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13 Nov 2024
I'm going outside to Bluesky and may be some time.
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10 Nov 2024
welcome back ruth bader ginsburg
10 Nov 2024
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to retire, resisting liberal calls to quit ahead of Trump presidency —WSJ
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5 Nov 2024
🚨🚨 Netanyahu, after firing Defense Minister Gallant, considers expanding purge of security services.
5 Nov 2024
Sources close to Netanyahu: PM now considering firing IDF, Shin Bet chiefs as well @haaretzcom
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26 Oct 2024
Shocking new directive: Today, the Taliban's Minister of Vice and Virtue announced a ban on adult women's voices in each other's presence. In August, the Taliban banned women's voices in public, deeming it provocative. Women protested to this ban by singing and poetry.
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26 Oct 2024
In 1971, after the Justice Dept enjoined The NY Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, my father gave them to the @washingtonpost. It was ultimately the call of Katherine Graham, publisher/owner. She was warned that her paper’s survival was on the line. She didn’t blink.
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25 Oct 2024
A reminder:
It was Jared Kushner and the Trump administration who gave @washingtonpost writer Jamal Khashoggi to the Saudis, dismembered with a bone saw and liquefied in sulfuric acid.
But in a contest between Harris and Trump, Jeff Bezos can't make an endorsement.
25 Oct 2024
.@washingtonpost @JeffBezos apparently democracy really does die in darkness. The darkness or a billionaire's bank vault.
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24 Oct 2024
Bloomberg News analyzed more than 53,000 posts sent from Musk’s Twitter account between 2011 and 2024 to determine which topics he prioritized -- and which received the most engagement. Anti-immigration and voter fraud conspiracies top the list. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
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21 Oct 2024
A great milestone but an even more staggering record. If a bowler's job is to remove batters as soon as possible, right now KG is the greatest bowler ever to have played the game at the highest level.
21 Oct 2024
Kagisa Rabada becomes the fastest to 300 Test wickets (by balls bowled) ⚡
11,817 - Rabada
12,602 - Waqar Younis
12,605 - Dale Steyn
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4 Oct 2024
SCOOP: I reviewed three sets of internal email exchanges between senior Biden administration officials who were warned just DAYS after Oct. 7 that Israel was risking committing war crimes by ordering more than a million Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate. There’s more: 1/X
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20 Sep 2024
The Biggest Disappointment polls are still running, but three parties have pulled away from the rest, which means it’s time to vote.
So....
Which of these three parties (listed alphabetically) has been the greatest disappointment in SA politics since the May 29 election?
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ActionSA
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RISE Mzansi
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20 Sep 2024
POLL: Which political party has disappointed you most since the May 29 election? (Winners will go into a final Biggest Letdown In SA Political poll.)
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ACDP
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UDM
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Rise Mzansi
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Build One SA
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20 Sep 2024
POLL: Which political party has disappointed you most since the May 29 election? (Winners will go into a final Biggest Letdown In SA Political poll.)
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IFP
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Patriotic Alliance
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Freedom Front Plus
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ActionSA
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20 Sep 2024
POLL: Which political party has disappointed you most since the May 29 election? (Winners will go into a final Biggest Letdown In SA Political poll.)
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Tom Eaton retweeted
13 Sep 2024
There were more than 405,000 visits to Vote.gov through the link Taylor Swift shared on Instagram after her endorsement of Kamala Harris, far more than the site’s daily average of 30,000 in early September. nyti.ms/3ZpD9n4
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11 Sep 2024
The ABC moderators have let Trump speak for 9 minutes longer - roughly 30% more - than Harris. The way they've "rigged" the debate is by letting him hang himself with his own stream-of-consciousness rambles.
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26 Aug 2024
#CapeTownTrams2035
Imagine @CapeTown had trams!
Comment on our suggested routes:
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26 Aug 2024
I thought this was weak satire when I read it. This is astonishing.
26 Aug 2024
A controversial podcaster and conservative social media activist, Roman Cabanac, has been appointed as the chief of staff in the office of the minister of agriculture, John Steenhuisen.
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