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‘Thomas More didn’t just love his family, he also educated them. Most strikingly, he educated his daughters to a remarkable level of competence. He was aware that “erudition in women is a new thing,” but in this he had no scruples about being innovative.’
Lucy Wooding:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lucy Wooding:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lucy Wooding · Damnable Rottenness: More and More
Saint or sinner, scholar or polemicist, philosopher or politician – no single vision of Thomas More has ever commanded...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘Thomas More didn’t just love his family, he also educated them. Most strikingly, he educated his daughters to a remarkable level of competence. He was aware that “erudition in women is a new thing,” but in this he had no scruples about being innovative.’
Lucy Wooding:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lucy Wooding:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A new government decree expands Roskomnadzor’s authority to isolate or reroute internet traffic inside Russia in case of “specific threats.”
After Expanding Online Control, Lawmaker Insists Russia Will Stay Connected to Global Web
- The Moscow Times
A senior lawmaker in Russia’s lower-house State Duma said Tuesday that the government has no plans to disconnect the country’s internet from the global web following debate over a decree that grants n...
www.themoscowtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A new government decree expands Roskomnadzor’s authority to isolate or reroute internet traffic inside Russia in case of “specific threats.”
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lmao this opener. deepmind being like "maybe it's possible AI could cure all disease! maybe ..... maybe it will happen within the next ten years??" christ could these people be serious for a second
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
lmao this opener. deepmind being like "maybe it's possible AI could cure all disease! maybe ..... maybe it will happen within the next ten years??" christ could these people be serious for a second
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OMG HOW DID I MISS THIS
This year Demis Hassabis predicted AI could cure all disease in a decade.
But other scientists like Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics.
In a new 4hr podcast episode of *Hard Drugs*, we answer: Will AI solve medicine?
But other scientists like Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics.
In a new 4hr podcast episode of *Hard Drugs*, we answer: Will AI solve medicine?
Will AI solve medicine?
spotify.link
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
OMG HOW DID I MISS THIS
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The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The fact that all large UK broadcasters continue to use X, an openly white supremacist platform that has been redesigned specifically to amplify far-right elites, is doing massive, real-time harm to the country.
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If Bluesky will suspend writers like Sarah Kendzior, then I have no use for this platform. It's less than useless.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If Bluesky will suspend writers like Sarah Kendzior, then I have no use for this platform. It's less than useless.
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Attention @pfrazee.com Dr Parcak is a highly esteemed academic, well versed in disinformation and misinformation, for one thing, she’s vouching for Dr Sarah Kendzior, author and fellow academic. You need to undone this egregious action, if you did suspend her account. You’re in the wrong, here.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Attention @pfrazee.com Dr Parcak is a highly esteemed academic, well versed in disinformation and misinformation, for one thing, she’s vouching for Dr Sarah Kendzior, author and fellow academic. You need to undone this egregious action, if you did suspend her account. You’re in the wrong, here.
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Well done The Greens in the UK passing a motion to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation
Éire needs to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation - slaughtering & maiming people, murdering journalists & healthcare workers, destroying hospitals & schools
Well done The Greens in the UK passing a motion to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation
Éire needs to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation - slaughtering & maiming people, murdering journalists & healthcare workers, destroying hospitals & schools
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
www.icjpalestine.com/2025/10/13/i...
Well done The Greens in the UK passing a motion to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation
Éire needs to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation - slaughtering & maiming people, murdering journalists & healthcare workers, destroying hospitals & schools
Well done The Greens in the UK passing a motion to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation
Éire needs to designate the IDF a terrorist organisation - slaughtering & maiming people, murdering journalists & healthcare workers, destroying hospitals & schools
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NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
High-profile Jan. 6 defendant facing charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting woman
John Banuelos' case was unique among Capitol riot prosecutions because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
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This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
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JUST IN: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayoral race.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
JUST IN: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayoral race.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
Stay tuned for details on today's count.
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New case filed today argues Russ Vought’s shutdown tactics on blue states violate the fifth amendment’s equal protection clause, specifically clean energy projects cancelled in sixteen Democratic-led states
Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New case filed today argues Russ Vought’s shutdown tactics on blue states violate the fifth amendment’s equal protection clause, specifically clean energy projects cancelled in sixteen Democratic-led states
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🇲🇼⚠️ Malawian girls in Russia were taken into slavery and forced to make Shaheds in the Alabuga industrial zone.
