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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 3h

I'm an editor, and editors have saved me from myself as well.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 18h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · Sep 4

The advantage of a Global War on Cartels over a Global War on Terror when it comes to authoritarian regime-building in the United States is it is easier to slide towards justifying the expansion of lethal strikes from targets in Mexico or the Caribbean to targets that are directly on American soil

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 6h

wow congrats on removal of large bad-vibes atrocity!

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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 6h

Uncovering the lives of enslaved people is incredibly important. Here’s a great example of such work. #arthistory

hyperallergic.com/1047549/port...

Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods

The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.

hyperallergic.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9h

The "Antifa" everywhere stuff is really worse than McCarthyism. It's witch trial shit except they can't even find a judge to sanctify it.

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 8h

Sarnoff: "TV is life,
and people want to see the march
of life. That’s the big difference
between video and radio."

(not mentioned: everyone had a radio by 1951, and RCA was gearing up manufacture of TV sets)

Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 8h

It's like AI only it's TV in 1951 (Variety, April 11)

Variety head: "Shape of TV Things to Come" by Abel Green: Brigadier General David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of RCA, is so bullish on television and its future that his dim views on radio would seem to dwarf AM's future chiefly because of his enthusiasms about TV.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 9h

Just like it killed the nascent broadcasting industry in 1926 — wait

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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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 9h

been talking to mi esposa about this and i think a lot of what fuels our depression is that we are surrounded by insane people

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 10h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 9h

Good news if you deal drugs, run spies, plan terror attacks, or bribe federal officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 14h

Huey Long was a demagogue who wanted all the sharing to go in one direction.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 14h

"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 2 OF 2," slide 24 of 29 [gallery]

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

Entire country's about to learn that height and weight standards in the Guard is a secondary concern to "do we actually have any people assigned to this unit"

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

The plot of the next Simpsons movie should be the kids at Springfield Elementary digging up a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago and realizing they're the same children who buried it because their world hasn't aged in 4 decades.