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Michaël Jarjour

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Founder @trustfnd.com • past: Twitter, FT, SRF, NZZ • he/him • 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇭🇪🇺🇱🇧 • London

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 27d

Today, Trustfund is launching into private beta. With @trustfnd.com trustworthy creators can set up Collaborations to help each other earn more income and grow faster.

If you post to inform, not to sell, Trustfund is made for you. Reserve your username at trustfnd.com

Trustfund

Collaboration tools for the world's trustworthy creators.

trustfnd.com

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 12h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 14h

On the one hand, it's good that Musk is paying people.

On the other hand... The mess these people put the whole industry in is unfathomable.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14h

Filing: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M+ in unpaid severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Miriam Grace @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 14h

Followers, if you have the scratch, this guy is seriously committed to bringing vital trans news to trans people without using the outrage formula that others pretend won’t cause us to consider harmful actions

Read his work, and reshare it always. Our community needs good stewards like Evan and AM

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15h

I'm writing the newsletter this week on a question I think a lot of us have been pondering: When is it really time to leave the country?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14h

This is needlessly cruel from The Washington Post's management. And because they claim they root for free markets and free thought now, with the goal of manufacturing consent from the Trump regime, they will never be accused of being antisemitic

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 16h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

My most optimistic opinion is that the combination of cheap AI-generated fake news and major legacy news orgs taking a torch to their reputations is going to create huge opportunities for independent journalists who maintain a reputation for honest, ethical reporting.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

it's hard to talk about this without sounding braggy but you can get pretty far as a business with sincerity and trust, mostly because so many goddamn businesses burn up that kind of intangible resource as soon as they get it, and everything is so dire right now that people are hungry for trust

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

The lameness of this is offensive

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile the opposition… 🙄

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. A lot of Taylor stuff is either hyper positive or laced with disdain. Both is super not useful. That said, there are a bunch of really good creators who engage with Taylor critically and respectfully.

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2d

But it's also yet another reason why we should invest in robust, open systems that help independent journalism thrive.

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 2d

The Bari Weiss story is not a creator journalism story. It's an elite capture story.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 3d

This is a very helpful thread.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 4d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 3d

I submit into evidence this conversation with @nhannahjones.bsky.social and Wesley Morris.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 5d

NEWS: The Lever reported on Trump's authoritarian moves.

For that thoughtcrime, we were threatened by a private group that helps ad giants & Big Tech identify which news outlets to target for blacklisting (read: shadowbanning & defunding).

Subscribe to help us do more: LeverNews.com/subscribe

Reporting Reality? That’s Partisan Now

For reporting on Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and the master plan to sell our democracy, NewsGuard’s media rating system has deemed us misleadingly liberal.

www.levernews.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

"This case is meant to chill all of us."

Atlanta-based journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation to El Salvador despite having work authorization in the U.S., where he has lived for decades. He was detained while covering a "No Kings" protest and has spent over 100 days behind bars.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

(Same author)

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

Let's maybe let the album do its work for a bit

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

Mmmhhh...

Taylor Swift: Midnights review — small-hours pop rich with self-loathing and stereotype-smashing

5 stars

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled

2 stars

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

You wrap around me like a chain

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a crown

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a vine

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

lol same!!!!!

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

Really inconvenienced by having to make money and work on this Day of Taylor

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

Wood is also just hysterical apart from being a bop.

Actually do you know what? This whole album is really hitting the spot for me

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 5d

This is an excellent list.

I really, really like Father Figure, too and I have the softest of spots for Fate of Ophelia and Opalite

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 6d

She's also on other broadcast shows in the coming days, like Graham Norton (airing tomorrow) and Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.

Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor Swift is on seemingly every morning show tomorrow to promote her new album, both in the U.S. and the UK.

In case you were under the impression radio was dead.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 7d

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post.

I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing.

Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response.

This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.

karenattiah.substack.com

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