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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 12h

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 6h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

Once its law its law. The president can’t change it. This isn’t a question of interpretation. The copy is wrong.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 7h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...

Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made

One of the biggest challenges I’ve had in the last nine months...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h

are you referring to the part where they line them up by country of origin?

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

obviously there are some conceptual problems. but this definitely counts as benny fellating noem

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 8h

Wrote about fresh signs of an AI bubble (and why the industry says the worries are mostly overblown) www.platformer.news/ai-bubble-20...

We have entered the "weird financial tricks" phase of the bubble. A reliable indicator of bubbles is that companies concoct bizarre financial instruments and accounting measures to paper over their problems. In Fortune, Allie Garfinkel reports that venture capitalists are irked at some of the creative accounting going on in their portfolios. Some startups are reporting one-time sales as "recurring revenue." Others technically show "recurring revenue" for what are essentially trials.

And that's on the tame side. For crazy, you can look to Robinhood's suggestion that it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever. But that doesn't mean that consumers shouldn't be able to gamble on the mirage!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, i really don't like the sound of this at all

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

right? time to cry more, Pam

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

these outbursts are entertaining because she's notoriously corrupt. even her backers were probably laughing under the breath during this exchange

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

Trump Conveniently Lands On New Legal Theory That He Claims Could Deprive Feds Of Backpay talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Trump Conveniently Lands On New Legal Theory That He Claims Could Deprive Feds Of Backpay

At a time when Republicans want to turn the screws on government-loving...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

yep, fatal sign of weakness

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

3/ amount of reporting, as I note in the piece, saying the cuts are imminent, based on White House statements and little to no focus on evidence that strongly points in the other direction.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

2/ asking the question. They may even be using shoe leather to track down the info. But that doesn't mean the answers or even the questions are getting to the brand name reporters at the same org who are writing the high level political combat piece. However you slice it there's been a huge ...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

It's interesting. I heard from someone today who wld field those questions. This person says they're getting a lot of questions. Note this is the front door person. Asking for official comment, which isn't really what we're talking about. But I think a related issue is that news org X may be ...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition

News comes today that Russ Vought is now threatening not to pay...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

3/ it's really better to say the presidential is either delusional or suffering from dementia. people don't have to play the emperors clothes game. on top of that political fight is good. but this doesn't even get to that.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

2/ setting the pugilism aside, Trump is 79. he regularly says absurd things and things that didn't happen or conversations we know didn't take place. so we get what amounts to cognition 12 dimensional chess where we hear 'well in his heart he believed he wrestled bin laden and three lions.'

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

quality

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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