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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 6h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 4h

David Hoffman won a Pulitzer Prize last year. His *second* www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

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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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 5h

Hugh is your cousin?! Your family is unreasonably talented

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Andrew Beaujon @abeaujon.bsky.social · 6h

Today's music pick is by Protect-U, whose Aaron Leitko plays Rhizome tonight with Sensor Ghost and Luke Stewart to kick off D.C.'s Speaking in Tongues festival: linktr.ee/blackeyesdis...

Lunar Note, by Protect-U

from the album Protect-U - In Harmony Of An Interior World

u-udios.bandcamp.com

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 6h

Enjoyed this piece on Pynchon by @devintoshea.bsky.social which phrases a point @mattseybold.bsky.social makes - “Print is a Rent Strike” - in another way

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I've been thinking a lot about how, now, thanks to our phones and screens, every waking hour of the day is subject to capital extraction through data, which is collected and bundled, and sold without you or I even knowing we labored. Reading a physical book breaks from that, and I sometimes feel physical relief in my head when I detach from the monitor; putting eyes on text that doesn't move, read a line, close the book, take a breath, stare out into the sky, open the book back up, notice something, then notice something about the room I'm in, or the park bench. Sometimes the relief of this feels like someone cracked open my skull and poured cool water on the hot machine; other times I'm too scattered and frightened about the future to do anything but sit beside the book while I scroll.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 6h

Fair enough, he's overexposed, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that the original "Decision" stunt raised $2 million for Boys & Girls Club. Maybe that just makes the later ads look worse.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

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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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 15h

"The Ugly Stepsister" is the horror movie of the year — like if "The Substance" were a Grimm's fairy tale directed by Sofia Coppola

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 20h

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 20h

📌 (🌶️!!!)

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 21h

When someone from Maryland or Virginia makes fun of D.C.'s lack of congressional representation (nobody else knows it's a thing)

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23h

lack of congressional representation and self-governance. we joke about it but actually we're pretty mad

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

since portland’s business is apparently everyone’s business, what’s something about *your* city that you can make fun of but outsiders can’t?

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 23h

Today marks the 19-year anniversary of the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, one of seven reporters from Novaya Gazeta killed by Russia under Putin. Over two decades the only thing that's changed is target of Russia's war

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Local leaders, business executives and economic analysts are talking about DOGE + ICE + shutdown not as a downtown for the DC region — but as an inflection point, a signal that the region needs to pivot away from its reliance on federal work.

Grim reading: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Federal Government Shutdown Adds to DC’s Economic Woes

A prolonged period of furloughs — or firings — could worsen a slowdown for the capital region.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

I hadn't been much interested in subbing to any of the trendy media newsletters but that was before Bari Weiss volunteered to jump into an aquarium full of piranhas, now I almost have to

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Restore the 2011 Ford Ranger with the V6 engine in a proper 4.0L configuration and manual transmission... why do you ask?

Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 1d

If You Were Ford CEO For One Day, What Would You Do?

What would you do if you were Ford's chief executive for a day?

www.jalopnik.com

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 1d

Terrific piece from @gelliottmorris.com this morning.

Whenever you ask if something “might” happen or “may” be necessary, it’s very easy for respondents to think of scenarios where the answer is yes, no matter how unlikely.

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

its funny how not a single actual journalist has been like, “actually she’s good at journalism”

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

No I realize what his goal is. I'm saying that CBS is a huge newsroom with a lot of institutional memory and agency of its own, and she doesn't have any experience running anything remotely like it.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

What I mean is that a newsroom that is unified in its resistance to being manipulated for ideological reasons can do a lot to thwart an inexperienced, highly disliked editor who's in over their head.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

There's a chance she never leaves a fingerprint on CBS News. How many big bosses come in, shuffle around the top editors and exit without changing much of anything at all?