Damakant Jayshi

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

The chat among younger Republicans...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
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UK now recognises Palestinian state, Starmer announces - live updates Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu previously said the move

UK recognises Palestinian state

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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

The "border czar"
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She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it. Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove “improper ideology” from Washington’s most important cultural institution?

More here (via Paul Farhi): www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

President Trump publicly asking Attorney General Bondi to go after his political enemies because they "impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!)". Trump is pushing for Lindsey Halligan, the lawyer tasked with finding "improper ideology" from Smithsonian and remove it.

Nepal orders ban on major social media platforms - Committee to Protect Journalists New Delhi, September 4, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists warns that the Nepali government’s decision to block access to social media platforms across the country will seriously hinder journal...

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CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States

Updates on the pharmacy vaccine situation today: CVS is now requiring a prescription in 13 states and not offering shots at all in three others; Walgreens appears to be requiring prescriptions in 16 states, but not all the same ones as CVS. The lists of states are in the article. Gift link:

Cricket must be played by the rules, not Stokes' moral code England's conduct in the last hour of the Manchester Test came across as moral posturing, and it's regrettable that it came on the watch of an otherwise great ambassador for the game

Cricket must be played by the rules, not Stokes' moral code
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Any team in that position would bat, not just to ensure a hard-fought draw but also to allow their batters to reach their milestones.

Oooo Stokes and England players unhappy that Indian batters close to their centurieswant to continue bat! What a sense of entitlement! (Jadeja just his hundred).
I really hopeIndia bat until the last over!
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Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

Nepal's Test cricket dream: 'Cardiac kids' want to play five-day format Nepal cricket officials outline their intention to play Test cricket in the future and are

Nepal 'climbing Everest' for Test dream
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Trump extends TikTok deadline.
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Trump orders Justice Department to investigate Democrats' top fundraising platform President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate the Democratic Party’s top fundraising platform.

So what will stop a Democratic president from going after WinRed?
Trump orders Justice Department to investigate Democrats' top fundraising platform, ActBlue
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100+ Global Journalism Leaders Urge China to Free Journalist Dong Yuyu WASHINGTON, April 23 — Today, more than 100 prominent figures from the global journalism and media community released an open letter in support of Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu, calling for his immedia...

100+ Global Journalism Leaders Urge China to Free Journalist Dong Yuyu
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Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution aren't only being read in classrooms these days.

Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions
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As international tourists pull back on U.S. travel and purchases, $90 billion in lost revenue looms Visits from Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom have seen particularly significant declines.

As international tourists pull back on U.S. travel and purchases, $90 billion in lost revenue looms

Visits from Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom have seen particularly significant. declines.
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The impact of U.S. aid cut is beginning to emerge.

Trump’s aid cuts hit the hungry in a city of shellfire and starvation.
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Melinda French Gates on rise of billionaires in politics: ‘I think we are seeing some of their true personalities come out’ | CNN Business American billionaires are famously trying to get in to President Donald Trump’s good graces. Tech billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg were seated prominently at the inaugura...

Regarding the wealthy people who have entered positions of power in the US in an interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip, Melinda French Gates said, “I think we are seeing some of their true personalities come out in the last few years. I think this has always been in the undertone of lots of people.”

JUST IN: Hongkong Post, the postal service in the semi-autonomous Chinese city, has suspended postal service to the US after President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes. cnn.it/3RiYxF6

Shell Games A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in ...

My first book was published 15 years ago this week.

Unbelievable. Time just keeps spinning, doesn’t it? www.harpercollins.com/products/she...

Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article) The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.

Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa

America the victim: Trump's tariffs reveal how he sees the world Trump's personal victim complex has powered much of its political career. Now it's going global.

(The tariff) includes Lesotho, a tiny African nation where most people are too poor to import American goods, and which is now facing an existential crisis because of Trump's 50% tariff.
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Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
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"Trade war with penguins": Trump places 10% tariff on uninhabited Antarctic islands

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How did the U.S. arrive at its tariff figures? The White House Wednesday listed tariff rates for different countries. It didn't take long for market observers to try and reverse engineer the formula.

‘The U.S. also appeared to have applied a 10% levy for regions where it is running a trade surplus.’
How did the U.S arrive at its tariff figures?
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तीनकुनेमा भएको आन्दोलन कि देशद्रोह? यसपटक कोरा हिंसा भड्काएर ज्ञानेन्द्र शाहले आफ्नो खुट्टामा आफै बञ्चरो हानेका छन्। उनलाई कानुनको दायरामा नल्याउने र महाराजाधिराज भनेर फुर्क्याइरहने हो भने देशको राजनीति थप धमिलो बन्नेछ।

Royalists' rally a movement or treason, asks @sanpokh.bsky.social
तीनकुनेमा भएको आन्दोलन कि देशद्रोह?
पञ्च, मण्डलेका छोटामोटा नेतालाई कानुनी कारबाहीको भागी बनाउने कुरा त ठिक छ, तर ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह कानुनभन्दा माथि कसरी भए? उनलाई कानुन किन नलाग्ने? यो सब बितण्डामा प्रमुख भूमिका उनकै हो।
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Hold on, so Steve Witkoff was participating in the Signal group discussing war plans against Houthis while being physically in Moscow, perhaps even in the Kremlin? He met Putin late on March 13. Obviously the odds of Russia not compromising any device he would bring there are pretty slim.

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
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A 4-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola in Uganda as U.S. Pulls Back on Help (Gift Article) The Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five contracts with organizations that helped manage the outbreak in Uganda.

SCOOP: The Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which had seemed to be in retreat, has claimed a new victim: a four-year-old boy who died on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by The New York Times.

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