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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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clofsnitville.bsky.social
I've never been as right as anything as I was about Will Lewis being unfit to run the post and I can't remember the last time I took so little joy in being right.
lemieuxlgm.bsky.social Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27m
Some infuriating context for this is Will Lewis -- Bezos's imported Charles Marimow -- smarmily telling reporters that they were the reason the Post's readership was declining nymag.com/intelligence...
February 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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factpostnews.bsky.social
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?

Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Sure... they just don't buy newspapers Iguess
ianboudreau.com Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h
People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
tapping the sign
notalawyer.bsky.social Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Oct 3
i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Fucking puke
February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The Venn Diagram of people who think a) drinking milk straight out of a cow’s udder is a good idea and b) that pee is stored in the balls, is a circle.
newsjennifer.bsky.social @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21h
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
people.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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clofsnitville.bsky.social
Soave is an asshat of epic proportions and he's (intentionally) missing the point that others are making clearly: people who did not themselves abuse girls enabled Epstein, rubbed elbows with Epstein, ignored or even joked about his abuse of girls and women.
scottjshapiro.bsky.social Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 4h
Free Press bravely fighting the Woke War on Pedophilia
February 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Yeah, the Washington Post.

Really too livid for words.

Love to all my friends out there having to deal with this.

And hope for the greater DC community, that we will move forward in ways that support good journalism that actually cares about this vibrant community.
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Powerful testimony from ICE watchers in suburban Minnesota:
jcollins.bsky.social Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 4h
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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aljazeera.com
A 45-year-old man has reportedly been charged with assault, after he was filmed fighting high school students in Texas during a protest against immigration enforcement agency ICE.
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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jamellebouie.net
one thing you have to understand about helen andrews is she is genuinely stupid
quantian.bsky.social Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d
We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough
February 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
it's a real email:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I wonder if that means as part of their mission to protect epstein's friends bluesky mods will suspend govt accounts

is it because bsky's main funding source is Blockchain Capital "proud partners to 100 companies in the crypto industry since 2013"
February 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com.

HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter"

That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.
Businesses such as Microsoft are increasingly nudging their employees to utilize AI to get more done. Others are forcing the issue. One of the biggest firms to take the more aggressive path is Meta Platforms, which at the end of December had 78,865 employees. At a companywide meeting last month, Meta leaders briefed employees on a new performance review and bonus system closely tied to their AI usage, according to a recording of the meeting. For instance, the company’s AI-powered performance tracker, Checkpoint, looks at how many lines of code are generated by software engineers using AI tools, along with over 200 other data points. They include the number of errors or bugs associated with engineers’ code; the amount of code an engineer wrote themselves without AI. Checkpoint is supposed to reduce the time it takes to prepare performance reviews, according to the meeting recording. It uses data from tools employees already use, such as Google Workspace to provide a summary of an employee’s work. “To be clear, this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter,” said one HR leader during the meeting. Managers then evaluate employees’ impact based on these checkpoint summaries and assign a rating. To help employees accomplish such goals, Meta has expanded their access to AI models made by other firms, such as Google’s Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-5, alongside Meta’s own Llama models. Employees use such models for coding and other tasks.
February 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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slclunk.com
I think it’s always helpful to know what the people trying to do this look like.
Rep Logan Monson
February 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
Michael Calderone & • 26m Executive editor Matt Murray just announced a "strategic reset" and cuts in meeting with Washington Post staff going on now Michael Calderone & • 20m The Post will be closing sports "in its current form" Michael Calderone • 17m The Post is shrinking international, restructuring metro Michael Calderone @ @mlcalderone X.com The Post is eliminating Books section 7:44 AM • 2/4/26 • 461 Views
February 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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xavierdleau.com
phoebe robinson makes it plain.
February 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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aljazeera.com
Pro-Maduro protesters hold banners calling on US to release 'kidnapped' President and First Lady Cilia Flores.
Thousands march in Venezuela to demand US frees President Maduro, wife
Pro-Maduro protesters hold banners calling on US to release 'kidnapped' President and First Lady Cilia Flores.
www.aljazeera.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
i agree with this, as long as by “take accountability” you mean “prepare your horrid souls for damnation because you will find no quarter on this Earth”
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 23h
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
We have no idea where Yglesias got his numbers but they’re wrong. This debate has for so long been plagued by numbers basically pulled out of thin air

Right pic is from my and @adambonica.bsky.social’s response essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias X.com 1-2 percentage points is a small number but it's a very big deal. bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-... Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach claim to find only "small" electoral benefits of moderation, on the order of one to two percentage points. Their subtext is, who could possibly care about an effect of this size? In fact, campaign professionals emphasize to me that this is an enormous effect compared to what you get from spending on campaign ads or mounting field programs to mobilize and turn out voters. A swing of one to two percentage points would have been enough for Hillary Clinton to win in 2016 or for Kamala Harris to win in 2024. Two is a small number, but I don't think that's small change for the world. It's a little bit hard for me to understand what this debate is even supposed to be about given that the skeptics of moderation are willing to concede that both of Trump's election wins were within the bounds of what they say can be plausibly achieved by moderating. To underscore the point: since 2012 there have been seventeen Senate races decided by less than the Bonica-Grumbach margin of moderation. 7:29 AM • 2/3/26 • 14K Views To begin with, Yglesias is way off in claiming that moderation increases a candidate's vote share by "one to two percentage points.' We don't know where he got these numbers, but they aren't in our essay; as our cited graphic shows, the best estimate is less than half a percentage point. He also need not speculate that moderating would have flipped important congressional races — we ran the numbers ourselves and found that moderation would have flipped none of the close House races in 2024. But we're used to seeing incorrect numbers on this subject. In any case, Yglesias's incorrect numbers are not as important as missing the central failures of popularism in recent years. Consider how it has hindered Democrats' leadership on public opinion. G. Elliott Morris is exactly right that trajectories are far more important than what polls say at any given moment. Throughout 2025, as Yglesias was arguing that Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration, the public turned dramatically against Trump on the issue in part due to the leadership of some Democratic leaders like Senator Chris Van Hollen. Now even Trump himself is reportedly "looking to change the subject to his economic agenda as his administration faces growing backlash over his
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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jaywillis.net
In my capacity as a Guy Who Did a Law School Summer Internship With Chris In 2011, can I just say, hell yeah brother
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 AM