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Herve Renard standing on a veranda in the French Riviera, ironing an identical linen shirt to the one he’s wearing. A phone rings in the distance, a conversation happens in the background. A beautiful woman in a negligee approaches him from behind “you have a call” “Who this time?” “Tunisia”

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

Alexander Butterfield. A relatively junior figure in the Nixon administration who provided the bombshell moment at the Senate Watergate Committee revealing that Nixon was not only recording all Oval Office conversations but that the tapes were still in existence. RIP.

Breaking: Disturbing scenes out of Portland, 2025 — authorities warn the situation could escalate.

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

Sounds plausible. How low can they go?

Frederick Douglass was a writer, diplomat, advisor to President Lincoln and American hero. The Maryland National Guard is declining to march in the annual Douglass parade in his native Talbot County this year because he was Black and the DoD no longer does Black history wapo.st/3CQfK5g

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This is a hell of a piece of writing about a story that, if you heard about it for the first time, would blow your socks off. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...