Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard
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Alert but Anxious Tarragon Mustard
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I like food and drink and music and geopolitics. I live in Basel.
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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 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🇺🇸 Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk says the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its popular GLP-1 anti-obesity drug Wegovy to be administered in pill form for weight loss.
➡️ u.afp.com/S8xH
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs

It’s a eggnog recipe
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones.

The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Today's GB News TV advertisers include *PureCremation *MajesticWine *Sky *Agincare *Lebara *Reclaim_Nation *Boxt *CandlelightUK *HousingUnits
*Belgica *PolishTourismOrganisation *LeasingOptions *SimplyFactoring *AllClearTravel www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
GB News' fawning Donald Trump interview reported to Ofcom
Campaign group 38 Degrees delivered the complaint after more than 65,000 people signed a petition demanding an investigation into whether the interview broke impartiality rules
www.mirror.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who charged Donald Trump for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments during the 2016 campaign, has won his reelection.

Bragg exclaimed: “I love democracy!”
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Er, Chuck, take notes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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@djrothkopf.bsky.social this ad got to me. His media use and content is just brilliant. ⬇️
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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BREAKING: Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family’s own crypto venture, WSJ reports.

The most corrupt president in history.
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This conversation.

Thank you, #BBCWest / #BBCBristol - it's good to see you can still do it.
October 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Any questions for Handbrake Off pod? The mailbag is open. Just reply here.

Arsenal stuff, plus feel free to throw in any old albums or films you’d like to listen to/see again.
October 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Confit complete. Before serving, I will crisp in a hot oven.
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’m going to confit some duck legs. This is 1.25kg of duck fat
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Instead of mascots, England and Wales take to the field with 22 men and women who are living with Alzheimer's disease or dementia ❤️

The players will also wear shirts without names in the second half to help raise awareness 👏
October 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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President Trump has hit new 2nd-term lows in net approval among several groups:
• 33% of women approve of Trump and 61% disapprove, a net approval of -28
• 43% of those 65 & older approve, 55% disapprove
• 25% of Hispanics approve, 71% disapprove
(@today.yougov.com)
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
October 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM