Heather Souvaine HornVerified account

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Global affairs editor . Unrepentant pastry enthusiast.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 3

    The problem with focusing on Trump headlines is that you miss the really crazy stuff: for example, that stone martens in Switzerland discriminate between car brands when deciding which cables to chew.

    Sie sind auf bestimmte Marken fixiert: Marder lieben Ostschweizer Autos
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  2. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    U.S. trade deficit surges to five-month high as exports fall

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  3. 9 hours ago

    Placing my bet while Rome burns: This is Pence. No one else would say the main issue having a lunatic at the wheel is "amorality."

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  4. 10 hours ago

    [Mentally crosses Lafayette Square off the evening dog walk itinerary, in case projectiles start coming *out* of the White House. Pencils in "Build a Bunker"]

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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    So much was lost in Brazil's devastating museum fire--irreplaceable fossils, now-fully-dead languages, artifacts, careers, knowledge. It's hard to put the loss into words, but I tried:

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  6. 16 hours ago

    You know how the UK just churns out miniseries after miniseries that's basically a thriller about how private power and/or shadowy tech companies will take over the world? Turns out we're living in one of those:

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    Well, we already have the best quote we'll find all week.

    "Bears aren't idiots," said Vladimir Putin's press secretary. "If they see Putin, they will behave properly."
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    Sep 4

    An important and revealing feature out today by : America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China

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  9. Sep 4

    "The issues Beijing wants Americans to perceive as the most sensitive are ... Taiwan, ... ; Tibet; and Tiananmen ... the fixation on the Three T’s makes Americans more likely to overlook what actually are the most sensitive issues."

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    Aug 31

    "Never drink more than a quart of whisky a day," advised Arnold Miller as he turned 101 years old on this day in 1935.

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  11. Retweeted
    Aug 30

    The City of Toronto is in a war of wits with racoons -- and losing.

    Best thing I’ve read in ages. Sheer genius. Lovely writing, great tale. So good.
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  12. Retweeted
    Aug 29

    Dinosaurs = "sexy, sympathetic beasts." killing it on dinosaurs and the scientist whose research contradicts the asteroid scenario.

    "Understanding the cause of the mass extinction is not an esoteric academic endeavor. Dinosaurs are what paleontologists call 'charismatic megafauna': sexy, sympathetic beasts whose obliteration transfixes pretty much anyone with a pulse."
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  13. Aug 30

    Have to hand it to him: It's been a while since a politician couldn't figure out whether to peg his ill-judged ethnic joke to 58 BC or 1536.

    Macron: French 'Gauls' resistant to change, unlike 'Lutheran' Danes
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    Aug 30

    Clever tactic and a reminder of how dangerous it is to have a president so reliant on television for his information.

    Qatar employed a novel technique to lobby Trump: fly Alan Dershowitz and others whom the president likes to watch on tv to Doha and convince them Saudi and UAE were wrong.
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  15. Aug 30

    110 years after the Herero genocide, victims' skulls, which were sent to Germany for research to support theories of white racial superiority, have been returned to Namibia.

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  16. Aug 29

    "One morning, six years ago, I found a phrase he’d written on the white board in the kitchen. All it said was '5 a.m. Nepholopsia.'"

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  17. Aug 29

    There is so much happening here.

    Falmouth man allegedly torched construction site of new Hyannis fire station, nabbed at the scene
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  18. Retweeted
    Aug 28

    This is terrific and fascinating:

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  19. Aug 29

    I'm not sure I would object to PETA making these guys' lives a living hell. This is a strangely grisly story.

    Two men who tried to rig a pigeon race in China by taking their birds on a train have been convicted of criminal fraud
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  20. Aug 29

    The seaweed we grew is coming for us.

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  21. Aug 28

    The president of the United States is getting *awfully* close to the kind of incitement that can (understandably) get you arrested in Germany

    Exclusive: In private meeting, Trump warns Christian leaders of violence if GOP loses via
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