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wehriskat.bsky.social @wehriskat.bsky.social · 28m

If Nancy Pelosi had done this, every news network would run a counter of elapsed days since she was elected.

wehriskat.bsky.social @wehriskat.bsky.social · 48m

Agree, and Purdue deserves no credit because they did everything but disband the paper and forced them to remove “Purdue” from its name.
From wfyi.org

The Exponent, which pays students for their work, lost vendor status when Purdue took actions to distance itself from the publication this summer.

These included not renewing a decades-long vendor contract, revoking staff parking passes, and ending university assistance with newspaper distribution on campus. The university also asked the publication to remove the word “Purdue” from its website.

“We are not hiring international students in the interest of their safety and to avoid jeopardizing their legal status in the United States – not because we don’t want them,” said Editor in Chief Olivia Mapes in an editorial Thursday.

Purdue did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Due to federal laws, international students on F-1 visas are not able to work for organizations outside a university, except under specific circumstances.

As a result of this development, the Exponent parted ways with four international student journalists on staff and told about 8-10 prospective staffers that they would not be able to join.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Feb 2

I said I would do this last night but I was too tired so lets do it today. A few caveats - not saying this list is exhaustive, it's just a good place to start. It's also not in chronological order because I'm a chaos gremlin

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Feb 1

I'm going to a thing with other humans but when I get back I'll make a little reading list so you can educate yourself and others on why the NYT is an objectively bad for democracy news outlet we've been tricked into respecting. Skeeting this to hold myself accountable

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1h

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wehriskat.bsky.social @wehriskat.bsky.social · 1h

Cheers for The Exponent, not for Purdue. The student newspaper was forced to go independent by Purdue who refused to be associated with it and refused to distribute it. This also forced the paper to fire its international students on staff.

Purdue student newspaper faces abrupt suspension of distribution help from university

Purdue University last Friday gave a two-day notice to The Purdue Exponent, the long-time student newspaper, that it would no longer distribute the paper on campus.

www.wfyi.org

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

Compare yesterday's millions to this and how we couldn't escape breathless coverage of the Tea Partiers at their peak.

April 15, 2009 is said to have been the day that had the largest number of tea party demonstrations reportedly in more than 750 cities.[73] Estimates of protesters and locations varied. The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of calculating a cumulative turnout and said some estimates state that over half a million Americans participated in the protests, noting, "experts say the counting itself often becomes politicized as authorities, organizers, and attendees often come up with dramatically different counts."[74][75] Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, estimated that at least 268,000 attended in over 200 cities.[76] Statistician Nate Silver, manager of FiveThirtyEight.com, has said that a cumulative crowd size estimate from credible sources was of 311,460 attendees in 346 cities, which accounted for all capitols and major cities little noticeable or no reliable media coverage in other protests could have contributed to a lower number of attendees and locations.[77] The largest event, in Atlanta, drew between an estimated 7,000 to 15,000 protesters.[77][78][79] Some of the gatherings drew only dozens.[74]

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wehriskat.bsky.social @wehriskat.bsky.social · 1h

Did her publicist write this article? IMO CBS political coverage is biased, but it’s not toward the left. Hiring Catherine Herridge was a big tell.

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wehriskat.bsky.social @wehriskat.bsky.social · 2h

All the media coverage I have seen so far (from local to MSM) has been an embarrassment and enraging.

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OakTreeWitch (she/her) @oaktreewitch.bsky.social · 16h

#NoKings
#WeThePeople
Starkville, MS

Protestors with signs at No Kings protest

Protestor playing Bob Dylan songs on guitar and harmonica

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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wehriskat.bsky.social @wehriskat.bsky.social · 3h

I will never forget Lester Holt accusing Biden of escalating the rhetoric because he used the word “target” in a sentence.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

To all the disingenuous or ignorant people posting that "No Kings" is ridiculous because Trump never claimed to be a king, here is an official tweet from the White House earlier this year:

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13h

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...