Lee
@ltbarber.bsky.social
Photographer, glider pilot, tinkerer.
Tarheel, former adoped ATLien + Rochestarian. Go Bills!
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Tarheel, former adoped ATLien + Rochestarian. Go Bills!
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WSJ: SpaceX trying to push the bag onto index investors ASAP.
Can’t describe how predatory this is and if index providers carve out an exception for them or other large IPOs it’ll be a huge hit to their credibility IMO.
Can’t describe how predatory this is and if index providers carve out an exception for them or other large IPOs it’ll be a huge hit to their credibility IMO.
Exclusive | SpaceX Seeks Early Index Entry as It Prepares Massive IPO
Advisers to company CEO Elon Musk have reached out to major index providers seeking ways to secure earlier inclusion in market benchmarks to lift shares
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:09 AM
WSJ: SpaceX trying to push the bag onto index investors ASAP.
Can’t describe how predatory this is and if index providers carve out an exception for them or other large IPOs it’ll be a huge hit to their credibility IMO.
Can’t describe how predatory this is and if index providers carve out an exception for them or other large IPOs it’ll be a huge hit to their credibility IMO.
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Doomposters on here are going to handwring tha the administration has already won but instead of posting, the correct answer in this case is to sign up to be a poll watcher and saying “I’d like to see you try”
There were 89,000 polling places in 2022.
8 states have all-mail elections.
At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations.
They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.
8 states have all-mail elections.
At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations.
They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.
Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms.
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
February 4, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Doomposters on here are going to handwring tha the administration has already won but instead of posting, the correct answer in this case is to sign up to be a poll watcher and saying “I’d like to see you try”
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jesus
INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
February 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM
jesus
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It's such a funny framing, because what does Jeff Bezos care if a thing he likes owning and thinks is cool loses a couple million dollars a year? It's like you or me going out to get a coffee instead of making it at home once a week.
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
It's such a funny framing, because what does Jeff Bezos care if a thing he likes owning and thinks is cool loses a couple million dollars a year? It's like you or me going out to get a coffee instead of making it at home once a week.
“Commonsense reforms”
*drink*
*drink*
February 4, 2026 at 4:39 AM
“Commonsense reforms”
*drink*
*drink*
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the reality is this: the strategy of aggressive BUT PEACEFUL confrontation and disclosure is working. it’s dramatically transforming opinion of ICE and made my city’s plight the top story in the world for weeks.
violent resistance (excuse me, “direct action”) would be devastating to our cause
violent resistance (excuse me, “direct action”) would be devastating to our cause
February 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
the reality is this: the strategy of aggressive BUT PEACEFUL confrontation and disclosure is working. it’s dramatically transforming opinion of ICE and made my city’s plight the top story in the world for weeks.
violent resistance (excuse me, “direct action”) would be devastating to our cause
violent resistance (excuse me, “direct action”) would be devastating to our cause
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To me it is tragic that, just because of several hundred disgusting email exchanges with an international sex criminal, CBS viewers will be denied some of the most outrageously specious "wellness" advice imaginable. How are people going to find out about the chalk supplements he sells now?
(The Wrap) - CBS News is expected to cut ties with new contributor Peter Attia, a wellness expert, over his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, according to an individual with knowledge of Paramount’s thinking.
@sharonwaxman.bsky.social @calderone.bsky.social #$PSKY
www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
@sharonwaxman.bsky.social @calderone.bsky.social #$PSKY
www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
CBS News Expected to Cut Ties With Contributor Peter Attia Over Epstein Links | Exclusive
Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced Peter Attia’s hiring last week as part of her new vision for the network, but since then he appeared in the Epstein files.
www.thewrap.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
To me it is tragic that, just because of several hundred disgusting email exchanges with an international sex criminal, CBS viewers will be denied some of the most outrageously specious "wellness" advice imaginable. How are people going to find out about the chalk supplements he sells now?
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Your job is to represent the people of New York.
Your job is to actually effectively manage your caucus
You are not especially good at either of these jobs, you should probably not try to take on others
Your job is to actually effectively manage your caucus
You are not especially good at either of these jobs, you should probably not try to take on others
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Your job is to represent the people of New York.
Your job is to actually effectively manage your caucus
You are not especially good at either of these jobs, you should probably not try to take on others
Your job is to actually effectively manage your caucus
You are not especially good at either of these jobs, you should probably not try to take on others
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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
February 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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ICE took the Baileys
Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.
January 28, 2026 at 7:20 PM
ICE took the Baileys
and he spray painted his skates gold.
January 28, 2026 at 6:19 PM
and he spray painted his skates gold.
