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MrSandman @mrsandman.bsky.social · 7d

NYTimes journalist: She’s an enigma that so many want to solve, yet they cannot. She writes with such ease, that writing becomes subservient to her. The act of writing is trivial to her mind

Olivia Nuzzi, in her book: Rat man kinda hot. I want to love Leather face rat man.

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Aubrey Gilleran

@aubreygilleran.bsky.social

This isn't even internally coherent. Piker, Carlson, and Fuentes have built their own audiences without the help of mainstream media, so it's not like CBS News could sideline them.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 14h

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”

November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM

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Philip Bump

@pbump.com

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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Bill McKay

@mckay4senate.bsky.social

There was a black guy with public service experience running as the left-liberal YIMBY candidate (Zellnor Myrie) and they backed a hedge fund manager who wanted ICE on Riker’s and posted AI edits of Mamdani instead, so I wouldn’t rule out the NY New Libs as not racist just yet.

Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 17h

wait so

CA New Libs: racist brainrot in the 12th dimension
NY New Libs: landlord brainrot in the 53rd dimension

am i getting that right? what do we even have these "new" "libs" for?

November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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Karen K. Ho

@karenho.bsky.social

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf."

Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince

Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac.

To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet?

My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist
@msergie
whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular."

Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece"

Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."

Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it"

Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame.

Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was"

Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291"

Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles

Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well."

Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations.

As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity."

Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."

November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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lauren

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

looking from left (german apartment owner putting a solar panel on their balcony) to right (global oil cartel that holds the entire economy hostage, wages war indiscriminately and is making coral go extinct) and concluding these are the same

Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one

Ok, but YIMBYs are so detached from reality that their anecdotes don’t land. You can’t build your way out of climate change any more than you can drill your way out. Extracting from the sky is just as capitalist as extracting from the ground.

November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Tom Roberts

@tpgroberts.bsky.social

Imagine praising "Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that they have a rota to walk the Latino children" and not wondering where your humanity went?

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20h

Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.

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Second, we need to enforce the policy with a vigour that has reduced flows at America’s southern borders by 90 per cent, and in Denmark by 95 per cent. Crucial to the Trump programme is an aggressive policy of removals, including snatching suspected illegals off the street. One friend tells me Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that the other parents have a rota to walk the Latino children to and from school.

November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

Enlightened centrist

Noah Smith @noahpinion

The thing is, Republicans HATE Democrats, but when Obama and Biden were elected they didn't crash out and decide that they hated America. Their love for their country wasn't conditional on who it chose to lead it. Democrats' was.

November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago

November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM

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Sky Marchini

@sky.skymarchini.net

why did i log back in. WHY DID I LOG BACK IN. www.telos.news/p/part-2-she...

Part 2: She Did It Again
Ryan Lizza
Nov 22, 2025
∙ Paid

If you are new to this series, start here.

She did it again.

It was four years later. Another presidential campaign. Another book project. Another candidate whom she had profiled. Another note—a poem, according to Olivia—though this time from the candidate to her.

“Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. “Drink from me Love.”

He continued, “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Dont spill a drop’. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”

I can’t say there weren’t any signs. I did find it odd that Olivia was simultaneously reading Robert Greene’s The Art of Seduction and Maureen Callahan’s Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed. But the poem—let’s call it “American Canyon”—and many others, too explicit to print, changed everything. (Thanks to Bobby, I am now aware of something called felching.)

November 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM

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Urban Land Rent🚰

@urbanlandrent.bsky.social

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM

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Florian Meinel

@meinel.bsky.social

November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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sarah jeong

@sarahjeong.bsky.social

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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The Guardian

@theguardian.com

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room. Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

evergreen

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize

November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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Waffle 🧇

@wafflecut.bsky.social

Another day, another fantastic tiktok restaurant advertisement

November 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM

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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine

@leftistlawyer.com

1. Good riddance.

2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.

www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...