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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine testing worse than Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Meghan McCain, lmao

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I gave up season 2 but then picked it back up in season 3. It leaned into the soapy side of things as opposed to trying to be so serious

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 5h

Sooo much dead air in this most recent episode!!

Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 5h

Can’t get over how absolutely awful every newscast portrayed on The Morning Show is

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9h

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

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 10h

Pritzker isn't low-IQ because he's not Black. Only Johnson is low-IQ because he's Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 12h

So if One Battle After Another was someone’s first Paul Thomas Anderson movie…what’s another one to check out??

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 14h

I’m Sec of HHS under president Prtizker & the only cabinet Newsom is in is the turd cabinet! Where we keep the turds

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 14h

It's gotta be Pritzker with Newsom just taking heat. Newsom can have a cabinet position.

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The Picture Of Jared Gray 💀 @misterjaredgray.bsky.social · 15h

that weird trait that makes you say movie titles backwards

Quote from Arrested Development edited to read: “Good for wicked.”

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 15h

Ok so which other groups are you fine with throwing under the bus? Just so we can get a clear count?

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 16h

Damn right.

And the strong reporting hasn’t come only from legacy outlets such as the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune but also from newer independent media such as Block Club Chicago, the TRiiBE, Borderless, Unraveled, and South Side Weekly.

There is nothing like being there and seeing things with your own eyes, which is why local journalism is so important.

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 16h

I do feel like @garbageday.email hit the nail on the head earlier this week when they said we’re essentially in a very slow moving Civil War.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 17h

I haven’t stoped thinking about this since I first heard Julio say it and now it’s literally all I want. Make I don’t think I’d like the results, but I must see!!

Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 17h

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17h

I say this with love, some of you are going to lose your life savings to a man who says you have parking tickets that can only be paid in Target gift cards

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 17h

Just bought a ticket for Wicked For Good and then went to take the day off work so I could go see it and turns out…….I had already marked myself as out that day. Planning ahead!

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

This is easy: BACKEND LLMs, purpose-built for specific tasks, used as aids to human workers, is great!

FRONTEND general "AI" that can cause psychosis in some users and/or used to harass, fool, and pollute the web is very bad!

A lot of tools are limited to skilled workers because they're dangerous.

a fen with wet bones 🦴 @crayzeigh.com · 1d

i feel like two things can be true, both that machine learning is being used to protect humans from the horrors of content moderation as is necessary for any large social site

and also we can't trust modern ai/ml companies not to be using that data for generative models

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 1d

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 1d

Got all the way through One Battle After Another and didn’t realize until I was reading a review that Lockjaw was Sean Penn

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 1d

“No one is wired to live with sustained stressors and traumas in our life,” Hilado said. “Prolonged chronic stress [and]exposure to trauma does change how we see ourselves, how we see the people around us, how we see our futures.”

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

A mental health expert offers coping tips for those experiencing stress from immigration operations, as the climate has created widespread fear and uncertainty.

Expert says threats of militarization and immigration enforcement fuel anxieties

One mental health expert offers tips on how to cope with the stress of immigration operations in the Chicago region.

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 1d

The people quoting this fully credulously like he’s rolling out the red carpet for Patel…………..we are cooked I fear

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomes FBI Director Kash Patel to Chicago, and says he looks forward to Patel spending money in Chicago, which he notes was just voted the best big city in America by Condé Nast for the ninth year in a row. @wttw.bsky.social

Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses the news media

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

This post is dangerously close to escaping containment, so I'll just say that this was *obviously* sarcastic and designed to highlight the fact that Chicago can not be the best big city in America AND the war zone that Patel and Trump believe it to be

Read the room ❤️

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomes FBI Director Kash Patel to Chicago, and says he looks forward to Patel spending money in Chicago, which he notes was just voted the best big city in America by Condé Nast for the ninth year in a row. @wttw.bsky.social

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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 1d

no no, you don’t get it…TikTok is bad for everyone else, but me? I understand what it’s doing so I’m fine! Pic unrelated

Garfield huh I wonder who that’s for with the original image photoshopped to also show Garfield you are not immune to propaganda

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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