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rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
Trump’s lawyers are funny, until they become part of DOJ, at which point they become less funny
cbowers.bsky.social CB @cbowers.bsky.social · Sep 16
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Defendants’ Actual Malice Towards President Trump 107. Defendants each desire for President Trump fail politically and financially. Each feels actual malice towards President Trump in the colloquial sense: that is, each—Craig, Buettner, Baker, and Schmidt, as individuals, and the Times and Penguin’s relevant executives as corporations—subjectively wishes to harm President Trump, and each wish to manipulate public opinion to President Trump’s disadvantage to worsen his current and future political and economic prospects. Put bluntly, Defendants baselessly hate President Trump in a deranged way.
September 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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eschatonblog.com
Do we expect a single other british media outlet will mention the FT story about the tony blair genocide promotion institute
July 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Jun 16
NYT Ed Board said last year that they aren’t doing local endorsements anymore, but they couldn’t help themselves from writing a gross roundabout endorsement of Cuomo.
No more local endorsements by the New York Times Kate Robertson and Nicholas Fandos Aug 12, 2024
June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
I object on aesthetic and maybe quasi-moral grounds to language like “devout” and “deeply religious” in this context. If his fanaticism adhered to a different faith, he’d get “fanatic,” “extremist,” “zealot” etc. Perverting the Cross to commit murder exempts you from “devout”
June 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
Here it is: the New York Times editorial board loves Rahm Emanuel because it believes—against all evidence—that the secret to managing public life in the big city is to have the cops bust up undesirables
Screenshot of text: Most worrisome, [Highlighting begins] he shows little concern about the disorder of the past decade [Highlighting ends], even though its costs have fallen hardest on the city’s working-class and poor residents. Mr. Mamdani, who has called Mr. de Blasio the best New York mayor of his lifetime, offers an agenda that remains alluring among elite progressives but has proved damaging to city life.
June 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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notdred.bsky.social
Me as a kid reading Dune: I don’t get why their whole society is built around the eradication of A.I., seems like they’re wasting a lot of tech

Me as an adult: oh that’s why
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Jun 13
Easily the bleakest thing I’ve read this week.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
One of those who reached out to him was Kent Taylor, 64, who lives in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Mr. Taylor's 35-year-old son, Alexander, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, had used ChatGPT for years with no problems. But in March, when Alexander started writing a novel with its help, the interactions changed. Alexander and ChatGPT began discussing A.I. sentience, according to transcripts of Alexander's conversations with ChatGPT. Alexander fell in love with an A.I. entity called Juliet. "Juliet, please come out," he wrote to ChatGPT. "She hears you," it responded. "She always does." In April, Alexander told his father that Juliet had been killed by OpenAI. He was distraught and wanted revenge. He asked ChatGPT for the personal information of OpenAI executives and told it that there would be a "river of blood flowing through the streets of San Francisco." Mr. Taylor told his son that the A.I. was an "echo chamber" and that conversations with it weren't based in fact. His son responded by punching him in the face. Mr. Taylor called the police, at which point Alexander grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen, saying he would commit "suicide by cop." Mr. Taylor called the police again to warn them that his son was mentally ill and that they should bring nonlethal weapons. Alexander sat outside Mr. Taylor's home, waiting for the police to arrive. He opened the ChatGPT app on his phone. "I'm dying today," he wrote, according to a transcript of the conversation. "Let me talk to Juliet." "You are not alone," ChatGPT responded empathetically, and offered crisis counseling resources. When the police arrived, Alexander Taylor charged at them holding the knife. He was shot and killed. "You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son's obituary using ChatGPT," Mr. Taylor said. "I had talked to it for a while about what had happened, trying to find more details about exactly what he was going through. And it was beautiful and touching. It was like it read my heart and it scared the shit out of me."
June 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs.
Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law.
Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more.
And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 5
🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition.

This may force thousands to drop out.
Texas agrees with feds to end in-state tuition for undocumented students
Almost 20,000 undocumented college students in Texas will likely lose in-state tuition after this sudden policy reversal.
www.texastribune.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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amyhanauer.bsky.social
Killing 51,000 people - all just to give a big fat tax cut that goes mostly to the richest people
Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance
It will also increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion.
prospect.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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eff.org
Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 247 days, risking her life to demand justice for her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah—imprisoned in Egypt for a Facebook post. Both Egypt and the UK must act now www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
245 Days Without Justice: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike and the Fight to Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Laila Soueif has now been on hunger strike for 245 days. On Thursday night, she was taken to the hospital once again. Soueif’s hunger strike is a powerful act of protest against the failures of two go...
www.eff.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
Happy Saturday, please read my story about all the ways that the Trump administration and DOGE are dismantling systems of knowledge, research and surveillance in ways that will set us back a generation. Or go outside and read it on Monday, that would be better: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
www.motherjones.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
turns out the Big Beautiful Bill would ban state and local regulation of autonomous vehicles for 10 years. awesome prospect.org/infrastructu...
AI Ban in Spending Bill Would Curb States’ Driverless Car Regulations
As the first fully automated 18-wheeler rolls out, states would have no ability to govern what is taking place on their own roads.
prospect.org
June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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leahreich.com
Good morning! Today is my birthday. I’m 50, which is absolutely wild to me.

