been paying attention to anything for, I dont know, the last 10 years....

We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown The abuse of women by figures such as Epstein, and of political power by the likes of Mandelson, must be confronted. As far as I am able, I will play my part, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brow...

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🦓 Where are the zebras?! After zebras roaming near Viktor Orbán’s lavish family estate became a political liability, the exotic animals suddenly disappeared. Grim rumors say they were hunted down or killed, while their names are missing from official registries, opposition MP Ákos Hadházy claims.

Zelensky warns of 'risk' US, Russia could strike bilateral deals on Ukraine without Kyiv "We clearly state that Ukraine will not support even potential agreements about us without us," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

⚡️Zelensky says Russia presented $12 trillion economic plan to US, called 'Dmitriev package.'

President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as a proposed framework for large-scale U.S.-Russia economic cooperation.