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a man in a blue hoodie is reading a book called the bible a comprehensive study
ALT: a man in a blue hoodie is reading a book called the bible a comprehensive study
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1) NEW BOOK 🔔
Cozy season approaches, bringing a bounteous crop of new books for fall.
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#Netgalley #Booksky
Cozy season approaches, bringing a bounteous crop of new books for fall.
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#Netgalley #Booksky
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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
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'Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.'
I'm shocked.
Shocked and stunned.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
I'm shocked.
Shocked and stunned.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
'Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.'
I'm shocked.
Shocked and stunned.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
I'm shocked.
Shocked and stunned.
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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Jason Chaffetz said that President Trump was the perfect person to help fix the housing crisis since he was a real estate man. I've included archived clips from the Associated Press and Forbes about Trump's many bankruptcies with real estate deals involving casinos.
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Jason Chaffetz said that President Trump was the perfect person to help fix the housing crisis since he was a real estate man. I've included archived clips from the Associated Press and Forbes about Trump's many bankruptcies with real estate deals involving casinos.
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We're dropping this week's premium episode early.
Out tomorrow: my wife joins to help us read and review an excerpt from Olivia Nuzzi's forthcoming book, CBS News (Bari's Version) hosts Dave Portnoy to talk about antisemitism, and more.
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Out tomorrow: my wife joins to help us read and review an excerpt from Olivia Nuzzi's forthcoming book, CBS News (Bari's Version) hosts Dave Portnoy to talk about antisemitism, and more.
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055: How Olivia Nuzzi Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Worm | Posting Through It
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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
We're dropping this week's premium episode early.
Out tomorrow: my wife joins to help us read and review an excerpt from Olivia Nuzzi's forthcoming book, CBS News (Bari's Version) hosts Dave Portnoy to talk about antisemitism, and more.
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This one is coming out in a couple hours!
We're dropping this week's premium episode early.
Out tomorrow: my wife joins to help us read and review an excerpt from Olivia Nuzzi's forthcoming book, CBS News (Bari's Version) hosts Dave Portnoy to talk about antisemitism, and more.
Sign up now! Don't miss it!
www.patreon.com/posts/055-ho...
Out tomorrow: my wife joins to help us read and review an excerpt from Olivia Nuzzi's forthcoming book, CBS News (Bari's Version) hosts Dave Portnoy to talk about antisemitism, and more.
Sign up now! Don't miss it!
www.patreon.com/posts/055-ho...
055: How Olivia Nuzzi Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Worm | Posting Through It
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November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This one is coming out in a couple hours!
I love this guy!!! 🤩
Image from US @theguardian.com article - Link www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I love this guy!!! 🤩
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Image from US @theguardian.com article - Link www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Thank you to The Great Battlefield for helping to draw attention to this issue! #FReadom
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Author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, Amanda Jones - The Great Battlefield Podcast
Amanda Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an award winning Librarian and an online smear campaign against her from the far right, that led her to writing her story i...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Thank you to The Great Battlefield for helping to draw attention to this issue! #FReadom
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Anyway most books you read ARE NOT FACT CHECKED. Publishers will not pay for fact checkers. An author must take it upon themselves and pay out of pocket.
Which is why folks like @annaleen.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social who have hired me to fact check their books should be celebrated.
Which is why folks like @annaleen.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social who have hired me to fact check their books should be celebrated.
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Anyway most books you read ARE NOT FACT CHECKED. Publishers will not pay for fact checkers. An author must take it upon themselves and pay out of pocket.
Which is why folks like @annaleen.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social who have hired me to fact check their books should be celebrated.
Which is why folks like @annaleen.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social who have hired me to fact check their books should be celebrated.
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VP JD Vance is now fully embracing the 1924 racist National Origins Act to justify his administration’s white nationalist immigration policy.
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
VP JD Vance is now fully embracing the 1924 racist National Origins Act to justify his administration’s white nationalist immigration policy.
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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I think Fuentes is counting on this imploding Turning Point.
And MTG is counting on him picking up all the Turning Point defectors and rallying them behind her.
Incredible to watch the MTG/Carlson/Fuentes faction seemingly implode multiple MAGA institutions so quickly.
And MTG is counting on him picking up all the Turning Point defectors and rallying them behind her.
Incredible to watch the MTG/Carlson/Fuentes faction seemingly implode multiple MAGA institutions so quickly.
It's been so fascinating watching the battle between Candance Owens and Erika Kirk escalate and wondering who's going to directly attack the other first.
They both know it would unleash a full scale right wing war and there's no turning back once they do but it's inevitable at this point
They both know it would unleash a full scale right wing war and there's no turning back once they do but it's inevitable at this point
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I think Fuentes is counting on this imploding Turning Point.
And MTG is counting on him picking up all the Turning Point defectors and rallying them behind her.
Incredible to watch the MTG/Carlson/Fuentes faction seemingly implode multiple MAGA institutions so quickly.
And MTG is counting on him picking up all the Turning Point defectors and rallying them behind her.
