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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 21h

"let’s do the fucking news” has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious opening lines in media hirings of all time. like ‘the office’ on steroids. good luck, CBS!😭

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 22h

Jon Stewart makes the case for Democrats holding the line in their shutdown battle with Trump and the GOP

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 21h

we’re all seeing how they’re using the term “low IQ individual” as a code word & how it’s typically nearly always used against black or brown ppl,right?

in other words,low IQ individual is the right’s new n word—it’s meant to dehumanize non-white ppl.why aren’t more journalists talking about this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Are you concerned about the delays at airports?

TRUMP: Oh sure. They're all Democrats delays. There are delays at the airport. That's standard ... I look at people with very low IQs like Crockett, this woman Crockett. I've never met her but she's a low IQ individual

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Pam Bondi REFUSES to answer if the FBI found photographs of Donald Trump with "half-naked women" in their Epstein investigation.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Think about this: at nearly the same time, Pam Bondi was refusing to answer whether the FBI had images of Trump and young girls obtained from Jeffrey Epstein’s safe, and Mike Johnson was refusing to answer when he would swear in Adelita Grijalva, who would be the 218th vote for the Epstein petition.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Kennedy with another set of probing questions about Epstein 👇

KENNEDY: Have you interviewed Secretary Lutnick?

BONDI: No senator

K: Do you plan to?

B: If he wants to talk to the FBI--

K: Don't you think you ought to talk to him after this interview? Maybe we ought to get Lutnick in here

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DURBIN: Why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein client list waiting for your review and then produce nothing relevant to that claim?

BONDI: There was no client list

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22h

'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing

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'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 1d

there’s a lot going on in Türkiye rn but honestly the thing i’m currently most obsessed with is Özgür Özel’s next top model cat🐈😭

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 1d

Almost a week into the government shutdown and Donald Trump is using it to go after liberal states and Democratic leaders.

Just another example of him prioritizing punishing his perceived political enemies over working on things Americans care about.

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 1d

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X post: The desert prison where Israel is holding the flotilla activists is called Ketziot. Known for torture and abuse, it’s also where Jeffrey Goldberg - current editor of The Atlantic magazine - volunteered as a prison guard in the 80s when he left the US to serve in the Israeli army.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

I do. I remember. She gave Jesse Singal a bunch of kids’ private medical records www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/t...

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic

Update (last updated 9/12/23): This article has been repeatedly updated with additional examples. The Free Press, the Bari Weiss outlet that claims to focus on stories “ignored or misconstrued in the ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

Fun coda to the story, Bari Weiss is now head of CBS news and Radley Balko was fired from the WaPo mostly because he was such a good actual journalist on his beat

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

imagine going from cronkite and murrow to bari fucking weiss.

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, brushing aside an argument from Ghislaine Maxwell that she should have been shielded from prosecution...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 3d

You're either with ICE or with humanity and democracy.

Choose.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

Abolish ICE.

Pass it on.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 3d

i literally gasped. joking about dead babies in Gaza, using mass infanticide as a punchline on a talk show to manufacture consent for two yrs of human suffering & genocide. Van Jones’s comments are not merely evil &amoral—they reflect a Kissinger like indifference to humanity & the atrocities of war

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

As Israel continues the genocidal onslaught, Van Jones just blamed Iran/Qatar “disinformation” for why the world has turned on Israel — and ignores Bibi’s recent admission they plan to take over and weaponize TikTok themselves.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5d

Gaza fishermen able to fish for first time thanks to sumud flotilla distraction

they STILL FED MY PEOPLE. 🥹

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