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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
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So we went from feigned outrage about allegedly biased public media to the president making deals with centibillionaire friends to make corporate media more biased. Got it.
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks
Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
So we went from feigned outrage about allegedly biased public media to the president making deals with centibillionaire friends to make corporate media more biased. Got it.
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1) It's totally fine to appreciate that MTG is creating an intra-party feud.
2) For those of you welcoming her into the coalition, you clearly never watched pro wrestling. This has "false face turn" all over it.
3) I long for the day when MTG stands for Magic: The Gathering again.
2) For those of you welcoming her into the coalition, you clearly never watched pro wrestling. This has "false face turn" all over it.
3) I long for the day when MTG stands for Magic: The Gathering again.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
1) It's totally fine to appreciate that MTG is creating an intra-party feud.
2) For those of you welcoming her into the coalition, you clearly never watched pro wrestling. This has "false face turn" all over it.
3) I long for the day when MTG stands for Magic: The Gathering again.
2) For those of you welcoming her into the coalition, you clearly never watched pro wrestling. This has "false face turn" all over it.
3) I long for the day when MTG stands for Magic: The Gathering again.
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
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the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding
Your reminder that Condé Nast hired this failure of brain cells to be the West Coast editor at Vanity Fair
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Your reminder that Condé Nast hired this failure of brain cells to be the West Coast editor at Vanity Fair
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Don't forget to visit the museum shop for unique gifts - our limited collection of handmade shadow puppets have just arrived from Bali. Beautifully decorated in vibrant colours & highlighted in gold, they make perfect gifts or decorations along with Christmas decorations from Kenya, Nepal & Bali.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Don't forget to visit the museum shop for unique gifts - our limited collection of handmade shadow puppets have just arrived from Bali. Beautifully decorated in vibrant colours & highlighted in gold, they make perfect gifts or decorations along with Christmas decorations from Kenya, Nepal & Bali.
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The Sun: ha ha I will blast charged particles at the humans and fry them! 😈
Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The Sun: ha ha I will blast charged particles at the humans and fry them! 😈
Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
Mother Earth: I will protect my children with my magnetic field, which will also give them beautiful lights 😇
The number of times quote-unquote progressives show their ass on here is truly breathtaking. Like babe just be up front that you would’ve voted for Reagan given the chance and you think “welfare queens” are a thing. “Fiscally conservative” looooooool
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The number of times quote-unquote progressives show their ass on here is truly breathtaking. Like babe just be up front that you would’ve voted for Reagan given the chance and you think “welfare queens” are a thing. “Fiscally conservative” looooooool
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the child sex predators who run the country and shape our society around protecting each other? that's who the senate dems surrendered to rather than standing with their base
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
the child sex predators who run the country and shape our society around protecting each other? that's who the senate dems surrendered to rather than standing with their base
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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This is a live cam of the sky in Iceland. If you’re in the US, it could give you a few hours heads up on what kind of night it might be!
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
Northern Lights at Lava Centre, live aurora borealis web cam
LAVA Centre's Live Aurora Borealis Webcam. The best way to Experience the Northern Lights in Iceland is by staying outside Reykjavík.
lavacentre.is
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is a live cam of the sky in Iceland. If you’re in the US, it could give you a few hours heads up on what kind of night it might be!
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then
lavacentre.is/live/norther...
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GATHER ROUND A 🧵 on an ancient drug heist from a famous king (Tut), revealed for the first time:
This study revealed presence of opium on the interior of an Alabaster vessel from ca 400BC (Xerses). It's published in a good journal by respected scholars so legit! 1/?
phys.org/news/2025-11...
This study revealed presence of opium on the interior of an Alabaster vessel from ca 400BC (Xerses). It's published in a good journal by respected scholars so legit! 1/?
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Opium use in ancient Egypt: Alabaster vase residue points to widespread use
Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient Egypti...
phys.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
GATHER ROUND A 🧵 on an ancient drug heist from a famous king (Tut), revealed for the first time:
This study revealed presence of opium on the interior of an Alabaster vessel from ca 400BC (Xerses). It's published in a good journal by respected scholars so legit! 1/?
phys.org/news/2025-11...
