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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 2d

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Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.

Macron reappoints outgoing PM Sébastien Lecornu, far right calls for snap legislative elections

Returning Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Friday he accepted his reappointment "out of duty", just days after he handed in his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron. The decision was…

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 2d

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This One Don't by Eric Bibb on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 3:26

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 4d

Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 6d

We use social networks to share human experiences and interact with people about culture or politics. Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions, leaving us alone talking to no one.
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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 7d

That’s our timeline.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 8d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 10d

I up the ante.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 12d

I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 13d

Can we have Michael D for a third term please? #Aras25

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 13d

Strongly suspect the main outcome of this debate will be to reduce turnout. #Aras25

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 13d

This presidential debate… oh boy. Terrible interviewer/interrupter needs a chamomile tea. All discussion nothing to do with the job.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 14d

So exhausting..

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 14d

Sounds fab. Signed up. Dead curious.

Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 14d

Impressive set of journalists. Impressive set of contributing editors from Eno to Solnit. Looking forward to this.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 14d

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to.

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 15d

A President can raise issues which are difficult when the voice is that of a thinker, a philosopher, a voice who brings people along, it starts with ‘we’. When the voice is activist it starts with them/us. It can push people away.

Labour, the Greens and the SocDems look like they’ve blown it.

Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 20d

In November LinkedIn will use your publicly posted data, presumably including your career history to feed their AI - you can opt out in their Settings - www.linkedin.com/e/v2?urlhash...

LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn

Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 21d

Not many of them are sung about to be fair…

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · 23d

Finnish President Alexander Stubb interview, calm, measured, well judged. In case any of you needed a reminder as to what that might be like…

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Finland's President on Trump, Resilience and Putin's Threat | Leaders with Francine Lacqua

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

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maudlinaly.bsky.social @maudlinaly.bsky.social · 24d

I'm a subscriber, and every article is wonderful. I count on Mother Jones to continue excellent journalism.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

these people are genuinely idiots

Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 24d

NEW: Expect some drama in House Dems’ meeting this AM over a vote to honor Charlie Kirk.

Some members undecided. Others voting no or “present.” But some in the party fear anything but a unanimous vote for it will be a messaging coup for the GOP.

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House Democrats fume about vote to honor Charlie Kirk: "We're being totally set up"

The vote has been the topic of frenzied discussions in Democrats' closed-door meeting this week.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 25d

All journalists should bend the knee to the work of the obituarist, the one discipline which enables the practitioner to get a byline from beyond the grave. Ronald Bergen predeceased his subject Robert Redford by 5 years, but left behind a truly masterful obit.

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Robert Redford obituary

One of Hollywood’s greats who starred in All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26d

Poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Patrick Reagh.

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Tommy Weir @tommyw.bsky.social · Sep 11

On working at the Journal on 9/11 - "…clear assignment and delineation of responsibility, instilling of common purpose and understanding of mission, empowering human beings to do their best work and motivating them to want to do it"
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The Journalism Lesson I Learned on September 11

Why the most effective preparation for a crisis lies in empowerment

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this.

I hope it endures.

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · Aug 17

It’s amazing how, the older I get, the more my politics crystallizes back to the bumper stickers I saw on Volvos growing up.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · Aug 11

It's rare a funny writer is so naturally funny in person too. This clip is great www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1...

Isaac Asimov's Vision Of The Future | Letterman

YouTube video by Letterman

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