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Justin Ling
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Uh-oh!!!!!!! Journalist @thestar.com, @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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I was under the impression that this was for a new story. But, no, this is around the story from

I still find this whole article kind of bewildering, but it's worth noting that her response to that question ended up being core to the piece! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...
Last month, the advocacy group StopAntisemitism labeled Accurso the “Antisemite of the Week” and, The New York Post reported, sent a letter urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving funding to further Hamas’s agenda. Accurso “posted nearly 50 times about the children of Gaza, most of which is filled with misinformation from Hamas, and only 5 times about Israeli children,” the group, which monitors statements about Israel on social media accounts of prominent figures, said on its website. “In the case of the Israeli children, she only posted due to widespread public backlash, never condemning Hamas and the Palestinians.” Accurso, 42, in an emailed response denied having received money from Hamas. “This accusation is not only absurd, it’s patently false,” she said. Accurso said: “The reason I post about Israeli children is because I care deeply about them. The accusation that I would be doing it for any other reason is outrageous and wrong.” “I’ve spent my life committed to the learning and well-being of children,” she added. “I have always believed that safety and security are a basic human right for every child — so you see, caring about children in Gaza is a direct continuation of the work I’ve been doing most of my life. We don’t care about only some of our students because of where those students were born, we care about every one of them.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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and what do you call your act

The Aristocrats!
Ernie Clément sliding home at game 7 of the world series and doing some fancy jazz hands
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I keep trying to use ChatGPT as a super rudimentary fact-checker (mostly just to flag really dumb stuff that I should catch myself) but my god is it ever shit
⚠️ Factual Issues or Implausibilities These appear to be fictional, satirical, or speculative elements presented as reportage. I’ll note them as factual inconsistencies with real-world data: Trump’s “second term” (2025) — as of October 2025, Donald Trump is not currently president of the United States. The events described (Saudi trip, crypto reserve, etc.) have not occurred.
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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fun fact: the Netherlands also has a Justin Trudeau
Groenlinks leader Jesse Klaver
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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i mean
D66 leader Rob Jetten
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Hot damn. Exit polls are in for the Dutch election: Geert Wilders' racist party has fallen from the top spot (according to the polls), behind the liberal D66 party.
nos.nl/artikel/2588...
D66 takes 27 seats in the exit poll of the House of Representatives elections that research firm Ipsos I&O has kept on behalf of NOS and RTL. The party is followed by the PVV with 25 and the VVD with 23. GL-PvdA (20) and the CDA (19) will follow.
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The right-wing influencer-pundit-grifters class is not shy about trading their access for cash from their followers.

(Spoiler alert: This guy has a get-rich-quick online course he wants to sell you)
WHITE HOUSE INSIDER BUCK SEXTON: “TRUMP’S NEXT MOVE WILL SHOCK THE WORLD” Dear Reader, I just returned from a private interview at the Biltmore hotel… Where I shared a chilling prediction regarding a major plan currently developing inside the Trump administration. See, I have had direct access to top-level defense and national security officials… Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio and others… Which is why I was recently invited to a sit-down meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance inside the West Wing of the White House. And what I learned gave me the chills… That’s why, today, I’ve decided to give a rare interview breaking down something I believe every American needs to hear – especially investors. It’s not about tariffs, crypto, or the Fed. Or anything else you’re hearing about ad nauseam from the mainstream press right now. It’s about a radical move I believe Trump is going to make as soon as this fall – one that could shock the world. Because I believe it could single-handedly reshape the global order… dramatically increase U.S. power… and trigger a massive American market boom the likes of which we haven’t seen in 75 years. President Trump himself said this is all about one thing… Igniting what he calls “the most extraordinary boom the world has ever seen.” This is a rare opportunity, folks. And I’m bringing it to you on a silver platter… long before anyone else gets wind of it. Take it while you can. Because once this story and opportunity hits the mainstream, it could be too late to act. You deserve this… Get the details here now. Sincerely, Buck Sexton Editor, Paradigm Press Website featuring Sexton speaking to Trump with the headline "Exclusive Interview with Trumo's 2020 CIA Director Pick. Codename Manhattan II. How an estimated $2.2 trillion Trump AI plan could spur a new golden age in America"
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A reminder if you're in Montreal: It's election week!
An Elections Montreal sign that says "Vote"
October 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It's BJ birdy, the only true Toronto Blue Jays mascot
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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These are the offending posts, in case you missed it.
CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!!They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs, when actually he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY. Canada is trying to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important rulings in the history of our Country. Canada has long cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as much as 400%. Now they, and other countries, can’t take advantage of the U.S. any longer. Thank you to the Ronald Reagan Foundation for exposing this FRAUD. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I broke things down further here.

