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Aileen Lalor
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Flipboard lifestyle editor, freelance writer, 🇮🇪🇨🇦
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arobertswrites.com
Reductress parody headline: Woman Decides to Unwind by Reading a Thousand People’s Thoughts on the 68 Most Horrible Things That Happened Today. Photo shows a woman lying in bed, looking at her phone in the dark.
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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flipboard.com
This year, be intentional about where you get your news.

Flipboard’s Daily Edition is curated by human editors, bringing you the most important stories across politics, world news, business, tech, sports and more.

Get the app here: about.flipboard.com/download-fli...

#News #Trump #USPolitics
January 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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surf.social
We sent out hundreds of invitations to the Surf Social beta over the holidays! Got feedback, ideas, or just created a really cool feed? Let us know in the comments! And if you're yet to join the party, sign up for the waitlist here:

waitlist.surf.social
Surf Waitlist Sign Up
Join the beta — it's a new browser for the social web.
waitlist.surf.social
January 2, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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marklevinenyc.bsky.social
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.

Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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transnews.network
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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atrupar.com
When Bari Weiss's CBS News is debunking your hateful MAGA BS ...
A recent video by conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley alleged nearly a dozen day care centers in Minnesota that are receiving public funds are not actually providing any service. After the video went viral, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced a "massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud" in the state. CBS News conducted its own analysis of nearly a dozen day care centers mentioned by Shirley: all but two have active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations were visited by state regulators within the last six months. CBS News' review also found dozens of citations related to safety, cleanliness, equipment, and staff training, among other violations, but there was no recorded evidence of fraud.
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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flipboard.com
This year felt heavier than most.

Remembering the lives, work and legacies of some of the people we lost in 2025.

flipboard.com/@yearinrevie...
2025: Year in Goodbyes
Entertainment lost some of its greatest stars this year, including Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Reiner and Gene Hackman. Dick Cheney, once one of the world's most powerful men, die...
flipboard.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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surf.social
Are you up to date on #StrangerThings? Three more episodes dropped last night. The finale — a bum-numbing 2-hour-and-5-minute epic — lands on #Netflix on New Year's Eve. For all the chatter and theories, follow @jejord.bsky.social's custom feed, created with Surf.

bsky.app/profile/jejo...
December 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
1933 newspaper article on artist Frida Kahlo #WomensArt
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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simplyskye.bsky.social
CBS burying the 60 Minutes CECOT story is exactly why the Ellison family shouldn’t be allowed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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tznkai.bsky.social
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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surf.social
"▶️ Flipboard’s Surf app will launch its 1.0 version in 2026 and cross 1 million downloads across iOS and Android by year end, with 100,000+ monthly active users. It will become the most-downloaded dedicated Open Social Web client, surpassing Mastodon’s official app and Graysky." 🤞 🤞 🤞
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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pattymo.com
“You can still get them a gift card in time, you piece of shit. You worm” - companies via email today
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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surf.social
ICYMI, we launched a new beta last week — and invite some new testers to try it. Made a feed you're proud of? Share it here, using the hashtag #SurfFeeds!
surf.social Surf @surf.social · 17d
🏄🏻 There's a new Surf release dropping now! We've ironed out some performance issues and polished things up — and we're sending out a whole new wave of invitations. Tell us in the comments what you think, and if you've been patiently waiting for an invite, let us know, and we'll get you in.
two surfers are riding a large wave together
ALT: two surfers are riding a large wave together
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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niemanlab.org
“The danger isn’t AI replacing journalists — it’s AI replacing the public-information structures that ground American democracy.” - @erinblogan.bsky.social

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-i...
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy
What happened when @WSJ let an AI run its snack vending machine? It ordered a live fish, gave away a PlayStation, offered to buy cigarettes, and lost hundreds of dollars. [Gift link]

https://flip.it/nfxPuq

#technology #tech #artificialintelligence #ai
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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surf.social
🏄🏻 There's a new Surf release dropping now! We've ironed out some performance issues and polished things up — and we're sending out a whole new wave of invitations. Tell us in the comments what you think, and if you've been patiently waiting for an invite, let us know, and we'll get you in.
two surfers are riding a large wave together
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media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.

Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.

Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
amandasmith.bsky.social Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 18d
I’m rewatching Mad About You & theres a joke where Ursula the ditzy waitress mistakes a recurring character for a post-op trans woman and immediately talks about how great she looks now, then deadnames her as part of a running joke at Ursula’s expense. In 1995. The great trans scare is manufactured.
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:

Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.

He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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niemanlab.org
@juliorvarela.com: “High-quality reporting must be free and open, supported by collective models that value impact over manufactured growth.”

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/audi...
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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flipboard.com
Rob and Michele Reiner were killed yesterday in their Los Angeles home. Here's a Flipboard Storyboard paying tribute to them, including stories from @sepinwall.bsky.social, @davidlfear.bsky.social and more.

flipboard.com/@thecultured...
Remembering Rob and Michele Reiner
The director, actor and activist and his producer wife died at their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14 in a suspected homicide. Here's a look at their careers and life together, plus tributes. Last year, Re...
flipboard.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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sepinwall.bsky.social
Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM