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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3m

Understood. The fact that they open by saying they're not overly optimistic is a good sign of their credibility, to me.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4m

I would put the primary responsibility for the fascism on the fascists.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6m

an all-timer.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 8m

I get the point you're making, but it's obviously different in kind than the situation is now, and these activists and organizers have done meaningful work in their countries so there's value in giving them a platform that they wouldn't otherwise have, regardless.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10m

Both the folks who want Obama to rush in and deliver some grand speech that they imagine will fix everything, and those who say he isn't actually doing anything in this moment tend to ignore these substantive conversations with real experts who talk about what has driven progress against fascism.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12m

This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...

How to stop authoritarianism across the globe: a conversation with President Obama

YouTube video by Obama Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14m

It was extraordinary. Can't believe how they perfectly capped off the entire run. So glad they got video!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16m

Do you really not actually understand the difference between Black men standing up for civil rights and human rights and their communities through self-determination and self-love and a white supremacist fascist who inflicts authoritarianism on others?

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Nate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 1h

when you hit the wrong button

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

Always worth revisiting, @edyong209.bsky.social talking about his reckoning with The Atlantic and why he left, including a nod to @prisonculture.bsky.social. (And skip back to 13:15 or so for a very satisfying truth-telling about Jesse Singal) youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8?...

Ed Yong, Journalist/Author - XOXO Festival (2024)

YouTube video by XOXO Festival

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Screenshot of text:

It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

Is she at motherjones? I thought she was at the Atlantic

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 3h

The whole tech broligarchy is this student. Even Andrew Coyne sees through their lack of rigor and thoughtlessness.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f39d95c...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

It’s not a badge of honor to celebrate the ascendancy of someone who refuses to correct factual errors in pieces purporting to be journalism, and a hagiographic article which fails to mention that reality. But you know that, you just know the faux-martyr routine pays better than actual competence.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

It’s not a badge of honor to celebrate the ascendancy of someone who refuses to correct factual errors in pieces purporting to be journalism, and a hagiographic article which fails to mention that reality. But you know that, you just know the faux-martyr routine pays better than actual competence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

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 · 4h

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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Chryon priestess to Janus d^=.=^b 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🏴‍☠️🍉🪽🪶🚲✋🪬🤚🧿🦊🍄🧚‍♀️🐌🦋🪾🍀🌲☠️ @witchesink.bsky.social · 1h

Its incredible how much of history and how little of learned history is affected by purposeful famine

@cnni

CNN International

This New York student won a $250,000 prize for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato

Famine cnn.it/2FyefcU

Reply:

Calling the Brits a "devastating microorganism" is a little weird, but I'll take it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 1d

I am resigning from the @salesforce.com DX Advisory Board, effective immediately.

I joined when asked because I was naive enough to think that I could throw my clout and technical prowess around to offer a dissenting voice.

I was wrong.

The link in the email: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I am tendering my resignation for the Salesforce DX Advisory Board, effective immediately.

At this time, I believe my efforts in the ecosystem are better spent working directly with admins, developers, and aspirants.

Thank you for this opportunity.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/11/slap-in-the-face-marc-benioffs-trump-turn-stuns-san-francisco-00604421

Evelyn Maguire
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Salesforce Developer and Architect

linkedin.com/in/evelynmaguire

github.com/evelyn-fyi

evelyn.fyi

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 3h

In the 1950s, my father was teaching communism to what was then the NSA - precursor to the CIA. When moving offices some of Karl Marx‘s books fell out of his boxes and a guard turned in him in to the McCarthy cronies — he was accused of being a Communist. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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