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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1h

It’s like we’re now reporting on the implementation of the patriotic 5 year plan

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data reut.rs/3VYW3xZ

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data

U.S. data vital to global grain and soybean trading has gone dark during the federal government's shutdown, leaving commodity traders and farmers without crop production estimates, export sales data and market reports during the peak of the autumn harvest.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1h

I think this is a key thing between early AI adopters and creatives — whether or not you view the process happening in your brain as the whole point, or whether you think the computer is making boring or “hard” things faster so you can do something else

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes the haiku is the only way

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 9h

If they do this thing —
Rule for Alex Jones — after
Is only darkness

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Alex Jones Asks Supreme Court to Halt $1.4 Billion Payment to Sandy Hook Families

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny because he kept adding descriptors because in his head that made it less blatantly racist

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it’s equally as terrible that you have to write this out as that “after this nightmare is over” is pretty open ended, Asha

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

“Don’t you want someone else to die before you” is not a question moral leaders in a democratic society ask voters

“Isn’t your life worth more than <<points>> *them*” is not the beginning of anyone’s better America

This is how men like Putin control their people while failing to give them anything

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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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

100% in love with David Bowie the Goblin King back in the 80s

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

David Bowie — worldbuilder. Morph. Technologist.

No one like him. Cannot imagine him living in this current insane timeline.

Incredibly cool article on the David Bowie Archive in London

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

David Bowie — worldbuilder. Morph. Technologist.

No one like him. Cannot imagine him living in this current insane timeline.

Incredibly cool article on the David Bowie Archive in London

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no B actor too small for revival in season 2 of the greatest sh*tshow on earth

kathykustra.bsky.social @kathykustra.bsky.social · 2d

Of course they did

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

and they should recall Hyten's warning from
2017: "If you execute an unlawful order, you will go toil. You could go to jail for the rest of your life." Most American military personnel, however, need no reminder of their constitutional duty. But they do need some
reassurance that they have support from their chain of command to resist illegal orders. And the rest of us, whether we're elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t stop thinking about this photo, and what it says about how we perceive power and the balance of that power in America.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 4d

"Look at Ukraine. They’ve been fighting the enemy with weapons in hand for four years, and they are not complaining. Because they can’t retreat. If they surrender, they lose everything. If they don’t, they survive." There is no time for despair. We, too, have no way to retreat. 6/12

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

Actually a very good story of an American company investing in its workers to transform itself to meet modern challenges

Russ Wilcox @russwilcox.bsky.social · 4d

Inspiring
www.wsj.com/business/sha...

Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S.

Newell Brands invested close to $2 billion and thousands of hours in training to move most production of Sharpie pens to a 37-year-old factory in Tennessee.

www.wsj.com

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t stop thinking about this photo, and what it says about how we perceive power and the balance of that power in America.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5d

Link here:

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 5d

But Stephanopoulos took a different approach:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio with George Stephanopoulos of Good Morning America - United States Department of State

QUESTION: First of the top stories breaking today, we’re going to start with President Trump returning to the United Nations today for the first time since his reelection. He’s also going to meet wi...

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5d

Psychologically, this is a fascinating interview. I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything quite like it.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 5d

He spent most of his allotted time asking about one thing in specific: the secretary’s contention that no one has died because of the Trump administration’s cuts to humanitarian aid, and the shuttering of USAID.

Stephanopoulos asked about it over and over again. Seven times. Until he got an answer.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5d

People choose to serve because they want a better life — for themselves, for their families, for other Americans

Loren. @lorenbb.bsky.social · 5d

An excellent and deeply empathetic story about the varied motivations of new Army recruits. This is some of the best writing I've seen in NYTimes in a while.
120% worth your time.
No paywall. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5d

Yay, we did it! Our oldest ally thinks we have the same interests in democracy as China …

<<very dark hole looming ahead>>

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5d

He’s not saying it because he believes it. He’s saying it because saying it makes other people believe it and provides justification for killing/imprisoning Americans for political beliefs.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5d

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 5d

I find this site mesmerizing. It is silent though - the winds outside are not.

earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5d

⚡️ Ukraine brings back 22 children from Russian-occupied territories.

"Today, all the rescued children are safe in Ukraine-controlled territory," Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, said.

Ukraine brings back 22 children from Russian-occupied territories

"Today, all the rescued children are safe in Ukraine-controlled territory," Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, said.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 6d

Cats do rainy days best

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