I'm starting to think we're wrong to even say that Trump's trade negotiations are getting "deals." They're not deals. They're the terms of other countries' economic capitulation. #giftlink

Canada is lucky not to have signed!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Just look at where other countries have ended up. The United Kingdom thought it would gain an advantage by being the first to sign, acquiescing to 10 per cent across-the-board tariffs and a quota on its automobile exports. The Europe Union’s agreement, which even its members seem to hate, was even worse, imposing a 15 per cent tariff rate and a requirement that it buy USD $250 billion in American energy products per year. As for Japan and South Korea, they negotiated tariff rates ranging from 15 to 50 per cent, but were also expected to cough up huge sums of direct investment — USD $550 billion from Tokyo and USD $350 billion from Seoul. Trump claimed that the deal requires 90 per cent of the profit of that investment remain in America and said he would personally direct the capital. Trump’s shakedown was effective. French President Emmanuel Macron conceded as much when he declared last month that “to be free, you need to be feared. We were not feared enough.” Instead, they feared being left out — but as Trump himself wrote, showing fear “makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Trump is posting on Truth Social that he's terminating negotiations with Canada over a "fake" ad criticizing tariffs (that was run by Ontario, and which isn't fake.)

It's all theatre. There was never a deal to be gotten. Trump just wants to claim victory. #giftlink www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
But here’s the deal: There’s no deal to be had. Behind the glad-handing and theatrics, Trump doesn’t even know what he wants. He has found his preferred tool in achieving his grandiose goals — ending the drug crisis, eliminating America’s trade deficits, reviving American manufacturing — and it is tariffs. Don’t like those demands? Don’t worry, he has others: A place to send the people he’s deporting, free capital to invest in American manufacturing, or unrivaled access to rare earth minerals. Exactly what Canada is supposed to do to escape tariffs remains murky as ever. We’re not the only ones. Trump’s conspiratorial trade adviser Peter Navarro once promised to sign “90 deals in 90 days.” The administration’s biggest deal has been with China — and it’s a loser. The deal reduces, but doesn’t drop, American tariffs on China in exchange for more critical minerals from Beijing. This is Trump’s version of a win-win: He gets concessions, but gets to keep the tariffs.
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Significant ruling out of the ICJ today, finding that Israel has an obligation to allow sufficient aid into Gaza, including from UNRWA, and that Israel cannot "impede such relief." www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
The Court considers that the information before it is not sufficient to establish UNRWA’s lack of neutrality for the purpose of assessing its impartiality as an organization under Article 59. In particular, the circumstance that the OIOS investigation in 2024 led to the dismissal of nine members of UNRWA personnel due to their possible involvement in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel is insufficient to support a conclusion that UNRWA as a whole is not a neutral organization. In addition, the Court finds that Israel has not substantiated its allegations that a significant part of UNRWA employees “are members of Hamas . . . or other terrorist factions”. The Court notes that an occupying Power is in principle free to choose the humanitarian organizations through which it fulfils its obligation to agree to and facilitate humanitarian relief. However, Article 59 limits an occupying Power’s discretion in so far as it requires that Power to allow and facilitate sufficient relief to ensure that the population is adequately supplied.
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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kleptocracy noun klep·​toc·​ra·​cy klep-ˈtä-krə-sē pluralkleptocracies : government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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For all the talk of Putin's masterful grasp of how to manipulate Trump, I think it's always been quite clear that he doesn't understand the man at all. Here's some solid proof:

