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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · 5h

for those who missed it: boston.eater.com/2023/3/13/23...

Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · 2d

Here's my guesses: 1. Bari Weiss is incompetent in the space of running a news organization 2. Weiss is a partisan hack who panders to billionaires. 3. Weiss faces complete disdain from actual staff.

Semafor @semafor.com · 2d

The three challenges Bari Weiss is facing at CBS

www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

The three challenges Bari Weiss is facing at CBS

Weiss’ journey to this point may have been the easy part.

www.semafor.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Lewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 9d

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · 15d

Pete Hegseth watched A Few Good Men and decided that Jessep had the right idea. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump and Hegseth declare an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are declaring an end to “woke” culture in the military and targeting other policies of past administrations before hundreds of top U.S. milita...

apnews.com

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · 21d

Encourage you all to click through. Read until you get to a reply to King: “Jesus was never called a Jew in the Bible. The late modern interpretations of the Bible are largely Zionist propaganda psyop.”

I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 21d

lmao holy shit alright guess he’s going full trad Christian antisemite mode

Shaun King one day ago: Fascinating to see Jews, who do not believe in the Christian Bible, and generally do not read or study it, critique how a Christian tells a story from it at the funeral of a Christian.

[I am assuming this is in reference to Charlie Kirk’s funeral]

Shaun king then quotes himself and says: I don't think it's wise for Jews to have strong arguments against what the Bible says about Jesus.
1. As a rule, you don't believe in the Bible, therefore it's strange to use it to prove or disprove anything.
2. It actually says A WHOLE LOT about what
Jews did against Jesus.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 23d

my mom, a lifelong devoted christian, said the video of people praying and singing at kirk's memorial looked like "people worshipping the Devil." they should've just interviewed twenty people like her

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 23d

Good morning to everyone about to get real mad at everything in this glazing NPR piece

"President Trump, who spoke last, described the event as an "old-time revival." He called Kirk, a conservative activist, "our greatest evangelist for American liberty" & "a martyr now for American freedom.""

The evangelical Christian faith on display at Kirk's memorial shaped his politics

Charlie Kirk's evangelical faith was on display at his memorial, where supporters remembered him as a "martyr." Christianity shaped Kirk's politics and the two became more intertwined as he got older.

www.npr.org

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Bryan Joiner @bryanjoiner.bsky.social · 26d

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 27d

hey so this is insane

Brendan Carr confirming that the FCC is carrying out Project 2025 stuff via a gif on Twitter

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27d

"Charlie Kirk blames “Jewish dollars” for funding “cultural Marxist ideas”"

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 27d

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking

www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.

The decision, according to Variety, was made after television giant Nexstar announced that its local ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, just hours after Carr issued that threat. Nexstar is one of the biggest owners of television stations across the country. We’ve reached out to the FCC for comment on what specifically is objectionable from Kimmel’s show and which FCC regulations he may have violated.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27d

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

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404 Media @404media.co · 29d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · 29d

He is not a chef whatsoever.

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · 29d

He changed that quickly after I published my article!

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Jul 29

I wrote an article about YouTuber Joshua Weissman and his plagiarism, abusive behavior, sexual misconduct, and exploitation of his staff. You can click through or click the link in my bio to read it.

That's Mr. Kendo D. Smith to you @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social · Jul 29

I don’t talk publicly about my previous job for a lot of reasons. But the people that know me, know that it became a primary source of anguish for me.

I’m glad someone is finally talking about what it was like for us:
www.richardeaglespoon.com/articles/wei...

The Shameless Impropriety of Joshua Weissman: An investigation into the provenance of Weissman’s recipes led to many of his former employees who described exploitive behavior, patterns of abuse, and pervasive sexual misconduct.

Original reporting, recipes, gift guides, and other food-related writing

www.richardeaglespoon.com

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · Sep 15

WE HAVE ARRIVED
www.coyotemedia.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 13

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 13

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Sep 5

My spouse and I have been emailing with someone, and they recently replied to my last email. I never received it, but my spouse did. I confirmed with my spouse that the email was sent to my correct email. It's a personal Gmail account, and I checked filtering, forwarding, storage, etc. Any ideas?

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Sep 3

Obviously I know this, and I do this to avoid content from accounts I want to see, but it's not enough.

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Sep 3

I would love to never see AI-generated content on YouTube, including anything with AI-generated audio. It's all slop, and it's gross that it's monetizable on the platform.

404 Media @404media.co · Sep 3

People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

www.404media.co

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Aug 28

Wired posted a TikTok made by Lorenz, and they deleted it?

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · Aug 27

The President is now calling for RICO charges against a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor.

For those unfamiliar, Soros conspiracies are an antisemitic dog whistle, invoking the age-old myth that wealthy Jewish people are scheming behind the scenes to control the world.

#Trump

An August 27, 2025 Truth Social post from Donald Trump says "George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America. We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to “BREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" At the time it was screengrabbed it has been "retruthed" 8,620 times and liked 35,400 times.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 16

A woman who was 20 weeks pregnant fed her toddler son raw milk. He contracted Campylobacter and then passed the infection to her; she progressed to sepsis, and had a miscarriage.

She is suing the business that sells the raw milk, saying she didn’t know the risk.

Don’t feed your kids raw milk.

Florida mom sues dairy farm after claiming raw milk led to her miscarrying

Rachel Maddox launches lawsuit after alleging that she and her toddler became badly ill after coming into contact with bacteria traced back to New Smyrna Beach business by state health officials

www.the-independent.com

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Aug 16

Part of me will really miss TikTok if it goes

Title: He Can Smell Frozen French Toast Sticks Seconds Before He Sees Them On TikTok.
Neurologists are Baffled.
Subtitle: A night of speed dating set in a startling realization for one Cleveland Heights man:
no one else has ever smelled like this before.
Top bar: Wonder Hub, Why is everything so wet now, my husband won…

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Joe Rosenthal @richardeaglespoon.com · Aug 10

They seem to just get mad to be mad. I had a Thread talking about making grilled cheese, and people got so upset with my suggestion that you don't need mayo to fry the bread that they started sending me abusive messages.

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