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🚨 USAID has sent an all staff email stating all personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally starting at 11:59pm EST on 2/7 except for those involved in mission-critical functions, core leadership, and designated programs. Essential staff will be notified by 3pm on 2/6.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
🚨 USAID has sent an all staff email stating all personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally starting at 11:59pm EST on 2/7 except for those involved in mission-critical functions, core leadership, and designated programs. Essential staff will be notified by 3pm on 2/6.
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Welcome to The Contrarian, a new media outlet not owned by anybody
You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability
Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com
You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability
Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com
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January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Welcome to The Contrarian, a new media outlet not owned by anybody
You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability
Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com
You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability
Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com
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I wrote about finding the humanity amid the exploitation on Bourbon Street for @slate.bsky.social.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
Why Bourbon Street Was a Target
As a local, I avoid Bourbon Street—except on rare occasions, when there’s no place I’d rather be.
slate.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I wrote about finding the humanity amid the exploitation on Bourbon Street for @slate.bsky.social.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
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In case it’s of interest to La. reporters: Shamsud-Din Jabbar had substantial family roots in St. Landry Parish.
His paternal grandfather, Calvin Young Sr., and his people were from Plaisance. Later lived in Opelousas.
Many moved to Beaumont for work, but a bunch were buried back in Plaisance.
His paternal grandfather, Calvin Young Sr., and his people were from Plaisance. Later lived in Opelousas.
Many moved to Beaumont for work, but a bunch were buried back in Plaisance.
January 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In case it’s of interest to La. reporters: Shamsud-Din Jabbar had substantial family roots in St. Landry Parish.
His paternal grandfather, Calvin Young Sr., and his people were from Plaisance. Later lived in Opelousas.
Many moved to Beaumont for work, but a bunch were buried back in Plaisance.
His paternal grandfather, Calvin Young Sr., and his people were from Plaisance. Later lived in Opelousas.
Many moved to Beaumont for work, but a bunch were buried back in Plaisance.
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The GOP is apparently planning on passing a reconciliation package with as much as $120 BILLION in border-related funding.
To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.
To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.
December 10, 2024 at 2:37 AM
The GOP is apparently planning on passing a reconciliation package with as much as $120 BILLION in border-related funding.
To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.
To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.
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From WWL: French Quarter icon Central Grocery set to reopen and serve up its famous muffulettas once again After three years of closure due to Hurricane Ida, Central Grocery, home to New Orleans' famous muffuletta, reopens Dec. 14 at its restored Decatur Street location.
December 8, 2024 at 6:40 PM
From WWL: French Quarter icon Central Grocery set to reopen and serve up its famous muffulettas once again After three years of closure due to Hurricane Ida, Central Grocery, home to New Orleans' famous muffuletta, reopens Dec. 14 at its restored Decatur Street location.
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When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
December 8, 2024 at 1:47 AM
When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it.
Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.
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"Natural" was a third of women dying in childbirth & half of babies dying before age 5.
'Natural' was entire families wiped out by diphtheria, the D in the TDAP vaccine, & thousands of children paralyzed by polio.
This is privileged arrogance & willful ignorance of the before times.
'Natural' was entire families wiped out by diphtheria, the D in the TDAP vaccine, & thousands of children paralyzed by polio.
This is privileged arrogance & willful ignorance of the before times.
Some young women are celebrating the nomination of Kennedy, a medical skeptic, to the nation’s top health position, saying he takes their concerns about nutrition and medicine seriously.
How ‘Crunchy Moms’ Found a Hero in RFK Jr.
Once reserved for granola-loving hippies, the term has been embraced by a range of women who are pursuing a more natural way of life.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
"Natural" was a third of women dying in childbirth & half of babies dying before age 5.
'Natural' was entire families wiped out by diphtheria, the D in the TDAP vaccine, & thousands of children paralyzed by polio.
This is privileged arrogance & willful ignorance of the before times.
'Natural' was entire families wiped out by diphtheria, the D in the TDAP vaccine, & thousands of children paralyzed by polio.
This is privileged arrogance & willful ignorance of the before times.
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A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.
December 2, 2024 at 2:22 AM
A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.
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Elon Musk is danger to society.
November 29, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Elon Musk is danger to society.