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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 46m

"But Weiss didn’t test well with audiences, who didn’t understand her centrist-right contrarian politics. In fact, her focus group scores were so low that she wasn’t invited back to guest host, according to insiders."

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman." www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-2...

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," acco...

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 7h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 43m

Question her integrity every gd day. Question her ability to be fair & impartial every gd day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

I’m questioning it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 48m

I am not saying, by any means, "alright boys time to start shooting back." That's because there can be, and are, good reasons to reject that course of action even if you've already concluded the existing regime is legally and morally illegitimate.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 50m

There are many examples of people resisting, even successfully overthrowing in the end, a government they correctly considered illegitimate without resort to using physical force against it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

The federal government as ordained and established by the Constitution has ceased to function, and what has replaced it isn't our government under our Constitution. That's not flippant rhetorical hyperbole, I don't say it insensitive to what the consequences are. But it's the grim reality we face.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 2h

I know there's been discussion amongst writers about how they don't like being asked to do book blurbs, but book blurbs can be really useful.
The other day I turned a book over to find blurbs from Amy Chua & J D Vance and I was quickly like...
NOPE!

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Berserker Coach @berserkercoach.bsky.social · 3h

i WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE THIS CATCH ON

Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 4h

The Republican Party is Profa

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 5h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 4h

The Republican Party is Profa

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 7h

"For some, the Trump administration's Chicago assault was a shock."

"But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered."

"We know 'them' becomes 'you' sooner than you think."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 5h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 5h

As we see what Mike Johnson and all his sex crazy whackadoodles are doing in congress and to the govt- it just so forcefully showcases how the white supremacist imagination abt black people cant exist w/o white self incrimination.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 5h

White supremacists write their own monstrosity onto black people. There are scenes in that movie that show elected black people throwing food at each other in congress- putting their bare feet up on the furniture, etc.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 5h

If you haven’t watched birth of a nation, you really should. Not only is it instructional on how white supremacist narratives work, it also showcases what James Baldwin talks about-

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NOTUS @notus.com · 5h

Senate Democrats are taking their health-care-subsidy message straight to Republican states.

The goal: Winning hearts and minds as a federal government shutdown slogs into its second week.
www.notus.org/healthcare/g...

A Democratic Senator Is Taking Shutdown Health Care Messaging to Deep-Red Idaho

It’s one example of liberal lawmakers wooing conservative voters — and pressuring Republicans

www.notus.org

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 5h

Good. More of this. Do fucking more of this.

NOTUS @notus.com · 5h

Senate Democrats are taking their health-care-subsidy message straight to Republican states.

The goal: Winning hearts and minds as a federal government shutdown slogs into its second week.
www.notus.org/healthcare/g...

A Democratic Senator Is Taking Shutdown Health Care Messaging to Deep-Red Idaho

It’s one example of liberal lawmakers wooing conservative voters — and pressuring Republicans

www.notus.org

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