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The Guardian reports that Nike’s Team USA track and field outfits for women at the Olympic Games are overly revealing and prioritize skimpiness over function. The outfits displayed Thursday on a mannequin show a high-cut pantyline. While outfits for...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 04:07 PM PDT
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According to Mint Press News, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been waging a systematic and brutal campaign of maiming or imprisoning Palestinian soccer players over the past ten to twelve years. Warning: Some readers will find the testimonials at...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 07:36 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 09:39 PM PDT
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Recently I saw a video clip of the amazing Simone Biles performing her gymnastic magic and she rocked my world. One has got to ask: How can a human being summon so much energy, power and flight and in the end land on their feet? To see Simone Biles in...
by Charles Micheaux
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 09:50 AM PDT
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From the Guardian Sunday, the headline says it all: The invasion of Ukraine has made Russia a pariah state in the west, with many Russian sports teams and cultural figures banned from participation in global competitions. But in Dubai last week,...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 09:51 PM PST
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Appearing on right-wing media outlets Fox “News” and Newsmax on Tuesday to talk about the anti-trans bill deceitfully called the “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act” he co-sponsored in the Senate with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) on the...
by JGibson
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 02:17 PM PST
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Big tank bavovna with bonus turret toss. Another big bavovna. Another catastrophic failure for a Russian assault. But Russia won’t be deterred by its losses This makes a great deal of sense. A post from Maksym Zhorin, Deputy Commander of the 3rd...
by quaoar
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 01:42 PM PST
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Really big bavovna. It is variously reported to be either an oil depot, a gas station or an oil refinery. It blowed up real nice. These fellows also blowed up real nice. And all these fellows should have stayed home. Seven generals and 275 colonels and...
by quaoar
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on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 01:38 PM PST
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That’s one hell of a bavovna. There isn’t anything I have found saying where this was, when it was or what it was that blew up. The consensus among commenters is that it must have been a Russian TOS thermobaric system. That’s certainly a possibility....
by quaoar
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on Fri Dec 08, 2023 at 01:53 PM PST
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President � Joe Biden � will sign an executive order on Wednesday during a tribal nations summit that aims to make it easier for � Native Americans � to access federal funding and have greater ...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 03:29 PM PST
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Yesterday I published the article linked here, entitled: The Ghosts of the 1973 Yom Kipper War are Calling: Who will hear them? The purpose was to have the past inform the present. Israel’s attack in the Gaza will end, it must. NO Jew, not even Bebe...
by Keith Newman
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 07:58 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 08:50 PM PST
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The mayor of future � Olympic host city Paris � says she is quitting X, accusing � Elon Musk � 's platform previously known as Twitter of spreading disinformation and hatred and of becoming a “...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 07:29 AM PST
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The International Olympic Committee executive board suspended the Russian Olympic Committee on Thursday after it attempted to claim Ukrainian athletes for Russia. That tactic is a breach of the Olympic Charter, which recognizes Ukraine as a separate...
by MTmofo
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 12:53 PM PDT
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Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton has pneumonia and is in intensive care in a Texas hospital. Retton's daughter, McKenna Kelley, shared Retton's condition in an Instagram post on Tuesday. Kelley said the 55-year-old Retton, who became the...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 06:19 AM PDT
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Can’t blame this on the Careless Smoker. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gosh, what a shame. ---------------------------------------------------------------— So that’s about 1 dead Russian per 1.55 meters of land...
by quaoar
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 05:52 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Sunday, Feb 19, 2023 · 8:07:32 PM +00:00 · kos If a single Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle, with no heavy armor (i.e. tanks) or infantry support, can operate like this, it means that the Russians being pushed back don’t have the capability...
by kos
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on Sun Feb 19, 2023 at 10:10 AM PST
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The last time I took stock of the current front lines was November 25. It’s a testament to how static the lines have been (despite tens of thousands killed in that time) that it wasn’t until now, nearly two and a half months later, that an update was...
by kos
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on Sun Feb 05, 2023 at 11:01 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but are not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 09:18 PM PST
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Good morning seekers of Good News for the living through of these days! Its early, but the door is now open, the awnings cranked out, sidewalks tables set with DRIED OFF tops and chairs. Coffee, tea, hot cocoa and the orange juicer/squeezer are all...
by WineRev
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on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 04:00 AM PDT
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