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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 10h

303 comments 130 quotes 3 likes pack it up Sally

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

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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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 10h

gagged her a bit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 20h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It's Saturday, so my cat has greeted me by lovingly tossing the pill organizer off the bedside table, indicating that it is breakfast time

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jacob galapagos @jacobgalapagos.bsky.social · 2d

“men used to go to war” well I like to hang out on my couch. did men used to do that

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 2d

damn, all those degrees didn’t give her any common sense…

load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 2d

this is WILDDDDDD

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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 2d

omg no what did the professor doooooo

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 3d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

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Security Specialist @jcov.bsky.social · 3d

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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 3d

but I will not pass up the possibility that Mr. Benito recreates that Calvin Klein moment

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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 3d

honestly I kinda want to go to a Super Bowl party where somebody tries to make a room full of Normal People watch this shitshow

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA announced it will host its own ‘All American Super Bowl Halftime Show’ to protest Bad Bunny’s headlining performance.

The organization provided genres for fans to choose for the show including ‘Anything in English,’ ‘Americana,’ and ‘Worship.’

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 4d

Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4d

god damn this is brutal defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4d

This week The Atlantic & Johnathan Chait published a hit piece on me. It’s replete with disinformation, so I’m compelled to write this rebuttal.

Such pundits have caused incalculable harm to our public discourse, & its long past time to call out their hypocrisy.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

www.qasimrashid.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...