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Jason Wilson
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I'm a reporter covering the far right. [email protected] Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://www.the-end.news
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · Jul 17
Hey all - I finally started a newsletter for investigative reporting and analysis. I explain why in this introductory post. Sign up now so you don't miss the story dropping within hours! Free, supporter, and insider tiers www.the-end.news/coming-soon/
Welcome to The End
I am starting this newsletter to try to solve some problems. I've been covering right-wing and far-right politics for over a decade, mostly as a freelancer, with hundreds of bylines across publicatio...
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 3h
Appointed by Meta as an adviser on AI bias, anti-DEI campaigner Robby Buck has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, trans people, vaccines, crime & protests

The Guardian repeatedly contacted Meta for comment but received no response
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
www.theguardian.com
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h
Did not know this about Old Bay
The origins of the company can be traced back to Wertheim, Germany, where Brunn started a wholesale spice and seasoning business selling to food industries, seeing an opportunity as spices were in especially short supply amidst hyperinflation in the aftermath of World War I. 9] Due to rising antisemitism as the Nazi Party rose to power, the company moved to Frankfurt, Germany; 1°1 however, on the night of November 9, 1938, a massive pogrom against Jews, known as Kristallnacht, led to Brunn being arrested by Nazi soldiers and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. " According to Brunn's son, Gustav's wife paid a large sum of money to a lawyer for him to be released; as they had already applied for and received American visas, they were able to escape with their two children to New York City and later Baltimore, Maryland, where Brunn had family.!'! There, having brought with him only a small spice grinder, 8! Brunn founded the Baltimore Spice Company and produced the "Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning", which was later renamed Old Bay. 12[13]
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 4h
New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
www.theguardian.com
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 7h
New from @jasonaw.bsky.social

A far right MAGA influencer named Robby Starbuck worked with Asst AG Harmeet Dhillon to get himself installed as an “AI Bias” advisor to Meta

Starbuck impulsively peddles lies and spreads far right conspiracies incl about Portland

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
www.theguardian.com
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h
Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 4h
New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people
Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’
www.theguardian.com
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d
We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d
Amen
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d
In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?
www.nytimes.com
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d
Tag yourself I am the shy frog
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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d
This is awesome.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d
The biggest challenge for a newswriter is when nothing is going on but your editor
says you need to pretend something is going on
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d
You actually could just be as obstructive as you possibly could be and most people will blame the president. I don’t make the rules
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d
WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d
His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d
Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.
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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 2d
Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic
Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.
www.nbcnews.com
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d
ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 2d
I can imagine a Portland store built from plywood but it would be a bunch of mid century Danish shit they bid on from a dead guy’s lock up in Baker
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 2d
Hahahahaha come on
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."
Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: “U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer. “This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 2d
Blocked this guy
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah. Maybe the actual answer to this is don’t make yourself work jetlagged but I am not going to presume to tell him his business
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
going by the decor, is this not TGI Fridays?
Someone on Twitter posted a photo of themselves doing a happy dance as they receive a hot plate of fajitas. Then "Raw Egg Nationalist" on Twitter retweets them, writing: It's incredible that these people exist, but they really do. These are the people who justify the demographic replacement of Western countries in terms of the variety of street food and how many different kinds of fried-meat-and-vegetables in flatbread they can buy.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 2d
Idk what this means man so I am gonna give you a little time to read this before I block you