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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 15h

Wow ty

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 16h

another tiger general of shu han, owning the 14 words estate

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

when i saw marsha fucking blackburn was being honored by journalists i thought i was having a neurological episode

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 1d

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

portland frog you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your rubber suit is too bad. they’ll kill you portland frog

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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

Bari Weiss isn't Israeli.

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

Imagine being told you’re significantly less charming than Megan McCain.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

This is why Americans think 29% of the US population is Asian

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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Spooky username @mcmcfee.bsky.social · 1d

You think he LOOKS bad, but wait until you see what he's willing to SAY. On TV.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 14d

For a very fancy, special occasion lunch in NYC, would you do the Russian Tea Room, or The Modern at MOMA? Or any other suggestions? Libi isn’t on this app so she won’t see.

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 22d

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 22d

I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 23d

BREAKING:

HUGE ENDORSEMENT FOR ANDREW CUOMO

Woody Allen sitting on a chair. Caption reads

“Yes, I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote for Cuomo”

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 22d

we (left of center pundits) are going to have to live here with one another (conservative pundits), believing what we believe (that we should get paid large sums of money), disagreeing in the ways we disagree (without them sending their rabid horde of followers to kill us).

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 23d

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

X post by Milo Yiannopoulos: "28 pilots have been suspended or fired so far after I made their airlines aware of gruesome remarks made about Charlie Kirk’s death. Of the big three, Delta has the biggest problem by far; United the smallest."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24d

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults:

Cuellar
Davis (NC)
Gillen
Golden
Lee (NV)
Min
Perez
Vindman

Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 24d

Liu Bei represents the Democratic establishment, slowly killing the peasants who rely on them for protection in a vain attempt at reestablishing a regime that was already dead anyway.

The person Tarik is talking about is Cao Cao.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 23d

So I guess American Tik Tok won’t show that stuff anymore and in exchange Trump and his friends get ten billion dollars. Great work.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 23d

There were a few people on China from the jump, but for every other Democrat, banning Tik Tok only gained any kind of political salience after every teenager in America started seeing videos of Gaza on their phones.

Bibi asked Biden to do it, publicly! And Biden said that’s why he did it, publicly!

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 23d

Conservatives in academia don’t think academia is too liberal. Rather, conservatives see the things that are foundational to academia as liberal themselves.

So, the only way to get liberalism out of the academy is fundamentally change what the academy is, means, and does.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 24d

the impunity with which they rapaciously devour stuff for themselves is well understood. the reaction, however, can't be well since there are no rules anything goes i guess. there have to be rules and one big one needs to be rich fuckers need to stop stealing your shit right now

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Cardboard Revolution Games Co-op @cardboardrevolution.com · 25d

The bulwark is a YouTube channel filled with ex-Republicans and some current Republicans who hate Trump and they are starting to sound more like radical marxists than the pod save Bros.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 25d

only the right wing is allowed to attack its opponents in any way and on any terms they see fit and simultaneously only the right wing is allowed to claim victimhood

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 24d

Liu Bei represents the Democratic establishment, slowly killing the peasants who rely on them for protection in a vain attempt at reestablishing a regime that was already dead anyway.

The person Tarik is talking about is Cao Cao.

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