Shireen
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• It’s Officially Primary Season
• Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again
• “Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks?” No.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
• Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again
• “Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks?” No.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
Slog AM: Seattle's Primary Season Is Upon Us, Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again, and Scientists Figured Out How Snakes Eat Bones
The Stranger's morning news roundup.
www.thestranger.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
• It’s Officially Primary Season
• Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again
• “Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks?” No.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
• Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again
• “Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks?” No.
www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025...
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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
www.motherjones.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
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Glad I was able to write about this in my forthcoming book… truly, thank you HarperCollins, for allowing me to be critical.
Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.
What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Not everything you think should be said out loud.
Not everything you think should be said out loud.
June 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Glad I was able to write about this in my forthcoming book… truly, thank you HarperCollins, for allowing me to be critical.
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Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
June 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade
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Steph Curry is one of the greatest basketball players ever, and judging by his company’s financials, he’s off to a pretty good start in the business world.
Steph Curry's Thirty Ink generated $174 million in revenue last year, and all of its businesses are profitable, company says
Curry is the CEO of Thirty Ink, which generated $174 million in revenue last year, and all of its business units are profitable, the company told CNBC Sport.
cnb.cx
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Steph Curry is one of the greatest basketball players ever, and judging by his company’s financials, he’s off to a pretty good start in the business world.
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One minute in Kyiv
I continue sharing these moments with you to show Kyiv's beauty and strength.
Stop me when you get bored.
I continue sharing these moments with you to show Kyiv's beauty and strength.
Stop me when you get bored.
May 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One minute in Kyiv
I continue sharing these moments with you to show Kyiv's beauty and strength.
Stop me when you get bored.
I continue sharing these moments with you to show Kyiv's beauty and strength.
Stop me when you get bored.
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Oh, now the hypocritical humanitarian speaks up.
May 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Oh, now the hypocritical humanitarian speaks up.
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WITHOUT CONSENT (November 2025)
NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago.
I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...
I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...
May 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
WITHOUT CONSENT (November 2025)
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OpenAI said on Wednesday that it's acquiring Jony Ive's artificial intelligence devices startup io for about $6.4 billion.
OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion
OpenAI said on Wednesday that it's acquiring Jony Ive's artificial intelligence devices startup io for about $6.4 billion.
cnb.cx
May 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
OpenAI said on Wednesday that it's acquiring Jony Ive's artificial intelligence devices startup io for about $6.4 billion.
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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
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Looking for Indie Bookshop Deals? You're here -- at the place where readers, authors, and indie booksellers connect and you save. This page shows the top indie bookshop deals as recommended by BookGorilla.
You can also search indie bookshop deals at www.bookgorilla.com/bookshop
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Looking for Indie Bookshop Deals? You're here -- at the place where readers, authors, and indie booksellers connect and you save. This page shows the top indie bookshop deals as recommended by BookGorilla.
You can also search indie bookshop deals at www.bookgorilla.com/bookshop
#BookSky 💙📚
April 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Looking for Indie Bookshop Deals? You're here -- at the place where readers, authors, and indie booksellers connect and you save. This page shows the top indie bookshop deals as recommended by BookGorilla.
You can also search indie bookshop deals at www.bookgorilla.com/bookshop
#BookSky 💙📚
Looking for Indie Bookshop Deals? You're here -- at the place where readers, authors, and indie booksellers connect and you save. This page shows the top indie bookshop deals as recommended by BookGorilla.
You can also search indie bookshop deals at www.bookgorilla.com/bookshop
#BookSky 💙📚
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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." — Ayn Rand
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April 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." — Ayn Rand
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Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges.
Good luck! 🫡
Good luck! 🫡
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The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said
www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter
A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said
www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
www.cnn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges.
Good luck! 🫡
Good luck! 🫡
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie
April 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie
Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
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What some people aren’t factoring into their analysis is the reality that companies were buying tons of inventory to beat the tariffs.
