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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

Habits are hard to break.
Here's Maine's Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner, palling around with more antisemitic and Holocaust-denying types after removing his Nazi tattoo. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 03:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump administration's embattled FDA vaccine chief is leaving for the second time The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency.

Moderna 1, Prasad 0
apnews.com/article/vina...

07.03.2026 03:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wait, who’s he saying was the leak?

07.03.2026 03:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i first thought he was saying his boss was the leak.

07.03.2026 02:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that last sentence makes me think the NYT knows he’s on the one-way back to SFO soon.

07.03.2026 01:57 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Barry Blitt’s “War-a-Lago” — The New Yorker No Nobel Peace Prize in sight.

apple.news/AM5HKkiD5SYq...

06.03.2026 17:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is beautiful. And the message of :Put the Message in the Box" couldn't be more relevant today, Thanks. Onto "Stones in the Road" now ...

06.03.2026 16:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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> @javierblas.bsky.social @bloomberg.com

06.03.2026 11:40 👍 660 🔁 238 💬 49 📌 11

that last line.

06.03.2026 06:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

does he have a weighted coat, some call it a thunder coat?
is he better if you just leave the leash on when he’s inside, even if he just drags it around?

06.03.2026 03:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

This isn’t just impeachable, this is criminal negligence and in a just society everyone involved (including the weapons officer who released the munitions) should face prison. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

06.03.2026 03:42 👍 74 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 2
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Haitian man living in Boston dies in ICE custody, family says - The Boston Globe Emmanuel Damas died Monday from an untreated tooth infection, his brother said.

Now at least 10 people. He has been living in Boston, legally seeking asylum, in the system, when he was hauled off and flown halfway across the country.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died of an untreated tooth infection, his brother said.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/m...

06.03.2026 01:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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"Dear Theodosia" from Hamilton - Ben Folds & Regina Spektor with the NSO | The Kennedy Center
"Dear Theodosia" from Hamilton - Ben Folds & Regina Spektor with the NSO | The Kennedy Center YouTube video by The Trump Kennedy Center

Take a minute to see this performance.
Before they changed the name of their center and now are going to close it, great stuff from the National Symphony happened here, like this version of "Hey Theodosia" with Regina Spektor and Ben Folds www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIlJ...

05.03.2026 22:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

he’s always had trouble on that point.

05.03.2026 21:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

04.03.2026 20:02 👍 1991 🔁 679 💬 45 📌 42
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Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffer...

NEW: Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts, Internal Agency Records Show www.propublica.org/article/kris...

04.03.2026 15:17 👍 386 🔁 109 💬 24 📌 15

if you are thinking of buying Nike …

03.03.2026 16:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I hope reporters are checking out the “it’s all in God’s plan” part.

03.03.2026 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cheryl Mills, via Wikipedia

03.03.2026 14:27 👍 131 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0

When you say you ate the lunch I packed for you, do you assume i’m also asking about the peanut butter stuffed celery sticks?

03.03.2026 14:22 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

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Military officials question fortifications at site where U.S. troops were killed in Iranian strike The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, sources told CBS News.

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

03.03.2026 05:17 👍 1023 🔁 489 💬 60 📌 74
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Retail gasoline prices were up $0.11/gallon yesterday. Will probably make this a thread until it settles down:

03.03.2026 11:34 👍 131 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 1

May 19 can’t come soon enough. Will we have more information by then on liars taking advantage of “end times” fears and inside info to make money on prediction markets?

03.03.2026 11:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thanks for this. i hope charlatans aren’t making this tendency a self-fulfilling prophecy while profiting from inside knowledge on “prediction markets” at the same time. (See: Epstein/Brexit)

03.03.2026 11:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

+ “end times”

03.03.2026 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#iran | Jason Rezaian When it comes to #Iran coverage, more than one thing can be true at the same time. Sign up for my newsletter The Washington Post https://lnkd.in/eKVpuKQz

A call for understanding and smart reporting of Iran, from a reporter who had been imprisoned by the Iranian regime just for doing his job. www.linkedin.com/posts/jason-...

03.03.2026 10:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Live Updates: Iran Escalates Retaliatory Strikes as U.S. Signals Long Battle

His popularity plunging, Trump has plunged the U.S. into its most expansive war in 23 years. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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