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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11h

Fox News, Defense Sec. Hegseth’s former employer, along with ABC, CBS and NBC, will not sign the Defense Department’s new restrictive press policy by its deadline, the news networks said in a joint statement.

Fox News among broadcasters refusing to sign Pentagon press pledge

Fox News, along with ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, said that the Pentagon policy violates their “core journalistic protections.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Variety @variety.com · 9h

CNN, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News refuse to sign the Pentagon's new press policy in a joint statement.

Read more here: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 11h

The fact Fox News, Hegseth's former employer, has signed on to this joint statement speaks volumes.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Five major broadcast networks say they will not sign new Pentagon press policy

The policy says reporters could have their press passes revoked if they publish information that has not been authorized for release by the Pentagon.

www.nbcnews.com

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12h

Joint statement from the networks declining to agree with the Pentagon's new press policy. Fox News, Pete Hegseth's former employer, is a signatory.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Even Fox News won't sign on to Pete Hegseth's draconian Pentagon press rules, setting up a showdown between the snowflake defense secretary and his former employer.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h

And you thought this was already the worst timeline

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h

Because of course she has.

I have extensive plans to not just aggressively not read it but to imagine it being sold by the pallet to be shredded for insulation.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 3h

In Chicago, at a Walgreens, ICE kidnaps a citizen

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 3h

“Humanity could still decide not to build it.”

Calling this in advance: my biggest issue with this book is going to be their complete ignorance of how humanity *decides* things.

Their theory of social behavior is built out of discussion-board debate club. Likely to be absolutely disqualifying.

This book is not full of great news, we admit. But we're not here to tell you that you're doomed, either. Artificial superintelligence doesn't exist yet. Humanity could still decide not to build it.
In the 1950s, many people expected that there would be a nuclear war between the major powers of the world. Given the history of human conflict up until that point, there was reason to be pessimistic. Yet, to date, nuclear war has not happened.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3h

Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 6h

So it was either 7 inches long or somewhere just over half that length? Curious.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

I mean we should also be continuing to hammer how Noem is a puppy-killer and Trump is the only pet-hating president ever, too

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 6h

JD Vance has eaten pets, I'm sure of it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

I mean we should also be continuing to hammer how Noem is a puppy-killer and Trump is the only pet-hating president ever, too

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 9h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h

I don't have any inside info, and I'm not an expert, but Pete's paranoid and irrational behavior looks a lot like he's the one with a drug problem.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

good news everyone!

chatGPT is now able to “mitigate the serious health issues,” according to trustworthy source Sam Altman, which means humanity can be trusted with the Revenge Porn Madness Spigot

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 7h

This is who they are, and it's who they want to be.

(you will note all of them both apologise for what is in the chats, while alleging they were doctored. If I had chats which were doctored to be these, I'd not legitimate them with any sort of apology)

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Christina(Tina) Hex Hendriks 🎃💀👻 @renissance1.bsky.social · 7h

This is how you get the Red Guard.

Time to eat.

Christina(Tina) Hex Hendriks 🎃💀👻 @renissance1.bsky.social · 7h

So, I am too poor to get a degree and work.

Got it.

I’m a 4.0 student but I’m worthless.

This is amazing. This system is so cooked.

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