Battle Abbey was established to commemorate the site, and then the town of Battle grew up around it.
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Ross Thompson
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Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will BunchPolice killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.www.inquirer.com
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What’s wild is that only a few years ago, “prediction markets” had a whole different name and you used to have to go to Reno or Atlantic City to participate, otherwise it was a crime. Now we can’t even regulate them.
Kyle CheneyJUST IN: Kalshi has won a federal court ruling to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that would have banned prediction markets in the state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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America's buried history 🧵
Ida B Wells' Winchester RifleOne of the craziest things in American history happened once on July 27th. I wouldn't be surprised if you never heard it, but the story has everything and represents everything America is. But they'll never tell your kids. They sure didn't tell me 🧵
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cheering crowds for a politician are a symbol of societal decline
Joelit's definitely a post-Imerial syndrome, but it's something that really marks us off from Americans. I remember staffing a Harris rally and thinking with a swell of patriotic pride that you could never do this, cheering crowds for a politician, in the UK
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The only thing this excellent takedown misses is that Pike’s awfulness is directly connected to the ideology of the show runners. Centrism sees having no opinions and no values as morally correct. Pike stammering and saying nothing in the face of injustice is what they want you to think heroism is.
Antimatter PodIs Christopher Pike the worst Star Trek captain? 100% of the Antimatter Pod hosts say yes!
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A century ago, white nationalists were saying the exact same things about Rep. Rulli's Italian ancestors -- they weren't white, they were criminals, they could never assimilate to "our" country
Aaron RuparRep. Michael Rulli on reports that ICE is preparing to mass deport of Haitians from Ohio: "Let's get them out of here. Let's get 'em all out of here, and let's start from the beginning."
We should have started holding companies responsible for this twenty years ago.
Joseph CoxTons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...
"He’s advancing the generalized sentiment that due to DOGE cuts, nobody died for whom we need to feel any passing responsibility. Nobody died who’s worthy of our concern."
Bill Kristol“The fascist nation is not real. It is a past conceived in myth that has supposedly been lost to contamination and degradation—and must be willed back into existence through violent ethnic purgings. These purgings, really, are what will bring the myth to life.” newrepublic.com/article/2135...
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it's wild how the US genuinely does not appear to have a "filing false police report" law or at least one the police themselves give a shit about, unlike basically every other country that has a police force
Fenit NirappilHow did a false allegation lead to Pete Buttigieg's separation from his kids? Our exclusive reporting shows how authorities did not take steps to vet the caller who left her contact. We found the caller who said she wanted to thwart his White House ambitions. Gift link: wapo.st/45ok5XP
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it gets less attention than a lot of other stuff, for good reasons, but you can absolutely put corporate governance on the pile of stuff that Elon Musk has broken on his path to filthy lucre
Dave LevitanThe ongoing Musk nazi tweets just have me wondering if corporate boards are even a thing anymore
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There is an effort by the republican justices to hide their moral complicity behind a necessarily complicated legal process. This piece makes clear that they know what they are doing and there can be no redemption for them.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Denniearound 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
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The post-9/11 decision by the Dems to make their candidate pool and political culture "the most vindictively racist prosecutors we can find" had no small part in getting us here.
August J. PollakI’m genuinely wondering how many elections—in Michigan especially—the Democrats are going to have to lose until they’re willing to be adults and have an adult conversation about how unbelievably racist against Muslims the party is
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“The State Department urges Americans not to visit Haiti under any circumstances, citing the rampant violence there.”
Catherine RampellTPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...