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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 22h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6h

Cool system.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

Worth emphasizing that there are serious questions about whether or not Lindsey Halligan is even legally in her job

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

Carr has been demolishing media consolidation limits, consumer protections, and corporate oversight and pretending it's improved government efficiency

it's pure regulatory capture and corruption, but outside of places like the Ars and The Verge, most outlets parrot his efficiency framing

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 6h

Should note that this was brought by Trump's personal attorney, since the career Federal prosecutor resigned after no evidence was found. abcnews.go.com/US/us-attorn...

US attorney resigns amid pressure from Trump after sources say he refused to charge NY AG Letitia James

U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert resigned his position Friday amid pressure from President Trump after sources said he refused to bring charges against NY AG Letitia James.

abcnews.go.com

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 8h

old enough to remember a mini cultural freakout about supposed anti-Semitism when high school kids laughed during Schindler's List

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 8h

This is 99% of video games

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15h

In which the editorial board of the Washington Post effectively endorses President Nixon's claim that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

This is extremely funny because he's got even far right folks in his replies going "okay but for a bunch of 11As from the last 25 years CIBs are basically a glorified participation badge soooooo"

infantrydork getting Big Mad people are making fun of pete's latest SOCOM cosplay and claiming it can't be cosplay because he's got a CIB .

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The next Supreme Court term is shaping up to be the most consequential since 1937. Depending on how it rules, it may cease to be accepted as a legitimate arbiter, and even nullify its own power as an independent judiciary.

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 1d

No.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

If your business model depends on stealing stuff without compensation, maybe it’s a bad business model and deserves to die.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 2d

Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital. This is what Trump and ICE's War on Chicago looks like.

Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 2d

Using Black Hawk Helicopters and Chemical Agents, ICE Agents Turn Chicago Into a ‘War Zone’ | “ICE acted like an invading army in our neighborhoods. Helicopters hovered above our homes, terrifying families and disturbing the peace of our community,” said Democratic State Rep. Lilian Jiménez.

Using Black Hawk Helicopters and Chemical Agents, ICE Agents Turn Chicago Into a 'War Zone' - Bucks County Beacon

Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.

buckscountybeacon.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

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

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 2d

buddy's gonna vote for Trump for a third time if he can, or whoever Trump tells him to vote for. None of this matters.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Happening right now. To us. In America.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 3d

I see a lot of "what did you expect?!?" posts on bluesky this week regarding the American electorate and Trump.

I'll be honest with you. I study authoritarianism elsewhere and I expected much of this. I did not expect any of it to happen so quickly or for institutions to surrender so abjectly.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d

For my newsletter I wrote about the surreal meeting last month between the former al-Qaeda member-turned-president and the general-turned-rehabbed-intel leaker.

New at LET'S DO THE PANIC AGAIN. letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com/p/the-milita...

The Militant and the General

The Global War on Terror created the strangest meeting.

letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com

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tequila0341.bsky.social @tequila0341.bsky.social · 2d

This is a NY State deployment by Gov. Hochul as security theater for subway crime. There was, for a very long time, a National Guard deployment in the subway to supposedly ward off terrorism after 2001; this went on well for years and still exists for transportation hubs: dmna.ny.gov/press/NY_JTF...

dmna.ny.gov