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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10h
For weeks, traders saw prices for everything from gold to copper seemingly break free from the gravity of supply and demand fundamentals.

And then the rally reversed into one of the most dramatic crashes ever seen in commodity markets. Read more: bloom.bg/3NQ1mz4

📷️: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

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aaronsojourner.org
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11h
No wonder he was first to capitulate to Trump's demands early on, selling out the lawyers who worked for him and making it more dangerous for the rest of the bar to oppose Trump's extortion.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 13h
In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter.

He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 15h
He’s going to tear it down

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financialtimes.com
Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h
Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’ ft.trib.al/0dStAqB
Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’
Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender
ft.trib.al

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rincewind.run
Micah @rincewind.run · 17h
the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

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jayrosen.bsky.social
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h
Follow me on this: Subscription and membership are not the same thing.

Subscribers buy a product. Members join a cause.

The distinction matters because around the world readers are being asked to pay more of the costs for quality journalism. 23/

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 22h
Jay's third key distinction: truth-seeking vs. refuge-seeking behavior in journalism.

Truth-seeking needs no definition. It is finding out what actually happened— and telling us.

Refuge-seeking involves telling the story in a way that protects against anticipated attacks... 10/

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 22h
Media, journalism, and the press are not interchangeable terms. Yet they are bound up with one another.

Media is the attention industry
Journalism is a social practice
The press is a key institution in a democracy

Put it all together: Journalists who work in the media carry forward "the press." 9/

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 23h
“One of the most troubling dynamics of the past twelve months is seeing anti-immigrant propaganda become policy in the second Trump administration. […] These pipelines between participatory propaganda and policy are growing increasingly robust and hard to ignore.”
Making Sense of Minnesota, Anticipating Springfield
Exposing the propaganda-to-policy pipeline (and other reflections on current events)
katestarbird.substack.com

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drewharwell.com
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23h
American schools in 2024 spent $30 billion on education technology, with limited (or negative) results. "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead" www.economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
www.economist.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
just so award applicants are aware, "CEO said a thing" journalism requires absolutely no historical context that the exec you're parroting has ever been incorrect or made repeated, poor decisions

it's also essential you never quote or speak to an objective expert in the field you are writing about

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 1d
Headline should read, UN in danger of collapse because of unpaid United States dues.

“Make no mistake, this is a rupture.”

U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...
U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues
www.nytimes.com

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atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."

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theonion.com
The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him
CHICAGO—Saying he had been absolutely blindsided by the sudden change in his fortunes, local 33-year-old Tyler Branton, a man who lost everything in cryptocurrencies, told reporters Thursday that he j...
theonion.com

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 1d
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately. Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. _________________________________________________ FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE [photo of Liam] Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d
And finally there is an editorial, in which we argue that Donald Trump is "creating a militia which answers only to himself" and how he could use it to "stage provocations pretty much anywhere with impunity, including during elections" if Congress does not step in www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
www.economist.com

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dlknowles.bsky.social
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d
Just reposting this - my story this week is part of this week's cover package on Minneapolis and the rise of what we call "America's paramilitary peril."

www.economist.com/united-state...

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Leather Panel Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
/2 AUSA jobs tend to be EXTREMELY competitive. (Not to say they’re not occasionally awarded to morons for politics.) Having to advertise for AUSAs on Nazi-Pedoworld is deeply embarrassing. Also the notion you have to be politically loyal to the President to be a entry-level lawyer is loathsome.

glinden.bsky.social
Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 1d
Good post by Renee DiResta, definitely worth a read, a teaser: "Disinformation campaigns are real and foreign actors interfere in elections ... Do nothing isn’t neutrality in a system where something is always being algorithmically amplified."
agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/who-has-th...
“Who has the power to define the truth?”
A Doha Debates conversation between Glenn Greenwald, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and me on free speech, content moderation, and the realities of platform governance
agentsofinfluence.substack.com

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d
Can’t believe the guy in the Nazi trench coat doing the Nazi stuff behaved this way.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Btw, I am working under the presumption that this Epstein drop is heavily fucked with, as to leave no trace of Trump in it on purpose. So it's interesting to me what and who remains in this drop, and who they therefore deem disposable. Elon, obviously, but maybe Melania?

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · 1d
It's really hard to appreciate the Epstein emails as elite Mad Libs until you start searching. This is Epstein, Ken Starr, and Henry Rosovsky.

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astrokatie.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d
All this news is really completely confirming all my unfair knee-jerk judgments about a certain cadre of rich/famous douchebags, I gotta say

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jayrosen.bsky.social
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d
The co-author of "How Democracies Die" says the guys who own the media platforms — Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Bezos, Cook — led the way. "Their capitulation empowered the Trump administration to do much more than it might have otherwise, to reach further and eventually overreach.” Via @status.news

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jayrosen.bsky.social
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d
The co-author of "How Democracies Die" thinks Trump is going further in his crackdown on the press than strongmen around the world. Via @status.news

(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
"Since its founding in 2002, a combination of organizational flaws and mission creep has allowed D.H.S. to evolve into the out-of-control domestic security apparatus we have today, one that views the very people it is supposed to protect as threats, not humans."
Opinion | The Rot Goes Deeper Than ICE
www.nytimes.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d
Again, it has all been “Everyone’s just pretending that he doesn’t need to be immediately impeached & removed” since he started monetizing his hotel three blocks from the White House in 2017. The constitution literally isn’t more clear about anything else than this.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
"I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne."
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
www.theguardian.com