Incredible to watch the MTG/Carlson/Fuentes faction seemingly implode multiple MAGA institutions so quickly.
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
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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.
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...
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 5:10 AM
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.
Got it.
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“Matt Gaetz Staffer [Vish Burra] Shares Wildly Anti-Semitic Video Depicting Jews as Bugs”
11/14/25 … 1/ www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
11/14/25 … 1/ www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
Matt Gaetz Staffer Shares Wildly Anti-Semitic Video Depicting Jews as Bugs
Vish Burra, a staffer for The Matt Gaetz Show, shared a wildly anti-Semitic video depicting himself threatening a group of plotting Jews on Friday.
www.mediaite.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“Matt Gaetz Staffer [Vish Burra] Shares Wildly Anti-Semitic Video Depicting Jews as Bugs”
11/14/25 … 1/ www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
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The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth.
Officials in almost every state have sought, & in many cases succeeded, to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history & current events.
Help us fight back & #TeachTruth.
Donate ⬇️
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Officials in almost every state have sought, & in many cases succeeded, to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history & current events.
Help us fight back & #TeachTruth.
Donate ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/red-sca...
Red Scare Attack on Educators Today
The right-wing media is on the attack against the Zinn Education Project. In their Red Scare vitriol, these media outlets discredit activism and critical analysis in people’s history. The real targets...
www.zinnedproject.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth.
Officials in almost every state have sought, & in many cases succeeded, to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history & current events.
Help us fight back & #TeachTruth.
Donate ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/red-sca...
Officials in almost every state have sought, & in many cases succeeded, to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history & current events.
Help us fight back & #TeachTruth.
Donate ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/red-sca...
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Turning Point Action lead and former state rep. Austin Smith pled guilty today to two charges related to a 2024 forgery scheme where he falsified voter signatures in his bid for reelection.
Smith will be sentenced to probation, a fine of at least $5,500 and a 5-year ban from seeking public office.
Smith will be sentenced to probation, a fine of at least $5,500 and a 5-year ban from seeking public office.
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Turning Point Action lead and former state rep. Austin Smith pled guilty today to two charges related to a 2024 forgery scheme where he falsified voter signatures in his bid for reelection.
Smith will be sentenced to probation, a fine of at least $5,500 and a 5-year ban from seeking public office.
Smith will be sentenced to probation, a fine of at least $5,500 and a 5-year ban from seeking public office.
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The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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Park rangers warn that gutting conservation staff will leave long-term damage. Joshua Tree burned, Gettysburg was vandalized, and Yosemite saw chaos during the shutdown. But Interior Secretary Doug Burgum thinks more cops—not scientists, not ecologists—are the solution.
Guess where Trump's planning on sending cops next
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been pushing to purge national parks of more federal workers, but he has a grand plan to make these treasured public spaces great again: hire a bunch of cops. On…
www.dailykos.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Park rangers warn that gutting conservation staff will leave long-term damage. Joshua Tree burned, Gettysburg was vandalized, and Yosemite saw chaos during the shutdown. But Interior Secretary Doug Burgum thinks more cops—not scientists, not ecologists—are the solution.
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“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.”
This 2005 Science Fiction Book Club edition of the first three Earthsea novels has cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.
This 2005 Science Fiction Book Club edition of the first three Earthsea novels has cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.”
This 2005 Science Fiction Book Club edition of the first three Earthsea novels has cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.
This 2005 Science Fiction Book Club edition of the first three Earthsea novels has cover art by Leo & Diane Dillon.
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
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Okay I mayyyyybe spoil the review in the post title.
Anyway! Here's my SugarBee review!
Anyway! Here's my SugarBee review!
Apple Review #35: This Fuckface, AKA, The SugarBee
I’m kind of spoiling my review a little here in the post title sooooo I guess let’s just get into it, shall we? My review of this fucking SugarBee “apple,” bought at I dunno…
terribleminds.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Okay I mayyyyybe spoil the review in the post title.
Anyway! Here's my SugarBee review!
Anyway! Here's my SugarBee review!
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I can confirm TheWrap's reporting that Vish Burra, who sparked backlash over the weekend with his wildly antisemitic tweets, has been fired by One America News as Matt Gaetz's producer and booker.
www.thewrap.com/matt-gaetz-p...
www.thewrap.com/matt-gaetz-p...
Matt Gaetz Producer Fired at OAN Over Antisemitic Posts | Exclusive
Vish Burra’s posts characterizing Jewish people as “vermin” were “highly offensive” and “antisemitic,” a source tells TheWrap
www.thewrap.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I can confirm TheWrap's reporting that Vish Burra, who sparked backlash over the weekend with his wildly antisemitic tweets, has been fired by One America News as Matt Gaetz's producer and booker.
www.thewrap.com/matt-gaetz-p...
www.thewrap.com/matt-gaetz-p...
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Scene from the James Comey grand jury room.
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Scene from the James Comey grand jury room.