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🇲🇼⚠️ Malawian girls in Russia were taken into slavery and forced to make Shaheds in the Alabuga industrial zone.
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
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That's it for this less than 10-minute hearing.
Judge Fitzpatrick lays out the procedure by which he will eventually rule whether to disclose the grand jury materials to the defense.
No ruling on the outcome of that request, but Fitzpatrick likely will obtain the materials within minutes.
Judge Fitzpatrick lays out the procedure by which he will eventually rule whether to disclose the grand jury materials to the defense.
No ruling on the outcome of that request, but Fitzpatrick likely will obtain the materials within minutes.
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
That's it for this less than 10-minute hearing.
Judge Fitzpatrick lays out the procedure by which he will eventually rule whether to disclose the grand jury materials to the defense.
No ruling on the outcome of that request, but Fitzpatrick likely will obtain the materials within minutes.
Judge Fitzpatrick lays out the procedure by which he will eventually rule whether to disclose the grand jury materials to the defense.
No ruling on the outcome of that request, but Fitzpatrick likely will obtain the materials within minutes.
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In hearing before William Fitzpatrick on Comey bid to get grand jury transripts (where Fitzpatrick decided he'll review the transcripts in camera w/a submission from Comey's lawyers about what to look for), Loaner AUSA Diaz said they presented 14 exhibits to GJ.
There were 14 in last week's filing
There were 14 in last week's filing
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In hearing before William Fitzpatrick on Comey bid to get grand jury transripts (where Fitzpatrick decided he'll review the transcripts in camera w/a submission from Comey's lawyers about what to look for), Loaner AUSA Diaz said they presented 14 exhibits to GJ.
There were 14 in last week's filing
There were 14 in last week's filing
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Talwani accuses the Trump administration of playing "vindictive games with the states."
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Talwani accuses the Trump administration of playing "vindictive games with the states."
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BREAKING: Judge will keep USDA's Saturday order on hold that directed states to "undo" full SNAP payments.
Talwani: "I think there is no reason for me not to keep in place my stay of the order directing the agencies to take steps to return the funds that were issued."
Talwani: "I think there is no reason for me not to keep in place my stay of the order directing the agencies to take steps to return the funds that were issued."
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING: Judge will keep USDA's Saturday order on hold that directed states to "undo" full SNAP payments.
Talwani: "I think there is no reason for me not to keep in place my stay of the order directing the agencies to take steps to return the funds that were issued."
Talwani: "I think there is no reason for me not to keep in place my stay of the order directing the agencies to take steps to return the funds that were issued."
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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oh, you mean like this other hidden lil nugget?
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
oh, you mean like this other hidden lil nugget?
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The democrats voted to destroy what’s left of the judiciary last night btw.
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The democrats voted to destroy what’s left of the judiciary last night btw.
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$2,000 tariff dividends would cost $600 billion a year and if paid annually would raise the debt to 134% of GDP (from ~100%) by 2035, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates.
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
$2,000 tariff dividends would cost $600 billion a year and if paid annually would raise the debt to 134% of GDP (from ~100%) by 2035, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates.
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Impose illegal taxes, win incredibly stupid prizes.
Trump claims the U.S. would need to repay $2 trillion if the Supreme Court overturned his tariffs. He says that covers "tariff revenue and investments," which presumably includes the deals from Japan, Korea, etc. Credible estimates of tariff revenue are less than 10% of that.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Impose illegal taxes, win incredibly stupid prizes.
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🚨 Trump admin Asst Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon responded on X to a viral tweet that accused Coca-Cola of discriminating against white people. Libs of TikTok accused Coke of favoring job candidates by first names.
Coca-cola called the accusation “categorically false,” in a statement.
Coca-cola called the accusation “categorically false,” in a statement.
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🚨 Trump admin Asst Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon responded on X to a viral tweet that accused Coca-Cola of discriminating against white people. Libs of TikTok accused Coke of favoring job candidates by first names.
Coca-cola called the accusation “categorically false,” in a statement.
Coca-cola called the accusation “categorically false,” in a statement.
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"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...