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through meditation i program my heart to beat breakbeats and hum basslines upon exhalation. (Opinion Editor, BuzzFeed News)

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  1. 7 hours ago

    Carlos Ghosn revived the fortunes of two struggling global auto makers via a bureaucratically hectic Franco-Japanese alliance, but his legacy will be that he spent months training to contort to himself fit inside the case for a giant double bass; the perfect getaway

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  2. 7 hours ago

    Lebanese news outlets saying Carlos Ghosn was smuggled out of Japan in a box designed for transporting musical instruments, this story is incredible

    معلومات ل ام تي في: كارلوس غصن خرج من اليابان في صندوق معد لنقل الالات الموسيقية ووصل الى تركيا ومنها الى لبنان بطائرة خاصة والتقى رئيس الجمهورية منذ ساعات
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    I found disturbing footage of chair throwing & assault on Chassidic Jew Tue on Albany & Lincoln. Victim is uncomfortable reporting due to the discovery reform (attacker may know his identity). Same group assaulted someone later that night on Union Kingston.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    NSC staffers holding their open MacBooks while lingering outside the Situation Room, which is called “Breaking Bad” now because all the conference rooms on that floor are named after TV shows, waiting for the people who booked it for the 2:30 meeting to leave

    As president, I'll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team. I’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions –…
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  5. 11 hours ago

    Hansel & Gretel: Origins

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  6. 13 hours ago

    Tony Shalhoub doing furious sets of pushups, getting into game day condition. It’s time to get paid

    Replying to @tomgara
    I look forward to the future Netflix show on this.
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  7. 13 hours ago

    I am obliged retweet any and all unverified rumors on this story, I know it's not journalistically sound but unfortunately I don't make the rules

    More info on . He was smuggled out by a paramilitary group specialized in extraction from zones of conflicts. Placed in a wooden box & sent by plane to Turkey, then took a private plane to LB. Still unclear why Japan has not yet reacted 36 hours after disappearance
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    19 hours ago

    A sad year in review — how 2019 looked like for Orthodox Jews in America תכלה שנה וקללותיה

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    נורא! סרטון סיכום של עשרות מקרי תקיפה ואנטישמיות שבוצעו כלפי יהודים בשנת 2019 בארה״ב. אלימות, צלבי קרס, גרפיטי ועוד.
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    13 hours ago

    Oh man this story is gonna be good

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  10. 13 hours ago

    Just a reminder here that dramatic escapes from legal tangles in foreign locales is one of the core wheelhouses of this account

    The princess says her father, the ruler of Dubai, imprisoned her. She contacted a former French spy, who himself escaped Dubai in 2008 an incredibly crazy story involving scuba equipment and women's clothing and a rubber boat
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  11. 13 hours ago

    Advanced warning to followers that I will probably be tweeting incessantly about this story if it turns out Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan using a fake mustache and wig, or a clandestine miniature submarine, etc

    Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has fled house arrest in Japan and is in Lebanon, according to a person familiar with the matter
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    14 hours ago

    Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has fled house arrest in Japan and is in Lebanon, according to a person familiar with the matter

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    17 hours ago

    Eat A Dick...

    Replying to @FINALLEVEL
    It's not about someone liking something or not. It's the fact that you (accidentally?) spread a QAnon conspiracy theory meme. Your celebrity status and blue check validates it regardless of how you feel about. It's not about hating.
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    19 hours ago

    Taxes on e-cigarettes in Minnesota reduced the amount of people who quit smoking by tens of thousands, according to a new analysis.

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  15. 16 hours ago

    (Best I can tell, the most organized / visible response has been to try and shun white nationalists from polite society, as much as that is possible, protest their public gathering, prevent their messages from being amplified, etc)

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  16. 17 hours ago

    "Imagine if they were white ­nationalists" is a genuinely interesting starting point - what happened in response to multiple acts of violence by white nationalists in recent years that should happen / isn't happening here?

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    The Black Hebrew Israelites were the bane of my high school years. They terrorized -- I think that is the right word here -- any person of color walking with a white person through the Fulton street mall in the late 80s

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  18. 17 hours ago

    Here's the references to the Black Hebrew Israelites stuff in the charges re the Monsey attack

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  19. 17 hours ago

    One little thing that jumps out in this truly terrible story of a horrific US war crime in Afghanistan: Oliver North, in fatigues and night vision goggles, embedded with a Fox News crew as part of the raid team

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  20. 18 hours ago

    This Has Been the Best Year Ever

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  21. 19 hours ago

    The two most popular rock bands of the last two decades are Nickelback and Imagine Dragons. Which is the better band?

