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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“..’ Our family gatherings are filled with crying and trying to figure out how we get past this moment,” Mr. Aguayo said. “People are being terrorized. People are being attacked. That’s what it feels like.”

@nytimes.com #chicago
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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16h

“But the firings now under consideration may be unlawful or unnecessary, according to a wide range of budget experts, legal scholars and union officials. They say that the White House is only looking to exploit the fiscal stalemate to further its political agenda,” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Mass Layoffs Trump Is Threatening in Shutdown Fight May Be Illegal

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h

This is an excellent piece. It's long, detailed, and very much worth your time.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Our legal columnist Ankush Khardori watched all of Pam Bondi’s public appearances this year.

His conclusion: "Bondi has emerged as perhaps the most openly political and partisan attorney general in modern American history."

Read his full column: ow.ly/kxpY50X7I9U

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 16h

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Not for nothin' was I born in the Bronx

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 17h

this is correct

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

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?

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 18h

"I don't want to die."

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Video: What People in Gaza Told Us About Two Years of War

In the two years since Hamas militants attacked Israel, we’ve interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza. Their stories stayed with us. So we tried to find them again.

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 22h

US farmers are struggling after China stopped buying their crops bec of Trump's tariffs. A bailout of more than $40 billion will be needed but unclear where/how.

Kansas farmer Andy Hineman said, “I’ll be the first one, if they hand out money...”

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Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 22h

This is the type of headline you’d expect when gold prices hit a milestone record high, as they did this morning. Yet, as noted in yesterday’s posts and several earlier ones, this surge is occurring alongside “risk-on” indicators — such as the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and others — also trading…
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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 22h

newsrooms almost by definition are messy places ... let's see how this goes

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 22h

Irony: Trump's crackdown on migrants has weakened US enforcement of drug and child trafficking across the border, as FBI, Customs and Border and Homeland Security personnel are being “used to chase landscapers and line cooks 1,000 miles from the nearest border.”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even ..”

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 1d

When you’re linking to their exit substack post you’re just linking to the press release.

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 1d

Very likely this means Bari Weiss is worth over $100mm … talk about a Substack win

Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison's Paramount buys out @thefp.com for $150 million, 10x revenue, making it the richest media acquisition since ... I dunno... Time Warner-AOL.

Bari Weiss will now go from managing 50 FP employees to thousands of journalists at @cbsnews.com

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Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million

Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison's Paramount buys out @thefp.com for $150 million, 10x revenue, making it the richest media acquisition since ... I dunno... Time Warner-AOL.

Bari Weiss will now go from managing 50 FP employees to thousands of journalists at @cbsnews.com

www.wsj.com/business/med...

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million

Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

www.wsj.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

It almost ceases to be ideological, I think anti-moron could be a lane for a political party.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t not believe how hard it is to sleep when you’re watching your country, be dismantled by the dumbest people.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 3d

In a dramatic sign of eroding support in the US, 61% of American Jews now say that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza and 39% say it is guilty of genocide, according to @washingtonpost.com poll. Naftali Bendavid @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 4d

Journalism matters. The remarkable reporting by @cliffordlevy.bsky.social on the state's neglect of the mentally ill led to a landmark lawsuit that changed how we treat people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

My Reporting Led to a Landmark Lawsuit. The Case Took 22 Years.

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 5d

Yankees got the Sox when it mattered … you can throw the regular season into the east river

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.

He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

Traffic stop in Benton leads to ICE detention, deportation risk

What began as a routine traffic stop in Benton ended with a man jailed, detained by immigration authorities for a month, and now living under the threat of deportation —

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Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 6d

No big deal, I’m just making personalized videos on Sora with my favorite copyrighted characters owned by Disney and Amazon/Netflix and featuring an identifiable actress who is definitely not getting paid for this….

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 6d

In July, we asked what readers wanted to know about vaccines. We received hundreds of questions. Here are some of the most common, answered by me and five other NYT health and science reporters.

Everything You Need to Know About Vaccines in 2025

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 7d

Mamdani “doesn’t allow that there’s a conflict between emphasizing economic populism and taking on Trump’s authoritarianism.” As @gregsargent.bsky.social suggests, there’s no reason to assume this synthesis wouldn’t work just as well in swing territory

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Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way

The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.

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