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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 21m

This is a sooutely fucking crazy. Justice for Scooby-Dum!

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 2d

every time 😂😂😭😭

A dog looking at a piece of paper with his glasses up on his forehead instead of his eyes and he’s looking very confused at the piece of paper

the caption reads

Me after looking at my transaction history and realizing everything actually adds up, no one stole from me

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Classic McDavid @henchman21.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting because you might need to look at Ingrid Bergman again.

Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck Apple.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wait the Chicago building thing! I just realized Wells Fargo was the owner.

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 3d

What did they do this time? I saw someone else posting about them but can’t figure out if it’s the totally understandable “they are garbage” or if it’s something more specific and new.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

this is incredible

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 4d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 4d

I loved “After the Rain.”

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

David Ellison, the head of Paramount/CBS, is a Nepo Baby son of billionaire psycho Larry Ellison, who just bought TikTok and wants to buy Warner Bros/Discovery (CNN, HBO).

He's the biggest private donor to Israel, hard core right wing Zionist and Trump supporter.

Bari Weiss is their Luca Brasi.

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 4d

Literally nobody wants this tool to run.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed! Even if it broke my heart.

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 7d

All of those characters, from Frankenstein to Klarion to Uncle Sam, are so up Gunn's alley.

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 7d

Also Uncle Sam, but I don’t know that he counts as a meta.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8d

We left Austin (and UT) for personal reasons, not political ones. That said, this story makes me relieved that we got out when we did—and despondent for the future of an amazing institution that played a really important role in my life; and whose students, staff, faculty, and alumni deserve better:

New Trump plan offers UT funding benefits with conditions on academics

The Trump administration named the University of Texas as one of nine schools that can access funding benefits in exchange for demands outlined in a compact.

www.statesman.com

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 7d

Oh wait, that makes me think maybe Klarion the Witch Boy might be sometime in colonial US.

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 7d

Guys, come on. It’s the Punishing Puritan.

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pattyboom.bsky.social @pattyboom.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so sorry… I mean it, republiqueers are the worst.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 8d

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years

www.mediamatters.org

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