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Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 10h

Kaleb’s Los Angeles memorial will be held this Thursday afternoon. If you cared about him and would like to send flowers or well wishes, DM me for delivery instructions etc

Marie (same one) @marieberd.bsky.social · 10d

my husband @kalebhorton.bsky.social hated the phrase “passed away” and had nothing but scorn for softening euphemisms in general. he was a firm believer in the comedy rule of threes, but only if the third thing can hit as a surprise. and he just died

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 13h

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13h

This is notable www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 1d

2/ When DHS agents fired on reporters in LA earlier this year, we took them to court –– and the courts sided with a free press.

Across the country, The NewsGuild-CWA will continue to fight for journalists and defend the right to free speech for all Americans.

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VICTORY: DHS Barred from Brutalizing Journalists, Legal Observers and Protesters | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

On Wednesday, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from brutalizing journalists and protesters.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d

The most obvious conclusion is that it has now become more than evident that citizens are withdrawing and disengaging from the arena of conventional politics. Even when they vote, and this is less often than before, or in smaller proportions, their preferences emerge closer and closer to the moment of voting itself, and are now less easily guided by cohesive partisan cues. For whatever reason, and there is no shortage of hypotheses offering to explain this change, there are now fewer and fewer standpatters, and hence more and more citizens who, when they think about politics at all, are likely to operate on the basis of short-term considerations and influences.
Electorates in this sense are becoming progressively destructured, affording more scope to the media to play the role of agenda-setter, and requiring a much greater campaign effort from parties and candidates. What we see here, in short, is a form of voting behaviour that is increasingly contingent, and a type of voter whose choices appear increasingly accidental or even random.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d

obtained this on a random @sharonk.bsky.social rec and am vibing with it

RULING THE VOID
THE HOLLOWING OF WESTERN
DEMOCRACY
PETER MAIR

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d

we’re gonna need a bluer sky

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d

well I guess I didn’t need that Paramount+ subscription anymore

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David Sherman @philsandthrills.bsky.social · 2d

gotta teach people to be afraid of jesse plemons

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

I guess this is a good time to say that I finally saw Alex Garland’s “Civil War” (over somebody’s shoulder on the plane) and despite being an arresting film I don’t know what the point of it was. Apart from civil war being bad. Didn’t need photojournalists for that!

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Chron.com @chron.com · 2d

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

HISD plans to shut out outside media, hire its own news crew

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

violent busting into the Capitol building during the key transition of power and then milling around and taking selfies

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3d

We should do cap and trade for takes on here. I would happily sell off my right to participate in Swift discourse for a few more shots on goal about burrito taxis. Really force people to lock in, clear out the amateurs on any given subject.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

I like this

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

I struggle to inhabit the mental reality of the working truck driver who makes late-night deliveries and carries a knife, realizing the moment he needs it finally arrives when a former famous football guy suddenly violently accosts him with extreme opinions about the hotel’s cooking oil.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

The police narrative of Mark Sanchez’s stabbing is truly bizarre, in the sense of “ah I see why they charged the guy who got stabbed.”

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Details of the confrontation were disclosed in the affidavit, based on video footage and the truck driver's statement to police.
The video showed a man believed to be Sanchez running in the alley toward the truck, the affidavit said. The driver works for a company that specializes in commercial cooking oil recycling and disposal, and he was performed his work duties, it said.
Sanchez opened the truck door and began talking to the driver, the affidavit said. Sanchez told the driver he couldn't be at the loading dock and that Sanchez had spoken to the hotel manager, the document said. Sanchez smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred, the driver told police.

Sanchez followed the driver from side to side of the truck, the court document said. When the driver darted toward the driver's door, video showed Sanchez "grabbing and throwing" the driver toward a hotel wall, it said. The fight continued against a dumpster and Sanchez threw the driver to the ground, it said.
Sanchez climbed into the truck but got out when told by the driver he wasn't allowed in, it said. Sanchez repeated that he spoke to a manager and didn't want the driver to replace fryer oil, the document said. Sanchez tried again to get into the truck and blocked the driver from calling his manager, it said.
Believing he was in danger, the driver grabbed pepper spray from his pocket and sprayed Sanchez's face, it said. Sanchez wiped his face and advanced toward the driver again, it said.

The driver then pulled his knife and stabbed Sanchez as the ex-quarterback came at him, it said. The driver fell onto pallets on the ground, he told police.
"While P.T. was on the ground, he could only see the feet of Mr. Sanchez coming at him, making P.T. realize that he was in a life-or-death situation," the affidavit said.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

I’m just practicing technology!

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1610s, "a discourse or treatise on an art or the arts," from Latinized form of Greek tekhnologia "systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique," originally referring to grammar, from tekhno-, combining form of tekhne "art, skill, craft in work; method, system, an art, a system or method of making or doing," from PIE *teks-na- "craft" (of weaving or fabricating), from suffixed form of root *teks- "to weave," also "to fabricate." For ending, see -logy.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

They come from neural nets!

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

words are little robots that, once constructed and spoken, seem to carry out tasks all on their own, however poorly

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

“No I meant you should de-Baathify OTHER people”

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

Say what you will about the liberal order, but one of its core domestic objectives was to lower the ambitions of politics so that you don’t have to flee the country every time there’s a change in power.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

I come bearing evil trivia.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

This is fascinating!

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