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Still waiting for Jenny and Niki to phone me back...
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Hanging out with German relatives this week and all them have been like, “Oh yeah that’s definitely a Hitler you got there. You wanna fix that now or else you got a REAL problem down the pike.”
December 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I thought of it well after the filing deadline had passed, but my contribution to this list would have been Hulk Hogan dying.
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Our Favorite Sports Moments Of 2025 | Defector
These are the sports moments from 2025 that the Defector staff enjoyed. A’ja Wilson Hits A Game-Winner In Phoenix By October, I think I did know subconsciously that A’ja Wilson was the greatest player...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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white people will take off their shoes before stepping on a picnic blanket but start a podcast if asked to remove them inside someone else’s house
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself
December 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The Guy Teams Were Willing To Face After Intentionally Walking Barry Bonds has now been elected to the Hall of Fame over Barry Bonds
Hall of Fame Contemporary Baseball Era veterans committee elects Jeff Kent
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I'm thinking today of the dozens of CoV team members that Ken Sim has fired, right before the holidays, thanks to his election-year budget stunt.

Workers keep us moving. We need to invest in our city and its services, and we need great people working for our city to do that.
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I wrote up an Olivia Nuzzi explainer. If I never have to write about this nightmare of a person ever again, I’ll be grateful. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
A guide to the absolutely ludicrous Olivia Nuzzi media scandal
Somehow, RFK Jr., a former Republican governor and Anthony Weiner are all involved.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:

“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
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November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Exciting news - I’m seeking the mayoral nomination with @OneCityVan! 1 / 5 youtu.be/2MTf7QmcEpc
My name is William Azaroff and I'm seeking the mayoral nomination with OneCity
YouTube video by William for Vancouver
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November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Candidates for Mayor in Vancouver for next year’s municipal election are starting to officially launch their campaigns. Here’s one I’ll be watching closely given his housing and community-building experience, @wazaroff.bsky.social with @onecityvan.bsky.social.
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Ok back from break. 542: what is not in front us. Like getting a novel with half the pages missing. We aren’t employees told it’s balanced but the pages that tell us how are missing. It’s not a budget it’s an outline. You can’t debate what you can’t see. We don’t need the best slogan we need best
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Truly, the apparently urgent, insatiable desire of a wide swath of the ruling class to email a monster with no particular expertise is worthy of book-length dissertations
Jeffrey Epstein Was The Unofficial Advice Columnist For The Elites | Defector
Ever since it was disclosed that financier Leon Black had paid Jeffrey Epstein over $150 million for tax and estate planning in 2014, six years after the latter pleaded guilty to child prostitution ch...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.

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Exclusive | Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches
Warner Bros. Discovery is holding an auction process in the hopes of having it completed by the end of the year.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Budget hearing continued after short recess. 157: environmental lawyer (?)Reads poem. 158: raised in east van. This is austerity and hasn’t been asked for. I’ve been lucky enough to use public services. Breaks my heart to think they won’t get same quality. Few people asked for this police budget.
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.

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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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"At least three attendees wore the uniform of the recently formed Second Sons Canada ... Second Sons Canada is run by Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of Diagolon, who this year filmed himself making a Hitler salute in a video shared on Telegram"

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM