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Sune Engel Rasmussen @suneengel.bsky.social · 9h

I spent 3 weeks on a cargo ship in the Arctic, from Canada to Greenland. Our only company was blizzards, killer whales, thick fog and icebergs. Here is my story about how the West is lagging seriously behind Russia in the Arctic, and why it's so difficult to catch up

www.wsj.com/world/inside...

Inside the West’s Race to Defend the Arctic

Sailors scanned for icebergs on a nine-day journey to the U.S.’s northernmost military installation this summer—part of an effort to erode Russia’s vast advantage in the region.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 20h

This whole movement is one of the greatest activities in the information domain that I have seen from Americans over the past 9 months. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 20h

This whole movement is one of the greatest activities in the information domain that I have seen from Americans over the past 9 months. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 22h

Clearly focused on ensuring the survival of democracy 💪🙄

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22h

Major media outlet falling down on the job of explaining that political influencers are the new propagandists in a take that could illustrate a class on Manufacturing Consent.

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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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 2d

For some reason all week I keep thinking of the line from the Stand — “we are dead and this is hell”

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 2d

It’s good to know this many millennia on, men still don’t understand anything about women’s bodies, but love to find new ways to demean them while making money off of them, nonetheless

WIRED @wired.com · 2d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 2d

✈️ F-16 fighter jets, provided to Ukraine as part of military aid, carry out about 80% of all combat sorties flown by the Ukrainian Air Force.

These combat aircraft are used, in particular, to intercept Russian cruise missiles and Shahed kamikaze drones.

militarnyi.com/en/news/f-16...

F-16 Fighter Jets Carry Out 80% of Ukrainian Air Force Combat Missions - U.S. Statement - Militarnyi

F-16 fighter jets, provided to Ukraine as part of military aid, carry out about 80% of all combat sorties flown by the Ukrainian Air Force.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like we’re now reporting on the implementation of the patriotic 5 year plan

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data reut.rs/3VYW3xZ

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data

U.S. data vital to global grain and soybean trading has gone dark during the federal government's shutdown, leaving commodity traders and farmers without crop production estimates, export sales data and market reports during the peak of the autumn harvest.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is a key thing between early AI adopters and creatives — whether or not you view the process happening in your brain as the whole point, or whether you think the computer is making boring or “hard” things faster so you can do something else

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes the haiku is the only way

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 2d

If they do this thing —
Rule for Alex Jones — after
Is only darkness

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Alex Jones Asks Supreme Court to Halt $1.4 Billion Payment to Sandy Hook Families

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

It’s funny because he kept adding descriptors because in his head that made it less blatantly racist

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, it’s equally as terrible that you have to write this out as that “after this nightmare is over” is pretty open ended, Asha

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

“Don’t you want someone else to die before you” is not a question moral leaders in a democratic society ask voters

“Isn’t your life worth more than <<points>> *them*” is not the beginning of anyone’s better America

This is how men like Putin control their people while failing to give them anything

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

100% in love with David Bowie the Goblin King back in the 80s

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

David Bowie — worldbuilder. Morph. Technologist.

No one like him. Cannot imagine him living in this current insane timeline.

Incredibly cool article on the David Bowie Archive in London

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

David Bowie — worldbuilder. Morph. Technologist.

No one like him. Cannot imagine him living in this current insane timeline.

Incredibly cool article on the David Bowie Archive in London

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no B actor too small for revival in season 2 of the greatest sh*tshow on earth

kathykustra.bsky.social @kathykustra.bsky.social · 4d

Of course they did

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

and they should recall Hyten's warning from
2017: "If you execute an unlawful order, you will go toil. You could go to jail for the rest of your life." Most American military personnel, however, need no reminder of their constitutional duty. But they do need some
reassurance that they have support from their chain of command to resist illegal orders. And the rest of us, whether we're elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t stop thinking about this photo, and what it says about how we perceive power and the balance of that power in America.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 7d

"Look at Ukraine. They’ve been fighting the enemy with weapons in hand for four years, and they are not complaining. Because they can’t retreat. If they surrender, they lose everything. If they don’t, they survive." There is no time for despair. We, too, have no way to retreat. 6/12

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 7d

Actually a very good story of an American company investing in its workers to transform itself to meet modern challenges

Russ Wilcox @russwilcox.bsky.social · 7d

Inspiring
www.wsj.com/business/sha...

Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S.

Newell Brands invested close to $2 billion and thousands of hours in training to move most production of Sharpie pens to a 37-year-old factory in Tennessee.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t stop thinking about this photo, and what it says about how we perceive power and the balance of that power in America.

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