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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

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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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 2d

Please do. Maybe I shouldn’t say but I thought this book was…not good. It’s incredible success baffles me. And I loved Long Bright River.

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 3d

👋

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 3d

I am old but this post is so true and it breaks my heart.

Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 4d

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 5d

I truly could not believe the response.

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 24d

Yea, this.

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 24d

I am embarrassingly grief-stricken about this.

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · 26d

Why didn’t I name my kids Dusty and Boomer?

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Sep 10

Meanwhile…

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 10

At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN

At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

www.cnn.com

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Sep 7

I got that. Just felt like amplifying! Because of course…men. Which I know you know.

Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Sep 6

Agree. And GBBO was SO shockingly stressful last night. Those challenges!

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Sep 6

Now do women. Oh, wait. America has a patriarchy situation going on

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Sep 5

Department of War? Let's do them all.

Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury Dept of Veterans Abuse

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Sep 1

For a while I was collecting pore v pour (over).

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Aug 30

Where are the WH leaks? Is there not a single doctor/nurse/golf caddy/car driver/secret service agent/housecleaner who can tell us WTH is going on, so we can get the champagne ready?

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Aug 28

RFK Jr is a lunatic and a murderer. How can we get rid of him?

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Aug 28

I ate a bear and detect mitochondrial disease in the physiognomy of children at airports. I swim in shit and claimed the worm in my brain made me so incapacitated I couldn’t pay child support. I am in charge of your health

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have generalized terror disorder these days so…I just hope you’re right.

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Aug 2

Up until NOW…

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Aug 2

Up until he’s kept his volatility under wraps? Helluva lead headline…(also: “winning streak”? JFC)

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Aug 1

As part of my resistance to the state of the world I’ve obsessively been trying to smile, make eye contact, chat with people—even the guys on the street who make comments or whatever. Like, one by one maybe we can win people over…

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Jul 30

Say what you will about the NYT (and I’ve said plenty), this piece represents excellent reporting. If only we could center Epstein’s victims—victims—as forcefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/n...

An Evening at the Office, and Four Lives Ended by Gunfire

www.nytimes.com

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Jul 26

We are indeed. Thank you for this.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jul 24

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?

A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

forward.com

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Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social · Jul 24

Folks, don’t just watch the South Park clips that are out there. The entire episode is way more subversive and funny.
Signed, a person who has never before watched South Park.

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