@ghoshworld
@ghoshworld.bsky.social
Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order.
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order.
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Startling revelations on the '28 point Plan':
Rubio didn't know
State didn't know
CIA didn't know
UKR didn't know
EU particularly Poland didn't know
Plan devised by Witkoff/Kushner/Putins daughters boyfriend
Green lit by Trump
Vance tried to push it through while Congress was away for Thanksgiving
Rubio didn't know
State didn't know
CIA didn't know
UKR didn't know
EU particularly Poland didn't know
Plan devised by Witkoff/Kushner/Putins daughters boyfriend
Green lit by Trump
Vance tried to push it through while Congress was away for Thanksgiving
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Startling revelations on the '28 point Plan':
Rubio didn't know
State didn't know
CIA didn't know
UKR didn't know
EU particularly Poland didn't know
Plan devised by Witkoff/Kushner/Putins daughters boyfriend
Green lit by Trump
Vance tried to push it through while Congress was away for Thanksgiving
Rubio didn't know
State didn't know
CIA didn't know
UKR didn't know
EU particularly Poland didn't know
Plan devised by Witkoff/Kushner/Putins daughters boyfriend
Green lit by Trump
Vance tried to push it through while Congress was away for Thanksgiving
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South Korea intends to abolish provisions obligating soldiers and civil servants to follow superiors’ commands even when they may be improper or unlawful.
S. Korea pushes for soldiers, civil servants to have right to refuse unlawful orders
The South Korean government is moving to remove long-standing obedience requirements for civil servants and soldiers, on the heels of former President Yoon Suk
www.koreaherald.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
South Korea intends to abolish provisions obligating soldiers and civil servants to follow superiors’ commands even when they may be improper or unlawful.
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections.
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections, a move that many in the South American nation doubted would ever take place.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections.
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Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after mass abduction in Kebbi
Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after mass abduction in Kebbi
The president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, said all 24 of the girls kidnapped last week had been rescued
All 24 schoolgirls held by assailants after a mass abduction last week from a school in north-western Nigeria have been rescued, the country’s president announced on Tuesday.
A total of 25 girls were abducted on 17 November from the Government Girls Comprehensive secondary school in Kebbi state’s Maga town, but one of them was able to escape the same day, the school’s principal said. The remaining 24 were all saved, according to a statement from the Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, though no details were released about the rescue. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Nigerian schoolgirls rescued after mass abduction in Kebbi
Order the third season of Marco Polo.
bring back NBC's Kings
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Order the third season of Marco Polo.
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One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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AI is shaking up OnlyFans. Chatbots are replacing the Filipino workers who pretend to be models in DMs with fans, and AI-generated images are so realistic that they cannot be distinguished from real photos
https://restofworld.org/2025/onlyfans-ai-dm-bots/
https://restofworld.org/2025/onlyfans-ai-dm-bots/
A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over
Impersonators for OnlyFans models said their sales quotas are soaring, and once AI improves, they could be out of work.
restofworld.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
AI is shaking up OnlyFans. Chatbots are replacing the Filipino workers who pretend to be models in DMs with fans, and AI-generated images are so realistic that they cannot be distinguished from real photos
https://restofworld.org/2025/onlyfans-ai-dm-bots/
https://restofworld.org/2025/onlyfans-ai-dm-bots/
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Nothing to worry about, just a US official advising our nuclear-armed adversary how to manipulate the President of the United States, a notoriously weak-minded mark
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Nothing to worry about, just a US official advising our nuclear-armed adversary how to manipulate the President of the United States, a notoriously weak-minded mark
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I talked to @cnn.com about a great achievement for Brazilian democracy, as Jair Bolsonaro starts serving his sentence for trying to overturn an election. www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/a...
Bolsonaro tested Brazil’s democracy. Its Supreme Court stepped in | CNN
Brazilian democracy has spent the past three years in a near-permanent state of tension – a full-body clench against an ex-president who refused to accept defeat. On Saturday morning, those muscles ti...
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I talked to @cnn.com about a great achievement for Brazilian democracy, as Jair Bolsonaro starts serving his sentence for trying to overturn an election. www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/a...
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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: “President Trump is considering removing Kash Patel as FBI director in the coming months, as he and his top aides have grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines Patel has recently generated.”
www.ms.now/news/trump-k...
www.ms.now/news/trump-k...
President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources
The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: “President Trump is considering removing Kash Patel as FBI director in the coming months, as he and his top aides have grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines Patel has recently generated.”
www.ms.now/news/trump-k...
www.ms.now/news/trump-k...
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Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator.
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator.
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.
