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Felonious Drunk
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Just a person on the internet trying to enjoy life.
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
love to describe the world that we live in as "if tom clancy had a day drinking older brother"
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d
(WSJ) - Russia has sent a submarine and other naval assets to escort an empty, rusting oil tanker that has become a new flashpoint in U.S.-Russia relations, according to a U.S. official.

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
"If you are a billionaire buying a media organization in order to consolidate your power, you could not find a more eager servant than [Bari] Weiss."

defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
September 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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briancgrubb.bsky.social
"Hitchhiking Robot, Safe in Several Countries, Meets Its End in Philadelphia"
July 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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jonboeckenstedt.bsky.social
OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex.

I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.
June 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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keithdecent.bsky.social
Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back

Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav-

Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos*

Millennials: no wait

The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
I'd put this a bit more sharply than @steveinskeep.bsky.social probably can: Trump simply does not understand any boundary between himself and the government. He has no sense of the public interest and believes the government is an extension of himself personally. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
Trump threatens Musk the same way he did Harvard
He threatened to use federal contracts to gain retribution.
open.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know.

I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.
Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press. The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century. As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public. This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception. The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution. The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm. This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion. The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First. By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one. If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy. The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity. -- Mark Rasch MDRasch@gmail.com (301) 547-6925
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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quiet.ink
i'm mostly not out here just to repost memes, but this is in fact a photograph of me soooo
a photograph of a cat, overlaid with the words: "stop using chatgpt i can also give you misinformation and i'm beautiful"
April 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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parkerbutler.bsky.social
Just incredible
April 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal.

Transcript here:

newrepublic.com/article/1937...
April 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."
jfruh.bsky.social Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · Apr 3
genuinely unnerving how much jim davis and werner herzog look like each other
April 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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lindseyadler.bsky.social
This story for the New Yorker is the culmination of many years of reporting on and thinking about one thing: What's the deal with pitching? It was nice to reconnect with people I know from the baseball world, and I have now seen the inside of a person's elbow.

www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point
An elbow-injury epidemic has become an existential threat to the sport, prompting the M.L.B. to brainstorm new solutions, such as the use of a heavier ball.
www.newyorker.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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billgerrard.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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veryimportant.lawyer
Elon and Trump mugging out of a tesla A bear about to suck a guys dick
March 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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billgerrard.bsky.social
When you realize the ‘skunk’ you’ve been wooing is actually a black cat with a white stripe painted down her back
February 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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hornyforsecrets.bsky.social
Happy Solstice from this prayer of a poem by Linda Gregg
December 21, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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billgerrard.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this is contemptible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
Opinion | End the Criminal Cases Against Trump
Democracy’s ultimate verdict has been delivered.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
the american voters who chose this are far less responsible than the reps and appointees and judges in both parties who allowed trump to go unpunished in obvious violation of the public trust and their oaths of office
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Nov 13
There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.
November 13, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs
November 13, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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starsetbyte.lol
Man: Doctor, I'm depressed.

Doctor: Go see Aaron Rodgers, Jets QB. Watching him limp and fumble on the field is tragic, yet hilarious. He knows he’s past his prime, and the struggle’s almost poetic.

Man: But doctor—

Doctor: I know who you are.
November 10, 2024 at 11:18 PM