Ted
@tedweinstein.bsky.social
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Ted
@tedweinstein.bsky.social
· Feb 2
In these perilous times, here are some sane new sources: go.bsky.app/2LvsCqc
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Disgusting.
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DC: (202) 225-5271
District: (217) 703-6100
District: (217) 640-6210
June 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Disgusting.
DC: (202) 225-5271
District: (217) 703-6100
District: (217) 640-6210
DC: (202) 225-5271
District: (217) 703-6100
District: (217) 640-6210
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Enshittification, in a single skeet.
May 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Enshittification, in a single skeet.
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Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing a risotto recipe over email on a private server or Donald Trump choosing to fly in a plane packed with the electronics of a foreign country, both leaders have tested the boundaries of acceptable security practices.
May 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing a risotto recipe over email on a private server or Donald Trump choosing to fly in a plane packed with the electronics of a foreign country, both leaders have tested the boundaries of acceptable security practices.
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As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now
May 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now
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I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again: it is truly striking how many Democratic politicians, pundits, and commentators have internalized the idea that the right shapes public opinion and it is the job of the left to respond to it.
May 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again: it is truly striking how many Democratic politicians, pundits, and commentators have internalized the idea that the right shapes public opinion and it is the job of the left to respond to it.
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[finger to earpiece] sir I'm getting word that people aren't exactly in love with our plan to steal all copyrighted material and then make money off of it
May 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
[finger to earpiece] sir I'm getting word that people aren't exactly in love with our plan to steal all copyrighted material and then make money off of it
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"All of a sudden, out of nowhere," the courts said we have to follow the Constitution.
Trump: "The courts have all of the sudden, out of nowhere, they said, 'maybe you have to have trials.' Trials. We're gonna have 5 million trials? It doesn't work."
May 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"All of a sudden, out of nowhere," the courts said we have to follow the Constitution.
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So standing up to the fascists just makes them tuck their tails and give up hmmm…
Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes
Trump administration settles with Maine over funding freeze after dispute over trans athletes
In response, the state will drop its lawsuit that had been filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
www.nbcnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So standing up to the fascists just makes them tuck their tails and give up hmmm…
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IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event.
The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.
The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.
April 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event.
The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.
The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.
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You know you grow up taking the Declaration of Independence for granted, then you reread it rn and realize that it goes so damn hard
April 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
You know you grow up taking the Declaration of Independence for granted, then you reread it rn and realize that it goes so damn hard
This is utterly shitty behavior. This person should be fired and never work in publishing again. Authors, please know that even when good agents can be overwhelmed with the volume of submissions, we would never be publicly derisive about any of them.
April 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is utterly shitty behavior. This person should be fired and never work in publishing again. Authors, please know that even when good agents can be overwhelmed with the volume of submissions, we would never be publicly derisive about any of them.
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I write, and I teach writing. I have the necessary credentials to get read by anyone I choose to share my work with.
I'm the audience for this guy's "humor" and I'm telling him and everyone else that punching down isn't funny. It's just mean.
Every industry has its toxic assholes.
I'm the audience for this guy's "humor" and I'm telling him and everyone else that punching down isn't funny. It's just mean.
Every industry has its toxic assholes.
April 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I write, and I teach writing. I have the necessary credentials to get read by anyone I choose to share my work with.
I'm the audience for this guy's "humor" and I'm telling him and everyone else that punching down isn't funny. It's just mean.
Every industry has its toxic assholes.
I'm the audience for this guy's "humor" and I'm telling him and everyone else that punching down isn't funny. It's just mean.
Every industry has its toxic assholes.
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Only a political consultant could ask whether it's really good politics or not to oppose the Trump administration disappearing refugees to a foreign concentration camp.
Growing a Spine on El Salvador Is Good Politics
Grant Democrats the courage to change the things they can change and the PR advisers to help them talk about the rest.
www.thebulwark.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Only a political consultant could ask whether it's really good politics or not to oppose the Trump administration disappearing refugees to a foreign concentration camp.
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I simply do not understand how a NEWS ORGANIZATION is basically existing in a stage of siege but very rarely conveys in its political coverage that we are in a state of emergency
NYTimes Publisher AG Sulzberger tells a Columbia conference that his company spends 10X as much on security as it did before Trump won his first term.
April 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I simply do not understand how a NEWS ORGANIZATION is basically existing in a stage of siege but very rarely conveys in its political coverage that we are in a state of emergency
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Reminder that Joni Ernst, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending she wouldn't
Reminder that Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending he wouldn't
Reminder that Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year
Reminder that Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending he wouldn't
Reminder that Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year
April 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reminder that Joni Ernst, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending she wouldn't
Reminder that Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending he wouldn't
Reminder that Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year
Reminder that Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending he wouldn't
Reminder that Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year
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To paraphrase @brendannyhan.bsky.social, we're endangering the future of the richest and most powerful financial system in the history of humanity. For nothing. Over nothing.
bsky.app/profile/bren...
bsky.app/profile/bren...
April 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
To paraphrase @brendannyhan.bsky.social, we're endangering the future of the richest and most powerful financial system in the history of humanity. For nothing. Over nothing.
bsky.app/profile/bren...
bsky.app/profile/bren...
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With the news media’s enthusiastic help, Trump turned a minor breach of communications protocol into a “Lock her up” scandal that lasted years. But Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military attack plans with his wife and a journalist are no biggie.
Everything Republicans say is bullshit.
Everything Republicans say is bullshit.
April 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
With the news media’s enthusiastic help, Trump turned a minor breach of communications protocol into a “Lock her up” scandal that lasted years. But Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military attack plans with his wife and a journalist are no biggie.
Everything Republicans say is bullshit.
Everything Republicans say is bullshit.
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The sheer fucking arrogance here is just something else...
April 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The sheer fucking arrogance here is just something else...
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If it was worthless they wouldn't have stolen it, and this should be obvious to everyone.
Meta trained the company's AI on tens of millions of pirated novels and books, including my own stories. Their defense: the books are individually "worthless." 1/ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless.
www.vanityfair.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If it was worthless they wouldn't have stolen it, and this should be obvious to everyone.
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If you had told me during the Clinton impeachment circus that Alan Dershowitz, Mark Penn, Jonathan Turley, and Mark Halperin would all be full-blown fascists some day, I would have said that you were probably right.
April 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you had told me during the Clinton impeachment circus that Alan Dershowitz, Mark Penn, Jonathan Turley, and Mark Halperin would all be full-blown fascists some day, I would have said that you were probably right.
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Say more, Senator. Who, specifically, are you afraid of? Who do they work for? To which political party do they belong? What are they doing/saying in particular to make you afraid? Why will you not explicitly call out the perpetrators and organizers of this mass campaign of terror?
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
April 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Say more, Senator. Who, specifically, are you afraid of? Who do they work for? To which political party do they belong? What are they doing/saying in particular to make you afraid? Why will you not explicitly call out the perpetrators and organizers of this mass campaign of terror?
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10/10 tattoo idea right here
April 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
10/10 tattoo idea right here
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this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway
Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"
April 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway
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A plea.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
April 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A plea.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.
Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”
It’s bigger.
It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.
“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis
It’s bigger.