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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but billionaires jetting off to space while the planet burns isn’t a sign of progress. It’s a sign of decline.

TRUMP: "I am not the one trying to undermine American democracy— I am the one trying to save American democracy."

Anyway the Olympics are in Tokyo, where NHK, one of the world’s most advanced broadcasters, is providing 200 hours of coverage in 8K. So

Jackie Mason, 93, Dies; Turned Kvetching Into Comedy Gold

It was weird last year when everyone was publishing these “policing originated from southern slave patrols” as if they don’t have police in every country on earth regardless of its specific history wrt slavery.

COVID hospitalizations in Florida now nearly at record high. Just horrible to see.

PM @NarendraModi  dials up @Mirabai_Chanu  on silver feat at Tokyo 2020. #ITVideo  #MirabaiChanu  #PMModi  #Tokyo2020  #RE 

Still my favourite summer Olympic moment

IOC’s gotta do what it’s got to do, but I hate to hear the television broadcasters say “Chinese Taipei.”

Please tell me I am not the only one who did not know Jason Statham used to be a professional diver and competed in the Commonwealth Games (also - he had hair)