Andy Carvin
@acarv.in
Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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Whatever it is, it isn't journalism.
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whatever it is, it isn't journalism.
“The High Military Command for the reestablishment of national and public order decides to immediately depose the President of the Republic, to suspend, until new orders, all of the institutions of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.”
- Dinis N’Tchama, military command spokesperson
- Dinis N’Tchama, military command spokesperson
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appear on state television saying they have seized power in the country
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have seized power, appearing on state television to announce their takeover.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“The High Military Command for the reestablishment of national and public order decides to immediately depose the President of the Republic, to suspend, until new orders, all of the institutions of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.”
- Dinis N’Tchama, military command spokesperson
- Dinis N’Tchama, military command spokesperson
I still can't believe he's been gone for more than 11 years now.
In some of the darkest times for our region, I've grounded myself in investing in the young leaders who will change this. That's what we're doing with the Bassem Sabry Fellowship at @timep.bsky.social.
If you have 2 minutes today, don't miss these beautiful words from @dalezzat.bsky.social.
If you have 2 minutes today, don't miss these beautiful words from @dalezzat.bsky.social.
"Bassem believed that young people across the Arab world deserved to own their power, tell their stories, and write their narratives."
Who was Bassem Sabry? Get to know the late Egyptian political commentator & writer through the words of his friend @dalezzat.bsky.social: youtu.be/Q72e6vd3H1Y?...
Who was Bassem Sabry? Get to know the late Egyptian political commentator & writer through the words of his friend @dalezzat.bsky.social: youtu.be/Q72e6vd3H1Y?...
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I still can't believe he's been gone for more than 11 years now.
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
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What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Should states write their own AI laws, or should David Sacks?
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
"The U.S. government is rightly focused on accelerating domestic innovation...This strategy, however, ignores a critical reality: America’s allies are not buying abstract innovation, they are buying legally compliant systems."
Washington is betting on innovation while competitors are betting on compliance. Right now, compliance is winning.
How Washington Is Losing the AI Race No One Is Tracking
Spain — a NATO ally and founding member of the European Union — chose a Chinese company to manage its law enforcement wiretap systems. The €12.3 million
warontherocks.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"The U.S. government is rightly focused on accelerating domestic innovation...This strategy, however, ignores a critical reality: America’s allies are not buying abstract innovation, they are buying legally compliant systems."
"This isn’t a bug in the system. It’s a feature Musk designed, then acted surprised when it attracted exactly the kind of behavior that trust & safety teams used to work to identify and limit."
thank you, @mmasnick.bsky.social
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…
www.techdirt.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"This isn’t a bug in the system. It’s a feature Musk designed, then acted surprised when it attracted exactly the kind of behavior that trust & safety teams used to work to identify and limit."
"Do some digital archeology on yourself. Maybe you will realize something. Maybe you will marvel at how far you’ve gotten. Or you will realize that there is something in particular you need to do. Or you will remember an old friend. Try it, if you can. Drop down into a cavern & shine a flashlight."
I have been traveling, dealing with threats against my family, burning rose candles, hauling rocks, and thinking of old friends.
So I sat down and wrote about things that previously would be buried and forgotten - except that they will not.
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open.substack.com/pub/nataliaa...
So I sat down and wrote about things that previously would be buried and forgotten - except that they will not.
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open.substack.com/pub/nataliaa...
On the future of digital archeology
Our data will be mined in terrifying and poetic ways
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Do some digital archeology on yourself. Maybe you will realize something. Maybe you will marvel at how far you’ve gotten. Or you will realize that there is something in particular you need to do. Or you will remember an old friend. Try it, if you can. Drop down into a cavern & shine a flashlight."
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The emergency powers in the EU's Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians. Alena Gribanova offers three targeted reforms to mitigate these risks and ensure the preservation of the digital historical record. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Hidden Risks of Platform Control Over Historical Memory
Emergency powers in the EU’s Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The emergency powers in the EU's Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians. Alena Gribanova offers three targeted reforms to mitigate these risks and ensure the preservation of the digital historical record. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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Hundreds of people are in custody in the Himalayan region of Kashmir after investigators launch sweeping raids, detaining suspects and questioning thousands.
India intensifies crackdown in disputed Kashmir after New Delhi bombing
Hundreds of people are in custody in the Himalayan region after investigators launched sweeping raids, detaining suspects and questioning thousands.
nbcnews.to
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hundreds of people are in custody in the Himalayan region of Kashmir after investigators launch sweeping raids, detaining suspects and questioning thousands.
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No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link:
People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem
Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link:
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Witkoff advising a foreign leader on how to manipulate and mind-game his own president? And these kinds of actors trying to decide (even partially) Ukraine’s future?
How about no. And also… subpoena.
P.s. “We will do everything neatly.”
How about no. And also… subpoena.
P.s. “We will do everything neatly.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Witkoff advising a foreign leader on how to manipulate and mind-game his own president? And these kinds of actors trying to decide (even partially) Ukraine’s future?
How about no. And also… subpoena.
P.s. “We will do everything neatly.”
How about no. And also… subpoena.
