🇨🇺🇺🇸 Strategic comms / media relations. Foreign policy nerd sci-fi geek. Spending a lot of time on AI / tech accountability these days. Signal: parrav.43
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This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today
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The #SpaceX IPO is the latest and largest example of @elonmusk's unrepentant decisions and farfetched predictions working in his favor:
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Love this so much. People Leo and I share our IT family support role.
John Prevost, the pope’s older brother, rang from Chicago with a computer problem — because Bob, as the family still calls him, has always been the one who fixes these things.
“John, I’m the pope,” Leo reminded him.
The reply came without a pause: “Oh, sorry pope. My computer is broken.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/john…
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NPR is offering a Morning Edition & NPR politics internship for fall 2026 job-boards.greenhouse.io/nat…
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I wrote about how State Attorneys General Can Block the Paramount-Warner Merger
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🇨🇻😢 Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha: "I cried after the game because I grew up with my grandparents when I was a kid, and they could not be there. They passed away a few years ago. My mum could not be here either for a VISA issue, and the money we had to pay for it. We did not manage to do this in time." (@TheAthleticFC)
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Ellison seen here at Trump's UFC party over the weekend
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump Justice Department's senior leadership closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Been a huge Cape Verde fan since 7 minutes ago.
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Kudos to Cabo Verde, one of the smallest countries in the World Cup, holding mighty Spain to a 0-0 draw. Another impressive start for another African team.
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Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!
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NPR is offering a Weekend Edition & science desk internship for fall 2026 job-boards.greenhouse.io/nat…
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Delightful outcome. Columbus karma baby.
Checking in on Important Business and...Spain hasn't scored against Cape Verde and they're in the 65th minute?
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$70 billion. What Congress just appropriated to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the end of the Trump administration, routed through reconciliation so it skips the usual guardrails.
See the data here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/…
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Today is my first day on the job at NOTUS covering how the administration is running, and transforming, government agencies.
Send me tips at nataliealms@notus.com
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Because to be clear we are thriving.
In Vance's new book — which will be released tomorrow — the VP writes that his infamous "childless cat ladies" comment was "a clear moment where I failed."
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All this because Nick wrote about Israel's rape and sexual assault of men, women and children.
New: The NYT is reviewing Nick Kristof's columns after he failed to disclose ex donor ties in a series of columns.
When Kristof returned to the paper after a failed bid for governor of Oregon, the NYT said he would disclose financial ties when writing about former donors.
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Navigating elder parent caregiving right now and this is plan is rife with putting loved ones in immense debt because of desperation, guilt and love. We have a broken system.
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The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.
Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.
Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.
A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.
The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.
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The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 782 after 72 new cases were documented in 24 hours, one of the biggest single-day jumps during the ongoing outbreak, government data showed on Sunday. reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Reading.
A veteran war correspondent reflects on the afterlife of photographs — and how they become fodder for conferences and fellowships while their subjects recede into oblivion.
Masterful by veteran war correspondent @shyamtekwani for @newlinesmag: newlinesmag.com/first-person…
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