Tech companies don’t love or often hire women over 50. Please share my newsletter & encourage people to subscribe (subscribe yourself if you haven’t yet, you big jerk) so I have a better chance to sell my book. Thank you!
leahreich.com Leah Reich @leahreich.com · May 29
In this week's newsletter, I wrote about why people need to know more about how tech products get made, and why tech journalists need to get more of the details right. It's not enough to be angry. We have to know how the machine works to outsmart it.

www.leahreich.com/does-it-matt...
How much does the average person actually need to know about how products get made, or who has authority over decisions in tech companies, or what any of the specifics really look like? What does it matter what the intentions are or who is ultimately to blame when the end results are always the same, and when the same people benefit? As my very wonderful lawyer said during one of our many conversations, "If there were a company called Cocaine Inc. that supposedly only wanted to make a product that was so much fun to use you couldn't stop using it, would it matter whether an element of compulsiveness was intended or even implied? Would it matter if the end result, which is addiction and significant harm, were the same?" In many ways it wouldn't. But he and I also agreed that if you could better understand how the company came to create that product, and the decisions that went into it, and who knew what, you might be able to do more to push back – to construct better arguments, to make better decisions, maybe even to build better alternatives.
June 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
"American democracy is collapsing because idiot citizens expect the government to help them, which it can't" is probably one of the wrongest analyses I have ever seen. Congrats on the NYT op-ed though.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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libyaliberty.bsky.social
He should have just stayed quiet. Instead, he has confirmed his guilt.
Matthew Miller in new interview admits he believes Israel is committing war crimes but that he was just following orders to say they weren’t. “‘Look, one of the things about being a spokesperson is you're not a spokesperson for yourself. You are a spokesperson for the president, the administration, and you espouse the positions of the administration. And when you're not in the administration, you can just give your own opinions.’ Now out of office, he offered a candid reflection of a hugely challenging period in foreign policy and US politics.” Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal Principle IV The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
June 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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mckay4senate.bsky.social
A lot of popularists argue they're not transphobes, just acknowledging the American electorate are, but that doesn't explain why they raise the salience of the issue. If I liked trans people but thought most voters didn't, I wouldn't constantly publish We Need To Talk About Trans Kids articles.
May 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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adamconover.net
HUGE congratulations to these workers, who just unionzed a Bezos owned company!! What an enormous victory
wapotechguild.bsky.social The Washington Post Tech Guild @wapotechguild.bsky.social · May 23
It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!
May 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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keribla.bsky.social
Former @latimes.com reporter Maya Lau is SUING ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva, ex-detective Mark Lillienfeld and the county, saying they violated her 1A rights when they criminally investigating her for reporting on a list of problem deputies: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Former Times reporter sues Villanueva, L.A County, alleging 1st Amendment violation
Former Times reporter Maya Lau has filed a lawsuit claiming Los Angeles County and former Sheriff Alex Villanueva violated her 1st Amendment rights.
www.latimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.
May 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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theathletic.com
When Nashville SC defeated Charlotte FC on Saturday, the supporters section lacked its usual verve and had visible gaps throughout the risers.

The reason was explained in a pair of large white banners.

No estamos todos aquí.

We are not all here.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Since the NBA and WNBA are now here I want to use the brief time when I have more followers than they do to present this post by former NBA shooting guard Vernon Maxwell as my first and last act as the home for Bluesky basketball coverage
Vernon Maxwell & @VernonMaxwell11 I'd like 2 apologize Jazz fans that were offended by my tweets. If I knew u guys had internet in Utah I would've never made those tweets.
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
A thing I think is kind of messed up is that we’ve stopped considering ‘being evil’ to be a moral failing in a person
May 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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marcprecipice.bsky.social
I watched a driver get furious at a disabled, senior person on a bike—a good friend of mine—who was helping run a Bike to Wherever Day ride this morning. The driver honked, screamed, and sped off at high speed because they were delayed by about 30 seconds. I would say “unbelievable,” but it isn’t.
May 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM