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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

there's probably like one or two in the entire field of candidates

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 10h

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
newrepublic.com/post/201448/...

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

newrepublic.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

tell me about it

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

Dem media policy historically involves paying empty lip service to journalism and rubber stamping shitty mergers

barring the election of a real modern media literate progressive reformer that's simply not going to change

corruption and regulatory capture brought us here

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15h

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

Wishing you a super easy surgery and a quick recovery!!

Let's have that lunch or coffee meet after you're back up and at 'em.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

Someone uploaded the video to reddit. He said it and then just abruptly stopped talking. The video is still working - you can see him blinking. And it's not an audio problem his mouth isn't moving

www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

From the LateStageCapitalism community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

Explore this post and more from the LateStageCapitalism community

www.reddit.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 18h

I know a glass cliff when I see one

This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs. You're Marissa Mayer at Yahoo without the Googler street cred. You're Nancy Dubuc at Vice without the string of hit TV shows. You're Linda Yaccarino at Twitter without the advertiser relationships. You have been hired as a sop to a Trump administration that is actively hostile to the actual free press, and you will be made to oversee wave after wave of layoffs until you quit or get fired and the entire news division is shut down in a final spasm of cost-cutting after the next inescapable media merger.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 19h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

Most aren't even saying she's in over her head and has no experience doing anything like this

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 15h

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

Yeah I see that constantly on the Seattle and Portland subreddits

the entirety of a scandal is often like four guys from suburban Idaho half the time

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

also half the time the "backlash" winds up being two chuds on a message board and some social media bots

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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 15h

I'm so tired of the need to center MAGA feelings everywhere. The Fuck Your Feelings Crowd needs theirs catered to constantly. Why don't some of these fucking stories center on my fears for my student debt, health (cancer survivor!), Hispanic sister and newborn niece growing up in this shit hole?

Axios @axios.com · 16h

Zach Bryan is facing backlash from listeners over a new song snippet that criticizes ICE.

Why MAGA is outraged at Zach Bryan over ICE lyric

ICE has faced widespread scrutiny for its violent raids within the United States.

www.axios.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

Hard to compete with this.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

And if you do try to fix anything, the fascist propagandists say you're spreading propaganda or indoctrinating the children with the fire socialisms

Great stuff

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

America puts unreliable narrators and propagandists in charge of CBS News

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

Finland starts teaching children how to spot unreliable narrators and propaganda in kindergarden

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15h

I'll add something... we need media literacy education at levels never seen in the US to help here. With AI tools free and copyright or IP disrespected forever anyway, it's easy to make convincing deepfakes and mislead people.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 19h

In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15h

I'll add something... we need media literacy education at levels never seen in the US to help here. With AI tools free and copyright or IP disrespected forever anyway, it's easy to make convincing deepfakes and mislead people.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 19h

In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

literally and genuinely makes millions of dollars being wrong constantly

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

I genuinely find the puffy fake lip shit deeply unsettling

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

The messenger just straight up set fifty million dollars on fire!

They could have funded actual journalism for a decade!

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 18h

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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