P.s. “We will do everything neatly.”
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Without a doubt the funniest set I’ve seen all month. How can @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social be this prolific?😂🤣
Mamdani Makes Trump Melt
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Without a doubt the funniest set I’ve seen all month. How can @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social be this prolific?😂🤣
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NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
From the report: "Israel has dismantled existing safeguards and now employs torture throughout the entire detention process…targeting Palestinians under occupation & Palestinian citizens, with senior officials sanctioning these abuses while judicial & administrative mechanisms fail to intervene."
Israeli human rights groups tell UN that Israel increased use of torture during Gaza war
The Report Submitted to the UN Notes That Detainees Received Medical Treatment While Shackled and Blindfolded, and Were Forced to Use Diapers to Relieve Themselves. It Also Says Detainees Were Starved...
www.haaretz.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From the report: "Israel has dismantled existing safeguards and now employs torture throughout the entire detention process…targeting Palestinians under occupation & Palestinian citizens, with senior officials sanctioning these abuses while judicial & administrative mechanisms fail to intervene."
"The driver’s seat was blown to oblivion. Two distraught young men, dressed in black, picked up small pieces of charred flesh, one by one. They dropped them into plastic bags to be buried the next day."
“Almost daily Israeli strikes against Hezbollah, including the killing this week in Beirut of one of the militant group’s top commanders, punctuate a fraying peace. Lebanon exists in a gray zone between war and peace, which could also be the fate of Gaza”
warscape
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
warscape
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
‘Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"The driver’s seat was blown to oblivion. Two distraught young men, dressed in black, picked up small pieces of charred flesh, one by one. They dropped them into plastic bags to be buried the next day."
@jamesrball.com: "The transcript makes for extremely difficult reading. At a surface level, it looks almost like treason – it seems as if a top aide for the US government is helping one of America’s most prominent adversaries, and being chummy to the point of oleaginousness as he does so."
"Witkoff is telling his counterpart Ushakov how to do something he is surely very familiar with: he is telling him how to manage someone ruling like an autocrat."
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Leaked recordings prove Putin is making Trump his puppet
The Witkoff tape reveals how much the game has changed - US diplomacy now appears to centre around flattering and stroking the ego of Donald Trump
inews.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@jamesrball.com: "The transcript makes for extremely difficult reading. At a surface level, it looks almost like treason – it seems as if a top aide for the US government is helping one of America’s most prominent adversaries, and being chummy to the point of oleaginousness as he does so."
Justice is a dish best served over a 27-year sentence.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Justice is a dish best served over a 27-year sentence.
"Moral injury is when moral pain impairs daily functioning…
Most journos need to keep up with the news cycle & report on trauma, loss, and morally injurious events, even while serving a public that is often tuned out. Unlike the rest of us, they can't just tune out without risking their livelihood."
Most journos need to keep up with the news cycle & report on trauma, loss, and morally injurious events, even while serving a public that is often tuned out. Unlike the rest of us, they can't just tune out without risking their livelihood."
Moral Distress and Injury in American Journalism
Journalists bear witness to human suffering, often at great cost—while at the same time navigating institutional betrayal, harassment, and rampant misinformation.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"Moral injury is when moral pain impairs daily functioning…
Most journos need to keep up with the news cycle & report on trauma, loss, and morally injurious events, even while serving a public that is often tuned out. Unlike the rest of us, they can't just tune out without risking their livelihood."
Most journos need to keep up with the news cycle & report on trauma, loss, and morally injurious events, even while serving a public that is often tuned out. Unlike the rest of us, they can't just tune out without risking their livelihood."
Not if you want a proper ET/Mac and Me crossover.
Not Reese’s Pieces…?
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Not if you want a proper ET/Mac and Me crossover.
A Skittle brine will help.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A Skittle brine will help.
Tarkovsky > Rattner
Say what you will about the state controlled film industries of the Soviet Union, but at least they made *good* movies.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Tarkovsky > Rattner
Katz: "AIPAC poses the single biggest existential threat to democracy in America out of any group. It is spending hundreds of millions of dollars defending a fascist in Israel and to sustain the power structures that sustain a fascist...."
Radicalized by AIPAC: Mamdani's Jewish strategist on big money and weaponized antisemitism
26-year-old Morris Katz Is Gearing Up to Guide Democratic Progressives Toward Victory in the Midterms and Beyond
www.haaretz.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Katz: "AIPAC poses the single biggest existential threat to democracy in America out of any group. It is spending hundreds of millions of dollars defending a fascist in Israel and to sustain the power structures that sustain a fascist...."
Via @propublica.org: "Students are taught to interpret the First Amendment’s establishment clause on the separation of church and state as a protection against government involvement in religion, rather than vice versa."
A Fort Worth church is offering a $100 online academy that aims to train conservative Christians to run for office.
At the core of the program is the idea that there is no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
At the core of the program is the idea that there is no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
With @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidat...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Via @propublica.org: "Students are taught to interpret the First Amendment’s establishment clause on the separation of church and state as a protection against government involvement in religion, rather than vice versa."