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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 1d

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Bee-yoo-ti-ful takedown of Bari Weiss by John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight"

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Bee-yoo-ti-ful takedown of Bari Weiss by John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight"

Normally when I post Youtube videos here, most are from excellent but fairly obscure content creators. To be sure, I have posted content fr...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 12h

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5h

Every time.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 5h

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 4h

I will be marching in the No Kings rally on Saturday, not because I'm paid, but because I care about my kids' future.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 2h

Trump, an authoritarian to his core, repeatedly sought the investigation, prosecution, and imprisonment of his political foes throughout his first four years in the White House.
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Blaming the left for Trump's weaponization of law enforcement means pretending his first term didn't happen

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Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸 @nancyannn.bsky.social · 2h

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2h

The paper dying would reflect poorly on Bezos's other ventures. He is just a deluded rich person who thought his wealth makes him smarter than an actual experts in any other industry.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

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.

www.forbes.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

A huge landmark in journalism history seems to have come to pass a while ago: when @hcrichardson.bsky.social outstripped the Washington Post in online readership. An old world is dying, a new world is being born [Jeff Bezos is a monster].

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

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.

www.forbes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1h

It's the story of the last ten years--kiss his ass in the most debased possible way, and this is what you get in return.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h

Trump complains about his Time Magazine cover photo in new post:

"the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown... Really weird!"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

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Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’

You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 17h

Still wild to me that is a thing written by a real human person who then doesn't even go on mention ANYTHING where all the money to promote Weiss's image or what issues her substack built itself on: as if it just grew up out of the ether, like a flower, divorced entirely from any political moment

Weiss; her wife, Nellie Bowles; and her sister, Suzy Weiss, are the founders of The Free Press and close friends of mine, a friendship born when I met Bari over coffee when she was at the Times and learned that we share the same disgust at what has become of so much of the mainstream, legacy press.

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Pete Del Re @pdel.bsky.social · 17h

If you need a primmer on Bari Weiss, this is a good watch

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

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

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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 21h

I've never had that problem with my website.

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The Free Press - the right-wing racist Bari Weiss grift

Bari Weiss calling her media outlet " The Free Press " is about as accurate as Donald Trump calling his media outlet "Truth Social." But man...

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The Cat Mother @hullerfarcats.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you John Oliver on the very illuminating, very interesting, yet hilarious, coverage on The Free Press & Bari Weiss & her University. Now I understand why she’d be bad for CBS. She’ll turn CBS into govt propaganda/state/MAGAT megaphone!

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apricity @elusiveapricity.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss has always been a grifter, who will kiss any ass that will pay her.
She has no principles and no dignity.
She simply sells herself to highest bidder.

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misterz777.bsky.social @misterz777.bsky.social · 23h

CBS is now another fascist propaganda machine thanks to Bari Weiss. Simping for Adams who kissed the Pedophile felons fat ass .

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PINKERITE @pinkerite.com · 23h

Weiss benefitted from rightwing plutocrat money every step of the way from Harlan Crow to Marc Andreessen.

Time to go back to sports reporting, you obviously can't handle any other kind.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

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

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Beginning to suspect Caitlin Flanagan did not tell me the full story

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

oh. right.

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Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss is a disgrace

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

Bari Weiss always fails up. Always. CBS news is a joke. This is an article from an internet shitposter on CBS News and yes they spelled Zohran Mamdani's name wrong.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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