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by mshake2 1217 days ago
Yeah, it's a big distraction from other, non-balloon important world events that we should be focusing on, of which there are many. These balloons taking over the news cycle for days on end eats into peoples precious attention spans. Suddenly balloons are the hottest thing to focus on right now though.
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Right, what are the Kardashians up to since all of the balloon activity? We can't forget the important stuff. Or the 18 versions of RHO...
There's that war in Ukraine some powerful folks would probably prefer The West stopped paying attention and sending aid to...
https://newsasfacts.com/

Even my most unbiased source of news can’t come up with much distraction-worthy news outside of a small kerfuffle in the Philippines.

The train in Ohio seems moderately distraction worthy.
I’m surprised it doesn’t have anything about Turkey’s earthquake response. Things happened today.
Is this your site? It looks neat
I wish lol. Someone smarter than me posted it here and I’ve been using it ever since.
FYI it's just an alternative frontend to a current events page wikipedia has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events