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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 13h

reeeally liked this, from @laurentousignant.bsky.social: www.jezebel.com/the-life-of-...

The Life of a...Tradwife?

The conservatism that's resurgent in the U.S. wants women to get married and have babies—so Taylor Swift's latest lyrics about getting married and having babies genuinely bummed me out.

www.jezebel.com

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 18h

you'll be shocked to learn that a quick google proves that the verified X account "unusual_whales" is not a reliable source of news

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
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Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 19h

"Plenary authority," for those who don't swim in the jargon of despotisms, means you have absolute unchecked dictatorial power to do whatever you want.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

just realized what this reminded me of

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

really thoughtful critique of the Nova exhibition, which opens in Berlin today, from @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/schlock-and-...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

This is the weirdest fucking fact-check; what she said afterward was the exact same idea only much much worse!

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

It was a joke; NYT excerpt going around is misleading

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

marie this is sick! i might be in london then + will absolutely be attending if so.

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

listening to “all too well” just to feel something besides rage

Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

+1 — this is all my beefs with the new album/the new Taylor wrapped up in one piece: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

+1 — this is all my beefs with the new album/the new Taylor wrapped up in one piece: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 1d

god damn this is so embarrassing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

www.nytimes.com

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 2d

Strike fund here: www.gofundme.com/f/raise-stri...

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 2d

wrong bc it's actually feminism that now women can *also* fail up into lucrative gigs by telling rich guys what they want to hear

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 2d

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 2d

i wish she'd picked people other than the obvious global baddies. like ... Terry Richardson, or "my local councillor who single-handedly ended 5-day-a-week recycling pickup"

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 4d

had a fit about this last week

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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 4d

dreamed I posted a kind of sad tweet and friends I hadn’t seen in years DMed and were like, hey you seem sad, come join us at Oyster Bar, and it turned out Oyster Bar was only 15 minutes from me, and we had a great evening :)

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