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making sure none of you are up to any mischief / you better believe I've got a substack https://jclifford.substack.com/

Spectator article wondering about an armie hammer comeback
Cotton op-ed and resignation See also: List of The New York Times controversies § Tom Cotton editorial (2020) On June 3, 2020, amid nationwide protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, The New York Times published a number of op-eds about the protests. Some op-eds called for more protests, one called for the abolition of the police, 18) and one by Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, titled "Send in the Troops", 19) called for the deployment of federal troops into major American cities if there was violent rioting. 20)[19) Bennet stated that the Times had invited Cotton to write an op-ed after he tweeted about using troops to stop rioting. 18)[21] Fellow editorial writer Michelle Goldberg called the piece "fascist." [22) Dozens of Times reporters tweeted, "Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger." Bennet initially defended the publication of the op-ed.
The Rupert murdoch cookie cartoon where murdoch tells a white fellow with one cookie a black fellow with no cookies wants his cookie while he himself sits sinister and aged before a plate with many cookies
nyt article saying trump's memecoin sucks and anyone who bought it was a rube
THE SPECTATOR SIGN IN SUBSCRIBE FOR JUST £I A MONTH Andrew Gilligan Will Labour suspend the National Association of Muslim Police? Noa Hoffman Revealed: Green party proposes circumcision ban
their mission in life must be to undermine him by whatever means necessary. They have spent the last decade condemning Trump and his supporters as conspiracy loons even as they leap from one dark theory to the next - Trump is a Russian asset! A closet Nazi! An Al Capone-style mobster! A serial rapist and possibly even a pedophile! - without stopping to question the nature of their obsession.
Economist cover - “a new beginning” with a map of Israel made of clear blue sky
BBC headline NHS staff should be banned from wearing pro-Palestinian badges, report recommends Health 8h
under normal circumstances, defend it. For westerners to passively accept and even abet incursions by foreigners so massive that the native-born are effectively surrendering their territory without a shot fired is biologically perverse.
For westerners to passively accept and even abet incursions by foreigners so massive that the native-born are effectively surrendering their territory without a shot fired is biologically perverse. •
No deal announced after Trump meeting to 1 make 'final determination' on Iran Middle East 2h
BBC headline Trump holding meeting to make 'final determination' on Iran deal Middle East - 9min
Guardian article Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
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their mission in life must be to undermine him by whatever means necessary. They have spent the last decade condemning Trump and his supporters as conspiracy loons even as they leap from one dark theory to the next - Trump is a Russian asset! A closet Nazi! An Al Capone-style mobster! A serial rapist and possibly even a pedophile! - without stopping to question the nature of their obsession.
IDEAS The Absurd Misunderstanding Fueling the Debate Over The Odyssey Elon Musk's outrage at Christopher Nolan says more about today's myopic notion of identity than it does about classical antiquity. By Thomas Chatterton Williams
Meanwhile, US news site Axios, citing classified intelligence, reported that Cuba possessed 300 drones and was discussing striking nearby US targets - including Guantanamo Bay, Key West in Florida, and naval vessels. It also quoted a US official who said the intelligence - which it characterised as a potential pretext for US military intervention - suggested Iranian military advisers were in Havana.