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Posts by Richard Pachter

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Kash wants cash: Inside the FBI Director’s $250 million defamation lawsuit On Friday, The Atlantic published a story alleging that FBI Director Kash Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

"The biggest barrier Patel faces is that The Atlantic says it interviewed more than two dozen people for the story. That is evidence of journalistic rigor — not a reckless disregard for the truth." open.substack.com/pub/populari...

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"Mr. Trump’s stability has been a recurring issue since he first sought the presidency in 2016. Numerous psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have weighed in with their own opinions even without the opportunity to evaluate him."

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Aha! www.nme.com/news/music/c...

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New Stones album? (Sent to the Hackney Diamonds mailing list.)

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

"There is no widely available public tool comparable to the Wayback Machine, and if it continues to lose access to major news sources, its preservation efforts could erode to the point where early digital records of history become much harder to access ..."
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i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

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Gray-haired dude at PBI was coughing. Good Samaritan (me) offered him a cough drop, which he accepted and thanked me with a smile. Looked familiar and after a few minutes, I googled my hunch as he boarded a flight to Washington, DC. Yesterday, I gave a cough drop to Paul Manafort. I think.

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making crime

Supertramp fan? Then you need to check this out and share widely makingcrime.com (It's official and authorized, btw)

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cc: @damonlindelof.bsky.social

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Letter in today's @sun-sentinel.com

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Gustavo Dudamel receives $1 million award from musician Herb Alpert: ‘We can change the world, but it starts with educating young people’ At age 90, the California artist creates a new prize with a large financial endowment whose first recipient is his admired colleague, the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Herb Alpert is a great human being english.elpais.com/culture/2026...

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Trump’s Private Company Files Trademark for ‘President Donald J. Trump International Airport’ Trump’s IP company filed trademark applications for airport names bearing his name, raising unprecedented questions about private brand control over public airports.

This seems worth looking into, #journalists www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/trumps-...

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Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’ The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.

Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief.
Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.

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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

“You can still find them in some places,” said Ivan Held, the president of Putnam, Dutton and Berkley, publishing imprints that once did brisk business in mass markets. “But as a format, I would say it’s pretty much over.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

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Bar Bits South Florida | Lovely sight of professionalism, clearly the management team is immature when they receive a bad review | Facebook Lovely sight of professionalism, clearly the management team is immature when they receive a bad review. Bravo for them lying on their customers. All of the steak was just taken home and fed to our.....

Restaurant review and reaction www.facebook.com/groups/barbi...

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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

"The price of giving up many activities is the atrophy of the ability to do them." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Almost an Autobiography And barely a review

Read the Cameron Crowe book and have some thoughts open.substack.com/pub/rpachter...

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Best of Catherine O'Hara - YouTube

The best!
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Despite its name, it's in Fort Lauderdale!

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I don't think I'll be honoring this place myself

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Bari Weiss suuuuuuuuuuuuucks "It's time to play a little game of Know Your Enemy."

"David Ellison wants CBS News to be Fox News, so he hired the most eager lickspittle he could find. That’s Bari Weiss."
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Now Everyone's Saying 'Oh, Good' Trump told the media exactly how they'd cover his Greenland threats. They did it anyway.

Sanewashing open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

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I'm very proud of you!

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Opinion | The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century

The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

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Captain Beefheart - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
Captain Beefheart - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains YouTube video by Revanlation

youtube.com/watch?v=XJ2k... happy birthday Captain Beefheart

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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

And scumbags www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

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He found a lost Beatles audition tape. So he gave it back to Paul McCartney Rob Frith never intended to sell the rare tape. Thanks to his decision, he met McCartney in California last year

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Doctor explains the symptoms of meningococcal septicemia after the CDC changed vaccine recommendations:

It causes seizures and permanent neurologic disability. It causes necrosis of the skin. It has a 10 to 14% mortality. And if you survive, you lose your lower limbs, your fingers, your hands.

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Tony Dokoupil’s ‘CBS Evening News’ Debut Is an Inauspicious Sign of Where CBS News Is Headed Tony Dokoupil tripped up over transitions and bulldozed a health expert over vaccines

Fox "News" Lite
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