I was looking up the origin of the term 'Iron Curtain' and came across this zinger of a quote.
"With clanging, creaking, and squeaking, an iron curtain is lowering over Russian History. "The performance is over." The audience got up. "Time to put on your fur coats and go home." We looked around, but the fur coats and homes were missing."
- Vasily Rozanov, The Apocalypse of our Time (1918)
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Target didn't lose $15.7B after rolling back DEI policies in January 2025
The retailer said the claim, which featured figures reported in 2023 and 2024, was "inaccurate."
No, Super Bowl LIX champions the Philadelphia Eagles didn't decline White House invite
Though Trump's White House rescinded an invitation to the championship Eagles in 2018, officials say no formal invitation for 2025 was issued.
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No, Nancy Pelosi's vineyard didn't receive $14M in USAID funding
A social media post said USAID granted the money for "experimental farming."
Workers hung upside-down US flag from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
The Trump administration fired a thousand National Park Service employees.
What we know about posts calling for 'economic blackout' on Feb. 28
Historian Heather Cox Richardson was not involved with this grassroots effort.
Musk appeared to leave his son X behind at rally, but clip is misleading
A longer video reveals he turned around and walked back to his son before they exited together.
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Yes, Dan Bongino once wrote 'cold civil war' warning to 'scumbag commie libs'
The May 2024 post resurfaced as a screenshot in February 2025, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Bongino as the new FBI deputy director.
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Unpacking claims about new website allegedly run by anonymous federal workers
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What we know about claims 70 Christians were beheaded in Democratic Republic of Congo
MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.
Yes, AI-generated video of Trump kissing Musk's feet played on TV monitors in HUD headquarters
This incident occurred on Feb. 24, 2025. HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett said "Appropriate action will be taken for all involved."
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Pas encore tout lu mais c'est super riche.
Wikipédia est presque tout ce qu’il reste du web que nous avons tenté de construire et de préserver depuis 30 ans, encyclopédie imparfaite (c’est une production humaine), mais espace de dialogue et de savoir partagé. Cet espace est pourtant menacé, comme tous les espaces de dialogue et de savoir.
Je vous engage à lire cet article ( long mais essentiel) et à participer à Wikipédia. C’est un moyen efficace de lutter contre l’obscurantisme, la médiocrité et la cretinerie.affordance.framasoft.org/2025/…
World Wide Wikipedia. Pourquoi il faut à tout prix défendre Wikipedia.
C'était il y a 24 ans. Le 15 Janvier 2001 naissait Wikipédia. dans un monde numérique où Google était lui-même né en 1998 et le web encore quelques années avant (disons vers 1991 pour faire simple même si sa date de naissance officielle est plutôt en…affordance.info
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