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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot believe how frequently some of you skeet

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 20h

A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website, according to records obtained by Metro Times.

Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show - Detroit Metro Times

A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid t...

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 22h

“The springing up of these multi-million-dollar groups is not evidence of the [establishment]’s strength but of its weakness.”

Breaking up the monopoly on reality

the struggle between the center & the border

cracksinpomo.substack.com

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 2d

A @metrotimes.com cover story from 2019:

Is Trump a fascist?

The F-word

www.metrotimes.com

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2d

Watch it through to the end

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure The Atlantic will let us know precisely when the fascism arrives 👍

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Richard Brecky presents: JELLYBEAN! @spm1961.bsky.social · 2d

"He points at polls that show diminishing support for trans rights or reproductive rights as proof that 'we' are losing the argument, but never pauses to wonder why a party would be losing an argument that it has been scared to even make."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 2d

Serious question… what should those protocols look like? I’m an editor for a weekly newspaper.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

panels from a 2017 cartoon

panels from a cartoon from 2017 with then-cabinet assuring him he will be despised until the heat death of the universe and he says, so I'll never be forgotten

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4d

a lot of pandemic histories omit or speed past the massive, right wing billionaire-financed disinformation campaign waged against public health policies and officials. jonathan is doing critical work here. looking forward to reading it.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 4d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Red line. Orange line. Tips line.

#ICYMI, you can now catch ProPublica’s tips line on the DC metro 🚆

Federal workers and contractors: We want to hear from you. You can reach us at https://propublica.org/tips or 917-512-0201 on Signal.

Interior of a WMATA train. Near the exit doors, above the blue accessible seats is a ProPublica ad that reads "Someone on this train has the next big story. Is it you? Signal: 917-512-0201. propublica.org/tips." The poster's illustration features a Black woman wearing business attire, standing while holding on to a guardrail. Next to her is a seated white man in a button-down shirt. He wears his backpack and is looking down intently at his phone.

Close-up of a D.C. metro ad. Tagline reads: "There are thousands of federal staffers with stories to tell. Share yours. Signal: 917-512-0201. propublica.org/tips." Background illustration shows a man in a dark suit standing on an escalator that's heading out of the metro station, holding his phone out as he looks back.

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 4d

Taylor Swift is crashing out and my Swiftie friends are spiraling

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4d

10K Word Premium: OpenAI is another unprofitable, desperate AI startup building products on its own models, spending $2.60 to make $1. Sora 2 is a reckless attempt to grow ChatGPT that costs them at least $5 per generated video. They need to raise $20bn+ before EoY.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked t...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 4d

Hank Winchester, the longtime WDIV-TV consumer affairs reporter, was recently fired from the station. Newly obtained records reveal the detailed allegations against him.

WDIV fires Hank Winchester: Police records detail allegations - Detroit Metro Times

Hank Winchester, the longtime WDIV-TV consumer affairs reporter who was placed on leave this summer while police investigated misconduct allegations, was recently fired from the station, and newly obt...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani’s controversial stance is the he believes an arrest warrant by the ICC needs to be respected regardless of the accused. Those who disagree believe that international law must never be applied to the people they like. It really is that simple.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani: “If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honor the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him — just as I would against Putin."

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 5d

vibes only

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst.

So this absolutely tracks.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani: “Too often it feels as if politics is an act of imposing a vision on voters as opposed to having a vision that is a reflection of the needs of those voters.”

The Mamdani Effect

Democrats seem to be acting differently since June. Is that a coincidence?

nymag.com

Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 5d

Since Trump cut funding to @npr.org, they launched a web store to help keep the lights on. Going full muscle mommy: shopnpr.org

Leyland “Lee” DeVito @leedevito.bsky.social · 6d

All of this was entirely predictable in 2016 by the way

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 6d

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

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