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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 7h

Jorge Polanco rookie card

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

It's a sign of how many people (and journalists) live inside a media-created alternate reality that skill in the style of televised public performance associated with Hollywood actors is considered equivalent to 'authenticity'

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"

Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...

Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 21h

Old CBS would’ve probably spelled the guy’s name right, too.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21h

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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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 9h

Take one for the team Turang

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 9h

Refusing to violate the Hatch Act www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/refu...

Refusing to violate the Hatch Act - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This should be an easy call: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown. The airpor...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 12h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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antifa’s girlfriend @asusophomore.bsky.social · 13h

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11h

Emerson Hancock is the "wait, when did they start calling them the Elks?" of the bullpen

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h

“Yeah but there was no final status negotiated under those”

There’s no final status agreement now either

“Yeah but those were temporary”

This one hasn’t even been in force for a week

“But this time Bibi promises it’s for real!”

[stares]

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 13h

Seriously Biden got more hostages freed and longer ceasefires.

Where was his adulation and Time cover?

He didn’t deserve that? Agreed.

But then without any question neither does Trump!

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 20h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

I think @joesheehan.bsky.social has shown that blown calls by human umps disproportionately favor the pitcher, this case notwithstanding

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

He’s got great…CORE STRENGTH

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 14h

A thing I admire about how Scorsese portrays violence, not that Bad Fans get it

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

I get the sense that a staggeringly high percentage of guys who earnestly say with some regularity “fuck around and find out” simply do not understand that the real life versions of the street or bar fight they are picturing typically last a few seconds, don’t have defined winners, and look stupid

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14h

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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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

After class the Mariners radio booth was discussing CFL names, so the only question was who was blowing who out

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

A student told me she was reading an LBJ biography written by “I think, Caro” so worth missing some of the game

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14h

Only listening at best because teaching/office hours (THANKS BIDEN!), but at least it sounds like the asshole has been similarly bad for both pitchers

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14h

All hail our robot overlords

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14h

Two of those balls are strikes with ABS next year

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14h

Recent polls, Trump approval, drop since last poll:

Ipsos/Reuters 40%-58% (-18) 1 pt ⬇️
Econ/YouGov 39%-56% (-17) 2 pts ⬇️
CBS 42%-58% (-16) 4 pts ⬇️
Civiqs 40%-56% (-16) 4 pts ⬇️
Morn Cons 45%-53% (-8) 2 pts ⬇️

So far shutdown ain't working for Trump.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Does he report it on his taxes? Income reported under Schedule C tax for CAVA?

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16h

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 16h

Law office “history” and John Roberts’s will to power www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/law-...

Law office "history" and John Roberts's will to power - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Adam Liptak points out that a new paper written by a conservative originalist demonstrates that UNITARY EXECUTIVE THEORY has no serious historical basis, just like it has no basis in the text or struc...

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