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
April 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What some people aren’t factoring into their analysis is the reality that companies were buying tons of inventory to beat the tariffs.
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
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Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
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Former primary school teacher and World War II historian Masatoshi Asari has sent cherry trees around the world from his base in Hokkaido, in part to help atone for Japan's actions during the war.
The man who sent Japan's cherry blossoms out to the world
Masatoshi Asari's trees — symbols of peace and reconciliation — blossom in the U.K., U.S., Poland and China.
www.japantimes.co.jp
April 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Former primary school teacher and World War II historian Masatoshi Asari has sent cherry trees around the world from his base in Hokkaido, in part to help atone for Japan's actions during the war.
"Humans change over time.
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy."
Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
#bookerprize #Japaneseauthors #bookerlonglist
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy."
Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
#bookerprize #Japaneseauthors #bookerlonglist
April 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"Humans change over time.
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy."
Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
#bookerprize #Japaneseauthors #bookerlonglist
I certainly have. I’ve aged and become grumpy."
Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
#bookerprize #Japaneseauthors #bookerlonglist
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NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
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DJ Taylor: All Malcolm Bradbury’s fiction is, ultimately, a debate about the limits of liberalism, and The History Man’s real theme can be summed up by the question: “How do we tolerate people who, if tolerated, will cease to tolerate us?”
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/r...
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/r...
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury at fifty | Essay
The History Man was published in October 1975, a hot month for fiction that led to some eye-catching book-page juxtapositions: Robert Nye, for example, was forced to review it alongside Martin Amis’s ...
www.the-tls.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
DJ Taylor: All Malcolm Bradbury’s fiction is, ultimately, a debate about the limits of liberalism, and The History Man’s real theme can be summed up by the question: “How do we tolerate people who, if tolerated, will cease to tolerate us?”
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/r...
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/r...
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NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
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The Revolution will be AI-icized
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Revolution will be AI-icized
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“When I look back our beach has a long straight line – right down the middle – like the spine of a book.
“It is where I dragged my coffin.
“I use his oars.”
—in Jenni Fagan’s LUCKENBOOTH, the Devil’s daughter rows herself to Edinburgh in a coffin
#BookWormSat
www.thesocial.com/an-extract-l...
“It is where I dragged my coffin.
“I use his oars.”
—in Jenni Fagan’s LUCKENBOOTH, the Devil’s daughter rows herself to Edinburgh in a coffin
#BookWormSat
www.thesocial.com/an-extract-l...
An Extract: Luckenbooth - Jenni Fagan - The Social - London
I lived in an ancient tenement building decades ago, that was so creepy and weird I knew it would one day form the basis of a novel. It takes a long time before we are ready to write certain books and...
www.thesocial.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“When I look back our beach has a long straight line – right down the middle – like the spine of a book.
“It is where I dragged my coffin.
“I use his oars.”
—in Jenni Fagan’s LUCKENBOOTH, the Devil’s daughter rows herself to Edinburgh in a coffin
#BookWormSat
www.thesocial.com/an-extract-l...
“It is where I dragged my coffin.
“I use his oars.”
—in Jenni Fagan’s LUCKENBOOTH, the Devil’s daughter rows herself to Edinburgh in a coffin
#BookWormSat
www.thesocial.com/an-extract-l...
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[Billy Bob Thornton voice] it’s not that no one wants to read anymore, it’s that no one wants to read anything written by a robot with a giant stick up its ass. No one e’er wanted ‘at. You wanna hire,, WALL-EE to write your fuckin posts about both sides a climut change, be mah fuckin’ guest
February 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
[Billy Bob Thornton voice] it’s not that no one wants to read anymore, it’s that no one wants to read anything written by a robot with a giant stick up its ass. No one e’er wanted ‘at. You wanna hire,, WALL-EE to write your fuckin posts about both sides a climut change, be mah fuckin’ guest