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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 3h

rip

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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 2d

More people give AEW $50 per month for pro wrestling than those who give the Washington Post $10 per month for journalism. It's over. Bezos has succeeded in killing one of our nation's great newspapers.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

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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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 1d

didn't they do the exact same thing with richard spencer?

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 1d

so like a fishing boat acts?

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

should've been NARC though

Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

so jealous

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 3d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

hard to believe the biggest zionist in congress didn't want to hold israel back

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

yeah but what about the tree?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Nick Fuentes’s show is back on Spotify after having been previously banned.

Would not be surprised to see him back on YouTube at some point.

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

it is odd how long the aesthetic has held on. hilarious that it has been so much longer than when it was current.

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

where the fuck has the extreme left been being remotely nice to fuentes? he is an established neonazi and the entire left despises him.

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 2d

did twitter get taken over by lib bot accounts attacking the left nonstop recently, or is it just me?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 3d

definitely proves they're been trained by israel

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 4d

HPD called ICE 107 times since Trump took office — mostly after traffic stops — as policy on administrative warrants fuels fear among immigrants. bit.ly/48WIsyP

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4d

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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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 4d

lol what

this is a joke right?

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 4d

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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Sir Tonk @sirtonk.bsky.social · 5d

there are what, a dozen anarcho-communists in the entire US? and that's counting the ones that are undercover feds.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 5d

Another wild week over in NES ranking land as it's time to see the NES version of Joe & Mac, a game that I... was not expecting to be quite what it was, but that's my fault! Also: Times of Lore from the original Star Citizen himself, Chris Roberts. Neat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qji1...

As Much As I Hate To Admit It, Joe & Mac Deserves Better | Episode 112

Let's look at another batch of NES classics! No? OK, let's look at these games, then. Here's Joe & Mac, Captain Planet, Times of Lore, and Last Action Hero! SIGN UP FOR FREE ON PATREON:…

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