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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 5h

As anybody who grew up watching 90s commercials can tell you it is outrageous for a current surgeon general to be selling garbage health products - that is the job for former surgeon generals.

Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: A Washington Post deep dive into surgeon general nominee Casey Means found she blurred sponsorship lines as she promoted supplements and products outside the medical mainstream.

Here’s one example.

And a gift link to read more: wapo.st/46LWoKQ

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 8h

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

Smart people who are conservative definitely exist. People intellectually capable of contributing if they were in academia. They mostly aren’t in academia, they’re making money somewhere, and the ones that are don’t need ideological affirmative action to get hired.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

This is why I’m extremely skeptical of any attempt to add ‘ideological diversity’ to academia, despite thinking that there are fields where some version of it would genuinely epistemologically healthy: I simply do not believe that modern conservatism actually can supply people who are not this:

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 12h

this really lays bare the point of Bari’s job at CBS News, which is making it seem like the most radically leftist opinion you could possibly have on something like Gaza comes from *checks notes* Hillary Clinton

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 11h

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 10h

After the officers forced open her door, 92-year-old Johnston fired a single shot that hit no one. The officers responded with a swarm of 39 bullets screaming through Johnston’s living room.

Episode One: Dirty Business

The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.

interc.pt

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 1d

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 1d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

If you set out to take revenge, dig two graves, because it's going to be so much fun you're going to want to do it twice.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Writing a video game about how actually vengeance is awesome.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 16h

All the Righteous Gemstones characters pointing guns at the camera

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans will have trouble selling it as a bipartisan compromise since they've taken such a hardline approach against negotiations, it will pretty clearly be perceived by the public as Democrats getting something by fighting that they would not have gotten otherwise.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 17h

I think this is true, but I do think there's a counter-argument to be made that the (earned!) stereotype of Dems as not fighting and not winning is so damaging that getting a clear tactical victory is more electorally valuable than saving Reps from shooting their own dicks is electorally damaging.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18h

what the fuck

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 19h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Hideki Matsui here pictured with the founder of ANTIFA’s girlfriend

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

Granny looking like a street corner mural.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the aesthetic of the future

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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 1d

Like Carlin said, it's a big club and you ain't in it.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

A really weird subplot to the Bari Weiss thing is the degree to which she was able to secure these sort of opportunities for herself even in cases like hosting the view where it makes no sense

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then they’ll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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