This study revealed presence of opium on the interior of an Alabaster vessel from ca 400BC (Xerses). It's published in a good journal by respected scholars so legit! 1/?
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Sam Rockwell doing peak Sam Rockwell. This trailer is so wild and I hope the full film matches the unhinged-ness
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Sam Rockwell doing peak Sam Rockwell. This trailer is so wild and I hope the full film matches the unhinged-ness
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I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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If you're thinking, "Why does East Baton Rouge and the library sound familiar?," the answer is that the city tried to redirect library funding TO THE POLICE earlier this year.
Yes, same mayor elect laser focused on killing the library.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Yes, same mayor elect laser focused on killing the library.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Baton Rouge mayor pitches big raises for police — paid for with money currently for libraries
Mayor-President Sid Edwards is proposing cuts to East Baton Rouge Parish's libraries to fund raises for Baton Rouge Police Department officers.
www.theadvocate.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you're thinking, "Why does East Baton Rouge and the library sound familiar?," the answer is that the city tried to redirect library funding TO THE POLICE earlier this year.
Yes, same mayor elect laser focused on killing the library.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Yes, same mayor elect laser focused on killing the library.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
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How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey.
forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...
forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...
My Health Care Horror Story
Provide info, vent!
forms.gle
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey.
forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...
forms.gle/DX4pD29sibCB...
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They are claiming as they always do good intentions and technical limitations which, to me, are just more gaslighting and lies. They are comfortable putting their own stranglehold on their user base and ban them for personal, petty reasons, disguised in a lack of transparency, so we'll never know
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
They are claiming as they always do good intentions and technical limitations which, to me, are just more gaslighting and lies. They are comfortable putting their own stranglehold on their user base and ban them for personal, petty reasons, disguised in a lack of transparency, so we'll never know
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This is a good thread worth reading.
So let me get this straight: bluesky (team) is currently permanently banning people without any recourse, for unspecified reasons, basically at their whim. As literal fascism threatens all life, they are creating a system to silence people without warning.
So let me get this straight: bluesky (team) is currently permanently banning people without any recourse, for unspecified reasons, basically at their whim. As literal fascism threatens all life, they are creating a system to silence people without warning.
4. In the absence of confidence that every suspended person has been told happened, rumors and worst-case assumptions fill the vacuum. No one knows what behavior will get them banned. And this is all happening against the background of a high-stakes authoritarian slide. People are scared.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is a good thread worth reading.
So let me get this straight: bluesky (team) is currently permanently banning people without any recourse, for unspecified reasons, basically at their whim. As literal fascism threatens all life, they are creating a system to silence people without warning.
So let me get this straight: bluesky (team) is currently permanently banning people without any recourse, for unspecified reasons, basically at their whim. As literal fascism threatens all life, they are creating a system to silence people without warning.
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Washington state residents can check their ballot status here:
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Washington state residents can check their ballot status here:
If you have a TT, go check out @/lime.accordion’s account. She politely ripped into one of Tim Kaine’s staffers and yeah, Schumer and every other Senate Dem need to be primaried. It was an orchestrated cave. these rich fuckers dgaf if you lose healthcare. They care about their stocks
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you have a TT, go check out @/lime.accordion’s account. She politely ripped into one of Tim Kaine’s staffers and yeah, Schumer and every other Senate Dem need to be primaried. It was an orchestrated cave. these rich fuckers dgaf if you lose healthcare. They care about their stocks
If you haven’t accepted that “no ceasars” was a bullshit money grab you should do that like right now. Jay et al are doing a sellout to fascists and our data is the asset. Pack your shit and get moving either to Mastodon or Blacksky
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you haven’t accepted that “no ceasars” was a bullshit money grab you should do that like right now. Jay et al are doing a sellout to fascists and our data is the asset. Pack your shit and get moving either to Mastodon or Blacksky
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If Bluesky wants to disprove rumours that they’re just aiming to be bought out by some right-wing chud billionaire, suspending Sarah Kendzior without notice or explanation is… not the way to go about it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If Bluesky wants to disprove rumours that they’re just aiming to be bought out by some right-wing chud billionaire, suspending Sarah Kendzior without notice or explanation is… not the way to go about it.