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that is a joke for like 10 people. nice.
Breaking NYT:
The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
And it’s the 1930s in America
The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened. “There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.” “Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment. In a statement, a CBS News sp
“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Very excited for you all to read my short story “Dos Caras” in this one and always happy to be in a collection with folks like @nkolakowski.bsky.social & @bamawriter.bsky.social
dude ... $9 an hour for my first full-time job out of college. the job *required* a bachelor's degree. If I hadn't been living in my parents' hovel, I couldn't ahve done it.
BIG NEWS!!!!
Graphic quoting from the press release announcing Libby Cudmore and Nick Mamatas’ 2027 anthology The Black Tapes, which can be read at links.ruadanbooks.com/blacktapespr.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
when the AI bubble bursts, remember your worth and how little regard they had for you when they let you go to save money.
NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
WAY ... and I'm not going to complain that they can't spell my name right. LOL
Thanks! I was really happy with it.
I was a guest on WWE Hall of Famers' Jerry Brisco and John Bradshaw Layfield's podcast. Just went live. Check it out: youtu.be/dln0nol5US8?...
The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.
Whew!
we're seeing it in slow motion every day anyway.
Libertarians standing around not doing anything (which is on-brand)
Then this guy hits them from a thousand yards away with a perfect sniper shot.
Couldn't help it. Stayed up to watch the whole thing, and Freddie is my favorite current player.
I just wish he'd been able to pull that off several innings earlier.
no, the Dodgers won!
it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
that play at 2B wasn't as bad as Kent Hrbek lifting Ron Gant's foot off of first base in the 1991 World series, but that's only because Hrbek is a bitch-ass cheating motherfucker.