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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 20h

Yup! Probably should have defunded the police 5 years ago, but the second best time is now.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 20h

Imagine if Joanna Newsom has the same fan base as Taylor Swift, with thousands of pre teen girls and strange adults screaming the lyrics to every song of Ys and music stores around the country completely sold out of harps

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 1d

It’s very funny that Facebook made billions of dollars illegally using my data and all I get is a check for 28 dollars.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 1d

Osama Bin Laden bucks tradition by flying planes into buildings in Democratic-led cities like New York

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 1d

Bari Weiss is going to make The Newsroom (2012) real

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 1d

*Taylor Swift voice* Just logged on to Usenet / can’t wait to see what I get / into obsessing with my friends / over on alt dot tv dot simpsons

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 2d

Is Randy Rainbow still going at it

Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 2d

Might as well have bought Something Awful and have Lowtax run it

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: Paramount buys news website The Free Press and installs its founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News.

CBS buys The Free Press website, installs founder Bari Weiss as CBS News editor-in-chief

Paramount announced Monday that it has bought the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News.

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 3d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Notice that he doesn't mention the unprovoked ICE attack on protesters at Broadview—who were already complying with the commands of police—probably bc his state cops assisted in that violent attack. He prob thought he could prevent the troop deployment by helping ICE police protesters. Didn't work.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

does JD really think of himself as a grateful person? does he think of himself as someone brimming with love of country? im hard pressed to think of a more entitled person, or someone who hates the foundational ideals of america more than vance

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

don't know what this is about and don't really care about joy reid but, as always, this is funny coming from JD Vance, a DEI admit to Yale Law, who has had a wife, great wealth, a senate seat, and the vice presidency handed to him, and who spends all day bellowing with rage.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 5d

Kat is 100% right and it’s the only way forward.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 5d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 5d

the dumbest, cruelest people you went to high school with are now cops (or small business owners)

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 5d

Glad someone is saying this!

The bare minimum for us to reclaim America is abolishing ICE and DHS and significant prison time for all ICE agents / DHS employees.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 6d

Showing Jimmy Fallon cheering at the Yankee game even though he is spiritually a Red Sox fan

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 6d

The Longest Journey

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 6d

The entire federal government belongs in The Hague

ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 6d

Spending Yom Kippur reading Refaat Alareer:

Hamza and tens of thousands will never get to go back to the house where they lived their happiest days with the most loving person they will ever know.

Raneem will have to live with the horrible memories of seeing her house become a pile of rubble.

The likes of my niece Raneem and little nephew Mohammed are purposefully being punished by Israel and the international community-first by destroying their houses and lives, and then by providing Israel with the impunity and excuses it wants, and finally by delaying the process of justice. They want these little kids to live in ruins and destruction.

Ironically, Palestinian children are expected to grow up and like Israel or see a future where peace can be achieved when the murderers of their parents and destroyers of their houses go unpunished and unaccountable.

Unless Israeli war criminals are brought to justice and the occupation ends, my fear is that these children will grow up feeling that they were betrayed by the world. We owe it to them to change that vision.

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 6d

If it wasn't so utterly destructive, the way capitalism's collapse allows the biggest frauds, losers and imbeciles to filter to the top of every single organization would be amusing. Like, what if the Illuminati were made up of Coen Brothers morons.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Matthew Brian Cohen @matthewbriancohen.com · 7d

It’s so cool that America has made it legal to violate any number of laws, but only if you’re a corporation trying to make a profit

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