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'The Last Class with Robert Reich' Has Lessons Worth Learning
'The Last Class with Robert Reich' Has Lessons Worth Learning
Robert Reich served in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in various roles, and
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July 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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If aliens really are coming to probe us, I hope they at least buy us dinner first.
nypost.com/2025/07/23/s...
Rare interstellar object the size of Manhattan could be an alien probe: Harvard scientists
The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but instead a directed craft.
nypost.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Republicans just voted to confirm Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with white supremacist views, to be in charge of counterterrorism.

We had all the evidence we'd ever need to know he's not competent or going to do the right thing.

Republicans will own this vote and Kent's record.
Senate confirms Trump's pick for counterterrorism agency, a former Green Beret with extremist ties
The Senate has confirmed Joe Kent, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center.
apnews.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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What an pleasure to join @ethanz.bsky.social for what may be the final episode of the Reimagining the Internet podcast. Congrats and thank you for creating space for essential discussions about AI governance--including auditing, the role of expertise in democracy, and the "Three Fallacies" of AI.
July 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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What I have was too big for just a report, so it’s now a 340-page book—the seventh in the New York Times-bestselling Proof Series.

You won’t see much of me for the next few days as I finish it.

Coming soon, and readable for free with a free one-week trial.
July 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Trump wants you to think that he’s bringing back the “Golden Age” of prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s.

But in reality, he’s dragging us toward something else: the Gilded Age of the 1890s. https://youtu.be/fusV6pkf-_c?feature=shared
Trump Wants a New Gilded Age
Robert Reich
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July 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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This airs at 8 am EDT tomorrow at aljazeera.com/live and then will be repayable at some point at www.aljazeera.com/program/head.... It’ll be better than anything you usually watch in the morning, I’m sure. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social was terrific.
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The first privately developed U.S. nuclear enrichment facility is going to be built in Paducah, Kentucky at the site of a former nuclear fuel plant.

The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.

That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah
A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...
www.wkms.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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But how did it come to be Trump’s? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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I really want to say something vile about the kind of people who think they’re better than everyone else because of their skin color.

But let’s just sit with the irony for a second.

These white supremacists are building a whites-only “Return to the Land” town—on stolen land.
July 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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he actually did it, the mad bastard www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tYx...
sheet folding guy
YouTube video by robynetzan
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July 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
July 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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ANALYSIS | There’s a royal reason Trump won’t escape Jeffrey Epstein fallout on trip to his Scotland golf courses — Prince Andrew
Royal reason Trump won’t escape Epstein fallout on Scotland trip – Prince Andrew
www.independent.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Seen a lot of posters of tRump go up in GBR but this is the one I miss.
July 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Both projects were a blast with dream teams that have given me a whole new perspective on journalism. More on that soon.

In meantime, if anyone now fancies giving me a national newspaper & £5m, my DMs are open! 😂
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July 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me.

So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!!
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July 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Good article about overtourism in Edinburgh, with lots of detail: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Overtourism: Does Edinburgh's Royal Mile need 72 gift shops?
People living in the area say they are seeing the overtourism problems being experienced across Europe.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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top entertainment (you might hope ) i have not followed the qr code
July 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Jerome Powell fact-checking Donald Trump’s lies in real time is an unexpected delight.
Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion

Powell: I’m not aware of that.

Trump: It just came out

Powell: You just added in a third building

Trump: It’s a building that’s being built

Powell: It was built five years ago.
July 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The name Fred Goodwin will go down in Edinburgh’s history books as the man who led the Royal Bank of Scotland to become the biggest bank in the world & then the brink of collapse. Now he is about to be portrayed on stage for the first time.
www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
'I needed to find a way to like the guy': Sandy Grierson on playing Fred Goodwin
The rise and fall of the Royal Bank of Scotland will be recalled in new National Theatre of Scotland production Make It Happen.
www.heraldscotland.com
July 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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This appalling penny-pinching tells you everything you need to know about the approach of cllrs & officials in Edinburgh towards events that are the envy of cities across the world. Don’t forget the same folk signed off £1.7m in Tour de France funding. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2533631...
Edinburgh Festival at odds with city council over charity discount for event permits
Festival bosses say they should qualify for a discount for non-profit events, but the council disagreed after a formal request for a fee recuction.
www.heraldscotland.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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“This is the nature of nationalist populism, whether it wears a red cap in Michigan or a turquoise rosette in Runcorn. It is expert at turning grievance, division and nostalgia into votes. But when it comes to governing, it will always fail.” Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern | Jonathan Freedland
Americans are beginning to worry about their future amid a shrinking economy, warnings of empty shelves – and the president’s failed promises, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM