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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s newsletter day. If you don’t subscribed to my newsletter, I will astrally project myself to your place of business to yell random Tyler The Creator lyrics at you.

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Bronzeville, Near South Side News

News from Bronzeville, Near South Side, Grand Boulevard and more.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 8h

Charging this much to eat meat wrapped in yoga mats is wild as hell.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 21h

The $5 footlong has become the $6 six inch. I don't even eat Subway and I still think it's time to knock all this shit over

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3h

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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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

They hired a hack youtuber to write a piece calling me a liar for saying the trump administration ended the LGBTQ national suicide hotline.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

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It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t need to because Bari is the “contemptible, unethical weirdo” I mentioned above. And anyone who believes otherwise is not worth engaging.

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 3h

If you hang with contemptible, unethical weirdos? You are the company you keep.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 3h

“Raisins in potato salad” level of intellect over at the Atlantic

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 3h

At least she’s aware

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 3h

MOOOOOOOM THE FIFTY THREE PERCENT ARE AT IT AGAIN

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

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.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 4h

My other former neighborhood. Sigh.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 21h

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 6h

Palestinians themselves pleaded for us to choose Kamala but their voices were irrelevant.

In the same way this person says Kamala was accountable, surely they are holding themselves accountable for the continued bombing of Gaza under the current administration since that’s what they chose.

JikissGamer @jikissgamer.bsky.social · 1d

She deserved to lose and I don't regret withholding my vote in that election in the slightest. I could not in good conscience reward her for what the Biden Admin did in Gaza with her as VP.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 4h

Lolol this was the Big Brain who took down Gawker. I’d be so ashamed.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Bernie is a failure, and AOC is a poser!!! @africanprincess7.bsky.social · 6h

No. You were not suckered by Fetterman. You willfully chose to support him despite warnings about his character. You did that.

kiwijohn.bsky.social @kiwijohn.bsky.social · 7h

We were suckered by Fetterman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Maria Bartiromo tries to reassure Fetterman: "You know, senator, what you just said, it's really shamefully on your colleagues. You feeling isolated -- that is absolutely outrageous. You are a breath of fresh air. I know our viewers are grateful."

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 7h

*stares into the abyss*

NPR @npr.org · 8h

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 19h

Just. Amazing.

Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 23h

Kelly Rowland is...

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 20h

Can’t even shake the existential dread on vacation

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 21h

The boy is sending me photos from homecoming and ahhh my heart

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this sounds fantastic

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

By the way: Isn't it time somebody released (or leaked) Tilda, the HBO pilot that starred Diane Keaton as a Nikki Finke-like gossip columnist? Also with, I believe, Elliot Page, Wes Bentley, Jason Patric, Sanaa Lathan. 2011, many cooks inc. Bill Condon, at least two versions.

Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 1d

Same, sister!

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

the mainstream media wants you to think I’m 5’0 and have to ask other adults at the grocery store to please get that beer down off the shelf for me, but that’s not true. I’m huge

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Brian Guteking SZN @packrfan4.bsky.social · 1d

I can virtually guarantee that ICE is now comprised of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and others of their ilk. They’d do the job for free but the Trump Admin decided to give them a $50K signing bonus in an effort to get them all to crawl out from underneath the rocks that they’d been living.

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history