Theodore Grunewald
@tedgrunewald.bsky.social
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paleofuture.bsky.social
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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gregpak.net
This interviewer is GREAT and Booker falls all over himself here. It’s 2025. No more equivocating, please.
diplomatofnight.com
Whereas Harris told MSNBC that she believes whether or not Israel has committed genocide is a fair and honest question to ask, Cory Booker explicitly said to the "I've Had it" podcast that he thinks addressing the question of whether Netanyahu has committed crimes would undermine resolving conflict.
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golikehellmachine.com
by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison
golikehellmachine.com
the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold
schnorkles.bsky.social
It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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tedgrunewald.bsky.social
Couldn't be more grateful that I'm thoroughly unacquainted with what a "Twitch Streamer" is, or does.
nathangrayson.bsky.social
collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do
To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies. 

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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andycraig.bsky.social
There is no statute of limitations for murder, including under UCMJ.
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
amaramarasingam.bsky.social
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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gtconway.bsky.social
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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danahoule.bsky.social
So much wrong with it, but one of the problems with these attacks on boats in the Caribbean is that the announcement doesn’t come from a government agency, it comes from the social media app owned by the president.
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markhurst.bsky.social
Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
buttondown.com/creativegood...
Don't let the data center come to town
In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides...
buttondown.com
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newseye.bsky.social
BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.
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bcdreyer.social
“We’ll thus continue to finance billionaires and oppress anyone darker than the inside of a Three Musketeers bar.”
atrupar.com
After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i love that fox news is mining bluesky for content. if you're reading this, hi fox news. you guys suck.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.
justinbaragona.bsky.social
Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."
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marisakabas.bsky.social
should the government allow journalists access to them? yes. of course. but it's always been a carefully curated version of reality. denying access shouldn't be a death sentence to reporting. if anything, it should make you want to work even harder to figure out why they're keeping you out.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
this is the OP that was deleted
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i'm just a little independent journalist but i don't think the credibility of your reporting should be dependent on access to a paid government mouthpiece
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electproject.bsky.social
It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave
atrupar.com
Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."