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Jacob Weindling

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Editor-in-Chief of @splinternews.bsky.social Rabid Colorado sports partisan. Mildly rabid lefty partisan. Accidental UFO reporter-ish. Subscribe to Splinter: https://tinyurl.com/px9jjc64 Splinter newsletter: https://www.splinter.com/newsletter

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · Feb 7

We would be honored if you would subscribe to Splinter to support our work to grow this good website back into the force it deserves to be, and help us in our mission to tell Google to go fuck itself once and for all. www.splinter.com/five-reasons...

Five Reasons to Subscribe to Splinter, A Good Website

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 2h

Turang dove out of the way of a tie game then ended the game on ball 3.

Forever nightmare fuel.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote about the new climate tipping points report, how that sort of rhetoric has left me a bit cold in the past, and how there seems to be an attempt to repurpose some of the scariest climate stuff toward positive ends.

Climate Tipping Points Don't Face in Just One Direction

Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.

www.gravityisgone.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 3h

Beyond jarring seeing Blake Snell pitching through the 7th inning of a playoff game. That seems like a far less likely outcome than the batshit GIDP to center.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4h

"what the fuck just happened"

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 4h

If you're the players union, at what point do you start talking about CBA violations and potentially fighting to get rid of the cap altogether? The cap exists to depress player salaries, but if some players are being paid outside the cap..

Why would players adhere to an agreement the owners aren't?

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 4h

This is potentially the biggest sports scandal ever, the entire basis of how the NBA operates don't apply to Ballmer...and how many others?

If Silver either is lying about what he knew about the Clippers, or didn't know about a federal investigation into their sponsor, what else doesn't he know?

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 4h

So I guess Adam Silver is a liar then, pretty wild how every new development in this story just makes both Ballmer and the NBA look even guiltier and/or incompetent www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Sources: NBA OK'd Clips' Aspiration patch deal

The NBA vetted and approved a $300 million sponsorship deal between the Los Angeles Clippers and Aspiration in 2021, before the company signed a separate deal with Kawhi Leonard that triggered an inve...

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 6h

Like what?

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 6h

I run a lefty site and I have no fucking idea what lefty constituency you're talking about

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 7h

Do you know what a world historic freakshow you have to be to get Newsmax to do journalism

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

So far, the only media outlet that has signed Pete Hegseth's new prohibitive press policy for covering the Pentagon is One America News.

Even Newsmax and the Washington Times have rejected the letter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even Newsmax rejects the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of signing deadline

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

www.independent.co.uk

Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 7h

I reached out to several old Paste Politics writers to see if they wanted to write for Splinter when we relaunched it last year, and she was not one of them for many reasons that are demonstrated in this screenshot.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 8h

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 8h

Impossible to overstate how stupid and self-defeating this is

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 8h

I still can remember (most of) my college girlfriend's number because I was utterly mortified that she knew mine by heart and I didn't know hers, so I effectively tattooed it on to my brain

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 12h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 10h

If you paid every June No Kings protester $100, it would have cost $500M. That's 14 protests Soros could pay for with his net worth. It's just a preposterous notion you can easily rebut with simple math www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 10h

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12h

Hyperliquid showed over 1,000 traders down over $100k on Friday alone, with 206 down over $1M. One whale lost $59M.

"FUCK CRYPTO IM DONE" read countless posts on crypto Twitter on Friday

All because of one Trump post he later walked back lmao
www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12h

An estimated $19 billion in leverage and $560 billion in value of the crypto market just went poof in about a half hour, all because Trump threatened new tariffs in China he kind of walked back yesterday. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12h

Friday saw the largest liquidation event in crypto history by several orders of magnitude, all due to one Trump post. As your resident reformed crypto trader, I can attest it's fine to point and laugh. www.splinter.com/trump-bankru...

Trump Bankrupted Tons of Crypto Bros and Caused Its Biggest Wipeout Ever With One TruthSocial Post

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 13h

*is fair for a fake protester to fake protest

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 13h

They are freaking out because No Kings is a visual representation of their shitty polling that is a lot harder to dismiss than the fake news polls, so they have to try to call wine moms and people in unicorn suits terrorists. www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

The Trump Administration Is Terrified of No Kings Protests

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 13h

Let's indulge this BS of paid protesters. I think $100 is for a fake protester to fake protest.

That's $500 million to the June No Kings protesters.
At a cheapskate rate of $20 per person, that's $100 million.

Soros could only afford 14 protests at $100 per person.
www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

The Trump Administration Is Terrified of No Kings Protests

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 13h

Wrote about the flop sweat billowing off of Republicans as they freak out over the No Kings protests this weekend www.splinter.com/the-trump-ad...

The Trump Administration Is Terrified of No Kings Protests

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 15h

I'll take tacit Epstein admissions for $500 Alex

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 17h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1d

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.