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Progressive, pro-democracy nerd. We can't control everything in this world. What we can control is what we focus on. As we confront a difficult reality, let's all stay present in our own lives and with our loved ones.

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · Feb 16

There is a #TeslaTakedown Tracker which you can pin to your feeds.

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 51m

I canceled my online subscription to the LAT when Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris. Also canceled NYT and WaPo and subscribed to The Guardian, which has surprisingly good coverage of the U.S. and California.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting idea. A entire news market will get a public editor.

Indianapolis will be the first local media market to get its own Public Editor, who will monitor all the newsrooms in town. tinyurl.com/2s44zxe8

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter

Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

tinyurl.com

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1h

"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 1h

It’s a bloodbath, particularly for the L.A. Times.

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US newspaper circulations 2024: LA Times loses quarter of print circulation in a year

The combined daily circulation of the 25 largest newspapers in the US dropped 12.7% in the year to the end of September 2024, new data shows.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 1h

I suspect that the print circulation number is easier to come by, probably because they have to actually print and deliver that many newspapers. It gives some insight into the online numbers, which I think is the point.

It’s tricky though due to declining print circulation overall.

Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 1h

Hi Phillips, I wonder if you feel like sharing your research notes organizing system on Substack for the curious. It’s always interesting how people go about organizing their research and thoughts.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Hi All, my latest book, War and Power: Who Wins Wars and Why, is being released in North America in two weeks. The Publisher, Basic Books/Hatchette, has just released a discount code for 20% if you buy through them. Code is WAR&POWER (not case sensitive). www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/phill...

War and Power

A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of ec...

www.publicaffairsbooks.com

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 13h

I spent my afternoon making & passing out Yes on 50 flyers in front of Walmart & other stores in English & Spanish, and you can do it, too.

If you wanna save democracy, you'd better put your all into it!
I know that's high pressure, but this is high stakes!

The Spanish flyer is in the next post.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

Solidarity is the only way

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors ***
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat [alleged] antisemitism” 1/7/25 … 1/ forward.com/news/686797/...

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

forward.com

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 1d

She was young and was victimized by Clinton, Republicans, and the press. Everyone deserves a second chance, and she has especially earned hers.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 8d

The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Fridays firings www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 2d

I seem to recall that you make soup out of your dead friends in order to fully understand them.

Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry you are sick though.

Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 2d

I caught Covid in spring 2022. I suffered badly for about 8 hours, and then the fever broke, which I attribute to the vaccinations. It was still a gradual and slow recovery, but manageable. I shudder to think about what would have happened if I hadn’t been vaccinated.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that the Vice President of the United States is basically property of Peter Thiel.
“He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power.”

He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of
technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said trat international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."
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Armageddon nonstop. We're all scared to death that we're sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We're going hard towards peace at any price.
What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don't think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It's peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4d

It’s back! The 2027 Chevy Bolt gets an all-new LFP battery, but what else?

255 miles of range, new infotainment, but where did all the torque go?

arstechnica.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

ps. If you're worried about how small farmers going bankrupt... most small farmers are millionaires with a 6-figure income. From a day job off the farm. Small farms don't have enough acreage to lose real $$.

It's the bigger farms that will suffer the most. That's why they're hollerin for bailouts.

AcreTrader, Bailouts, & The Future of US Farms

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, maybe not. There has been one under discussion, but never gone forward so far.