White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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#GiftArticle Glad to see that this passed yesterday! Here’s more information on San Diego‘s new ordinance to protect residents from kidnapping feds!
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October 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#giftArticle robots taking our worst jobs reduce our anthropomorphism
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Russians’ surrender to Ukrainian robot marks further transformation of war
Aerial drones once changed the fighting in Ukraine. Now it’s explosive-laden, unmanned vehicles.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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“Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games… #Pinks
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Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services
Amazon’s cloud computing service experienced a major outage on Monday, disrupting many online services like Snapchat, Roblox, and Signal
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October 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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“When the president’s orders push or cross legal limits and put commanders in these situations, cohesion within our military is at risk.” #GiftArticle #Pinks
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Opinion | I resigned from the military because of Trump
I could not swear to follow a commander in chief who seems so willing to disregard the Constitution.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Fifty years ago, national pride supercharged anglo-Canadian publishing. Could it happen again?
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Fifty years ago, national pride supercharged anglo-Canadian publishing. Could it happen again?
Independent presses are trying to figure out how to recreate the golden era of the 1970s
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October 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Lead by David Stevens. “This is what democracy in the US looks like. Gerrymandering and a Supreme Court that is so ideological that they might as well become openly active in the Republican Party.”
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Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act
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October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Miillions attend No Kings rallies, reprising the anti-Trump resistance. While MAGA influencers mock protests as dork territory, organizers reclaim cringe. They argue earnest, idealistic protest is the necessary, if uncool, antidote to cynicism of the president's second term. #giftarticle #nokings
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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“… The … nearly 7 million who showed up across America marked the second-largest one-day protest in U.S. history, surpassed only by a very different type of event, the first Earth Day in 1970. …”
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Then they fight you: How the ‘No Kings’ protests are winning America | Will Bunch
A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"You got your Teddy Roosevelt in my Pee Wee Herman." "No, you got your Pee Wee Herman in my Teddy Roosevelt."
A man, a boy, some national parks, and reflections on being. Nice read
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I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"Newsom Vetoes Reparations for Slavery Recipients". The Ca legislature examined and passed a very specific bill, not with cash transfers - and he still vetoed it.
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"Newsom Vetoes Reparations for Slavery Recipients". The Ca legislature examined and passed a very specific bill, not with cash transfers - and he still vetoed it.
Our hero and savior - not!
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Newsom Rejects Bills Providing Benefits to Slavery Descendants
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October 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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#giftarticle #Geschenklink Michelle Goldberg for NYT
"This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement."
"This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement."
Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w... Bodies of Palestinians - unnamed and unknown - 'returned' by Israel with clear evidence of torture and trauma - the scale of this and the lack of international attention to it - well done to @nytimes.com team for documenting -#giftarticle - essential reading
At a Mass Burial in Gaza, Palestinians Mourn the Unknown Dead
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October 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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"A surprising number of readers of my previous article asked if maybe more women are just realizing they 'can’t have it all.' That only makes sense if by 'it all' they mean the ability to eat, clothe and house themselves and their families." - @jessgrose.bsky.social
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Opinion | Women Are Losing in Trump’s Economy
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October 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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“… Saturday’s protests may remind many more than those who waved a sign that … [Americans] are honored participants in a shared project of self-government and that there is no election that could give any president the power to deprive us of our right to govern ourselves …”
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Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings
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October 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"In the end, real justice must be done for the people of Palestine. We cannot go forward without the healing that needs to take place, which will also result from the case that was launched being properly heard."
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South Africa pushes ahead with genocide case against Israel despite Gaza ceasefire
Ceasefire agreement ‘will have no bearing’ on the ICJ case, President Cyril Ramaphosa said this week
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October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.
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Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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October 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline. The Washington Post joined the New York Times, Newsmax and CNN in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.
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News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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October 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court’s emergency orders “mystical,” “overly blunt,” “incredibly demoralizing and troubling” and “a slap in the face to the district courts.” …Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.””
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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
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October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I try and avoid politics on here but this is interesting.
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They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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“Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices”
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Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices
U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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#GiftArticle #TechBros #Tech “What What Really Drove Silicon Valley's Shift to the Right”
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What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right
In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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