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This is playing with fire. It’s also a plot worth of Dr. Evil, to spark the next deadly pandemic because we can’t shut down or regulate the dwindling number of mink fur farms. Fur farms are cruel, dangerous and carry actual catastrophic risk.

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

My latest article for the Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...

it says a lot about us, none of it good, that we chose a leader with not a single redeeming quality: stupid? yup. corrupt? absolutely. dishonest? to his core. violent? maybe the most violent ever. any ability to empathize with people? none. baseline level of regard for human life? not even a skosh.

I am a huge Red Wing fan and as such was a Dylan Larkin fan. The picture of him partying with Kash Patel after winning the gold medal is not only disgusting. It is a disgrace to the winged wheel.

one thing that drives me insane about modern platforms is how many default to "3 months" or "1 year" instead of showing the actual date of a post, very frustrating

I thought I understood what animal testing meant until I brought home a former lab dog My dog didn’t know the joy of a toy or how to use a leash until he was six, and it broke my heart www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...