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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 7h

She can hire right-wing opinion writers, because that's what she's done. She actually doesn't know how to make a news division more ideological, because she has never worked in one, and network news is also different from print.

And she certainly has no idea how to stop losing viewers.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 9h

My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 7h

In my township in the past six months, multiple non-chain restaurants have shuttered, as well as a grocery store and a specialty food store - businesses that had been here decades. Construction projects are going well past delivery date too. And it’s generally a prosperous area.

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 7h

The end game here is just "no restaurants." There aren't, like, restaurant fairies who will keep the whole thing afloat. Just people doing jobs that we are worse off without.

Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 8h

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 8h

yes i’ve seen the stupid post by the writer defending the writer for defending the free press owner and my only thought is that it’s a club and you ain’t in it. everything else is just noise.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 8h

This is correct, and the purpose was to entertain at most a few dozen people, who happen to control a few trillion dollars between them.

Long Live the Gerontocracy @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 8h

The FP is only financially successful if we judge it as a project designed to entertain. If we view it through the lens of journalism, it isn't a success by any metric.

Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 9h

Not here to ratio you, but I am here to respectfully disagree. Building something as financially successful as FP is genuinely impressive, but it doesn’t necessarily demonstrate competence at running a real newsroom with real reporting and real journalism standards.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 8h

"It's a badge of honor when everyone tells me I shit my pants in public."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8h

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

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Correcting the record

Every #MeToo story contains two traumas: First, the event itself. Then, the story becoming public. A recent New York Magazine cover story compiled the experiences of 25 people who publicly came forwa...

www.cjr.org

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

Caitlin Flanagan publicly attacked a friend of mine for being sexually assaulted and speaking up about it.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 10h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 10h

Certain type of person just shows up here every month to post bait (and 50% of them write for the Atlantic)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

The omniforce is accountable only to Trump: they ignore state and local guidance, or court decisions. Forget about knowing the identity of the official. Now you may not know which agency he works for, or even if he is an agent of the state.

two men wearing American flag facemasks and tactical gear.
Look at the picture above. One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in an violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, Jenkins, she is the veritable Lance Armstrong of journalistic integrity. Great analysis.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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RachelMarta @rachel99marta.bsky.social · 1d

Encouraging them in ... Spanish, the pope told them, “You have in your hands a very great task, which is to accompany the people who truly & profoundly need a sign that God never abandons anyone: not the smallest, not the poorest, not the foreigner, not anyone.”💙
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Why Pope Leo gathered more than 100 Latino Catholics at the Vatican this week

The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

www.msnbc.com

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

may the judged be their judges when they rot down in hell

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

The difference between this boy and the agents is that their families would heave a sigh of relief if they went missing. So would the country.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

What, do you ask, is the point of all the theater around the laughable announcement that an obviously unwell man is in the pink of health?

Because if he succumbs to his illnesses, it will help reinforce a conspiracy theory.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

I would add that I've done taxes for twenty years and if you're a liberal and give to charity you're in the very very noticeable minority.

Republicans give to charity, and to rw agitprop

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2d

it has a lot to do with incentives.

to rightwing plutocrats, a D admin is an intolerable threat to their wealth & power, so writing blank checks for agitprop makes sense and is in fact honorable self-defense.

to their lib counterparts such a thing would be gauche, a social capital-negative

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

this has been a periodic complaint for decades and I'm curious what is standing in the way of fixing it

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 2d

Yet the press will hem and haw and equivocate regardless.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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