(Also that Steve Witkoff is an absolute dumbass.)

www.ft.com/content/7af3...
The Russian president then delivered a rambling historical discursion spanning medieval princes such as Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise, along with the 17th century Cossack chieftain Bohdan Khmelnytsky — figures he often cites to support his claim Ukraine and Russia are one nation. Taken aback, Trump raised his voice several times and at one point threatened to walk out, the people said. He ultimately cut the meeting short and cancelled a planned lunch where broader delegations were due to discuss economic ties and co-operation. But the putative deal was based on misconceptions. Russia’s territorial “concessions”, as Witkoff presented them, amounted to accepting a freeze on the frontline in some areas it has been unable to seize by force — while still demanding Ukraine surrender the entire Donbas. “He misunderstood everything Putin said about what the summit was going to be about,” a person briefed on the talks said.
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Today in unhinged Russian propaganda: Moscow says Ukraine is funneling drones to the Islamic State Sahel Province via Libya, and sending mercenaries into the Sudanese civil war. (Per 'African Initiative,' Moscow's bespoke disinformation initiative for the continent.)
Headlien: Zakharova says growing evidence shows Ukraine’s support for terrorist groups in the Sahel Published: 08.10.2025, 05:45 Text: There is increasing evidence that Ukraine is supporting terrorist groups in the Sahara–Sahel region of Africa, including proof of drone supplies to militants, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing. “There is mounting evidence that the Zelensky regime is supporting terrorist groups in the Sahara–Sahel region of Africa. The security bloc of Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), with the mediation of the United Kingdom, has established co-operation with Ukrainian militants, which includes the supply of strike drones by the Kyiv regime and the organisation of training activities by instructors from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry,” the diplomat stated. Zakharova stressed that, according to the Sudanese Armed Forces, Ukrainian mercenaries are also taking part in fighting in the west of the war-torn country on the side of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebels. “Colonel Fath al-Sayed of Sudanese military intelligence told the media that Ukrainian and Colombian mercenaries fighting on the side of the [RSF] rebels suffered heavy losses in battles in the western part of the country. It is known that they were using, once again, Ukrainian-made drones,” the diplomat said.
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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spend $400 to join the club so they can send you piss chardonnay, then shell out $600 to listen to Eric Trump whine about being persecuted. shop.trumpwinery.com/product/sign...
Trump Winery invites you to an extraordinary experience—one that few will ever access. On a day when our doors are closed to the public, we open them just for you. Join Eric Trump, President of Trump Winery, for a special in-person gathering as he discusses his bold new book, Under Siege, shares behind-the-scenes insights, and answers your questions in a live Q&A. This exclusive experience offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from Eric in a distraction-free setting. Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 4:00 PM Your ticket includes: A signed copy of Under Siege Welcome pour of our Presidential Reserve Signature Trump Winery Riedel Flute A Compelling talk and Q&A session with Eric Trump Access. Insight. Inspiration. Experience storytelling, fine wine, and an evening to remember; only at Trump Winery. Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Trump Winery, Grand Hall PLEASE NOTE: All guests will be required to present VALID identification upon entry.
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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remember when tom cotton demanded that trump dispatch the 82nd Airborne to do "whatever it takes to restore order" in portland and then twitter said "stop doing that" and this guy was like "well, hang on a second"

