GirlKW77
@girlkw77.bsky.social
I love animals, island life, sports, and mixing up exotic and fabulous cocktails while trying to remain calm about Americans embrace of fascism.
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Larry Summers was doing dating the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Larry Summers was doing dating the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Always can learn something new. I didn't realize that Walter Cronkite testified *against* the Fairness Doctrine:
“The time is past when there can be any legal justification for controlling broadcasting’s program content."
cafe.com/article/the-...
“The time is past when there can be any legal justification for controlling broadcasting’s program content."
cafe.com/article/the-...
‘The Ax Lies There Temptingly’: Sam Ervin, Walter Cronkite, and the Nixon-Era Battle for Press Freedoms - CAFE
Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano last week barred members of the press from attending his campaign rally in the Philadelphia suburb of Warminster. On this week’s episode of Now...
cafe.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Always can learn something new. I didn't realize that Walter Cronkite testified *against* the Fairness Doctrine:
“The time is past when there can be any legal justification for controlling broadcasting’s program content."
cafe.com/article/the-...
“The time is past when there can be any legal justification for controlling broadcasting’s program content."
cafe.com/article/the-...
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Just a reminder that you don’t have to watch it and in fact should not watch it since all these mad clowns care about is ratings
September 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Just a reminder that you don’t have to watch it and in fact should not watch it since all these mad clowns care about is ratings
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
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At some point people have to stop blaming the media for Trump and start holding their fellow citizens accountable for him.
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
At some point people have to stop blaming the media for Trump and start holding their fellow citizens accountable for him.
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WWJD? Not what Kilmeade said on Foxnews
September 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
WWJD? Not what Kilmeade said on Foxnews
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Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others | WIRED
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September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others | WIRED
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"The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition," Harris writes in the first excerpt of "107 Days" published by The Atlantic. https://cnn.it/45VGxZE
September 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition," Harris writes in the first excerpt of "107 Days" published by The Atlantic. https://cnn.it/45VGxZE
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Hedge funds and venture capital remain the revenants of democracy, investing in the machinery of the police state and mass oppression because extracting $.20 more from each poor person is just good business when you already have enough money to f*ck off to space if you wanted to
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology. www.wired.com/story/us-spy...
US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.
www.wired.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hedge funds and venture capital remain the revenants of democracy, investing in the machinery of the police state and mass oppression because extracting $.20 more from each poor person is just good business when you already have enough money to f*ck off to space if you wanted to
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POLITICO: ".. You don’t need Playbook to pick through the possible meanings of stomach-churning lines like 'We have certain things in common, Jeffrey' … 'May every day be another wonderful secret.' .. You can draw your own conclusions .. you probably already did."
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Playbook: Deny, deny, deny
www.politico.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
POLITICO: ".. You don’t need Playbook to pick through the possible meanings of stomach-churning lines like 'We have certain things in common, Jeffrey' … 'May every day be another wonderful secret.' .. You can draw your own conclusions .. you probably already did."
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The military is now the easy button and that not being the thing was half the reason we wrote the constitution in the first place
September 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The military is now the easy button and that not being the thing was half the reason we wrote the constitution in the first place
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Here is a list of 10 cities with the highest crime rates. Chicago is not on it. It ranks 29th
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
September 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Here is a list of 10 cities with the highest crime rates. Chicago is not on it. It ranks 29th
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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You can now get rich calling children racial slurs, because America 🇺🇸
May 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
You can now get rich calling children racial slurs, because America 🇺🇸
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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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"We are living through a revolutionary change," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes of the Trump era. "For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China."
Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
bit.ly
April 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"We are living through a revolutionary change," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes of the Trump era. "For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China."
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Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article)
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
nyti.ms
April 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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A U.S. neo-Nazi terrorist group with links to Russia is offering locals payment to carry out attacks, the Guardian reported on April 5.
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US neo-Nazi terrorist group pays recruits to carry out attacks in Ukraine, Guardian reports
The Base, a neo-Nazi terrorist group with links to Russia is offering locals payment to carry out terrorist attacks in cities across Ukraine, the Guardian reported.
kyivindependent.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A U.S. neo-Nazi terrorist group with links to Russia is offering locals payment to carry out attacks, the Guardian reported on April 5.
kyivindependent.com/neo-nazi-ter...
kyivindependent.com/neo-nazi-ter...
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This is good. This is important.
April 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is good. This is important.
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good AI art doesn't exi—
April 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
good AI art doesn't exi—
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Strong (personal capacity) words from former and current colleagues. I struggle with this myself, though not sure I end up in exactly the same place.
April 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Strong (personal capacity) words from former and current colleagues. I struggle with this myself, though not sure I end up in exactly the same place.
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Some nations are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Others just take their greatness, wad it in a ball, and flush it down the toilet.
April 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Some nations are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Others just take their greatness, wad it in a ball, and flush it down the toilet.
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Things are going just great.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Germany considers withdrawing 1,200-ton gold stockpile from US in riposte to Trump
Berlin may remove bullion from New York because of concerns Washington is no longer a reliable partner, according to reports
www.telegraph.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Things are going just great.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...