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You should all be using…

“Remove Paywall - Free online paywall remover.”

It works on Bloomberg, FT, WSJ, WaPo, NYT, etc, damn near every site you can think of.

There’s a browser extension for desktop, and there’s even a *mobile*-browser-shortcut thing:

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torrleonard.bsky.social
“Other shootings were reported at two Mississippi universities on Saturday, as those schools celebrated their homecoming weekends.”
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“The shooting, which came as people celebrated homecoming weekend in downtown Leland shortly after a high school football game,

was the deadliest of *several* shootings across Mississippi over the weekend.”
apnews.com
Three people have been arrested on murder charges and a fourth person on an attempted murder charge following a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a Mississippi Delta town, the FBI announced Monday.
4 arrests made in connection with mass shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says
The FBI says four people have been arrested in connection with the mass shooting that left six killed and more than a dozen injured over the weekend in a Mississippi Delta town.
bit.ly
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tbradleywrites.bsky.social
Let's revive the lost art of the Cast of Characters, listed after the title page.
Cast of Characters from The Moving Target by Ross-Macdonald (April 1959, third printing by Pocket-Books). Image stolen from Crime Reads.
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
WHCA where u at?
brianstelter.bsky.social
Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.
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victorerikray.bsky.social
If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.
robertkelchen.com
After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.
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torrleonard.bsky.social
This is, perhaps, the most accurate map of all time. I love it.
williamhazen.bsky.social
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
Cultural Regions of the US
torrleonard.bsky.social
“The US this summer abolished its “de minimis” exemption, which allowed goods worth less than $800 to skip import duty, to limit the rise of Temu and Shein, while the UK chancellor has said she is reviewing a similar loophole.”
torrleonard.bsky.social
“China’s Temu more than doubles EU profits to nearly $120m despite having only eight staff -

The rise in sales comes before moves by the EU to close a loophole that allows packages worth less than €150 (£130) to avoid customs duty and some border checks.”

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
China’s Temu more than doubles EU profits to nearly $120m despite having only eight staff
Online marketplace paid just $18m in corporation tax, leading campaigners to call for government action
www.theguardian.com
torrleonard.bsky.social
“The Nexperia takeover, which sparked speculation about possible Chinese countermeasures aimed at Dutch firms, is an “escalation of an existing trend,” with governments pressuring companies to unravel assets deemed geopolitical risks.”

www.ft.com/content/3411...
Dutch courage on Nexperia heralds more unravelling of deals
In future, international buyers may demand discounts to at least partially compensate for risk of forced divestments
www.ft.com
torrleonard.bsky.social
“Wingtech is already on a US blacklist amid broader pressure aimed at curbing Beijing’s tech advances.”
torrleonard.bsky.social
Sending them to the Colorado prison, she said, “will ensure that they spend the remainder of their lives in conditions consistent with the egregious crimes they committed.”
torrleonard.bsky.social
“President Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of these monsters showed abhorrent disregard for our justice system and total disrespect for victims’ families already suffering through immense loss,” Bondi said in September.
torrleonard.bsky.social
"There are two arguments:

After juries found the 37 inmates deserving of death, shouldn’t they suffer the harshest treatment short of execution?

Or, is it unjust to make their conditions worse than those of other murderers serving life without parole?"
torrleonard.bsky.social
"While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear."
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Reitz, who left the Trump administration to run for Texas attorney general, said in an interview, “If you’re not going to be killed lawfully at the hands of the state, well, your prison sentence is going to be hard as hell.”
torrleonard.bsky.social
He suggested that prison food was too good for these men.

“I’ve got no problem with gruel,” he said.

“If made right, it’s a nutritious all-in-one meal.”
torrleonard.bsky.social
Aaron Reitz, then an assistant attorney general, led a roundtable with the families and said he was disappointed that the cells “have windows to see daylight.”
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"At a meeting in May with Attorney General Pam Bondi for families of loved ones killed by the 37 convicts, some officials said they wished conditions at the prison, known as ADX, were even worse."
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"Inmates at the Colorado prison—intended for the nation’s most violent—typically spend 23 hours a day alone in their cells."
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"officials canceled plans to transfer most of the inmates to mainline prisons. Instead, Bove, the acting deputy attorney general at the time, ordered all but a handful requiring specialized medical treatment be housed in US Penitentiary at Florence, CO, the harshest institution in the federal system
torrleonard.bsky.social
"Among Biden’s last actions before leaving Oval Office was commuting the death sentences of 37 convicted murderers.

Hours after Trump took over, he ordered the life sentences of these men be made, in effect, a living hell by sending most of them to the federal prison that’s known as US's harshest."
Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.
Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”
www.wsj.com
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"Taiwan is increasing energy storage and reconsidering nuclear power, while the U.S. considers legislation to secure American LNG supplies to Taiwan."