(and here's the link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... )
On June 1, Tom Cotton, a former Army officer and the junior senator from Arkansas, was advancing the argument—in exchanges with President Trump and on his Twitter feed—that the president should invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act to deploy, “if necessary, the 10th Mountain, 82nd Airborne, 1st Cav, 3rd Infantry—whatever it takes to restore order. No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters.” The “no quarter” element caused alarm—did Cotton mean “leave no survivor,” as the phrase’s use in a military context could suggest? “A no quarter order is a war crime,” the conservative commentator and former Army lawyer David French responded. Cotton clarified, tweeting: “If you say that someone was given no quarter, you mean that they were not treated kindly by someone who had power or control over them,” with a link to that definition in a dictionary. Not everyone was convinced. The next day, Cotton’s office pitched me an op-ed about Twitter threatening to lock his account if he didn’t delete the original tweet. I sent the pitch to
October 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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i genuinely can't believe this was less than two years ago.
On one of my first days at The New York Times, I went to an orientation with more than a dozen other new hires. We had to do an icebreaker: Pick a Starburst out of a jar and then answer a question. My Starburst was pink, I believe, and so I had to answer the pink prompt, which had me respond with my favorite sandwich. Russ & Daughters’ Super Heebster came to mind, but I figured mentioning a $19 sandwich wasn’t a great way to win new friends. So I blurted out, “The spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A,” and considered the ice broken. The HR representative leading the orientation chided me: “We don’t do that here. They hate gay people.” People started snapping their fingers in acclamation. I hadn’t been thinking about the fact that Chick-fil-A was transgressive in liberal circles for its chairman’s opposition to gay marriage. “Not the politics, the chicken,” I quickly said, but it was too late. I sat down, ashamed.
October 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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it dawns on me that not everyone might be well-versed on obscenely niche media controversy from last year
bsky.app/profile/crb1...
Article in the The Atlantic headline "I Was a Heretic at The New York Times" subhead: "I did what I was hired to do, and I paid for it." By Adam Rubenstein
October 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Full statement from Hamas, in response to Trump's ceasefire ultimatum.
On Hamas’ Response to US President Trump’s Proposal To protect our steadfast people in Gaza from aggression and the ongoing campaign of extermination, and out of national responsibility and concern for our people’s principles, rights, and higher interests, the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” conducted in-depth consultations within its leadership, with Palestinian factions, and with trusted mediators and friends, to reach a responsible position regarding US President Donald Trump’s proposal. After thorough study, the movement made its decision and delivered the following response to the mediators: Hamas appreciates the Arab, Islamic, and international efforts, as well as the efforts of US President Donald Trump, calling for an immediate halt to the war on Gaza, prisoner exchanges, the entry of humanitarian aid, rejection of occupation, and rejection of the displacement of our Palestinian people. In this framework, and to achieve a complete cessation of hostilities and full withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas agrees to release all prisoners held by Israel, including bodies, under the exchange formula proposed by President Trump. Hamas also confirms its readiness to enter immediate negotiations through mediators to discuss the details of the exchange. The movement also reaffirms its approval to transfer the administration of Gaza to a Palestinian technocratic authority, based on national consensus and Arab-Islamic support. Regarding other issues in Trump’s proposal related to Gaza’s future and the authentic rights of the Palestinian people, Hamas stated that these matters are linked to a comprehensive national position and relevant international laws and resolutions. Hamas will participate in a national Palestinian framework and contribute responsibly. The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A nail-biting election in Moldova ended with a resounding result for the pro-European bloc. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Graph showing the pro-EU PAS coalition at 50%, the pro-Russian bloc at 25% and everyone else below 10%
September 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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hey do you mind just feeding all of your personal information into the black box

we're just here to help we promise 🥺👉👈
Tweet from Sam Altman: Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers. Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in. It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates. Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively. This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized. This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too.
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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It's Charlie Brown considering kicking the football that Lucy is holding
September 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Children's Health Defense, RFK Jr's pseudo-science lobby group, is organizing national rallies to try and keep him in the job.
Children's Health Defense website: "Find a rally for RFK Jr near you. There's a graphic that says "show your support for robert f kennedy jr"
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM