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I'm a proud NPR stan when it comes to reading up on national and world new stories :lol:
I read a bit of everything but my favorite news outlet for non-domestic news has always been Reuters. Been reading that for over a decade.

I have a number of go-to outlets for various purposes.
World news: Reuters, The Guardian, AP, BBC
European news: Reuters, The Guardian, Politico (EU), AP
US political news: Washington Post, NYT, WSJ, Politico (US), Reuters, AP, The Atlantic, The Hill (they just rehost a bunch of content tbh but it does provide a broad view on one platform of what various outlets are reporting)
Markets, economics, trade: WSJ (US and EU edition), Bloomberg

Those are generally my go-to outlets but I try to include a bit of everything. I read quite a lot on a daily basis. Usually it doesn't take much time to run through all the domestic news, there's only so much that can happen in our small country.
 


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The Funniest Tweets About Bigfoot Porn

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/07/the-funniest-tweets-about-bigfoot-porn.html

In the age of Trump you probably feel like you can’t be surprised by any political scandal. Virginia’s 5th Congressional District aims to prove you wrong.

On Sunday the Democratic candidate in the 5th, Leslie Cockburn, tweeted this about her Republican opponent, Denver Riggleman.

My opponent Denver Riggleman, running mate of Corey Stewart, was caught on camera campaigning with a white supremacist. Now he has been exposed as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica. This is not what we need on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/0eBvxFd6sG

— Leslie Cockburn (@LeslieCockburn) July 29, 2018
That’s an image taken from Riggleman’s Instragram page, which Cockburn says is proof that Riggleman writes Bigfoot porn. That’s the kind of accusation that shouldn’t be made lightly, because of course it will become the defining characteristic of this race. No matter who wins, Virginia’s 5th will always be known as the Bigfoot Porn District.

What’s weird is that this info was actually made public yesterday. It only blew up tonight after Cockburn’s tweet. Here’s popular internet man @BobbyBigWheel (aka Robert Wheel) tweeting about it on Saturday—a full day before it became the top trending whatever on the tweet machines.

Listen, I try not to get worked up about this type of stuff but I’m angry that “Republican congressional candidate wrote Bigfoot slash fiction” isn’t a bigger story.

— Robert Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) July 28, 2018

@BobbyBigWheel is like the friend who was into Nirvana when Bleach came out of people who are talking about Denver Riggleman’s Bigfoot fetish.

The floodgates truly opened on Sunday night, with the word “Bigfoot” racing to the top of Twitter’s trending topics, and briefly exciting many with the thought of the legendary creature actually having been found. Nope, it was just the porn—the Bigfoot porn. That might be a disappointment to true dedicated Sasquatch fans, but to folks who just like some good-natured ribbing about cryptid slash fic, it was a blessing in disguise. Here are the best of those jokes about the Bigfoot erotica supposedly written by Denver Riggleman, the Republican candidate in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District race.

I would vote for literally any candidate whose campaign slogan was “I’m horny for Bigfoot”

— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 30, 2018

vegas should be running odds on who’s going to give us the first “don’t kink-shame Bigfoot porn” take

— maura quint (@behindyourback) July 30, 2018

How am I supposed to explain “Bigfoot Porn” to my child, @GOP?

— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) July 30, 2018

Getting into Bigfoot porn to own the Libs pic.twitter.com/2qcDbCeFl4

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) July 30, 2018

I, for one, hope that guy gets ****ed by a Bigfoot

— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) July 30, 2018

The crazy part is, liking Bigfoot erotica is by far the least controversial thing any republican has trended for since Trump got elected.

— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 30, 2018

I leave the internet for a few hours, come back to find out…1. There’s a non-cartoon person going around being named Denver Riggleman2. He’s running for office.3. He is a white supremacist.4. Who is into Bigfoot erotica. This would have been super weird a few years ago.

— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) July 30, 2018

Students of history will recognise that this isn’t the first time Bigfoot’s erotic appeal has been a political issue. See e.g. the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon debate: pic.twitter.com/EZidXAhHkc

— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 30, 2018

In Congressional Race, The Shadow Of Bigfoot’s Giant **** Looms

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 30, 2018

honestly it’s shockingly late into 2018 for this to be the first time we’re hearing the words “Bigfoot porn”

— maura quint (@behindyourback) July 30, 2018

Honestly, Bigfoot erotica is the least offensive thing to come out of the GOP since the 2016 election

— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) July 30, 2018

I know Online has completely obliterated my brain because I heard about the candidate with the Bigfoot porn and I barely flinched

— Wario Lemieux (@alex_navarro) July 30, 2018

somewhere in a barn right now roy moore is asking the animals if they know if bigfoot has a younger sister or any kids

— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) July 30, 2018

You know it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when you read that a republican is into Bigfoot erotica and your first thought is “At least he’s not a child molester.”

— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 30, 2018

sees Bigfoot trending“Oh nice did they finally find it?”clicks pic.twitter.com/ArhNc8Y5MX

— Gino Zarrillo (@KeepItGino) July 30, 2018

Please politics twitter do not make me mute the word Bigfoot This is all I have left please don’t take this from me

— A Sleepy Boy, Nay… A Sleepy Man (@CaseyMalone) July 30, 2018

Republicans defending bigfoot porn is my new porn.

— Desi (@DesiJed) July 30, 2018

It was just locker room Bigfoot erotica.

— Jon Friedman (@friedmanjon) July 30, 2018

All you out criticizing dude for j-ing o to Bigfoot like you weren’t praising that fish sex movie less than a year ago.

— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 30, 2018

twitter 2010: what is “planking” and why are people doing ittwitter 2018: it is wrong to kink shame the nazi for liking bigfoot erotica

— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) July 30, 2018

I can’t believe there’s a politician who’s secretly into Bigfoot Porn and it’s not Ted Cruz

— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) July 30, 2018

You’re all so quick to judge. Maybe he doesn’t even like bigfoot porn?Maybe he was just jerking off to Harry and The Hendersons like a normal person?

— Tronald Dump (@ChrisCubas) July 30, 2018

Wanting to have sex with Bigfoot is like wearing Crocs: It’s fine to do but also totally okay and fun for other people to mock openly.

— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) July 30, 2018

11.51pm: ok time to get some sleep11.52pm: right after I find out why everyone is talking about bigfoot’s ****

— lucy valentine (@LucyXIV) July 30, 2018

Imho all Bigfoot literature constitutes erotica

— erin “erin gloria ryan” ryan (@morninggloria) July 30, 2018
 
It's almost like North Korea hasn't been negotiating in good faith and that the problem is a lot more complex than shaking hands at a summit and signing a vague commitment pledge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.b7d9bdf6f46e
U.S. spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles
U.S. spy agencies are seeing signs that North Korea is constructing new missiles at a factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, according to officials familiar with the intelligence.

Newly obtained evidence, including satellite photos taken in recent weeks, indicates that work is underway on at least one and possibly two liquid-fueled ICBMs at a large research facility in Sanumdong, on the outskirts of Pyongyang, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe classified intelligence.
The findings are the latest to show ongoing activity inside North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities at a time when the country’s leaders are engaged in arms talks with the United States. The new intelligence does not suggest an expansion of North Korea’s capabilities but shows that work on advanced weapons is continuing weeks after President Trump declared in a Twitter posting that Pyongyang was “no longer a Nuclear Threat.”

The reports about new missile construction come after recent revelations about a suspected uranium enrichment facility, called Kangson, that North Korea is operating in secret. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during Senate testimony last week that North Korean factories “continue to produce fissile material” used in making nuclear weapons. He declined to say whether Pyongyang is building new missiles.

During a summit with Trump in June, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to a vaguely worded pledge to “work toward” the “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula. But since then, North Korea has made few tangible moves signaling an intention to disarm.

Instead, senior North Korean officials have discussed their intention to deceive Washington about the number of nuclear warheads and missiles they have, as well as the types and numbers of facilities, and to rebuff international inspectors, according to intelligence gathered by U.S. agencies. Their strategy includes potentially asserting that they have fully denuclearized by declaring and disposing of 20 warheads while retaining dozens more.