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Again, you would do well to block all of these Alt [Federal Agency] accounts. Theyre basically all a really toxic combo of doomerism, misinformation, and clickbait
I missed this one in the chaos this weekend, but AltNPS appears to have taken this image directly from Brian Krassenstein on X. It's the same picture, just cropped.
Krassenstein, who also sucks, posted this pic at 8:55 AM on Jan. 25, six and half hours before AltNPS.
Krassenstein, who also sucks, posted this pic at 8:55 AM on Jan. 25, six and half hours before AltNPS.
![Alt National Park Service: Tick tock... accountability is coming.
[They share a cropped photo of one of the ICE agents who killed Alex Pretti, with a green circle around a Texas flag patch on the agent's back]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7f5fdeb4ci3lefmt4zr3m3wg/bafkreihzulww5gq4w5yjowy7t6z2cc6gsgbivgmvb5ofpatlhkyllnaz4y@jpeg)
![Brian Krassenstein on X: BREAKING: the ICE Agent who killed Alex Pretti appears to be from Texas.
Anyone with information on this man, please contact me immediately.
Thank you.
[Krassenstein posts the uncropped video that shows the same agent, with the same green circle]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7f5fdeb4ci3lefmt4zr3m3wg/bafkreiekwvdvcj5jgoo4gh2a2xrxuhlf4sa26eg7pct25nakp2zvqsfyui@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Again, you would do well to block all of these Alt [Federal Agency] accounts. Theyre basically all a really toxic combo of doomerism, misinformation, and clickbait
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Not just Josh, but half of the locker room, I'd wager.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Not just Josh, but half of the locker room, I'd wager.
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A small community newspaper from a rural area with traditionally conservative leanings lets them have it.
Editorial: Above The Law
This year, we largely set aside our editorial voice in a commitment to reporting local news without any appearance of partisanship throughout our 190-year-old operation. But lines have become unmistak...
www.caledonianrecord.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
A small community newspaper from a rural area with traditionally conservative leanings lets them have it.
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the real separation is between ai being a bubble (undeniable) and ai being useless/going away/unpopular/etc (completely false)
if your position is that the tech is worthless, will go away on its own, is inherently bad, etc etc, you are going to die on that hill. there are absolutely bad actors in the space and you are passing over the bad actors to stake a losing position about the code
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
the real separation is between ai being a bubble (undeniable) and ai being useless/going away/unpopular/etc (completely false)
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone." - Adam Server
James O’Keefe responds to a comment
“Figured they (ICE protesters) were being paid…”
O’Keefe:
“No, it's more terrifying than that. It's not transactional.
They actually believe in their cause.
That truth is going to be hard for most people to understand or accept.”
“Figured they (ICE protesters) were being paid…”
O’Keefe:
“No, it's more terrifying than that. It's not transactional.
They actually believe in their cause.
That truth is going to be hard for most people to understand or accept.”
January 27, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone." - Adam Server
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"don't start with a compromise" is the very first thing you learn about negotiation. the fact that Democrats always do exactly this is how you know they are a controlled opposition and not a serious party with beliefs or goals
Republicans seem to inherently understand if you aim for Jupiter you can usually force your opponents to AT LEAST meet you on the moon.
Even if Schumer doesn't want to abolish ICE (which he should), aiming for that makes dramatic progress more likely.
Even if Schumer doesn't want to abolish ICE (which he should), aiming for that makes dramatic progress more likely.
Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers.
Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.
January 27, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"don't start with a compromise" is the very first thing you learn about negotiation. the fact that Democrats always do exactly this is how you know they are a controlled opposition and not a serious party with beliefs or goals
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So, the Bills offense was a little up and down this year, but it's not entirely on Brady. The roster had a lot of issues, and that's actually on the genera--*taps earpiece*--wait what
The Bills are promoting their own OC Joe Brady to head coach, per The Insiders.
It’s a 5-year deal for Joe Brady — who has been a top HC candidate for years. Now, he lands at home.
It’s a 5-year deal for Joe Brady — who has been a top HC candidate for years. Now, he lands at home.
January 27, 2026 at 5:01 PM
So, the Bills offense was a little up and down this year, but it's not entirely on Brady. The roster had a lot of issues, and that's actually on the genera--*taps earpiece*--wait what
This feels like not a problem?
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
This feels like not a problem?
This makes the McD firing the most pointless firing in the history of the NFL.
January 27, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This makes the McD firing the most pointless firing in the history of the NFL.
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Once you get a bead on how Sulzberger, Kahn, Healy, Peters, et al view politics, the editorial slant in their political coverage is unmistakable. "Liberals need to be listening to conservatives" is practically a commandment to them
January 27, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Once you get a bead on how Sulzberger, Kahn, Healy, Peters, et al view politics, the editorial slant in their political coverage is unmistakable. "Liberals need to be listening to conservatives" is practically a commandment to them
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.