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How Trump and Bondi transformed the Justice Department to push his agenda and defy critics

How Trump and Bondi transformed the Justice Department to push his agenda and defy critics

🚀 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After confirming her appointment, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Justice Department lawyers that their mission is to "promote, protect and zealously defend" the policies of the United States as set by the president. It was an example of how the Trump administration has sought to turn the Justice Department into the president's tool to advance his agenda and challenge critics. Reported by Ali Rogin. Amna Nawaz: Shortly after her appointment was confirmed, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Justice Department lawyers that their mission…
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Wuthering’s insults: Why are filmmakers afraid to cast Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw? | Wuthering Heights

Wuthering’s insults: Why are filmmakers afraid to cast Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw? | Wuthering Heights

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Film,Yorkshire,Women,Society,Film industry,Film adaptations,Culture,Books,Business,UK news âś… **What You’ll Learn**: eMerald Fennell's choices for her remake of Wuthering Heights have already been much scrutinized. In addition to the obvious "whitewashing" of Heathcliff by casting Jacob Elordi in the role, there's the fact that 35-year-old Margot Robbie is playing a woman 20 years her junior.Plus, they're Australian, not British, and certainly not from Yorkshire. Fennell has defended her casting choices as a “personal fantasy” — but amid all the ridicule and chatter surrounding the film and its countless deviations…
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Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP

Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP

đź’Ą Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Venture,Alt Capital,Benchmark,In Brief,Jack Altman đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he will join the firm as a general partner. This news is important, especially since Altman has been running his own firm, Alt Capital, since at least 2024. The fund raised a $150 million fund in early 2024, then last September announced a $274 million fund, raised in just one week. On LinkedIn, Altman called the past two years running Alt Capital as an investor “the most rewarding” of his life, adding that he loved…
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Vinicius Junior: The “big mistake” made by Jose Mourinho after the “disgusting” incident.

Vinicius Junior: The “big mistake” made by Jose Mourinho after the “disgusting” incident.

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Trent Alexander-Arnold said the alleged racist abuse of teammate Vinicius Junior during Real Madrid's Champions League match against Benfica was a "disgrace on football", while rival coach Jose Mourinho was criticized for his comments on the incident.The match was stopped for 10 minutes after Vinicius reported alleged racist abuse by Benfica player Gianluca Pristiani towards referee François Leixier, and he and his teammates temporarily left the field.The Brazilian striker, who was the victim of numerous incidents of racist abuse during his football career, said that…
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2026 Winter Olympics: Trinidad and Tobago bobsleigh ranks 25th

2026 Winter Olympics: Trinidad and Tobago bobsleigh ranks 25th

🔥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The Trinidad and Tobago bobsleigh team said it was “mission accomplished” in their “no come last process” as they placed 25th out of 26 in the Olympic duathlon event in Cortina.Harrogate-born Axel Braun said in January the aim was to not finish last in the standings at the Games and finish second from bottom, ahead of Israel, with a total time of 2:51:05.The 33-year-old, who raced for Team GB for seven years before moving to compete for his mother's home country, drives the sled with…
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make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) – Database Technologies & Cyber Security Platform

make Postgres do the long work (while your session stays light) – Database Technologies & Cyber Security Platform

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: There’s a special kind of joy in watching a database do something heavy… without making your app threads cry. That’s the promise of pg_background: execute SQL asynchronously in background worker processes inside PostgreSQL, so your client session can move on—while the work runs in its own transaction.  It’s a deceptively simple superpower: Kick off a long-running query (or maintenance) without holding the client connection open Run “autonomous transaction”-style side effects (commit/rollback independent of the caller) Monitor, wait, detach, or cancel explicitly Keep the operational…
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Some states oppose Trump recruiting local officers to help enforce immigration laws

Some states oppose Trump recruiting local officers to help enforce immigration laws

✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Donald Trump news,immigration,immigration and customs enforcement,Maryland,wes moore 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For the past 18 years, officers at Maryland's Frederick County Jail have asked thousands of inmates two standard questions: What country are you a citizen of? Where were you born? If the answer is anything other than the United States, local officers assigned with special federal authority launch an investigation into whether the person is in the country illegally. Since 2008, Frederick County has turned over more than 1,884 people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,…
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Dracula Review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant modern vampire gets her fangs removed in a one-woman show | platform

Dracula Review – Cynthia Erivo’s brilliant modern vampire gets her fangs removed in a one-woman show | platform

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Cynthia Erivo,Bram Stoker 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAre people born evil? asks Glinda, the “good witch” played by Ariana Grande in Wicked, the musical that stars Cynthia Erivo as the green-skinned intruder, Elphaba. Bram Stoker's classic story about the evil element knows the answer to this question. Dracula, the vampire of Ur and the ultimate outsider to the literary canon, is played by Erivo, along with every other character in this deliciously sinister tale of the blood-sucking count.Except he's not deliciously sinister in director Kip Williams' theater…
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Research says Intellexa’s Predator spyware was used to hack journalist’s iPhone in Angola

Research says Intellexa’s Predator spyware was used to hack journalist’s iPhone in Angola

đź’Ą Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Security,privacy,Spyware,surveillance,Predator,cybersecurity,Amnesty International,Intellexa,Angola 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A government agent of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa has hacked into the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty International, in the latest case of someone in civil society being targeted with powerful phone-hacking software. The human rights organization published a new report on Tuesday analyzing several hacking attempts against local journalist and press freedom activist Teixeira Candido, in which a series of malicious links were sent via WhatsApp during 2024. Amnesty International found that Candido eventually clicked on one of…
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2026 Winter Olympics: Ami Nakai, 17, tops women’s figure skating short program as Japan dominates

2026 Winter Olympics: Ami Nakai, 17, tops women’s figure skating short program as Japan dominates

🔥 Read this trending post from BBC Sport đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Japan dominated the short program in women's figure skating at Milan-Cortina 2026, with its athletes taking three of the top four positions after the short program.Ami Nakai, 17, stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a score of 78.71, the best score of the season.She is followed by three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto, while compatriot Mune Chiba - who won bronze at last year's world championships - is fourth.They capitalized on mistakes by the impressive Americans, with world champion Alyssa Liu in third and…
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