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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

just going to speak this into the world: I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for her first meeting with standards and practices. if you know anything, I'm very easy to reach xo

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

Rode the new and still in-progress Court Street protected bike lane and it’s already a thing of beauty. Makes such a difference on what used to be a very dangerous street for cycling.

Cyclist on bike lane. Black asphalt and white lines.

Two cyclists on city bike lane with yellow school bus on right side

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Daniel Varghese @drvarg01.bsky.social · 1d

From this @hellgatenyc.com story about @cmrestler.bsky.social's survey that found that there was an average of over 450 people illegally parked in downtown Brooklyn EVERY DAY over a four week period in May and June hellgatenyc.com/downtown-bro...

Confirmed—Downtown Brooklyn Is One Big Illegal Parking Lot

Placard abuse reigns supreme and other links to start your day.

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Daniel Varghese @drvarg01.bsky.social · 1d

Inject this energy into my veins

"I imagine this bill would make me very popular with City workers who drive into work every day from Rockland, Nassau, and Suffolk," Restler told Hell Gate sarcastically. "Fortunately, they're not my constituents."

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 2d

simply a brilliant blog from @redford.bsky.social on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

In the process, Weiss gets to continue two of her lifelong passion projects: trying to get people fired, and mainstreaming previously verboten ideological strands, like how the Nazi salute means something else or how genocidal starvation is actually fine. Even in the most generous reading—where her entire career and indeed life might reflect anything more than the cold calculus of a pure cynic who wants the approval and patronage of the world's richest and vainest reactionaries—Weiss's entire worldview is in the negative. She positions herself as a freewheeling intellectual and iconoclast, taking on the stilted orthodoxies of liberal power, but the irony is that her effectiveness is totally circumscribed by the limits of that orthodoxy. She does not have an original thought in her head, merely a list of supposed excesses and hypocrisies riddling the elite liberal world.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6d

"Contrarian" is killing me, the whole premise of the Free Press is telling rich elderly and middle-aged men that they're right about everything

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27d

i am so dead serious i think it might be. you are essentially socialized to not understand that there are other types of human people that can't *not* have consequences.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27d

Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.

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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · Aug 26

For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

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Daniel Varghese @drvarg01.bsky.social · Aug 26

if you recline on a plane ... i hate you

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · Aug 20

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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James Crugnale @jamescrugnale.bsky.social · Aug 5

I wrote my first opinion piece for @nyc.streetsblog.org! Those Amazon cargo e-bikes that have taken NYC by storm are actually good! nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/05/o...

OPINION: Actually, Amazon’s Cargo E-Bikes are Good! - Streetsblog New York City

Amazon’s e-cargo bikes alleviate the need for delivery vans and reduce traffic collisions. They also look rad.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 8

I went to the Texas Capitol to cover a redistricting hearing. I left having watched a woman get arrested because a man insisted he was the one attacked.

For the GOP, the system is working exactly like it should.

newrepublic.com/article/1989...
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Texas Is the Dry Run for the GOP’s Dismantling of Electoral Democracy

As Lone Star State Republicans prepare to do Trump’s bidding, expect the GOP’s gerrymandering war to expand.

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James Austin @jamestaustin.com · Aug 6

New helmet bling! Courtesy of @drvarg01.bsky.social and his wonderful cycling newsletter Leg Day legday.substack.com

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Daniel Varghese @drvarg01.bsky.social · Aug 6

Your move, Chuck!!!

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Aug 6

Bombshell report from The New York Times reveals that President Donald Trump spoke directly to Andrew Cuomo about how to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...

The president has been briefed by Mark Penn, a pollster who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president and decades-long friend of Mr. Trump, on a range of polling that showed Mr. Cuomo could still be competitive as an independent candidate. Both men have pushed Mr. Cuomo as the best candidate despite his loss in the Democratic primary, including in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. One of Mr. Penn’s firms did extensive work for a pro-Cuomo super PAC in the primary.

And in a previously undisclosed call in recent weeks, Mr. Trump spoke about the race directly with Mr. Cuomo, an old associate and foil, according to three people briefed on the call, who were not authorized to discuss it.

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alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social · Aug 5

wrote about thomas chatterton williams www.vulture.com/article/post...

Zero Tolerance

Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

www.vulture.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Jul 9

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.

Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · Jul 9

A land of contrasts

(CNN)
The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to protect agents from doxxing.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Jul 8

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right

And blowing its credibility in the process.

www.theverge.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is very bad, but using the judge's logic Mayor Mamdani should be able to upgrade painted bike lanes to fully protected without any community notification whatsoever since she decided that "Modification of the bike lane is not a major transportation project."

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Daniel Varghese @drvarg01.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · Jul 9

BREAKING: “This all but guarantees that there will be blood on Eric Adams’ hands”; Judge Lifts Temporary Restraining Order, Allowing Adams Administration to Rip Out Safety Improvements on Bedford Avenue

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · Jul 4

Relevant from the other site:

A tweet from "X" aka twitter by the former NYTimes reporter Jazmine Hughes, in response to a tweet about the Times "story" on Mamdani, whose central source was a eugenicist who promotes debunked racist science:

"In 2019, I was an NYT reporter who had just finished contributing to the 1619 Project when Breitbart News published an article calling me as a racist and antisemite. The paper's response was to investigate me and issue disciplinary action. Funny who they listen to!"

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · Jul 3

this is so smart and focused it almost leaves me breathless defector.com/how-to-watch...

How To Watch Cycling | Defector

The 112th edition of the Tour de France starts this weekend. La Grande Boucle is the biggest deal in cycling by a considerable margin, which means that a mass audience of non-enthusiasts will tune in ...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 3

it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act

For Democrats, Mamdani Is a Wake-Up Call—and a Bad Example
He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions.
By Tom Suozzi
July 2, 2025 1:13 pm ET

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · Jul 2

so the washington post has decided to test out its "let's let sources comment on articles" idea on CLIMATE COVERAGE FIRST?!?!??!?!? you mean, the beat where there's literally a well-funded, well-oiled disinformation machine that is decades old?!?!?!??!?!

Why The Washington Post is inviting sources to annotate stories

"We're not giving up our fundamental framework where we make assessments about what we should publish."

www.niemanlab.org

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