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Matthew Trevithick
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Journalist, photographer, burned out, need new avatar

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A cease and desist letter sent to Hamou by the city accuses her of sending "numerous communications," including a physical note, text messages, and voicemails to the city and Morgan's family with threats and other personal and professional allegations about him www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt
Former London city councillor accused of extorting, harassing mayor | CBC News
A former London, Ont., city councillor is facing allegations she extorted and harassed Mayor Josh Morgan following an investigation by an outside police force, CBC News has learned.
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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The number of commercial poultry farms in Strathroy-Caadoc hit with avian influenza now stands at four. The CFIA says the first three outbreaks alone affected more than 63,000 turkeys www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt
4 poultry farms in southwestern Ontario hit with avian flu resulting in 63k birds culled so far | CBC News
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it has identified additional outbreaks of avian influenza in Strathroy-Caradoc, bringing the total number declared in the last two weeks to four.
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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In Brighton Park, you had this incident with a protester, and a federal agent falsely claiming he was assaulted.
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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ProPublica: White House official told senior Department of Homeland Security officials to return devices to Tate brothers several days after they were seized. The official, Paul Ingrassia, is a lawyer who previously represented the Tate brothers. www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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China’s state-sponsored hackers used AI technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company says www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...
Exclusive | Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks
The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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not too hard to imagine a comprehensively gambling-obsessed political media, maybe soon nymag.com/intelligence...
Max Read notes that these companies are posting in a familiar style. "If you still spend time on X.com, you will recognize here precisely the same clipped, decontextualized, link-free, moronically breathless style of tweeting deployed by 'financial news for low-trust illiterates' accounts like Unusual Whales or ZeroHedge (or, for that matter, in a slightly different arena, PopCrave)," he writes. To be slightly more generous about it, accounts like this have, on a platform where outside links barely exist, mainstream media brands are no longer visible, and commentary crowds out timely updates, stepped in to fill a market need, as strange and distorted as it may be. As Read points out, Kalshi and Polymarket are also speaking the language of their most devoted users - "epistemically captured right-wing hobbyist gamblers and speculators — and meeting them where they are, on X, which is another way of saying it's just good marketing. But, in the spirit of prediction, I think material like this will soon be more than a sideshow and already sketches an outline of a new, betting-centric political media. Gambling took over sports coverage, after all. Why won't it take over everything else? If more people put more money into markets like Kalshi, it's easy enough to imagine how a sportslike media transformation might unfold through sponsorships, normalization in existing media, constant metacoverage of prediction odds, and content produced by the prediction platforms themselves. Aside from its posting habits, Polymarket already has a podcast; on the websites of shrinking newspapers around the country, you can already find aggregated articles sharing the current betting odds for the 2028 election. (J.D. Vance +225, Gavin Newsom +350, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez +900 in case you were curious and know what that means.) Why wouldn't fast-growing companies in a wildly lucrative but competitive industry hire or sponsor some influencers to make some content, draw some attention, and convert some customers? Why shouldn't they convene, say, a Jubilee in which participants argue about their bets on polities rather than politics as such? I've got $5,000 on J.D. Vance 2028. Change my mind.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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NYT: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Pres. Trump had 'spent hours at my house' with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages suggesting Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Jimmy Kimmel remembers friend and bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who passed away Tuesday morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Yeah I don't think this is indicative of a healthy society www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside Three Longterm Relationships With A.I. Chatbots (Gift Article)
Three people on the joys and anxieties of A.I. romances.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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‘You’re not rushing. You’re just ready:’ Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🎈Happy Birthday... to US! 🎂 47 candles on our cake today!

On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Fanshawe College looks to shed longtime campus radio station, putting the future of 106.9 The X into question www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt
Student-run radio station 106.9 The X on the chopping block by Fanshawe College | CBC News
Nearly 50 years after it made history as Canada's first licensed, instructional campus radio station, London's 106.9 The X now faces an uncertain future.
www.cbc.ca
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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katelynburns.com
one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“One witness said Hoekstra appeared to be upset about the anti-tariff ad that the province recently ran on television in the U.S. … The witness said Hoesktra could be heard using the F-word and also mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford by name.”
U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News
The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News
www.cbc.ca
October 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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From me: Longtime doctor killed in fatal northwest London crash a 'gentle giant,' say colleagues www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt
Longtime doctor killed in fatal northwest London crash a 'gentle giant,' say colleagues | CBC News
The London physician killed in a fatal crash Tuesday in the city's northwest end is being remembered by colleagues as a man committed to the community who went above and beyond for his patients and th...
www.cbc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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“Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes new housing bill: advocates | CBC News
Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government...
www.cbc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Oct 23
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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"President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company."

Zhao and Binance pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating US money-laundering rules. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.
www.wsj.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM