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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

The same day that Frum submitted his pitch to the Atlantic to profile the Israeli ambassador, Frum also was forced to publicly apologize to the New York Times and Reuters for falsely accusing a Palestinian photographer of faking a series of photographs of bereaved Palestinians in Gaza.

7/30/2014

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 2d

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

“An American basketball player is potentially facing the death penalty or a lengthy prison sentence after being arrested in Indonesia over possession of marijuana gummies he said he uses for medical purposes to treat Crohn’s disease.“

American Basketball Player Faces Potential Death Penalty Over Medical Marijuana After Arrest In Indonesia - Marijuana Moment

An American basketball player is potentially facing the death penalty or a lengthy prison sentence after being arrested in Indonesia over possession of marijuana gummies he said he uses for medical pu...

www.marijuanamoment.net

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry but touting 1.5 million readers and 170k subscribers is so funny. That is not that many!!!!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

The Mahoning Drive-In is very near and dear to my heart and it’s an incredible honor to screen “A MOVIE: Obayashi’s Cinematic Life” alongside this iconic film.

Stay tuned for details on the official home video of the visual essay 👀

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

Some very exciting news: I made a 25 minute visual essay about director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s life and career with @bsoderberg.bsky.social and it’ll premiere this Sunday at the @mahoningdit.bsky.social’s upcoming screening of HOUSE!

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 3d

Very proud to work on this with Max and excited folks can start seeing this trip through Nobuhiko Obayashi's staggering filmmaking career

m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 3d

Some very exciting news: I made a 25 minute visual essay about director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s life and career with @bsoderberg.bsky.social and it’ll premiere this Sunday at the @mahoningdit.bsky.social’s upcoming screening of HOUSE!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

You sound like a dork when you say things like this

Fortune @fortune.com · 4d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

trib.al

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Normals Books & Records @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social · 4d

Some days here you need less coffee than others! I saw an iconic wig bobbing through the afternoon browsers and thought, could it be…..not just a jacked up yowler and shredder, Buzz is a hardcore bibliophile! And nice enough to pose by the old ball, outdoing the fiercest wigs that have been there

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 5d

Oh gee what an inconvenience to not be able to use a bathroom

What could that possibly feel like

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Jen Mizgata @jmizgata.bsky.social · 5d

Baltimore, it's @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social time!!! Here are five movies that @bsoderberg.bsky.social recs. I saw OBEX last night and everyone should see it when it's in theaters in January! Thank you @ericallenhatch.bsky.social for programming so many great movies. bmoreart.com/2025/10/new-...

New/Next Film Festival Returns to The Charles Theater this Week - BmoreArt

This year’s New/Next Film Festival packs more than 30 feature-length movies, and over three times that many short films across … Continued

bmoreart.com

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 6d

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6d

Greedy data centers won’t bring their own power to the grid, so drive up electricity bills for everyone. Here’s a sample:

Bar chart showing the increase in wholesale energy prices in major American cities between 2020 and 2025.

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 6d

The @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social begins today. For @bmoreart.bsky.social, I highlighted some picks: bmoreart.com/2025/10/new-...

More New/Next writing from:

@maxthegirl.bsky.social for BMag: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/arts...

@alexlei.bsky.social for BRUISER: www.bruisermag.com/lei_obex

New/Next Film Festival Returns to The Charles Theater this Week - BmoreArt

This year’s New/Next Film Festival packs more than 30 feature-length movies, and over three times that many short films across … Continued

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 6d

It was supposed to be $36 million privately funded with 2 courts, and ended up costing $52 million with only 1 court and 16,000 square feet smaller with the state having to chip in to fill the funding gap.

And btw, UMD currently has a hiring freeze, and had to raise tuition to balance the budget.

Baltimore Banner Sports @sports.thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d

Maryland basketball just got a major addition 👀🏀

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6d

This is probably funniest website to pull the ”gifted kid programs that over select for white and upper middle class“ bit on. Even in the NYC context, it would be better, for New Yorkers as a whole, to focus on smaller classrooms and better instruction. If your kid is gifted, assign them more work.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 6d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

You want to talk about displacing/disrupting residents. Baltimore City, with a population of ~600k was making arrests of < 100k people, almost entirely Black people, less than 30 years ago. The city seems intent on resurrecting some of those policies! Ok, I'm done therealnews.com/here-we-go-a...

Here We Go Again

As violence remains out of control and police spending hits record-breaking numbers, police and politicians turn to increasing arrests and enforcement.

therealnews.com

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

The displacement going on right now remains Black displacement. For example, somewhere like the Poppleton neighborhood where Black families going back literally 100 years were kicked out so developers can court a (primarily) white professional class: therealnews.com/land-grab-wh...

Land Grab: Why Baltimore kept desperately cutting deals with a developer who didn't deliver

For nearly two decades, many longtime residents of the West Baltimore neighborhood of Poppleton have been displaced from their homes for the sake of redevelopment plans that have yet to materialize.

therealnews.com

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

He died in 2022 in his 80s, so he fits the profile of the strawman invented by this displacement claim. There's revanchist nostalgia and there's exceptions but broadly, even working class whites were not forced out of the city. Black people are STILL not welcome in a lot of these neighborhoods.

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

One illustrative story: When my grandfather was dying (mesothelioma like many working class Baltimoreans) he went to Hopkins hospital near where he grew up. He could not conceive that a state of the art hospital was in his "bad" childhood neighborhood. Family had to convince him it was a good place!

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

Where my grandparents grew up is "nicer"/"safer" than it was when they lived there! This is broadly true for most Baltimore whites. Big shift is that large swaths of Black Baltimore never got "better" because of this obsession with courting this mythical white person that'll "revitalize" the city.

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

Put another way, Baltimore policies are so profoundly racist still and so embedded in the city's structures that 100 or so years later the broad segregation of the city remains the same. "Displacement" is my white steel worker grandfather leaving and some white NGO goober in a vest buying his home.

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

This paired with waves of white flight (particularly bc of Beth Steel decline which really began in the 60s and RACISM) decreased overall pop. But for example, Baltimore neighborhoods that experienced "white" displacement (sorry) experienced it via what would broadly be framed as "gentrification."

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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 7d

Many insane things about this (everyone read Dr. Brown's "Black Butterfly") but a note about Baltimore's shifting racial make-up: Primary "displacement" of whites in neighborhoods was by other wealthier whites. "White" areas of the city remain white because of racist policies that kept "others" out.

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