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Philip Gourevitch
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Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
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They're actively encouraging lawlessness by arresting people who follow the rules so they can call others who try to avoid this outcome criminals
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”

Now Trump set him free.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If we had an opposition party it could really work with this GOP fetish for springing super villains:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is some good fun.
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bad scandal but a molehill compared to the mountains of corruption scandals in Washington that are engulfing him and so much of the world.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:

-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor

Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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There is hope for the future
There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The European Union is considering proposals that would make much greater use of Russia’s immobilized reserves to finance Ukraine. A decision could come in December, when the European Council meets.

Read analysis by Brad Setser, an expert on global trade and capital flows:
www.cfr.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.

New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I was waiting to use a bathroom in India and the only other person waiting was an amazing looking man who after a moment of standing silently beside me turned and extended his hand and said, “I’m Tom.”
That is my Tom Stoppard story.
RIP maestro
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I was waiting to use a bathroom in India and the only other person waiting was an amazing looking man who after a moment of standing silently beside me turned and extended his hand and said, “I’m Tom.”
That is my Tim Stoppard story.
RIP maestro
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group , which operates the president’s Truth Social platform, have tumbled 75% since Trump’s inauguration. Digital “meme coins” named for Trump and first lady Melania Trump are down 86% and 99% since Inauguration Day… etc.

www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Since Trump’s Return, Bets on His Brand Have Soured
Stocks and cryptocurrencies tied to the president and his family have tumbled amid a broader rout of riskier assets.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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NEW: As President Trump increases pressure on Colorado Governor Polis to free Tina Peters, a close ally of Peters is calling for Gov Polis and Attorney General Weiser to be executed.

MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann called for the execution of several Colorado Democrats by name.
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
While Ukraine purges its corruption the White House inflicts its corruption on an exponentially more criminal and world crippling scale.
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
yet again imitation as tribute
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This is great to hear, and I hope encouraging to other institutions
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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“I think you’re in my seat”
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie

reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.

“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Elephants need more space than zoos can provide.

So where should they go?

Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary is about to launch in Portugal, promising a place that the elephants can live out their final years with space and companionship www.ft.com/content/060a...
Meet Portugal’s newest retirees: elephants
Without space to roam, the world’s biggest land animals do not thrive — so what should happen to those in Europe’s zoos? One sanctuary has an answer
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM