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Bill Mendelsohn
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3/7

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BBC News quiz of the week: Which Spice Girl attended Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay's wedding?
How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?
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January 2, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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9/13

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BBC News Quiz of the Year 2025, Part 4: Who was the mysterious fedora man pictured outside the Louvre?
Test your memory of 2025 in the final part of our quiz. What happened from October to December?
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December 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Yet another 6/13

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BBC News Quiz of the Year 2025, Part 3: What Instagram caption did Taylor Swift use to announce her engagement?
Test your memory of 2025 in the third part of our quiz. What happened from July to September?
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December 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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6/13, again

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BBC News Quiz of the Year 2025, Part 2: What did Katy Perry sing on that all-female space flight?
Test your memory of 2025 in the second part of our quiz. What happened from April to June?
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December 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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6/13

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Quiz of the Year 2025, Part 1: Which star teased her engagement on the red carpet?
Test your memory of 2025 in the first part of our quiz. What happened from January to March?
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December 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet
Sidney Greenstreet dressed as Santa while Peter Lorre sneaks up behind him with a baseball bat
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11d
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The part of Batman Returns where two different weird parodies of donald trump have a little conference in a sewer
Screenshot from Batman Returns. Danny Devito as the bizarre homunculus Penguin having a little talk with Christopher Walken as evil tycoon Max Shreck
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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River Side Winterfest is scheduled for Jan. 31, as long as it's cold. Last year it was 52 and rainy and just the most depressing goddamn thing ever.
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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5/7

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BBC News quiz of the week: Why has Charlotte Church given up deodorant?
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December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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This is both disgusting and expected.

The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Wow. It looks like he's giving Kennedy Center Honors to the Lee Harvey Oswald Prison Transfer Appreciation Society....
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21d
what in the fuck
trump surrounded by the 1980 us hockey team wearing cowboy hats. elise stefanik and kash patel are there, too.
December 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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60 years ago today -
Jim Lovell and Frank Borman were in orbit on Gemini VII, waiting for their visitors, who were still on Earth - the crew of Gemini VI-A.
3 days later, the crews would perform the world's first rendezvous in space.
Wave clouds over the Andes, illuminated like a golden fire:
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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5/7

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BBC News quiz of the week: Which countries said they would boycott Eurovision?
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December 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Disney used to sue the asses off people for doing what's about to happen at scale

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Walt Disney Productions v. Air Pirates - Wikipedia
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December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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It’s been a while, which means we’re long overdue for another Nazi Punch of the Day. This page of Catman blinding a Nazi comes from Villains United #3, by @gailsimone.bsky.social and Val Semeiks.

#NaziPunching #NPotD
Four-panel comic. Catman mocks a Nazi, provokes him into charging, then ends him.
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Today marks 80 years since our nonprofit newsroom started publishing.

To mark this milestone—in true Bulletin fashion—we published a magazine issue that looks to the future.

Check it out: buff.ly/REJsWIF
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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5/7

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Weekly quiz: Where did the shopkeepers find the drunk raccoon?
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December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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70 years ago, Hirschfeld drew this 5-panel mural for Harry’s American Bar at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, Florida.

Can you identify any of the 1955 celebrities and cultural figures in the mural?
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"The net effect would be to disadvantage the people the FDA exists to protect. ... The proposed new directives are not small adjustments or coherent policy updates. ... These arguments misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record." —former FDA commissioners writing in NEJM
The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE Perspective A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA As former commissioners of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — who collectively guided the agency’s oversight for more than 35 years, through myriad public health crises — we are committed to medical product safety and identifying new medical evidence with the speed, rigor, and openness that the public should expect. We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and available when the public needs them most. The existing regulatory model builds public trust by encouraging open information exchange and rigorous, transparent scientific debate. Yet a memo sent last week to FDA staff will upend core policies governing vaccine development and updates.1 These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest. They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA, including substantial departures of FDA staff, that could diminish both the FDA’s strength and Americans’ health and safety. The memo (available at https://www-biocentury-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/article/657740) was written by Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), who also serves as the agency’s chief scientific officer, chief medical officer, and acting head of CBER’s office of biostatistics, as well as overseeing the division responsible for vaccine review and approval. His memo characterizes the actions of FDA scientists who express concerns about agency processes or decisions to outside parties as “unethical” and “illegal.” It calls for scientific debates to be kept within the agency “until they are ready to be made public,” and instructs staff members who disagree with the new framework to “submit your resignation letters.” The proposed guidelines would dramatically change vaccine regulation on the basis of a reinterpretation of selective evidence and by a process that breaks sharply with the norms that have anchored the FDA’s globally respected scientific integrity. If enacted, the framework would impede the ability to update vaccines to keep up with the natural evolution of respiratory viruses or changes in the prevalence of bacterial serotypes; it would also suppress innovation and competition. The net effect would be to disadvantage the people the FDA exists to protect, including millions of Americans at high risk from serious infections. The new framework rejects the agency’s long-standing reliance on “immunobridging” studies for well-understood vaccines with extensive safety data. Using this approach, once a reliable correlation with effectiveness has been established, a vaccine’s ability to stimulate the immune system to produce protective antibodies can serve as a surrogate for its efficacy in helping patients avoid infections and complications from rapidly evolving viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. Because these viruses change frequently, repeating large-scale efficacy trials for every new seasonal strain is not feasible within the time needed to update the vaccines. Bridging studies have also been used to broaden vaccine protection to additional serotypes of bacteria.2 The FDA continually updates the correlate strains used for immunobridging studies to ensure that vaccines remain safe and effective as threats evolve. Immunobridging studies have also been used for some new products, including the human papillomavirus vaccine that could largely eliminate cervical cancer. The proposed new directives are not small adjustments or coherent policy updates. They represent a major shift in the FDA’s understanding of its job. The memo states that “no amount of cell or humoral mediated immune surrogates” can justify approval of new or updated vaccines — logic that Prasad claims is implied by the lack of a full biosimilar pathway for vaccines. These arguments misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record, especially in the case of vaccines that target well-understood pathogens through an established mechanism of action. Abandoning the existing methods won’t “elevate vaccine science,” as the memo asserts. It will subject vaccines to a substantially higher and more subjective approval bar. The proposed measures will slow the replacement of older products with better ones and will create potentially prohibitive expenses for new market entrants, especially small biotechnology companies. It’s true that vaccines can generate substantial profits and that their complexity thwarts true generic competition, as the memo observes. But the proposed policy response would reduce competition and raise prices by demanding premarketing randomized clinical trials “for most new products.”1,3 Moreover, insisting on long, expensive outcomes studies for every updated formulation would delay the arrival of better-matched vaccines when new outbreaks emerge or when additional groups of patients could benefit. It is important to create a clear, science-driven, and well-reasoned pathway to approval; otherwise, innovators will have no reliable way to design their development programs. The people most affected by the FDA’s proposed framework will include older Americans and those with weakened immune systems who rely most on the protection that timely and updated vaccines can offer. The new approach would also evade public transparency, including long-standing statutory and regulatory mechanisms that enable disagreements about benefit–risk balance, clinical tria…
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Cartoon of a man talking to a dog. He is saying "What's that Lassie? So long as wealth can buy power it's not really democracy?"
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM