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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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“You are our president. Please start acting like it. Show some class. Show some real leadership. Show that you actually care about the people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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People need to slow WAY down on this one. Have you ever heard of this source? Do you think they are breaking stories that the NYT, WSJ, WP, AP, etc. can't get?
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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It's important not to say anything when (yet another) giant global tech service goes down, even if your stuff is unaffected, because hey, it's only Tuesday.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The girl group had a vision for how to rewire its troubled industry. The industry had other plans. n.pr/3LJ784s
How NewJeans (almost) changed K-pop
The girl group had a vision for how to rewire its troubled industry. The industry had other plans.
n.pr
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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NEW: "A judiciary full of people who previously defended police misconduct or sent young Black men to prison will bring that prosecution perspective into the courtroom." @kylecbarry.bsky.social examines a series of decisions out of CO to make the case for more public defenders on the bench.
We Need More Public Defenders on the Bench
A series of decisions from the Colorado Supreme Court suggests that justices who used to be prosecutors are more likely to issue law-enforcement friendly decisions.
statecourtreport.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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A reasonable follow up question here would be “what the fuck is wrong with you?”
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Cloudflare holding its own in the big leagues by having an outage just like AWS and Azure.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cloudflare down: X and more apps hit by internet outage
The company says it is working to understand the full impact of a problem which potentially "impacts multiple customers."
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Cloudflare goes burp, and half the internet disappears. Great system we're building here....
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Inuit people evolved genes that let them digest fatty foods without heart disease. Africans in arid regions evolved the ability to survive on minimal water. Evolution isn't just something that happened in the distant past, an anthropologist explains. theconversation.com/if-evolution...
If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving
We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can’t see, such as what foods different people are able to digest.
theconversation.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Visualizing Musk's absurd Tesla pay package:

"On average, Musk will make $3 billion more per year than the 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined."
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

expertvoicestogether.org
May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This really needs to be stressed, as it seems obvious Trump is going to let them vote to release it and then pretend his hands are tied.

He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.
The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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This has been Trump's superpower since 2016, and the secret to his success:
♦️He doesn't hide his crimes: He boasts of them.
♦️His case: Everybody does these things-- I'm the only one being honest about it.

Effective, but false:
♦️Many are corrupt, many are abusers. But he's in a league all his own.
"The message is not that Trump is innocent, it's that *everyone is guilty.* Everyone assaults women, cheats on their taxes, uses public office for private gain. Propriety and following the rules? That stuff is for suckers. In a world of grift and graft, the most corrupt man should be king."
Why Trump can't make the Epstein scandal go away
His ordinary scandal management techniques are not working.
www.publicnotice.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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you know, all Raskin had to do is say that "the fight against fascism" is a big tent but he didn't and that was dumb

bigots aren't welcome in the party but should be encouraged to resist fascists
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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It might be in the form of a beautiful bird that lands in a branch outside your window. It might be an unexpectedly warm day in November. The 2,000 dollars is a state of mind, man. It’s a vibe.
BESSENT: “THE $2,000 DIVIDEND COULD COME IN LOTS OF FORMS… IT COULD BE JUST THE TAX DECREASES. IT COULD BE NO TAX ON TIPS.”
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM