Kyle Cooke

Must-win game for the Hokies and they get dog walked at home by a sub-.500 team.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the Mike Young era.

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

"Since late July, more than a dozen pregnant minors have been placed at the Texas facility, which is located in the small border city of San Benito. Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."
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Thinking about the time NPR’s CEO apologized to members of Congress for calling Trump racist

How Much Longer Can The Politics Of Grievance Sustain Itself? | Defector I started reading James Baldwin in college, as a politically curious renegade-in-training. What appealed to me was his deeply philosophical outlook on race in America, the beauty of his prose, and how...

"The internet is full of cynicism and nihilism, so it's no surprise that the ideology that best represents the internet would be so devoid of anything affirmative."
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Help us save The Washington Post Hundreds of workers at The Washington Post stand to lose their jobs in layoffs, which could render The Post unrecognizable amid some of the most severe staff cuts the newspaper has ever seen. The Po...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter to save The Washington Post. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/save...

Incredible stuff as always

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

The men who killed Alex Pretti have a combined 20 years of experience at CBP

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“The majority of the dead were women and children, the Gaza Health Ministry said.”

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

you can't really prepare for how much they caught the giants owner sending emails that like "yes, i would LOVE it if you did sex trafficking for me! 😀 sounds fun! i am glad we are sex trafficking friends now"

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Thinking about the time the Washington post endorsed Pam Bondi

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

A truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.

After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss came in with a mandate to reshape coverage. She is set to announce plans for newsroom cuts and the hiring of many new commentators.

Tell me how replacing actual reporters with commentators is supposed to "restore trust" or whatever bullshit Weiss has said her job is.
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.

“The agreement called for sharing Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to the filing.”

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Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)

Louisiana SoS Nancy Landry did tell WBRZ "I suppose there is some scenario where we wouldn't" use 2024's maps, but didn't want to speculate:https://www.wbrz.com/news/state-leaders-say-no-changes-to-maps-as-scotus-silence-continues-in-louisiana-v-callais

I haven't found one other outlet reporting this news.

Election folks — @mcpli.bsky.social @taniel.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social slash anyone else — is this premature?

Hard to imagine Louisiana wouldn't try to redistrict if SCOTUS issues a Callais decision Friday.

Scientists celebrate NCAR’s achievements, from averted plane crashes to groundbreaking forecast models | Rocky Mountain PBS The Trump administration wants to break up NCAR, whose research has proved life-saving.

The reason microbursts don’t crash passenger planes anymore is because of NCAR scientists.

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Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?

She has a point. The public knows about the prison abuse, which is why 60 Minutes instead ran a story last night about Mount Everest, which has never been covered before

Really one of the best ever

So good

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Some photos of Haitians running in the streets. There's smoke in the background. It looks like political disorder.

A Haitian man stands next to a wall with some barbed wire behind him. The original Magnum caption said the man felt Haiti was a prison and he dreamed of making it to the United States. He wanted to be a rapper.

Some men take a break from building a boat.

A boat sets sail far off into the distance.

A story I found about Haiti:

In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Unhinged to describe the criticism of her journalistic ethics as a "freaksome lynching" when she has not denied any of the allegations and admits to most of them in her book.