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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 4h

At Bari Weiss’s “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.

I Went to the “Free Press” Party for Under-30s. All I Got Was Ennui.

At Bari Weiss's “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.

www.thenation.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/7voNtjk

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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 1h

At Jack Posobiec's request, Trump is agreeing to designate "antifa" as a foreign terrorist organization.

Unlike the "domestic terrorist organization" EO issued last month, the FTO designation has real teeth, allowing the government to prosecute for material support. www.youtube.com/live/G7hQH3o...

WATCH LIVE: Trump hosts talk on antifa after calling it a 'domestic terrorist organization'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4h

Dolly Parton:

“There’s just a lot of rumors flying around, but I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was okay. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me and I ain’t done working. So I love you for caring, and keep praying for me.”
#DollyCon4

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

A good time to be a serial killer or trafficker across state lines.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data — The Washington Post

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5h

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 6h

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 6h

(fwiw, I don't particularly support 'banning social media' for anyone, but if you can make a case for limiting harms to kids, and in turn harms to society that exposure to online platforms causes in young people, you can absolutely make the same case for boomers)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Banning kids from social media isn’t the way – it’s the over-60s who need to get off the internet | Miski Omar

Nobody is immune to the perils of social media, but brainrot is hitting over-65s particularly hard. Let’s look at the symptoms

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15h

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13h

These days, if you study English, they arrest you and throw you in jail.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 14h

Chichester Reform's Facebook page appears to have rebranded to Ben Habib's Advance UK...

The page URL (and email) mentions Teresa De Santis who was Reform UK's candidate in the 2024 General Election. She came third with 15% of the vote.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 15h

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13h

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 13h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 1d

Building following is quite a slog here, though, if you weren't one of the early Starter Packs people. Like I get more followers on my completely unused Twitter account than I do here -- although admittedly the people here are mostly humans.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

While the young wouldn't impose 1yr of "mandatory social service" on new retirees, the reverse isn't true

Support for new retirees
18-24: 16%
25-49: 13%
50-64: 11%
65+: 19%

Support for young
18-24: 16%
25-49: 24%
50-64: 42%
65+: 50%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

NEW from me:

CBS News staffers literally rolled their eyes after new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss delivered a "cringey" rallying cry during today's editorial call, exclaiming: "Let's do the fucking news!"

"She's cosplaying as a broadcast journalist," one said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ with CBS News rallying cry

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

www.independent.co.uk

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