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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 13h

everything else the trump administration has done has felt like pure libidinal reagan energy. but "this secret opinion says we can legally do sadistic stuff to random guys" has a bush/obama flavor that feels different, simply by virtue of producing a flimsy opinion instead of just shrugging

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/4o7ma1R

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 15h

🎶 AIN'T NEVER SEEN A BIG BOY ORDER SOME BEEF / ORDER SOME BEEF / ORDER SOME BEEF 🎶

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 17h

yeah i didn't think much of kingsbury but compared to bennet she looks terrific here

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

yeah in a weird way i guess it's an "easier" decision to make at that age bc you have so few strings attached and need so little to live by comparison to somebody with kids, mortgage, etc. but it is still insanely hard and scary regardless, and i give them all a lot of credit

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

as you said to me just three days ago, this industry just breaks your heart over and over again

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

not to merge discourses but a reason ppl get mad re: the bari weiss of it all is bc most actual journalists toil in anonymity & will quit on principle rather than to set up a lucrative rightward heel turn, but there's never money for them. this person may well never work in journalism again.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

few understand this!

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18h

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 19h

There are a lot of people who are glad camera phones didn’t exist specifically because of this drink.

Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 20h

Speaking of Hennessy.... 😂

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 18h

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19h

even so "yes i recommend this product." to forgive really *is* divine

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19h

the photo isn't fake i don't think, he just photoshopped out the bang energy cans. the episode is definitely "real" (lol). just conspicuous that owoc is reposting it now, in what seems to be a bid to glom onto the attention on kirk's death www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQM-...

Only In America: The Bang Energy Story

YouTube video by Turning Point USA

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19h

NEW: Last night Jack Owoc posted a teaser video from a five-year-old video Turning Point USA published profiling him/Bang Energy. Caption draws parallel btw Kirk's killing & his own ouster from Bang: "But here we are today, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And our company Bang Energy dismantled..."

It was an honor to be selected by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk to be part of their powerful “Only in America” series. 🇺🇸 @charliekirk1776 @turningpointusa

This video brings back so many incredible memories — it was the first time we ever met Benny Johnson, @bennyjohnson who came to our home as the producer of the show, and it was an amazing opportunity to work with Stacy Sheridan, now the Senior Director of Development at TPUSA. @stacynene

What we loved most about this project was Charlie’s unwavering passion for America. 🇺🇸 His mission was to highlight the real American Dream — the belief that with faith, hard work, and relentless determination, anything is possible. Only in America could Jack go from sleeping on an air mattress to building a billion-dollar energy drink company.

But here we are today, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And our company Bang Energy dismantled, our life’s work taken, and our family targeted simply for standing firm in our principles — we’re left asking a painful question: is this still the America that Charlie loved so much? The one where the American Dream was meant to thrive?

#turningpointusa #charliekirk #bangenergy #jackowoc #arcticfrost #onlyinamerica

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20h

heyo

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20h

"The American Distilled Spirits Exports 2025 Mid-Year Report shows U.S. spirits exports plummeted 85% in Canada, falling below $10 million in Q2. U.S. spirits sales in Canada declined 68% in April 2025 whereas sales of Canadian and other imported spirits rose approximately 3.6% each."

US Spirits Exports Decline 9% Amid Trade Tensions

Following a record-high for U.S. spirits exports in 2024, exports fell 9% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2025, driven by ongoing trade tensions, according to a new report released today by th...

www.brewbound.com

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20h

has wired made that claim before? i.e. that affiliate revenue from amazon is essential to its editorial operation? i haven't seen that, but i'd totally believe if i'd missed it.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20h

gotta say, it's pretty disappointing to see the same @wired.com that's been breaking essential news about the tech-oligarch capture of the federal government go all in for prime day!

Amazon Prime Day is here. Again. Technically, Amazon calls this Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, but to everyone else, it's Amazon Prime Day 2. The mega-retailer’s two-day sales event for Prime members is in full swing, and there are plenty of deals on some of our favorite gear and gadgets, from Alexa-enabled speakers to robot vacs to laptops and tablets.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 20h

No cure at this time, etc etc

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 21h

“What baffles me is why Jones — a lawyer, a former delegate, and a highly educated guy — would knowingly, freely entrust such career-killing collateral in writing to an elected officeholder of the opposition party.”

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 21h

listen man youngkin told me the economy was in great shape so

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 21h

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 21h

This is incredible. They want more people to take out private loans. But what do you do with the people who, smartly, did not take out insanely predatory private loans? Well, you sell those loans to the private loan people.

Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 21h

it's obvious why Wall Street would want to buy a stake in the *federal* student loan portfolio -- it's a special kind of debt that can't be waived away in a personal bankruptcy

shifting debt from govt to the market would also crush borrower assistance possibilities

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 22h

ok sharks any other offers or

meme. text reads: POV: YOU JUST GOT A HUGE OFFER ON
SHARK TANK BUT YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT
PAYMENT IN INSTAGRAM SHOUTOUTS

photos of fawn weaver of uncle nearest on the shark tank set and promo poster

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 22h

And your Hop-ocalypse Now from the latest @vinepair.com Hop Take 🤯: vinepair.com/articles/hop...

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 22h

sounds like things are off to a great start!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 22h

A veteran CBS News journalist tells @status.news about Bari Weiss: “She has the gall to write her 10 commandments of journalism and share them with us? She is not a journalist, never has been.” www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

Weiss and Shine

The Bari Weiss era has begun at CBS News, and David Ellison’s push to reshape the storied network has staffers holding their breath about the future of the outlet—especially as the mogul's talking poi...

www.status.news

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