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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 32m

Yes, that must be why.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 35m

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 4d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 1h

A scenario where Croatia finally completes its mission to control all European coasts

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 16h

New Reuters Institute report on how people are increasingly using LLMs for search. no surprises (in many markets the figure will be higher) . It’s not really so much *replacing* what publishers do as ‘aggregating’ publisher material and failing to credit www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

www.niemanlab.org

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

The replies on the editorial include many versions of “thanks for finally convincing me to cancel.”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 1d

“You’re banned, you can’t chant that, you’re nicked for holding a sign, you’re kids are poorer, you’re colder, you have to have an ID card and the racists have legitimate concerns in our island of strangers… now vote for us or Farage wins.”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism

The acclaimed documentarian follows up All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with another smart and impeccably structured winner

www.theguardian.com

Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Of course the problem is vehicles. The problem is designers not protecting children from them, using floor to ceiling glass walls because it looks good. They had a "duty of care," a concept I'm writing about today.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 1d

Who is crucifying dogs?

Also, what a fucked up verbal tic to pick up from your father. They’ll describe anything that way.

“It was so hot that I drank the Gatorade in one gulp, like a dog.”

“That looks great on you, like a dog.”

“My father didn’t give me enough love and attention, like a dog.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "You saw what Jake Tapper did to Lara Trump. She said what everybody knew and everybody was saying and he came out and crucified her like a dog. They have tried to kill us at every road."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

American friends, if you ever get an Canadian-style health care system, payment doesn't come into it, not for you, not for the pregnant illegal foreign rabble rouser in the next chair in Emergency. Pain and sickness have a way of uniting patients. We have huge fears but not about money.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this? www.esquire.com/style/groomi...

An Expert Explains What the Hell Is Happening With Stephen Miller's 'Hair'

That's not his natural hairline, folks.

www.esquire.com

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

I'm grateful to my union, writers, painters, colleagues, and the late Dr. Darren Markland on his mountain bike. The world is crowded with wonderful people. As always I wish I'd had more space to write, would have included dozens more.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a Claerwen James painting to illustrate a gratitude list column. Hard times for women, hard times for everyone but some people can be just great. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 2d

Yes, bring back manliness like the 1790s
- wigs
- tights
- frills
- powder
- filler
- rouge
- hips out
- legs crossed

George Washington dancing, in tights and heels, powdered wig, frilly lace sleeves.

Return of George Washington painting with washington's coat flicked back, hand on his hip like a manly man. All powdered up. Bunch of men sitting in front with their legs crossed

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

I totally fell for it mainly because too many people smile at each other in UK stock photos which is not like real life and is obviously a huge problem re: shaming normal modest types. There's no diversity in Britain. Everyone is stone-faced and in deep gloom. Nowt wrong with that.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the inevitable critics of Carney's performance with Trump today, I am reminded of the two bits of advice I used to give clients: Don't antagonize people who can inflict serious harm on you. Don't start fights with crazy people. There are other routes to success than confrontation. #cdnpoli

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 2d

He’s seen the photos, she’s seen the photos, and there’s nothing else she can do or say. This is textbook, “I will never ask you a question I don’t already know the answer to.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELCH: There's a tape, right, with Mr Homan. Is there a tape with audio and video of the transfer of $50k?

BONDI: You would have to talk to Director Patel about that

WELCH: I'm talking to you

BONDI: I don't know the answer

WELCH: You do know

BONDI: Don't call me a liar!

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

"You've really coated that porch. It's ... transformed! It doesn't even look like a porch any more. It's truly greyish. And hard. That's what I call surfacing. It's like a tombstone. But sideways. It is, I am, wow, that is transformational. Not really a porch at all now is it."

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