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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 1h

Why?

Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 2d

Nah, Mookie has been a key part of 3 championship teams (going on 4). Future HOF, amazing defensive versatility and an .809 postseason OPS. The guy is a winner. Trying to downplay that is weak

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 7d

Falcons owner Arthur Blank’s foundation is making a $50 million donation to four HBCUs in the Atlanta area today - Spelman, Morehouse, Morris Brown & Clark Atlanta. Good stuff.

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 8d

Wonderful column by Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the terrible, weird choice of Bari Weis by CBS News

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 8d

I agree that it’s a great newspaper. My favorite. The cost to access all content, digitally….. is SUBSTANTIALLY more than any other news source. Not even close to being affordable or justifiable for me. A news source for the rich in my opinion which is sad

Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 8d

Paying a substantial amount to be a “standard subscriber” and not having access to all of the content unless paying much more to “upgrade to premium” is a terrible business model and why I cancelled FT. Sorry

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 9d

… and the response? Genocide

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 10d

Just when you think The Atlantic is worth the subscription, SMDH 🙄

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely my favorite cuisine. Ethiopian food is amazing!!

Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 12d

If Frum is not immediately fired by @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social @theatlantic.com …… it tells you all you need to know about The Atlantic

Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 12d

Son of a bitch.

David Frum should be fired from The Atlantic immediately

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 13d

FWIW, I read the Globe on the digital app AND sometimes the ePaper. Always see the byline

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25d

Folks had no idea who owns their local TV stations - until large, faceless corporations, Sinclair and Nexstar, said they can't watch Jimmy Kimmel because of politics

This is why they've been warning us: media consolidation is a threat to democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

Kimmel blackout is what happens when your TV isn’t locally sourced

When most Americans weren't looking, a handful of companies seized control over what you see on your local TV channels.

www.inquirer.com

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 26d

My experience is the opposite. After using the reMarkable for a couple of years I now know where every note and every project are; can search them by tags, transcribe to text if needed, and share seamlessly. And no longer have paper notebooks everywhere

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 26d

Based on my experiences I disagree. I also tried both and the writing experience, user-friendly features, design, and functionality of the reMarkable were vastly superior for me

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 27d

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

America’s accelerating exit from itself

After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

www.ft.com

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 29d

Good grief 🙄

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · Sep 21

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Mehdi Hasan on X: "The clips are endless. And yet you have Republicans and some liberals saying endlessly that Kirk was ‘civil’ and never name-called or insulted anyone. Btw, notice how Kirk supporters never share any clips from his shows. Now you know why." / X

The clips are endless. And yet you have Republicans and some liberals saying endlessly that Kirk was ‘civil’ and never name-called or insulted anyone. Btw, notice how Kirk supporters never share any clips from his shows. Now you know why.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Sep 18

Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler

The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

Kimmel yanked: Sen. Fetterman, can we call it ‘fascism’ yet? | Will Bunch

Trump regime shredded the First Amendment in forcing Jimmy Kimmel's off the air. Our 'leaders' still don't get it.

www.inquirer.com

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · Sep 18

It led to the pathetic Washington Post to fire a wonderful journalist in Karen Attiah. So, it sure can be

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Sep 16

The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me

Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The Washington Post has broken my heart | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the best Democrat in America right now.

www.inquirer.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Sep 16

The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me

Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The Washington Post has broken my heart | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the best Democrat in America right now.

www.inquirer.com

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · Sep 16

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Sep 16

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · Sep 16

Agreed, but The Sting is right up there too!

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · Sep 16

I hung in there with the Post as long as possible. The cowardly firing of Karen Attiah was the final straw. I’m done. Bezos and Will Lewis destroyed the once proud news organization. Pathetic

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