The Sanumdong factory has produced two of North Korea’s ICBMs, including the powerful Hwasong-15, the first with a proven range that could allow it to strike the U.S. East Coast. The newly obtained evidence points to ongoing work on at least one Hwasong-15 at the Sanumdong plant, according to imagery collected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in recent weeks.

“We see them going to work, just as before,” said one U.S. official, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity in discussing sensitive intelligence. The exception, the officials said, is the Sohae Satellite Launching Station on North Korea’s west coast, where workers can be observed dismantling an engine test stand, honoring a promise made to Trump at the summit.

Many analysts and independent experts, however, see that dismantling as largely symbolic, since North Korea has now successfully launched ICBMs that use the kind of liquid-fueled engines tested at Sohae. Moreover, the test stand could easily be rebuilt within months.

Buttressing the intelligence findings, independent missile experts this week also reported observing activity consistent with missile construction at the Sanumdong plant. The daily movement of supply trucks and other vehicles, as captured by commercial satellite photos, shows that the missile facility “is not dead, by any stretch of the imagination,” said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The Monterey, Calif., nonprofit group analyzed commercial photos obtained from the satellite imagery firm Planet.

“It’s active. We see shipping containers and vehicles coming and going,” Lewis said of the Sanumdong plant. “This is a facility where they build ICBMs and space-launch vehicles.”

Intriguingly, one image, taken July 7, depicts a bright-red covered trailer in a loading area. The trailer appears identical to those used by North Korea in the past to transport ICBMs. How the trailer was being used at the time of the photograph is unclear.

Lewis’s group also published images of a large industrial facility that some U.S. intelligence analysts believe to be the Kangson uranium enrichment plant. The images, first reported by the online publication the Diplomat, depict a football-field-size building surrounded by a high wall, in North Korea’s Chollima-guyok district, southwest of the capital. The complex has a single, guarded entrance and features high-rise residential towers apparently used by workers.

Historical satellite photos show that the facility was externally complete by 2003. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that it has been operational for at least a decade. If so, North Korea’s stockpile of enriched uranium could be substantially higher than is commonly believed. U.S. intelligence agencies in recent months increased their estimates of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, taking into account enriched uranium from at least one secret enrichment site.

The Kangson facility was first publicly identified in May in a Washington Post article that cited research by nuclear weapons expert David Albright. Some European intelligence officials are not convinced that the Kangson site is used for uranium enrichment. But there is a broad consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies that Kangson is one of at least two secret enrichment plants.

Several U.S. officials and private analysts said the continued activity inside North Korea’s weapons complex is not surprising, given that Kim made no public promise at the summit to halt work at the scores of nuclear and missiles facilities scattered around the country.

The North Koreans “never agreed to give up their nuclear program,” said Ken Gause, a North Korea expert at the Center for Naval Analysis. And it is foolish to expect that they would do so — at the outset of talks, he said.

“Regime survival and perpetuation of Kim family rule” are Kim’s guiding principles, he said. “The nuclear program provides them with a deterrent in their mind against regime change by the United States. Giving up the nuclear capability will violate the two fundamental centers of gravity in the North Korean regime.”

Pompeo, at the Senate hearing last week, sought to assure lawmakers that the disarmament talks with North Korea remained on track and that the effort to dismantle the country’s nuclear arsenal was just getting underway. He brushed aside suggestions that the administration had been deceived by Kim. “We have not been taken for a ride,” he said.

But some independent analysts think the Trump administration has misread Kim’s intentions, interpreting his commitment to eventual denuclearization as a promise to immediately surrender the country’s nuclear arsenal and dismantle its weapons factories.

“We have this backward. North Korea is not negotiating to give up their nuclear weapons,” Lewis said. “They are negotiating for recognition of their nuclear weapons. They’re willing to put up with certain limits, like no nuclear testing and no ICBM testing. What they’re offering is: They keep the bomb, but they stop talking about it.”


