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owenjones.bsky.social
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
"The issue before the council today is not the character of the govt of Venezuela"

Jeffrey Sachs addressing the UN security council this afternoon
January 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Viceroy Rubio has a great ring to it!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?

MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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andrewsolender.bsky.social
Some Democrats hate that their party is largely positioning itself in opposition to the operation that resulted in Maduro's capture.

"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com

Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
"It looks weak": Some Democrats want their party to shut up and clap for Maduro's capture
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," fumed one House Democrat.
www.axios.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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ximenaka.bsky.social
A tale of two neighbours.
January 3, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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thinkorswim.bsky.social
Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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nitasha.bsky.social
our data story visualizing the rabbit hole people can fall into with chatGPT is on the cover of today’s @washingtonpost.com @kevinschaul.bsky.social
front page of the Washington Post on December 28, 2025. A1 story “Suicidal teen found a confidant in ChatGPT” continuation of Washington Post article: “74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging” and chart depicting Adam Raine’s increased time spent with ChatGPT
December 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
“South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"The man's age has no importance. He could be very old or very young. The important thing is that he doesn't know where he is and wants to go somewhere" - Portrait of a materialist philosopher - Louis Althusser www.generation-online.org/p/fpalthusse...
Portrait of a materialist philosopher
Portrait of a materialist philosopher on generation-online.org
www.generation-online.org
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"He cultivated an egalitarian classroom, where ideas were arrived at through dialogue, and believed he had a duty of care to the ... minds in his charge"
December 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"when [James] Baldwin takes upon his person the weight of centuries of injustice...he becomes towering. Buckley, going as he so often did for personal slights, is the one made to seem small and petty"
December 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it.

Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.
theintercept.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jathansadowski.com
In the new TMK, we're joined by @abenanav.bsky.social for a deep dive into his essays laying out a detailed vision for a world beyond capitalism.

Sit back and enjoy — holiday listening doesn't get much better than this. Part 2 is out in a couple weeks. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...
437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav)
We’re joined by Aaron Benanav to get into his magisterial essays laying out a vision of society beyond capitalism. In part 1 of our conversation, we lay out his incisive analysis of how capitalism is
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December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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edzitron.com
I genuinely think @mrnikli.bsky.social may be one of the best business writers in history, and “Brainwash An Executive Today!” is one of the best written and insightful and funny business pieces of all time. A must read. Execs can be really stupid!

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...
"Would you say that data observability is an issue?", they inquire with a tone that very clearly implies that this is a leading question. I am immediately deeply worried. For those who are unaware! , my specialty is building systems that move large amounts of data through companies, organize them in a way that is at least marginally less of a horrific clusterfuck than what random people without specific training will do when left to their own devices, and sometimes assist with statistics. Data observability is the high-level term that captures the ability of a business to go "Instead of downloading the data, it would appear the computers caught fire this morning. Would you like to fix this or pretend it never happened?" The reason that I'm concerned is that the executive in front of me should not be using that term. They have no idea what it really means, which is fine because they aren't specialized in my area, but I am wondering why someone who requires crayon-tier technical explanations is inquiring about a niche, unsexy element of a platform they don't understand. This would be like my 96-year-old grandfather asking me about Bitcoin mining-impressive if he had arrived at the question organically, but in practice I'm already dialing the bank to report a massive theft. ...Yes," I reply hesitant, "but I think we can remedy most of that by implementing some basic testing. With some backing, I can accomplish that in a month or two." "What do you think about Monte Carlo?" What the fuck is Monte Carlo? I've never heard of that. I mean, I know there's a place called Monte Carlo, and I know of Monte Carlo algorithms, but there's no way this person is talking about either of those. It must be a product. "I don't know what that is." "I saw it on LinkedIn last night and I think it will solve our observability issues. Do you think we should get it?" Oh. Oh no. I don't understand what exactly happened last night on LinkedIn, but I know it is dark and sad and reeks of unfulfilled wants. The executive sat before me has been marketed to. No, worse, they have been Marketed to, with a capital M.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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🚨 NEW from Drop Site: Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire

Epstein on Ariane de Rothschild...

By @ryangrim.bsky.social & @mazmhussain.bsky.social

📸 Private photo found in Epstein’s NY mansion, allegedly showing him w/ de Rothschild

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🚨 NEW from Drop Site: Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire Epstein on Ariane de Rothschild: “it was said to me, if Ehud [Barak] wants to make serious money, he will have to build a relationship with me. take time so that we can truly understand one another.” By @ryangrim & @MazMHussain 📸 Private photograph found in Epstein’s New York mansion, allegedly showing Ariane de Rothschild with Jeffrey Epstein. Link in reply ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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democracyatwork.bsky.social
Check out this week's episode! @profwolff.bsky.social @democracyatwork.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"We all know someone who has been raped, abused, trapped. If it happened in your high school, job, church, marriage, community, why would it stop at politics and business?"
citymystic.bsky.social Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · Nov 14
Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
This Is How The World Works
Epstein, and the violence we all live with
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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junlper.beer
new episode of kill the computer where we talk with @edzitron.com about his story that reveals financial irregularities for openai that he believes are a possible sign of the bubble beginning to burst
The Age of Smiles Ft. Ed Zitron
Podcast Episode · Kill The Computer · 11/13/2025 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM