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Jacob Weindling

@jakeweindling.bsky.social

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Editor-in-Chief of @splinternews.bsky.social Rabid Colorado sports partisan. Mildly rabid lefty partisan. Accidental UFO reporter-ish. Subscribe to Splinter: https://tinyurl.com/px9jjc64 Splinter newsletter: https://www.splinter.com/newsletter

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · Feb 7

We would be honored if you would subscribe to Splinter to support our work to grow this good website back into the force it deserves to be, and help us in our mission to tell Google to go fuck itself once and for all. www.splinter.com/five-reasons...

Five Reasons to Subscribe to Splinter, A Good Website

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 6h

TV news is brain poison and no one should watch it

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 6h

Literal stenography, no one involved in the making of this segment is a journalist

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 7h

Feeling pretty good about getting a blue check on Bluesky and never getting one on the MechaHitler site

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 19h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 18h

I love that markets are like "WOOOO RATE CUTSSS" as the head of the Fed is saying "The economy is flashing critical signs of distress"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Turang dove out of the way of a tie game then ended the game on ball 3.

Forever nightmare fuel.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the new climate tipping points report, how that sort of rhetoric has left me a bit cold in the past, and how there seems to be an attempt to repurpose some of the scariest climate stuff toward positive ends.

Climate Tipping Points Don't Face in Just One Direction

Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.

www.gravityisgone.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond jarring seeing Blake Snell pitching through the 7th inning of a playoff game. That seems like a far less likely outcome than the batshit GIDP to center.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

"what the fuck just happened"

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

If you're the players union, at what point do you start talking about CBA violations and potentially fighting to get rid of the cap altogether? The cap exists to depress player salaries, but if some players are being paid outside the cap..

Why would players adhere to an agreement the owners aren't?

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

This is potentially the biggest sports scandal ever, the entire basis of how the NBA operates don't apply to Ballmer...and how many others?

If Silver either is lying about what he knew about the Clippers, or didn't know about a federal investigation into their sponsor, what else doesn't he know?

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

So I guess Adam Silver is a liar then, pretty wild how every new development in this story just makes both Ballmer and the NBA look even guiltier and/or incompetent www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Sources: NBA OK'd Clips' Aspiration patch deal

The NBA vetted and approved a $300 million sponsorship deal between the Los Angeles Clippers and Aspiration in 2021, before the company signed a separate deal with Kawhi Leonard that triggered an inve...

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Like what?

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

I run a lefty site and I have no fucking idea what lefty constituency you're talking about

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know what a world historic freakshow you have to be to get Newsmax to do journalism

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

So far, the only media outlet that has signed Pete Hegseth's new prohibitive press policy for covering the Pentagon is One America News.

Even Newsmax and the Washington Times have rejected the letter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even Newsmax rejects the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of signing deadline

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

www.independent.co.uk

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

I reached out to several old Paste Politics writers to see if they wanted to write for Splinter when we relaunched it last year, and she was not one of them for many reasons that are demonstrated in this screenshot.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Impossible to overstate how stupid and self-defeating this is

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

I still can remember (most of) my college girlfriend's number because I was utterly mortified that she knew mine by heart and I didn't know hers, so I effectively tattooed it on to my brain

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

If you paid every June No Kings protester $100, it would have cost $500M. That's 14 protests Soros could pay for with his net worth. It's just a preposterous notion you can easily rebut with simple math www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Hyperliquid showed over 1,000 traders down over $100k on Friday alone, with 206 down over $1M. One whale lost $59M.

"FUCK CRYPTO IM DONE" read countless posts on crypto Twitter on Friday

All because of one Trump post he later walked back lmao
www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

An estimated $19 billion in leverage and $560 billion in value of the crypto market just went poof in about a half hour, all because Trump threatened new tariffs in China he kind of walked back yesterday. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

Friday saw the largest liquidation event in crypto history by several orders of magnitude, all due to one Trump post. As your resident reformed crypto trader, I can attest it's fine to point and laugh. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

*is fair for a fake protester to fake protest

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

They are freaking out because No Kings is a visual representation of their shitty polling that is a lot harder to dismiss than the fake news polls, so they have to try to call wine moms and people in unicorn suits terrorists. www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

The Trump Administration Is Terrified of No Kings Protests

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.