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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 4h

John Oliver: Bari Weiss #blogpost

John Oliver discusses the Paramount Skydance merger, how they’ve named Bari Weiss the new Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, and what her editorial history and perspective mean for the future of U.S. journalism. Plus, some notable moments in the history of the Upper West Side.

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 5h

if john oliver has pissed you off the odds are pretty good you need to look within yourself to grapple with why that is

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 6h

you know alito longs for the pretridentine church of the medici and the borgias

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 12h

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely insane that the President of the United States has sent militarized secret police to attack multiple American cities, all at the same time.

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 7h

when bull connor is your role model perhaps you should be separated from the general population

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 7h

do not play games with derek, he will cut you bad

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

This is why I always chuckle whenever I hear some elected Dem talk about a bipartisan deal to re-open the government like dude you're the last person left on earth that hasn't heard about the business stylings of Donald Trump. The Art of the Deal is not paying for services rendered

ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 10h

michael tracey, maybe

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Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 10h

derek splains shirt economics

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 10h

the sign is printed on american cheese, isn't it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Also if your complaint is that people are protesting even though they haven’t been impacted themselves uh, you are badly missing the goal of protests

It’s not a spotlight for your performance.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11h

The worst living child rapist treated like an exiled queen while they bust the windows of moms in line to pick up their third graders.

On a weekend in mid-August, hundreds of inmates at a minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas, were locked down during their usual time for strolling the grassy campus and visiting with family and friends.
All except one: Ghislaine Maxwell, the 63-year-old associate of Jeffrey Epstein convicted for her role in helping him sexually abuse underage teens.
While her fellow inmates were confined to their dormitories after breakfast, Maxwell met with several visitors in the federal prison camp’s chapel, according to people familiar with the matter.
Less than three weeks earlier, the Justice Department had moved Maxwell to Federal Prison Camp Bryan from a higher-security facility in Tallahassee, Fla. Under Federal Bureau of Prisons rules, prisoners with sex-crime convictions like Maxwell’s don’t ordinarily qualify to serve their time in such camps.
The transfer followed an interview with senior Justice Department official Todd Blanche during which Maxwell said she had never seen President Trump, during his long association with Epstein, doing anything inappropriate or illegal.
Maxwell’s unexpected arrival upset the camp’s usually relaxed atmosphere, leading to more frequent lockdowns, the addition of armed guards and other changes. Current and former inmates said in interviews that Maxwell appeared to receive unusually favorable treatment at times, sparking resentment from other inmates.

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Ken MacLennan @historiken.bsky.social · 11h

stealing children

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

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 · 19h

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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