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My latest investigation, and first in a series for @towcenter.bsky.social
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA
In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA
In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.
In the past year, Metric Media filed more than 9,000 FOIA requests across all 50 states, according to an investigation by Miranda Green and the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
How
Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens.
www.cjr.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
My latest investigation, and first in a series for @towcenter.bsky.social
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA
In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA
In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.
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Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
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I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe
Every fascist movement has been majority Christian.
February 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe
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I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
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Periodic reminder: When someone shares news with "BREAKING" and they aren't a journalist and don't link to a news story, it's probably not the best source for people to be resharing. It might be trying to get rage reposts, even! Better to find a news article that is accurately describing facts.
February 3, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Periodic reminder: When someone shares news with "BREAKING" and they aren't a journalist and don't link to a news story, it's probably not the best source for people to be resharing. It might be trying to get rage reposts, even! Better to find a news article that is accurately describing facts.
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Yes it’s called a strategy of denial to deter China in the Pacific yes that’s why the priority is restoring the Monroe Doctrine but in Greenland yes where the only foreign base is already ours yes which is why we’re sending a carrier to the Middle East to bomb Iran yes. I am a strategist yes.
a man with glasses is covering his face with his hand .
ALT: a man with glasses is covering his face with his hand .
media.tenor.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Yes it’s called a strategy of denial to deter China in the Pacific yes that’s why the priority is restoring the Monroe Doctrine but in Greenland yes where the only foreign base is already ours yes which is why we’re sending a carrier to the Middle East to bomb Iran yes. I am a strategist yes.
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Men like swords.
Women like swords.
Men like receiving swords.
Women like receiving swords.
Be romantic, go buy someone a sword.
Women like swords.
Men like receiving swords.
Women like receiving swords.
Be romantic, go buy someone a sword.
January 25, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Men like swords.
Women like swords.
Men like receiving swords.
Women like receiving swords.
Be romantic, go buy someone a sword.
Women like swords.
Men like receiving swords.
Women like receiving swords.
Be romantic, go buy someone a sword.
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I was on @Powerfm987 (again) this am. I said Iran’s participation in naval Ex Will for Peace points to a serious breakdown in decision-making, weak coordination between the Presidency, Defence and foreign affairs, and dangerous geopolitical risks for SA.
on.soundcloud.com/4ObuRiVOGL9S...
on.soundcloud.com/4ObuRiVOGL9S...
PowerFM 260122
Ramaphosa Says South Africa Must Review How SANDF Arranges Military Exercises After Iran Controversy.
Thabiso Tema is in conversation with Defence analyst, Dean Wingrin.
soundcloud.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:16 AM
I was on @Powerfm987 (again) this am. I said Iran’s participation in naval Ex Will for Peace points to a serious breakdown in decision-making, weak coordination between the Presidency, Defence and foreign affairs, and dangerous geopolitical risks for SA.
on.soundcloud.com/4ObuRiVOGL9S...
on.soundcloud.com/4ObuRiVOGL9S...
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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This is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.
January 21, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.
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What the fuck is wrong with you people
Today’s newsletter is about a natural experiment that happened on Bluesky yesterday. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/on-trump-a...
On Trump, Anarchy, and a Natural Experiment
My latest co-authored essay for Foreign Affairs.
danieldrezner.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
What the fuck is wrong with you people
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This Wondermark comic is years old and still precisely captures my feelings.
January 21, 2026 at 8:53 AM
This Wondermark comic is years old and still precisely captures my feelings.
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If you want to be fit at 70, you need to get fit earlier in life. Ageing brings decline regardless of how fit you are. Start from a higher base, fall from higher up. Fitness compounds, just like money. Go lift some weights, go for a swim, walk around the block!
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 AM
If you want to be fit at 70, you need to get fit earlier in life. Ageing brings decline regardless of how fit you are. Start from a higher base, fall from higher up. Fitness compounds, just like money. Go lift some weights, go for a swim, walk around the block!
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Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too!
Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife.
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife.
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
January 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too!
Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife.
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife.
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
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New from me: I write about what we can learn from the remarkable leaked trial video of a Chinese general punished for his behavior before the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown @warontherocks.bsky.social
warontherocks.com/2026/01/obed...
warontherocks.com/2026/01/obed...
Obedience, Ambiguity, and Punishment: The Chinese Military at Tiananmen Revisited
As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to preserve an authoritarian
warontherocks.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
New from me: I write about what we can learn from the remarkable leaked trial video of a Chinese general punished for his behavior before the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown @warontherocks.bsky.social
warontherocks.com/2026/01/obed...
warontherocks.com/2026/01/obed...
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We need more details on the proposed Board of Inquiry.
Given that the Chief of the SANDF & service chiefs may be implicated, the BOI should not be staffed by uniformed SANDF officers under the command of CSANDF.
The Defence Act allows for an all-civilian BOI of DOD employees.
Given that the Chief of the SANDF & service chiefs may be implicated, the BOI should not be staffed by uniformed SANDF officers under the command of CSANDF.
The Defence Act allows for an all-civilian BOI of DOD employees.
January 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM
We need more details on the proposed Board of Inquiry.
Given that the Chief of the SANDF & service chiefs may be implicated, the BOI should not be staffed by uniformed SANDF officers under the command of CSANDF.
The Defence Act allows for an all-civilian BOI of DOD employees.
Given that the Chief of the SANDF & service chiefs may be implicated, the BOI should not be staffed by uniformed SANDF officers under the command of CSANDF.
The Defence Act allows for an all-civilian BOI of DOD employees.
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An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation
Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.
via The Economist
via The Economist
January 16, 2026 at 5:20 AM
An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation
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Anger, envy, gluttony and covetousness so far, and the only reason lechery doesn't figure is because I'm too slothful.
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Anger, envy, gluttony and covetousness so far, and the only reason lechery doesn't figure is because I'm too slothful.
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At this point, the absence of a public statement from President Ramaphosa has become indefensible.
With DIRCO having crisis meetings, and multiple media houses all reporting on the chaos & confusion regarding the request for Iran to withdraw, he needs to step up and take charge immediately.
With DIRCO having crisis meetings, and multiple media houses all reporting on the chaos & confusion regarding the request for Iran to withdraw, he needs to step up and take charge immediately.
SANDF apparently defied presidential orders to remove Iran from a joint naval exercise www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
SANDF apparently defied presidential orders to remove Iran from a joint naval exercise
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) appears to have defied orders from President Ramaphosa to withdraw three Iranian warships from the multinational naval exercise Will for Peace taking place in Fal
www.dailymaverick.co.za
January 15, 2026 at 8:05 AM
At this point, the absence of a public statement from President Ramaphosa has become indefensible.
With DIRCO having crisis meetings, and multiple media houses all reporting on the chaos & confusion regarding the request for Iran to withdraw, he needs to step up and take charge immediately.
With DIRCO having crisis meetings, and multiple media houses all reporting on the chaos & confusion regarding the request for Iran to withdraw, he needs to step up and take charge immediately.
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“Rewiring” is an engineering metaphor
States aren’t machines: they’re complex, bubbling soups of human interaction
Headlines are important: they frame how problems are seen and solutions chosen
Persisting with machinery-of-government thinking constrains what can be imagined
Metaphors do matter
States aren’t machines: they’re complex, bubbling soups of human interaction
Headlines are important: they frame how problems are seen and solutions chosen
Persisting with machinery-of-government thinking constrains what can be imagined
Metaphors do matter
Rewiring the state: Is the government making any progress?
This panel will draw on the brand new Whitehall Monitor 2026, presented by @hannahkeenan.bsky.social and will give its verdict on the government's attempts to reform the civil service @andyburnham.bsky.social @alexgathomas.bsky.social
This panel will draw on the brand new Whitehall Monitor 2026, presented by @hannahkeenan.bsky.social and will give its verdict on the government's attempts to reform the civil service @andyburnham.bsky.social @alexgathomas.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
“Rewiring” is an engineering metaphor
States aren’t machines: they’re complex, bubbling soups of human interaction
Headlines are important: they frame how problems are seen and solutions chosen
Persisting with machinery-of-government thinking constrains what can be imagined
Metaphors do matter
States aren’t machines: they’re complex, bubbling soups of human interaction
Headlines are important: they frame how problems are seen and solutions chosen
Persisting with machinery-of-government thinking constrains what can be imagined
Metaphors do matter
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The last good thing Scott Adams can do for the world is to serve as a cautionary tale to everyone who’s sense of self rests on being one of the smart ones.
I don’t mean that unkindly. It’s genuinely tragic in a way I can appreciate more knowing he has no more bombs to drop.
I don’t mean that unkindly. It’s genuinely tragic in a way I can appreciate more knowing he has no more bombs to drop.
January 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The last good thing Scott Adams can do for the world is to serve as a cautionary tale to everyone who’s sense of self rests on being one of the smart ones.
I don’t mean that unkindly. It’s genuinely tragic in a way I can appreciate more knowing he has no more bombs to drop.
I don’t mean that unkindly. It’s genuinely tragic in a way I can appreciate more knowing he has no more bombs to drop.
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“My colleagues are calling from downstairs, troopers are getting out from their tanks with guns and weapons, entering our building…” On 13 January 1991, Lithuanian TV presenter Eglė Bučelytė remains on air in a locked studio as Soviet troops storm the TV station
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
“My colleagues are calling from downstairs, troopers are getting out from their tanks with guns and weapons, entering our building…” On 13 January 1991, Lithuanian TV presenter Eglė Bučelytė remains on air in a locked studio as Soviet troops storm the TV station
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hey grok write me an info paper on the dangers of integrating nascent AI technologies into classified networks
January 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
hey grok write me an info paper on the dangers of integrating nascent AI technologies into classified networks
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Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops