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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 53m

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 52m

Trump said he wasn’t’ bothered’ about the extrajudicial executions so unless he has spoken since the linkage of the killings to disarmament is misleading here

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 2h

Looking at this pic makes me feel like I've just skipped directly to the Netflix doc about this lad's rise and fall...

Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 2h

I wouldn't be surprised if it were a narrow bank, involving stablecoins.
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US approves new bank backed by billionaires with ties to Trump

Target market for Erebor will be businesses that are part of America’s ‘innovation economy’

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 2h

The thing that’s so funny ha ha ha is that Vance contrasted it with calls for political violence. Sorry …what do you think musings about sending foes to the gas chambers constitutes?

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 7h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

The U.S. revoked the visas of at least six foreign citizens whom it accused of celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the State Department said in a series of social media posts on Tuesday.

U.S. Says It Revoked Visas of Some People Who Criticized Charlie Kirk

The State Department’s X account listed six examples of people who it said had made comments about the assassination of Mr. Kirk, a right-wing activist, and said it was withdrawing their visas.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 19h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3h

Candace Owens has followed Kanye West in being refused entry to Australia after a court upheld a decision that her record failed a “character test” under local laws.

Candace Owens Loses Legal Fight to Enter Foreign Country Over Her ‘Extremist’ Views

Owens failed to overturn a visa denial imposed for fears she would “incite discord.”

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 22h

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 19h

Council of Europe commissioner for human rights urges UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood to review protest laws after Palestine Action placard mass arrests.

Michael O’Flaherty says the current legal framework allows UK authorities to impose “excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression”.

Human rights official urges UK to review laws after Palestine Action placard arrests

Counter-terror laws must not place unnecessary limits on ‘fundamental rights’, Michael O’Flaherty tells Shabana Mahmood

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h

To be more specific, media and politicians aren't aware of the scale of continuing reductions

The public mostly don't know it fell at all. Both boats + political/broadcast skew to mainly covering boats contributes significantly to net migration falling by half to two-thirds without being noticed

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 8h

Trump on Hamas executions: “That didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you. That’s okay. It’s a couple of very bad gangs. It’s no different than other countries like Venezuela [that have] sent their gangs [into the US],” he added.

Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 8h

In which Trump appears to compare Hamas's extrajudicial executions to his own, saying he's "not bothered".

The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 9h

PA condemns Hamas executions as ‘heinous crimes’; Trump shrugs off crackdown https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-condemns-hamas-executions-as-heinous-crimes-trump-shrugs-off-crackdown/

PA condemns Hamas executions as ‘heinous crimes’; Trump shrugs off crackdown

Abbas's office calls for 'restoration of law,' PA rights group demands end to 'extrajudicial and arbitrary executions'; US president says Hamas 'killed a number of gang members' :

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 9h

The whiplash from 'we are going to build responsible AI' and 'were worried about the addictive nature of these tools'

To:

'Were going to build a porn bot', 'were building a additctive, endless scroll social media app' and 'were bringing back the addictive model'

Is pretty big

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 9h

A couple in their 30s on a joint salary of 130,000 whinging about rising rent and travel costs. Totally relatable.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 9h

It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more

This tax trap is killing youthful aspiration

Little wonder the under-40s laud Margaret Thatcher: she valued hard work, unlike the rules that penalise them today

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

This is not really about Hamas violating the terms of the ceasefire. This is just collective punishment of the people of Gaza. And the fact that Israel is still doing this is a big part of why people are not celebrating the ceasefire just yet.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Several years of Republican investigations over Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Burisma never once turned up anything as clear as this.

I would guess that not a single Republican makes even the mildest criticism of Trump over it.

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric

The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Author Kurt Andersen reveals his bizarre experience of buying drugs from RFK Jr., sharing how the “Kennedy brat” accused him of stealing "his special cocaine straw."

What I Learned After RFK Jr. Sold Me Drugs: Author

Kurt Andersen tells The Daily Beast Podcast about buying cocaine from Kennedy at Harvard in the early 1970s.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben Jennings on Trump the peacemaker – cartoon

The US president receives a standing ovation in the Knesset as 20 hostages come home and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are released

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