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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Bari Weiss is literally eliminating standards at CBS. If there was a unit called "Actual Journalism" she would cut that too.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources

EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

www.independent.co.uk

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The 51st @51st.news · 19h

"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit.

"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."

Our latest opinion piece:

Opinion: D.C.'s new streatery rules are a costly miscalculation

The city's streatery guidelines are punishing small businesses and vibrant neighborhoods. We need a permanent solution to keep these staples of the city’s dining scene.

51st.news

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 19h

respectfully our city is still under illegal fascist occupation by national guard and Trump goons from a dozen different agencies so maybe YOU should focus a bit more on safeguarding our freedom, values, and democracy

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 1d

Shamelessly stolen from Facebook

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

chuck schumer cannot be replaced as party leadership quickly enough

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 1d

omg that face with the little eyebrows and the giant hair out her ears! I am definitely all in for daily penny updates

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

Lando Calrissian tells Han, Leia and Chewie, "I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever."

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 2d

we just to find you a tiny little pseudodragon!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 3d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

www.statnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Three questions:
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?

Axios @axios.com · 3d

James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.

Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online

James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.

www.axios.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 3d

This is spectacular but I am absolutely dying at Murray here

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3d

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.

If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.

apnews.com/article/pets...

Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

apnews.com

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 5d

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 4d

rofl. perfect

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 4d

Please sign this

AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 NASA scientists warn: critical equipment at Goddard Space Flight Center could be discarded during the shutdown, jeopardizing decades of Earth & space science missions.

📢 Act now: agu.quorum.us/campaign/146...

#sciencepolicy #saveNASA

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 5d

There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

What I learned tonight is the future of the Democratic Party is a trans Muslim CIA agent wine mom who wants to eliminate capitalism and barter with people on the free bus.

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 7d

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7d

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 7d

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 7d

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 7d

I'm approaching dangerous levels of libbing tf out. Lets fucking GO!!!!!

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

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