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"I'm not Enron. please don't put in the newspaper that I'm Enron"
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
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
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
"What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?"

wake up babe @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
It is of course helpful to remember that in the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. Antifa might not be organized, but the Department of Homeland Security sure is. George Soros might not be paying professional protesters, but right-wing media personalities are bankrolled by Trumpist billionaires. In the case of Ben Shapiro, that’s billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks; for Rumble, thank Peter Thiel. This is to say nothing of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, or Elon Musk’s X, or the Daily Caller itself, which is funded by Charles Koch. Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum: This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society. What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse. What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House? a verge feature story with the headline / subheadline of "Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America / Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started."
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 12
the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
"Today, fossil fuels are our weapons of mass destruction. They kill more people on this planet every year than anything else. Even before we calculate the toll from climate change, air pollution alone kills 8 million people each year. Fossil fuels are the greatest threat to human life."
‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production
Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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decombest.bsky.social
Chicago keeping art alive:
August 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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rodger.bsky.social
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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jamellebouie.net
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
August 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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wagatwe.com
show this to every consultant who thinks chasing toxic masculinity is the way to getting going men's votes
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 29
85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo
July 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
jakerbox.bsky.social
made great progress on my to do list today:

☑️ doomscrolled reddit at the office
☑️ ate microwave mac and cheese
☑️ remembered I'm the same age Orson Welles was when he made Citizen Kane
❎ accomplished any real, actual work
July 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
Been thinking more and more about how the internet warped everyone's brains into thinking everything someone does is "performative" and meant for public scrutiny. You know we all used to just... read books and watch films etc. we liked and no one else even knew?

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates ‘performative reading’
Posts mocking strangers for cracking open classics have become popular. So where are we supposed to read them?
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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nauticaltea.bsky.social
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July 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
America is a system and that system has crashed. @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social don’t mince words here www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
The People have rights against the powerful. That is what America is about It’s notable that these words keep getting repeated — almost like those “unalienable” rights of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” are really important. The Reconstruction Amendments — the 13th, 14th, and 15th — weave together the threads of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. They were a critical update, you might say, one that patched the Founders’ system-destroying error of perpetuating slavery while simultaneously declaring all men to be created equal. The 14th acknowledges that states, too, can be tyrants. Whether it is George III, the feds, or the slave-holding antebellum states, the People have rights against the powerful. That is what America is about.
July 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
June 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Catastrophic.
agawande.bsky.social Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jun 25
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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ifyoucantwell.bsky.social
The Trevor Project is a godsend, and this is evil. There is no other word for it. It's evil.
maggieastor.bsky.social Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 18
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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lorz-ix.bsky.social
The reaction to the new how to train your dragon is so weird. What, it's not made by disney and it is a competent movie so that means it's "one of the good ones"?

Live action remakes suck, fundamentally speaking. Their existence is patronizing to the medium of animation. Stop coping.
June 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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sickoscommittee.org
SLAW DOG BY 3/4 OF A WIENER
May 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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damonberes.com
Just a reminder of the foolishness of the “American iPhone” idea www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
But global supply chains are a tangle that no presidential administration could easily unwind. In 2016, the journalist Konstantin Kakaes explored the possibility of an “All-American iPhone” for MIT Technology Review and determined that such a thing is not really possible: “The iPhone is a symbol of American ingenuity,” he wrote, “but it’s also a testament to the inescapable realities of the global economy.” As things stand, no one country is capable of producing all of the rare-earth elements that go into a single device, and components such as screen glass and processors are also sourced from all over the world. China refines 90 percent of the world’s rare earths; the tantalum in your phone is probably sourced from a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; its processor likely came from Taiwan. If you want to understand globalization, pay attention to the iPhone. It would not take an act of God to change this situation, but it might take more than Stephen Miller. America would need an iron resolve, lots of money, and lots of time. Rare-earth deposits exist in the United States—but finding, extracting, and refining them would be tremendously costly and dangerous work. Toxic by-products and environmental devastation would ensue. Americans have been happy to ignore these realities when the work is done elsewhere. Would they be so happy if it were done here? Add to that the need to build factories and fabrication plants for microchips. The effort would demand billions upon billions of dollars of investment over many years, still may not accommodate demand for these products, and would make them drastically more expensive. In theory, moving some greater amount of electronics manufacturing to U.S. soil could be a beneficial strategy. American technology firms are highly reliant on chips imported from Asia, for instance, which means the supply is vulnerable to disruption. “It would be hard to survive a total cutoff of chips from Taiwan,” Duane Boning, an electrical-engineering and computer-science professor at MIT, told me. The CHIPS Act, signed into law by Joe Biden, has already funded some of this manufacturing in the United States. But tariffs are unlikely to help these efforts, Boning said. (If anything, the costs they would impose on various components might only hurt.) Consumer electronics are only one way to look at Trump’s tariffs. But keep in mind that Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and Alphabet are the five most valuable companies in the world—all American, all with products that will be caught in this mess. If the plan doesn’t make sense for them—if the plan will actually hurt their business—then what sense does it make at all? That said, sense-making is a fool’s errand in this era. What we can do is deal with what’s in front of us. So, sure, buy the new phone or tablet if you have to. But also ask yourself: Do you really have to? If Apple’s prices do rise, the company’s sales could be an early indicator of whether Americans are at all willing to renegotiate their unhealthy relationship with consumerism. For the past decade, technology companies have conditioned buyers to make purchasing expensive gadgets an annual affair through services such as Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program. (There is a reason that each iPhone model ends in a number: People intuitively understand that a 17 is better than a 16 is better than a 15, and so on.) Hundreds of millions of new devices are shipped every year. Not as many old ones are recycled. This is not wonderful: Consumers are taking their cues from the most moneyed corporations to have ever existed, cycling through handheld computers at a rapid clip because they come in new colors and with slightly reconfigured screens. I’m not innocent of the vanity gadget upgrade. (I recently sacrificed a mostly fine old Kindle for a mere $5 trade-in credit on a newer model.) But I also know that those toxic rare-earth pools exist in great part because of the endless production of phones, computers, tablets, game consoles, and televisions. Meanwhile, many of these gadgets last longer than they might have even a few years ago, thanks to higher-quality materials, and are easier to fix due to the growing popularity of “right to repair” laws. The device in your hand would be a miracle in any other age. Nothing is certain right now. Chaos is everywhere. At least you can hold on to this.
May 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM