Arieh Kovler
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Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. [email protected]. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
It feels like what you'd get if all the shittest factions from NUS conferences 1985-2015 all formed a political party. And that's because it actually is a party formed by all the shittiest factions from NUS conference.
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
“End The Witch-hunt”: The First 24 Hours At The Chaotic ‘Your Party’ Conference
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural conference of ‘Your Party’, the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Su...
www.politicshome.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It feels like what you'd get if all the shittest factions from NUS conferences 1985-2015 all formed a political party. And that's because it actually is a party formed by all the shittiest factions from NUS conference.
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The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...
Fwiw it gets its bible wrong. God doesn't "describe Himself in the Bible using "ezer kenegdo"" as the essay states. At various points in the Bible, God is described as an "Ezer" by other people, usually in Biblical poetry that praises God. God is not described as an "ezer kenegdo".
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fwiw it gets its bible wrong. God doesn't "describe Himself in the Bible using "ezer kenegdo"" as the essay states. At various points in the Bible, God is described as an "Ezer" by other people, usually in Biblical poetry that praises God. God is not described as an "ezer kenegdo".
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
I literally found out about this from Israeli news, which at carried it on their ticker, but then I couldn't find the story on major US outlets.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I literally found out about this from Israeli news, which at carried it on their ticker, but then I couldn't find the story on major US outlets.
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Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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A proportion of the British media has for the best part of a decade or more yearned for a Joe The Plumber moment and has *repeatedly* tried to manufacture such a figure. Who remembers White Van Dan and his Danifesto?
Also, why the fuck is it news? It’s just the opinion of one member of the public, with no special insight into anything.
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A proportion of the British media has for the best part of a decade or more yearned for a Joe The Plumber moment and has *repeatedly* tried to manufacture such a figure. Who remembers White Van Dan and his Danifesto?
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If anything the person that comes the closest to actually performing the duties of President is... Stephen Miller
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If anything the person that comes the closest to actually performing the duties of President is... Stephen Miller
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
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Ha!
1888 NYTimes archive logs a meeting of the Pilgrim Society in Plymouth Mass
They were building their lore even then.
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
1888 NYTimes archive logs a meeting of the Pilgrim Society in Plymouth Mass
They were building their lore even then.
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
THE PILGRIM SOCIETY.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., May 28.--The annual meeting of the Pilgrim Society was held in Pilgrim Hall to-day. In the absence of President John D. Long Daniel E. Lee occupied the chair.
timesmachine.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ha!
1888 NYTimes archive logs a meeting of the Pilgrim Society in Plymouth Mass
They were building their lore even then.
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
1888 NYTimes archive logs a meeting of the Pilgrim Society in Plymouth Mass
They were building their lore even then.
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...
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Well between the 1741 preacher who made a big thing about Plymouth and the building placed around it in 1920….i am reading official NYTimes stories about Thanksgiving and pilgrims and turkeys that go waaaay back
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/u...
If Not First in Time, First in the Country’s Heart (Published 2007)
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Well between the 1741 preacher who made a big thing about Plymouth and the building placed around it in 1920….i am reading official NYTimes stories about Thanksgiving and pilgrims and turkeys that go waaaay back
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/u...
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I was a 1st grader in 1962 and there seemed to be a well-established curriculum around Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims, so if JFK was the first to mention Plymouth we was still building off well-established lore...
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I was a 1st grader in 1962 and there seemed to be a well-established curriculum around Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims, so if JFK was the first to mention Plymouth we was still building off well-established lore...
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Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
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Quick, they can’t have gotten far
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Quick, they can’t have gotten far
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42=6x7
Coincidence? I think NOT
Coincidence? I think NOT
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
42=6x7
Coincidence? I think NOT
Coincidence? I think NOT
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Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
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The first time a Presidential Thanksgiving proclamation mentioned the Plymouth colony as being the source of Thanksgiving was JFK's 1962 proclamation. First mentions of the 'pilgrims' at all are by Truman, became a theme under Eisenhower.
November 28, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The first time a Presidential Thanksgiving proclamation mentioned the Plymouth colony as being the source of Thanksgiving was JFK's 1962 proclamation. First mentions of the 'pilgrims' at all are by Truman, became a theme under Eisenhower.
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For software developers: there's currently a highly sophisticated hacking group targeting developers with backdoored coding skills tests. They typically take the form of large source codes specific to your skillset. Please email any suspicious code to me on: [email protected]
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November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For software developers: there's currently a highly sophisticated hacking group targeting developers with backdoored coding skills tests. They typically take the form of large source codes specific to your skillset. Please email any suspicious code to me on: [email protected]
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I just can't tell you how full of rage this whole story makes me. He told them repeatedly that he was filled with horror by museums retaining body parts and he taught them how to do the Yahi cremation-and-burial rituals so it would be done properly.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
just realised I have spent Thanksgiving day recording a programme about Ishi, known at the time as 'the last wild Indian', the last surviving member of the Yahi group of Yana Native American people, who were murdered in the Californian genocide of Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I just can't tell you how full of rage this whole story makes me. He told them repeatedly that he was filled with horror by museums retaining body parts and he taught them how to do the Yahi cremation-and-burial rituals so it would be done properly.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
They removed and stored his fucking brain.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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I don't think this (or Trump's Charlie Kirk resolute desk remarks) are full-on AI-Generated, but I do wonder if there's been a LOT of post-production, whether via GenAI or more traditional methods, to hide edits and improve his tone and pace, cut out flubs etc. It just feels a little... off?
White House pooler S.V. Daté releases a statement about President Trump's video on the DC shooting not NOT saying it was AI-generated
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
(VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...)
November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I don't think this (or Trump's Charlie Kirk resolute desk remarks) are full-on AI-Generated, but I do wonder if there's been a LOT of post-production, whether via GenAI or more traditional methods, to hide edits and improve his tone and pace, cut out flubs etc. It just feels a little... off?
Two turkey legs and a breast dry-brined and grilled with a little smoke, one breast sous-vide at 63C. And my American wife doesn't even like turkey.
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Two turkey legs and a breast dry-brined and grilled with a little smoke, one breast sous-vide at 63C. And my American wife doesn't even like turkey.