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  22. 19 hours ago

    I don't understand people leaving Twitter for Instagram. Like, I absolutely understand why you'd leave Twitter. But you just like....scroll through pictures instead?

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    23 hours ago

    The war criminal Muhammad Alloush, who ran his own dictatorship in Eastern Ghouta, killing, forcibly disappearing and starving thousands of ppl to stay in control. You can now see the money he stole from aid and dealing with Assad on display.

    The commander of Jaysh al-Islam just opened a huge restaurant in Istanbul.
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  24. 19 hours ago

    I can't stop thinking of Juul employees in a conference room discussing the 2020 strategic plan and just like, pausing mid-sentence to hit the vape

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  25. 19 hours ago

    The three most popular rock songs of the 2010s were all by Imagine Dragons and the three most popular books were all 50 Shades of Grey installments

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  26. 20 hours ago

    "One employee compared the scene to the workplace depicted in the 1960s-period cable drama “Mad Men.” “Just replace the cigarettes with e-cigarettes,” he said."

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  27. 20 hours ago

    "The budget deficit has jumped more than 50% since Mr. Trump took office...the OECD calculated that the US in 2018 experienced the largest drop in tax revenue of any of the group’s 36 member countries"

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  28. Dec 29

    Anyhow the highlight of this guy graffitiing the Grand Army Plaza arch is the people on the Prospect Ledgers Garden FB group saying that even the graffiti is gentrified now

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  29. Dec 29

    The dude used a cherry picker, in the middle of a weekend afternoon, to graffiti the arch in Grand Army Plaza

    NYPD took a person into custody after spraying graffiti on the arch at Grand Army Plaza
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    Dec 29

    Bernie Sanders at a Hanukkah event in Iowa gave a short speech on diversity and religious freedom, joked about not burning down the ice skating rink, lighted menorah, and sang a blessing with about 90 audience members. Rabbi Jacobson handed the presidential candidate a kippah.

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  31. Dec 29

    (I have a weird admiration for the tenured columnist with total Take Freedom, system btw—it’s strange and not the ideal model, but at least it’s an ideology etc. But surely you have to go full tilt and never correct except for maybe an old timey blogger style UPDATE: at the end)

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  32. Dec 29

    Like, “After publication, Mr Stephens and his editors learned that...” is a weird thing to say about someone who doesn’t have editors? Or am I missing something?

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  33. Dec 29

    If NyT Opinion is going to have this weird tradition of its staff columnists being completely un-edited, with tenured professor style total Take Freedom, they should really go all in on it and never run corrections

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  34. Dec 29

    Didn’t realize until today’s visit that one of the many things you can get for stunningly low prices at IKEA is smoked salmon

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    Dec 29

    This is the 4th time that Egyptian human rights defender has faced attacks by security forces in recent months; his car was stolen, he was beaten and had one of his ribs broken, and his colleague's car was destroyed via

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    Dec 29

    A horrific new assault on Egyptian human rights lawyer of today as officers in 3 cars without plates pushed him to the ground outside his home, beat him, drenched him in paint. When neighbors attempted to get involved, the officers brandished their weapons.

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    Dec 29

    This is an *official email* from the Montana Secretary of State's office, sent out at 10:20 pm last night. Mind-boggling.

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  38. Dec 29

    “And therein lies the trouble with talking about the violent attacks against Orthodox Jews: At a time when ideology seems to rein supreme in the chattering and political classes, the return of pogroms to Jewish life on American soil transcends ideology”

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    Dec 29

    Police say it was critical that a witness to last night's stabbing followed the suspect and wrote down his license plate number.

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  40. Dec 29

    Incredibly, all this is based on what an anon/logged out user sees when they view a YouTube vid. “The recommendations provided to a user who who is logged in might differ from the list presented to this anonymous account. However, we do not believe there is a drastic difference”

    1. I worked with Anna Zaitsev (Berkely postdoc) to study YouTube recommendation radicalization. We painstakingly collected and grouped channels (768) and recommendations (23M) and found that the algo has a deradicalizing influence.…
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