Farrah Bostic
@farrahbostic.bsky.social
Founder of The Difference Engine. Researcher, strategist, truth-teller. Host of Cross Tabs. Asking better questions since forever.
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According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen
January 1, 2026 at 10:44 PM
According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen
Shocking to think that the candidate who loves New York and New Yorkers beat the guy who doesn’t.
Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Shocking to think that the candidate who loves New York and New Yorkers beat the guy who doesn’t.
Oh New Year’s Day instagram ads are trying to blow my mind with green corrective pigments to cover redness.
Babies. My mom blended a green concealer & a skin tone concealer in the 1980s.
Also: the secret is color theory not special anti-inflammatory ingredients that are probably not skin-soluble.
Babies. My mom blended a green concealer & a skin tone concealer in the 1980s.
Also: the secret is color theory not special anti-inflammatory ingredients that are probably not skin-soluble.
January 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Oh New Year’s Day instagram ads are trying to blow my mind with green corrective pigments to cover redness.
Babies. My mom blended a green concealer & a skin tone concealer in the 1980s.
Also: the secret is color theory not special anti-inflammatory ingredients that are probably not skin-soluble.
Babies. My mom blended a green concealer & a skin tone concealer in the 1980s.
Also: the secret is color theory not special anti-inflammatory ingredients that are probably not skin-soluble.
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BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins
Hey New Year’s resolution ads on instagram I don’t want a special “distraction free” smartphone I just want a Nokia 6100 and only my actual friends phone numbers in it.
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Hey New Year’s resolution ads on instagram I don’t want a special “distraction free” smartphone I just want a Nokia 6100 and only my actual friends phone numbers in it.
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I have been a fan of Behind the Bastards maybe since my husband introduced me to the It Could Happen Here series like 6 years ago?
But this year’s Christmas episodes about the people who ended the slave trade is fantastic. Start here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
But this year’s Christmas episodes about the people who ended the slave trade is fantastic. Start here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 12/23/2025 · 1h 19m
podcasts.apple.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I have been a fan of Behind the Bastards maybe since my husband introduced me to the It Could Happen Here series like 6 years ago?
But this year’s Christmas episodes about the people who ended the slave trade is fantastic. Start here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
But this year’s Christmas episodes about the people who ended the slave trade is fantastic. Start here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Félix Vallotton, 'Fireworks' (1901)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Félix Vallotton, 'Fireworks' (1901)
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The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.
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"He stole people that worked for me," Trump initially said, when explaining why he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2003. It was unsettling and incredible on multiple levels. This reporting is much more unsettling, and much more credible
WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa
Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"He stole people that worked for me," Trump initially said, when explaining why he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2003. It was unsettling and incredible on multiple levels. This reporting is much more unsettling, and much more credible
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BREAKING:
Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.
Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.
December 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
BREAKING:
Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.
Democrat Renee Hardman just won a special election for the Iowa State Senate, according to the AP — a result that prevents Republicans from reclaiming a supermajority in the chamber.
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Today in media news
He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Today in media news
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@attackerman.bsky.social's destruction of Bari Weiss here is so vicious because it is so spectacularly well-informed; this one is an earner, folks
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
@attackerman.bsky.social's destruction of Bari Weiss here is so vicious because it is so spectacularly well-informed; this one is an earner, folks
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
I think it’s maybe a year ago on @bobknorpp.bsky.social’s The Beancast that I said there was no way this wasn’t a part of the eventual business model.
And I’m not alone - iPullRank (an SEO firm I’ve collab’d with) is now emphasizing “relevance engineering” specifically for AI.
And I’m not alone - iPullRank (an SEO firm I’ve collab’d with) is now emphasizing “relevance engineering” specifically for AI.
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I think it’s maybe a year ago on @bobknorpp.bsky.social’s The Beancast that I said there was no way this wasn’t a part of the eventual business model.
And I’m not alone - iPullRank (an SEO firm I’ve collab’d with) is now emphasizing “relevance engineering” specifically for AI.
And I’m not alone - iPullRank (an SEO firm I’ve collab’d with) is now emphasizing “relevance engineering” specifically for AI.
The problem here is this is a procedural definition of liberalism. If liberalism is no more than voting & passing bills in democratic bodies, many countries can be said to be doing liberalism that quite simply, are not. If you’d using liberalism to curtail liberty, you’re just not doing liberalism.
She helped pass a bill—which is 100% part of liberalism. Maybe you don’t like the bill. Maybe the bill will hurt some people and have bad outcomes. But that’s part of liberal democracy.
December 31, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The problem here is this is a procedural definition of liberalism. If liberalism is no more than voting & passing bills in democratic bodies, many countries can be said to be doing liberalism that quite simply, are not. If you’d using liberalism to curtail liberty, you’re just not doing liberalism.
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People aren‘t “standing for liberal democracy” just because they’re using the back door of liberal democratic institutions to push an illiberal political agenda now they can no longer just go through the front door.
And if you refuse to give someone credit for standing for liberal democracy just because they don’t agree with your policy preferences, you’re missing the big picture. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
People aren‘t “standing for liberal democracy” just because they’re using the back door of liberal democratic institutions to push an illiberal political agenda now they can no longer just go through the front door.
Just bringing back that old time democracy.
Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.
December 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just bringing back that old time democracy.
When you hear the way people like the PSA bros talk about Hollywood, it’s clear that to be “in the Dem coalition” is dependent on whether you are actually paid to be a Democrat. Hollywood may vote D, but they aren’t paid to be Ds, so they don’t have as much influence on strategy as you’d think.
Anyway, for all the media talent in the Dem coalition (most of Hollywood!), they're not as inventive when they have power as the Trump team is.
There's a risk of backfiring (Kristi Noem looking ridiculous) or scandal (the $$$ of doing this angering voters). But it hacks attention.
There's a risk of backfiring (Kristi Noem looking ridiculous) or scandal (the $$$ of doing this angering voters). But it hacks attention.
December 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When you hear the way people like the PSA bros talk about Hollywood, it’s clear that to be “in the Dem coalition” is dependent on whether you are actually paid to be a Democrat. Hollywood may vote D, but they aren’t paid to be Ds, so they don’t have as much influence on strategy as you’d think.
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Guys, I found a poll from 1998 in the @ropercenter.bsky.social archives about their predictions for the year 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right | CNN Politics
In the year 1998 – when Bill Clinton was president, most households still had landline phones, and CNN’s website looked like this – Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines an...
www.cnn.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Guys, I found a poll from 1998 in the @ropercenter.bsky.social archives about their predictions for the year 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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We’re murdering fishermen in handmade peñeros with $40K in motors using $300K in missiles to depose Maduro so Rubio can come 5th in the 2032 primaries 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.OLR8.KODM5zTAI3xD
December 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We’re murdering fishermen in handmade peñeros with $40K in motors using $300K in missiles to depose Maduro so Rubio can come 5th in the 2032 primaries 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/americas/trump-boat-strikes-gulf-of-venezuela-wreckage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.OLR8.KODM5zTAI3xD
Somewhere in the middle of S1 of The Good Wife someone makes a joke about being in a “post-racial” society, which was An Actual Thing the pundit class believed after Obama’s election.
December 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Somewhere in the middle of S1 of The Good Wife someone makes a joke about being in a “post-racial” society, which was An Actual Thing the pundit class believed after Obama’s election.
The Truth About the Male Loneliness Epidemic
YouTube video by Ben Hoerman
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.