June 13:


June 15:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-sit-up-to-attention-like-north-koreans-video
Trump on North Korean nuclear threat: 'I have solved that problem' – video

June 16:


June 21:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rea-dismantling-nuclear-weapons-mattis-admits
No sign of North Korea dismantling nuclear weapons programme, Mattis admits
No one knows when meeting about it will be held either, contrary to Trump’s promise after Singapore summit
 
Reminder that Jeanine Pirro is the same imbecile who said Trump had fulfilled a Biblical prophecy with his whole Jerusalem embassy stunt

These scummy people are out of their ****ing minds
 
I agree about Reuters. My go to. I liked Bloomberg a lot but their **** is behind a pay wall now and NYTimes is all I’m willing to pay for.
 
I agree about Reuters. My go to. I liked Bloomberg a lot but their **** is behind a pay wall now and NYTimes is all I’m willing to pay for.
You can bypass the paywalls, even the WSJ's.
Incognito mode on your browser eliminates paywalls on WaPo, Bloomberg and NYT.
I do have a WSJ subscription, at least until the end of 2018 as an American friend owed me a favor and I couldn't get a WSJ subscription with a non-US Paypall address, but I don't intend on renewing it.

All you need to do to eliminate WSJ's paywall is copy the link of a WSJ article to this site and archive it:
http://archive.is/
In many cases someone else will have already archived the article to read it and/or save the effort for others without a subscription.
 
fennel salad? this is atrocious. kale gang libbie flaunting their political beliefs in public. Obummer needs to go back to dribbling a basketball and stay out of politics. hasn't he damaged this country enough already?

edit: IT GETS WORSE.

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I understand Obama in these streets living his best life, but damn Barry, have at least one bad day. The squad outchea in shambles :lol:

It is like watching pics your mans that got paroled enjoying his freedom. On one hand, you're happy for him, on the other hand, you are low key salty because you still have to worry about Adebisi stabbing you in the cafeteria.
 
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I understand Obama in these streets living his best life, but damn Barry, have at least one bad day. The squad outchea in shambles :lol:

It is like watching pics your mans that got paroled enjoying his freedom. On one hand, you're happy for him, on the other hand, you are low key salty because you still have to worry about Adebisi stabbing you in the cafeteria.
He spent the better part of 7 years staying completely calm in the face of racism, treason, hatred and more. Now alot of the things he put in place, like ACA, Trade Deals, World Relations, Paris Accords and more are being taken pulled apart by a idiot because people didn't want to vote thinking it didn't matter.

He did his part, all he gets from now on are amazing days because he dealt with enough **** already
 
I was more joking than anything.

Barry deserves all the good days life can deliver, I know for damn sure I could not have handled all that BS the way he did.

But sometimes I be listening to Tbaby, just in my feelings, thinking about the times when the damn President wasn't a racist buffoon. Its so cold outchea :smh:



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I understand Obama in these streets living his best life, but damn Barry, have at least one bad day. The squad outchea in shambles :lol:

It is like watching pics your mans that got paroled enjoying his freedom. On one hand, you're happy for him, on the other hand, you are low key salty because you still have to worry about Adebisi stabbing you in the cafeteria.

Nah. Barry took the high road so many times that I don't even want him to have a single bad day. Whether we're living in squalor, shambles or not...flourish, Barry.

He's gonna be the only person on earth that can honestly sit on his death bed and hit everybody with the Lavar Ball..."NEVA LOST!"

Gotta find your inner Kareem and handle Adebisi.
 
Obama's better than the presidency and he served eight years of hard time.

Obama reached across the isle, but they refuse to shake his hand. They were afraid some color would rub off and their base would then reject them. Remember these ****ing people, they pronounced racism deceased because Obama was elected and in the same breath, they claimed he was only elected because of his skin color and that his very skin color was an indication of his illegitimacy.
 
Obama's better than the presidency and he served eight years of hard time.

Obama reached across the isle, but they refuse to shake his hand. They were afraid some color would rub off and their base would then reject them. Remember these ****ing people, they pronounced racism deceased because Obama was elected and in the same breath, they claimed he was only elected because of his skin color and that his very skin color was an indication of his illegitimacy.

They also said Obama caused the racial divide in this country. :smh: :lol:
 
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