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drewharwell.com
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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explodingarrow.bsky.social
It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant!

My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st.
forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
forms.gle
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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snarkysteff.bsky.social
The greatest Thanksgiving special ever made by any TV show in history.

There is no debate. Don’t even bother.
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
TIP: Anyone who posts wild speculation as something that is “almost certainly” the case right now is ~almost certainly~ someone you should not rely on in moments where news is breaking and a story is rapidly developing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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michaelgkagan.bsky.social
“They should do it the right way”
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
melf.bsky.social
Too bad it doesn't have the date/draft version:
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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benjaminkabak.com
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
ndhapple.bsky.social Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 2d
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
Donald Trump's back as he stands in front of a crowd and an American flag. A headline reads: "Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump." Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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gregpak.net
Evil.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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gregpak.net
SO EXCITED FOR THIS! The great @runwithskizzers.bsky.social saves my can every month as a consultant on the main SUPERNATURAL comic series and is just the PERFECT person to write this Valentine's Day Special!
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 7d
so i guess the preview dropped WHICH MEANS I CAN TELL YOU I AM WRITING THE BROTHERS WINCHESTER!!!!!!!!

YOUR GIRL IS WRITING

SUPERNATURAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my beloved 😭❤️

humongous shout out for @gregpak.net for recommending me for this gig!!!

leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/121324...
A comic cover for SUPERNATURAL VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL 2026 -- It shows Sam and Dean side by side, both holding weapons in front of a large ornate heart with slashes symmetrical slashes cut through it. The cover is dark, with reds and blues.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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katchin05.blacksky.app
Shut up yes it is.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d
well thank god it's friday anyway
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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gregpak.net
well thank god it's friday anyway
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
two big announcements on friday icymi -- first: i'm writing SPN!
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 7d
so i guess the preview dropped WHICH MEANS I CAN TELL YOU I AM WRITING THE BROTHERS WINCHESTER!!!!!!!!

YOUR GIRL IS WRITING

SUPERNATURAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my beloved 😭❤️

humongous shout out for @gregpak.net for recommending me for this gig!!!

leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/121324...
A comic cover for SUPERNATURAL VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL 2026 -- It shows Sam and Dean side by side, both holding weapons in front of a large ornate heart with slashes symmetrical slashes cut through it. The cover is dark, with reds and blues.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5d
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
historic levels of leopards eating faces
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:

@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
also look at all these covers 😭❤️

Cover A: Cat Staggs
Cover B: Reese Hannigan
Cover C: Meghan Hetrick
Cover D: Pasquale Qualano

Out on Feb 4th, order cut-off is early Jan, so ask your local comic book shop to get this in!
A comic cover for SUPERNATURAL VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL 2026 -- It shows Sam and Dean side by side, both holding weapons in front of a large ornate heart with slashes symmetrical slashes cut through it. The cover is dark, with reds and blues. A variant cover for the SUPERNATURAL VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL I'm writing. Sam and Dean are at some kind of carnival in the night time. There's a ferris wheel in the background, and a Love Love ride. They're standing on either side of a black car (that is not the usual Impala). Sam's on the far side of the car, a tall white man with brown hair parted down the middle and cut to his ears. He's got on a jacket, over a button down shirt and a t-shirt. Dean, a white man with short brown hair and a five o'clock shadow, is in the forefront of the cover, wearing his classic long dark jacket, with a green-gray button down over a black t-shirt. He's also got on his amulet necklace. He's holding a toy gun that has a banner sticking out of ti reading, "Be mine." A variant comic cover for SUPERNATURAL VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL 2026. It's show Dean and Sam Winchester standing back to back against a bunch of red waves with hearts cut out along the right and left sides of the cover. Behind them are cupids, little flying babies in diapers, holding arrows with hearts on the ends and bows. Sam and Dean are both white men with brown hair. Dean's is short, Sam's longer, nearly to his shoulders and parted in the middle. Dean is facing the reader, while Sam is looking over his shoulder. They're both wearing jackets and jeans. We can see Dean has a plaid button down and a t-shirt that says "Be mine" on it. He's holding a large machete in one hand and a heart-arrow in the other. Sam is holding a machete and looking back at us over his shoulder. A variant comic cover for SUPERNATURAL VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL 2026. Sam and Dean, two white men with brown hair in casual clothing -- button downs, t-shirts, and jeans/khakis -- are attacking giant chaotic hearts swooping around them with big swords. It's a bombastic cover, illustrated from a low angle so we're looking up at the boys at an angle from the ground as they fight.
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEWS: The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James are gone. A federal judge ruled that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as the lead prosecutor was illegal.

DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
The sheer effort of laying out everything wrong w/ this argument *&* the fact that it's meaningless to even do so unless & until the full force of the law is levied at these people who are themselves the literal enforcement arm of the law is further evidence that we are all dead & this is superhell.
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Oct 29
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM