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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

Sheila Atim is playing Akasha in "Interview with a Vampire" and my mouth dropped.

We're getting a Black woman, playing the first vampire in all of existence.

And she's gonna kill it.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

And this is why, y'all, we have got to protect our whimsy during these trying times.

Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 8h

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 9h

IKYFL!!!!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 12h

This week was a really good week. I hope it was for you too.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12h

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 12h

This is why I could never run.

If I say my order, I'd lose the Jewish vote.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 17h

I should make a scrapbook of all the mugshot photos of Bravo stars.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 18h

It's a scheme set up by Todd!!!!

La Girafe @lashawndab.blacksky.app · 18h

Same. It’s like a bomb went off.

I just keep reading in and saying clankity clank.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 18h

GIRRLLLLLLUHHHHH

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 18h

I can't concentrate on anything else right now but this story.

Cindy Cee @lovecindycee.bsky.social · 19h

Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband Eddie have been booked on criminal fraud. She is facing 16 charges including 7 felonies ... she's been charged with false/misleading info fraud in excess of $300. #rhop

www.tmz.com/2025/10/10/w...

'RHOP' Star Wendy Osefo, Husband Booked on Fraud Charges in Maryland

Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband Eddie have been booked on criminal fraud charges, TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 19h

If CBS staffers keep leaking stuff that Bari Weiss says or does for the rest of her time there, I'm totally fine with that.

She's got the money but she doesn't have the respect--and that makes all the difference, folx.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

Makes sense because Musk has no idea what it takes to produce anything, and Weiss doesn't understand what it takes to produce journalism.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 21h

If someone knocks on my door in the middle of the night, I BETTER have won the Nobel Prize!

Unless somebody died, you better wait till sunlight!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21h

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 22h

OMG they hate him too

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

Whew this piece is so scathing.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

The north remembers, my guy.

Your ticket number will be called.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Rogan once again broke ranks with MAGA to criticize the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy during a discussion on his top-rated podcast.

Joe Rogan Trashes ICE Barbie’s Immigration Stunts in Podcast Rant

The world’s biggest podcaster also proposed an alternative approach to immigration policy.

trib.al

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many men who cannot get women unless they ensnare said women, and it's sad and pathetic.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

You cancel my hotel room and I don't get my own robe, and I will shapeshift from the anger funneling through my veins.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Courtney Thorsson @courtneythorsson.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm.

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✨Ki✨ ❤️‍🔥🎃 @roguetime.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

What is Portland, Oregon like?

Is it the physical equivalent of a Bon Iver song?

Does coffee come with oat milk automatically?

Will I meet a lot of white people who say they would've voted a third term for Obama?

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

An esthetician recently told me that I have good skin. And while yes I can say because of genes and Blackness,

the other truth is that, compliments of being self-employed, I don't have to speak to anyone I don't want to and that keeps the skin tight.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine you performing for the United Daughters of the Confederacy and intend to donate your compensation to the NAACP.

It don't work that way for everyone, honey!

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