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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 16h

This story has been picked up by multiple news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Fox-owned station in the city.

You know which Chicago outlet doesn't appear to have a story about this on its website?

Brockman's employer, @wgntv.com

WGN's owner? Nexstar

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 17h

remember when you hear trump called a peacemaker that his government created a group whose sole purpose was to murder starving palestinians

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20h

Gaza Humanitarian Fund "distribution sites" (Israeli killing fields) are being dismantled as part of the ceasefire

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Charbles McBerkely @summerofmoops.bsky.social · 18h

this schedule has only been in place since after 2020 and has not yet been used for a single competitive primary, so i'm not sure why it needs to be a long-term goal rather than short-term

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

when I came into the media industry sideways via DSLReports dot com I'd get no shortage of snootiness from establishment journos who'd sneer dismissively at anybody that didn't rise through the ranks via Columbia

now those very folks are the pinnacle of embarrassment when it really matters

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kerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 20h

Get his ass ms Rachel

msrachelforlittles #
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Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 23h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22h

The whole internet loves María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan activist who loves democracy!

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Charbles McBerkely @summerofmoops.bsky.social · 20h

i'm thinking i might publicly broadcast some nfl games

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22h

me and all the homies are all doing the unauthorized reproduction, distribution and exhibition of so many copyrighted motion pictures, video tapes and video discs this weekend

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

Charbles McBerkely @summerofmoops.bsky.social · 20h

i wonder if it's a coincidence that this person follows 8 people and has 8 followers

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

When centrists affirm and validate racist grievance politics - that refugees are a burden, that racists have "legitimate concerns" about refugees - they empower the far right to take steps like the below, which would be unthinkable had the underlying assumptions not been turned into a common sense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22h

Buy Rachel’s book!!

Rachel Frazin @rachelfrazin.bsky.social · 23h

Today marks six months since my book, Poisoning the Well, was published.

ICYMI: @sharonudasin.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into a family of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ that have become a pervasive environmental crisis

#PFAS #GreenSky #BookSky

A cover of the book "Poisoning the Well" by Rachel Frazin and Sharon Udasin. It's a yellow cover with a barrel of chemicals in the middle with an american flag on it

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.

Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.

I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.

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Charbles McBerkely @summerofmoops.bsky.social · 20h

easy to dunk on this as "awful management" but bari surely knows that it is. the point isn't to be a good manager the point is to create pretext to have handy so they can fire anyone they feel like firing

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22h

Mamdani: Trump ran on three promises. He ran on the punishment of his political enemies, easing the cost of living crisis, and mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. Yet he's unwilling to deliver on that because he's beholden to billionaires

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

In Broadview this morning, just outside of Chicago, where you can get a police surveillance pod, a drone, and a helicopter in a single shot.

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Jay🦇🦇🦇 @jdbatts79.bsky.social · 22h

If they’re not all sending that they spend their days doing the fucking news that would be a missed opportunity

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Just saying it out loud right now.

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Charbles McBerkely @summerofmoops.bsky.social · 1d

i choose to believe these are the names they actually go by

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Damn they got Leon Bluebone, The_Warhammerist_Librarian, Royal Marine Todd and Tory Weiss

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Three former Secretaries of State who all share the same opinion make for a pretty boring roundtable. Seems they didn't call John Kerry because he is the only one who has called Israel's regime of control over Palestinians an apartheid system.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Apr 28

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

www.semafor.com

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Maze Rat @mazerat.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina just got a $20b bailout from the IMF in May (their third in the last 10 years). Why not just set the money on fire and save everyone some time?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

trump was prosecuted for real crimes and now he's punishing the people who prosecuted him with fake crimes

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