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Saves people the trouble of waiting for a journalist getting added to the Principals Committee group chat or a photog snapping pics of someone's phone.

President Nicolas Maduro says Venezuela foiled a false flag operation by what he called local terrorists to plant explosives at the US embassy in Caracas and exacerbate a dispute between the two countries over drug trafficking

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C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.

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Hope some enterprising journalist or historian is archiving all of the public posting Gimenez has been doing in advance of the coming infrastructure strikes on / renditions in Caracas.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Trump calls off diplomatic outreach to Venezuela, New York Times reports reut.rs/3VSkflO

We have some fun speakers & activities coming up this month in Geology Club! ⚒️

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That the @washingtonpost.com can’t keep @crampell.bsky.social around is damning. Anyone familiar with Rampell’s work would know that it would be compatible with WaPo’s intended editorial direction. But she didn’t want to be compromised. Good for her. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

"Honesty" when it comes to narrative fiction is hard to be empirical about & it's easy to get overly precious about it, but almost every criticism I have of the show stems from Sorkin being dishonest or forcing his characters to be dishonest, either for plot / stakes convenience or to channel Sorkin

A sin of the West Wing and a lot of other Sorkin content (tho not all!) is that his deep seated belief drama can only really come from people making two equally justifiable arguments (even if one is obviously the hero & one obviously the villain) doesn't map well to American history or politics.

A State Department inspector general report says U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson dismissed an embassy contractor at Salvadoran President Bukele’s request.

The contractor had talked to a journalist about a suspected government pact with the MS-13 gang.

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I do suspect that a lot of discourse on here is probably driven by not using the nuclear block as much as this site used to tbh

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One thing that's happening in Portland that Fox News won't tell you is that aggressive, drunk, right wingers have shown up at the ICE facility trying to start fights and the protesters there have not taken the bait. Therefore the story has become "look how Antifa-friendly the Portland police are!"

I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.

WE BEAT 'EM BEFORE.

WE'LL BEAT 'EM AGAIN.

There was a time when gutting social security was considered the third rail of American politics. To the point where politicians who planned to gut it went through tremendous efforts to disguise that's what they were trying to do. Curious to see how popular this time it turns out to be.