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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 57m

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 34m

Recommended.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 33m

There are far too few with the courage to take on the mob of people who want accurate, fact-based, meaningful journalism

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 55m

Any pundit type who posts things like “Ratio me, your anger shows I’m right!” gets a block because they clearly have that toddler brain “any attention is good attention“ issue and, to be clear, I am happily child-free

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 47m

tl;dr

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 46m

a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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jody @jodyshenn.bsky.social · 2h

Sally missed Lance Armstrong cheating and did Penn State apologia

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1h

Deep sourcing, fact-checking, publishing chain letters

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build a culture of ideas. This is exactly what she’s done at The Free Press, which covers a variety of stories, the most popular of which—[Highlighting begins] Uri Berliner’s explanation of NPR’s decline, for example [Highlighting ends]—are those that hold powerful institutions to account.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1h

Caitlin Flanagan is what, lol?

Girl, post whatever you want defending Weiss, people who have different opinions didn't have a home visit from the thought police--they just see Weiss for the hypocritical, grifting amoral emptiness she is. Oh, and she's a terribly mediocre writer.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Also, using “thought police” to describe the *critics* of someone who literally launched her career by trying to police the thoughts of her pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia is AMAZING

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1h

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:

If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1h

Everybody is 12. The people who are most eager to present themselves as the adults in the room are, in fact, the most likely to be 12.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 1h

"doesn't necessarily" is doing some real work here given that weiss's absolute incompetence at journalism is already on clear display

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 1h

“people who disagree with me are the thought police” is such an embarrassing thing to say. it’s also such a bari weiss thing to say

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

She *is* the thought police.

Congrats on bravely standing on the side of the elites. Maybe they’ll throw you some money too if you keep on behaving

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 1h

Sally is not someone who has a firm grasp on the concept of honor

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

It’s not a badge of honor to celebrate the ascendancy of someone who refuses to correct factual errors in pieces purporting to be journalism, and a hagiographic article which fails to mention that reality. But you know that, you just know the faux-martyr routine pays better than actual competence.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

I realize her team is just making content off what she said but this is the message.

AOCs Facebook page makes a graphic that says they are weaker than they look with trump on an orange background

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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · 16h

Based on the publisher, the professor's reviews, and the TikTok user's location, I'm pretty sure this is the textbook in question:
he.kendallhunt.com/product/huma...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1h

this is the digital equivalent of individual pieces of fruit shrink-wrapped in plastic so that fossil fuel companies can sell the byproduct of oil production to plastic manufacturers

It is also the literal equivalent because it too creates demand for fossil fuels

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

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