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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2h

One of my quotes:

"I know it's worth it because someday some young kid who's had everything about trans people censored all their life will happen across something I wrote and know they aren't alone. If I had it to do over, I'd do it all again and more."

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2h

Totally

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2h

We should admire and honour this kind of journalistic courage. Especially compared to some of the biggest news brands who are folding under the pressure even though they have so much more money and power.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2h

Please read it. The story features amazing journalists who are trans and fearless, including @evanurquhart.bsky.social and @katelynburns.com, and @erininthemorning.com.

All independent. Imagine how trans people would get trustworthy information without them. They simply couldn't.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2h

"I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance.

That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they’d stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns."

@parkermolloy.com

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 2h

“I’ve written for too many publications that just suddenly folded and disappeared their catalogs to think that it’s all permanent,” said Katelyn Burns, a trans journalist who’s been writing publicly for a decade.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

She’s pointing to a cruel irony: the content that could help trans people is often the most vulnerable to disappearing, while the content that could hurt us gets preserved forever by those who wish us harm. Support forums vanish when companies fold. Transition timelines disappear when YouTube changes its policies. But screenshots of old tweets? Those live forever in the folders of people who want us gone.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2h

Good on @theverge.com doing this series

The Verge @theverge.com · 5h

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 20h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 1d

if you work for cbs news and you can afford to quit....you should quit

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

Man kann das nicht viel besser sagen

Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 8d

wer ist bari weiss, die neue chefredakteurin von cbs news? stellt euch politisch ulf poschardt vor, 20 jahre jünger und weniger male midlife crisis. also: eine ausgesprochen unangenehme mischung aus rechtskonservativen ressentiments und liberalen platitüden, pseudo-contrarian und elitär

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

they spelled his name that way bc that's how the racists say it

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

2/ Also: It's MAMDANI.

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports
The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.Oct 10, 2025

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

They’re literally misspelling his name in the headline.

Slop, not journalism.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Arikia!

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 1d

Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work:

❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science - Nature Climate Change

Climate sceptics tend to avoid climate information, making it even harder to reduce scepticism. This study shows that generative AI can enhance sceptics’ engagement with climate news by tailoring headlines to their existing perspective and shift their beliefs towards the scientific consensus.

www.nature.com

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

What irked me a bit about this piece is that it conflates two things:

- Criticism of fans/artist about disrespectful or underinformed criticism (not negative reviews)
- Hate mobs

The former is useful feedback. The latter is dangerous and needs to be fought.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

It's the job of newsrooms and platforms to keep their journalists/users safe from hate campaigns.

Ask any journalist from a minoritized group who live this daily.

Jody Amable @jodyamable.bsky.social · 4d

Good piece from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social : reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/write-b...

Write a bad review of Taylor Swift and get death threats: Inside the fan backlash facing critics in the digital age

Five music journalists explain how they do their job in an environment where criticising a superstar might get them doxxed, bullied or harassed.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

"Bari Weiss’s first major move as CBS News chief has staffers on edge—ordering every journalist to submit a written memo justifying their work, in an apparent Elon Musk-style loyalty test." via @status.news

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 4d

This is a journalist getting arrested in broad daylight in Chicago.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, so the Elon Musk approach at DOGE

This is typically a move an exec makes when they want to *look* proactive, rather than actually problem-solving

If you wanted useful insights, you'd do this with department heads, then narrow down to specific team members in problem areas

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

New: In a note to staff this morning, New CBS EIC Bari Weiss asked everyone across CBS News to send her a memo by next Tuesday explaining how they spend their workday and what’s working/not working…

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 4d

Elon is such a dickwad for making people think this is good leadership.

It's bratty leadership of entitled people with zero humility. Look where it's gotten Twitter.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no, another.

This is very good from Diabolical Lies:

BONUS: Taylor Swift's Rumspringa, Reviewed

Much like the oft-defended purpose of The Life of a Showgirl, this bonus conversation was mostly just for us.

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