I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Inside lobbying efforts to make the Mar-a-Lago foreign worker visa a staple of MAGA
Inside lobbying efforts to make the Mar-a-Lago foreign worker visa a staple of MAGA
The group’s visa push is the latest in the tug-of-war between business interests that need foreign labor and immigration hard-liners who say foreigners are taking American jobs — with Trump straddling an uncomfortable middle.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Inside lobbying efforts to make the Mar-a-Lago foreign worker visa a staple of MAGA
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I'm so curious about the actual FBI agents who will do these interviews. They're presumably law enforcement professionals with the legal training to know this is a huge waste of time, so it must be incredibly frustrating or seen as an opportunity to gain favor with the hyper-partisan upper ranks
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I'm so curious about the actual FBI agents who will do these interviews. They're presumably law enforcement professionals with the legal training to know this is a huge waste of time, so it must be incredibly frustrating or seen as an opportunity to gain favor with the hyper-partisan upper ranks
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Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Timeline.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
🔴13 Nov - Ronaldo gets red card in Portugal’s game v ireland. (Should miss opening 2 games of World Cup.)
🟠18 Nov - Ronaldo meets Donald Trump at White House.
🟢25 Nov - FIFA clears Ronaldo to play in World Cup from start.
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Civil War historian here only a fake MAGAt account based in Serbia would make this idiotic claim. In the hellsite leading MAGAt accounts have been found based outside the country and now Twitter has turned off its location function!
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Civil War historian here only a fake MAGAt account based in Serbia would make this idiotic claim. In the hellsite leading MAGAt accounts have been found based outside the country and now Twitter has turned off its location function!
Thread 👇
The question I get asked most often is how to understand Trump's push-me-pull-me Ukraine policy. To me there are a few constants that don't change:
1) He really wants to end the war fast. Results over process.
2) He respects Putin and wants a good relationship with Russia. 👉
1) He really wants to end the war fast. Results over process.
2) He respects Putin and wants a good relationship with Russia. 👉
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The things Western governments cheer as progress — driving, travel, study — are rights so basic they wouldn’t even warrant negotiation anywhere else. Yet Saudi women are expected to be grateful, as if their autonomy existed only at the pleasure of the state.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saud...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saud...
Saudi Arabia’s violence against women isn’t culture – it’s policy
WHEN Donald Trump declared that Mohammed Bin Salman had done “incredible things for human rights,” Saudi women could be forgiven for wondering what country he was talking about. But that’s hardly new....
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The things Western governments cheer as progress — driving, travel, study — are rights so basic they wouldn’t even warrant negotiation anywhere else. Yet Saudi women are expected to be grateful, as if their autonomy existed only at the pleasure of the state.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saud...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saud...
What is this business about LLMs and em dashes? I love me an em dash, always have. Having resisted the entreaties (and threats) of generations of editors, am I now going to have to give up the em dash for fear of being accused of using AI?
(See also, the oxford comma.)
(See also, the oxford comma.)
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What is this business about LLMs and em dashes? I love me an em dash, always have. Having resisted the entreaties (and threats) of generations of editors, am I now going to have to give up the em dash for fear of being accused of using AI?
(See also, the oxford comma.)
(See also, the oxford comma.)
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this is good
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
this is good
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James Comey slammed President Trump's attempts to prosecute him as "fundamentally un-American," but the former FBI director said he expects the president to try again in his first statement after a judge dismissed the case today.
"Malevolence": James Comey warns Trump's revenge push isn't over
Comey said his case was dismissed because of "incompetence," a reflection of the DOJ under Trump.
www.axios.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
James Comey slammed President Trump's attempts to prosecute him as "fundamentally un-American," but the former FBI director said he expects the president to try again in his first statement after a judge dismissed the case today.
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Several recent movies depict an American future defined by vigilantism, insurgencies and violence. @MonicaMarks.bsky.social reflects on what these films — and the polarized responses to them — reveal about the current crossroads of U.S. politics.
America’s Unraveling on Screen
Recent movies depict a future where anti-politics has triumphed, defined by vigilantism, insurgencies and violence
newlinesmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Several recent movies depict an American future defined by vigilantism, insurgencies and violence. @MonicaMarks.bsky.social reflects on what these films — and the polarized responses to them — reveal about the current crossroads of U.S. politics.
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any system that showers hundreds of billions on this person for building zero sustainably profitable businesses is a bad system
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
any system that showers hundreds of billions on this person for building zero sustainably profitable businesses is a bad system
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I've deleted most of my FB info, just kept my account alive to use site for work. So depressing watching people I friended, for whatever reason over the years, share idiotic AI slop. A big neon sign screaming "DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS PERSON."
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've deleted most of my FB info, just kept my account alive to use site for work. So depressing watching people I friended, for whatever reason over the years, share idiotic AI slop. A big neon sign screaming "DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS PERSON."
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BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...