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@agpasquella
Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...
Yes, articles should be at most five emojis long
Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James Bond. Go!
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
Awesome news! Congratulations!
It’s like the Nazi bar problem: you let one tech oligarch buy media so it can’t be mean to them and suddenly they all want to do it. With alt text:
The New Yorker Kristi Noem will be remembered as the most incompetent Secretary in the 23-year history of the D.H.S. now
I don’t think the incompetence actually is going to be what Kristi Noem is remembered for.
It will be the killings, the lawlessness, and the grift, if I had to guess.
Somehow, Condoleezza Rice returned
Reported this two weeks ago
move slow and repair things
The Prophesy Has Been Fulfilled
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Oh, she feels ‘thrown under the bus?’ Who could’ve seen it coming?
(Everyone. Everyone saw it coming. Except apparently Noem herself.)
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
A one month chart of oil prices
Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.
We're in court today asking a judge to block a new Kansas law that invalidates the IDs of transgender people and allows anyone to sue a person they suspect of being trans for using public restrooms.
This law has been wreaking havoc on trans people and we're demanding an immediate end to it.
Hey could someone remind us of the formal definition of a world war?
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
This sort of gesture, to release what many have wanted for decades and give all the proceeds to your late comrade's charity, that is friendship.
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“If the United States is at war, then Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. If the United States is not at war, then Pete Hegseth is a murderer.”
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Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits)
Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON)
Length: 18 months
Deadline: 31 March 2026
Start date: 1 July 2026
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
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