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Kevin Cortez
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🇹🇭 x 🇵🇷 DC. Shopping Editor @huffpost.com. WGAE and AAJA member.

Former Editor: Popular Mechanics, Runner's World, Bicycling

Bylines: Inverse, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Gear Patrol, WSJ

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10 years after first organizing, it's time to bargain for our fourth contract. We're prepared, we're united and we're locked in.
HuffPost union members on a Zoom call posing with a fist raised in the air and wearing Writers Guild of America East T-shirts
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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WARIOWARE: SMOOTH MOVES
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS/NINTENDO SPD 2006
NINTENDO Wii
A gaggle of Tiny Warios
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Sailor Moon. My job here is done/But you didn’t do anything meme. The top text says, “DEMOCRATS.” The bottom text says, “THE FIGHT LIVES ON.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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以前、リモート会議中に描いた My ザクフリッパー。ほんとに参加求められただけだったので…。

My version of MS-06E Zaku Flipper (from the 1st Mobile Suit Gundam), painted during a virtual meeting before. Coz it was just a meeting to attend... One of my most favorite Zaku variations.
October 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Multiple people have been shot at the Dallas ICE field office, ABC reports
Multiple people shot at Dallas ICE field office: Source
Multiple people have been shot at the Dallas ICE field office, according to a law enforcement source.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Morning manga.
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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As Wired Turns Its Journalists Into Influencers, Subscriptions Surge
As Wired Journalists Become Influencers, Subscriptions Surge
To capitalize on the momentum, the Condé Nast title is launching a sweeping out-of-home campaign to promote its upcoming issue
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September 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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It's been a while since I've played such a soulless game.
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · Sep 22
The new Skate game is bad:

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September 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Writers Guild Rips ABC’s Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ From Air: “The WGA Stands With Jimmy Kimmel and His Writers” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Writers Guild Rips ABC’s Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ From Air: “The WGA Stands With Jimmy Kimmel and His Writers”
SAG-AFTRA also released a statement following the news, noting, "The decision to suspend airing 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone’s freedoms."
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September 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Free speech crackdown claims Kimmel, judge orders Khalil deportation and Trump’s tech deal with the UK – just some of the stories that HuffPost is following.
Top Stories 9/18
Free speech crackdown claims Kimmel, judge orders Khalil deportation and Trump’s tech deal with the UK – just some of the stories that HuffPost is following.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First AmendmentThe guardians of ‘free speech’ sure had a change of heart.
September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Made my first lil TikTok about what i grabbed at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social lol kev influencer arc incoming i guess

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SPX 2025 (comic) book haul: part 1. Baby’s first TikTok 🥹 #fyp #spx2025 #booktok #mangatok #comics
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September 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Donald Trump was questioned about why he didn’t want to lower the flags after assassination of the Minnesota House Speaker.
Trump Cornered About Assassination On Democrats
Donald Trump was questioned about why he didn’t want to lower the flags after assassination of the Minnesota House Speaker.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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What the actual hell? The FBI director is really claiming that there's no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself?

REALLY?
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Sep 16
Kash Patel says the FBI has NO information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors to anyone other than himself.

SEN. KENNEDY: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?"

PATEL: "There is no credible information, none ... that he trafficked to other individuals."
September 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Made my first lil TikTok about what i grabbed at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social lol kev influencer arc incoming i guess

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SPX 2025 (comic) book haul: part 1. Baby’s first TikTok 🥹 #fyp #spx2025 #booktok #mangatok #comics
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September 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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This is a great 1 sentence synopsis of the book
aeneas-nin.bsky.social Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · Sep 2
This book is so weird and funny. It concerns a girl who happens to be filming a meme video behind Shinzo Abe when he gets plugged, so all the internet crazies think she's the mastermind behind the assassination. The first work that truly captures the spirit and texture of our profoundly stupid era.
glacierbaybooks.com Glacier Bay Books – Thought Bubble Redshirt Hall – A7-8 @glacierbaybooks.com · Sep 2
Another Glacier Bay title, here’s Flash Point (Imai Arata) from late 2024
September 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Imai Arata's ( @arataimai.bsky.social ) new book FLASH POINT /

Glacier Bay edition published NOV 2024. We also reissued Imai's first book F!

Please enjoy the never-before-seen trailer for FLASH POINT created by Zach Godin.
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This might be the starkest generational divide in having half a clue we've seen in a good long while.
tagishsimon.bsky.social tagishsimon.bsky.social @tagishsimon.bsky.social · Sep 12
The BBC's self-described "far-right expert", too, construes it all as antifa.
The markings on the bullets described by authorities indicate that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, was steeped in online culture and included references to the Antifa, or the anti-fascist, movement. A fired shell casing was inscribed with “notices bulges OwO what’s this?” - a reference to a “copypasta” - a piece of text that is repeated over and over again, often to troll people online. Authorities say one unfired casing had the words “Hey fascist! Catch!” and an up, right and three down arrows. The three down arrows alone could be a common symbol used to represent the anti-fascist movement. As a whole, the sequence of arrows could reference a gaming cheat code - although this remains unclear, and authorities have not yet released images of the casings. A second casing had the lyrics to a song “Bella Ciao” inscribed on it. The song honours WWII-era partisans of the Italian resistance who fought Nazi Germany. The third unfired casing was inscribed with the words “If you read this, you are gay lmao” - again an apparent reference to online trolling humour. Antifa is a loose collection of far-left activists who have been active in the US over the last decade, at street protests and other events. They often oppose Trump's policies and far-right groups.
September 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Razor sore throat, fevers, chills. Some social media users are claiming that their current COVID-19 infections are more severe than prior years. Here's what doctors want you to know about that: www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
Doctors Respond To Alarming COVID Claim Circulating On Social Media
Read this if you're worried about getting sicker than normal with COVID-19 right now.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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oh well, onward and upward
REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible] How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely. And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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BREAKING: Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has died, Trump posted on Truth Social.
Charlie Kirk Dead After Being Shot At Utah Event, Trump Says
A petition had circulated before the event urging the conservative commentator not to speak at Utah Valley University.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Mansect (1975) by Shinichi Koga, translated by Ryan Holmberg

#manga #booksky
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Wait but seriously, it's wild how many people out there are newly engaging with The Grasshopper / Suits because of UFO 50, lots of discussion about the book in various Discords, etc.
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doougle.net Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · Aug 11
btw are game studies peeps aware that the (largely hidden) UFO 50 meta-story ultimately culminates in a (very explicit) critique of Suits' The Grasshopper?!?

(Or as Stephanie and Patrick suggest on the episode, maybe it's actually a critique of the book's mid-10s afterlife)
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robdubbin.bsky.social sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · Aug 8
one thing i'm appreciating about UFO50 as our series enters its home stretch: this is such a novel way to present what is basically a 50-chapter story. this week we cover chapter 46, COMBATANTS, in which the fictional studio's reviled boss finally directs a game himself eggplant.show/ep-a-year-of...
September 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM