Wentao Ma
@wentao.bsky.social
Gen-Z Verified "Cool TA...just don't get on his bad side."
PhD Candidate, UC San Diego;
MA in Film & Media Studies, Columbia University;
BA in Media & Communication, Swansea University
Dissertation in Progress, "Theorizing Media Care"
PhD Candidate, UC San Diego;
MA in Film & Media Studies, Columbia University;
BA in Media & Communication, Swansea University
Dissertation in Progress, "Theorizing Media Care"
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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Interesting
In order to catapult himself back to the White House, Donald Trump has grown his Make America Great Again party into a very big tent. That tent includes many uncomfortable alliances, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the oil companies he used to fight when he was…
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
The MAGA-verse’s Clash of Titans
Steve Bannon’s attack on Elon Musk exposes one of the biggest fault lines running through Donald Trump’s second term.
www.vanityfair.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Interesting
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Wrote about my favorite performance of the past year, and why what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in HARD TRUTHS really feels like it's in a league of its own www.vulture.com/article/give...
For the Love of God, Give This Woman an Oscar Nomination
No one last year gave a performance that comes close to what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in Hard Truths.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wrote about my favorite performance of the past year, and why what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in HARD TRUTHS really feels like it's in a league of its own www.vulture.com/article/give...
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We had a couple decades decades where you faced opprobrium for being casually cruel in public, and a bunch of people decided it was their personal Vietnam.
“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”
Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating.
www.ft.com/content/cf87...
Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating.
www.ft.com/content/cf87...
Is corporate America going Maga?
Donald Trump’s election has accelerated a cultural shift in the nation’s boardrooms
www.ft.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We had a couple decades decades where you faced opprobrium for being casually cruel in public, and a bunch of people decided it was their personal Vietnam.
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I obviously have no idea if Jack Smith could have gotten a conviction in the January 6 case, but the main reason he didn't get the chance to try is that the Supreme Court's Republican justices helped Trump run out the clock
John Roberts Got the Job Done
The special counsel says he could have convicted Trump. The Supreme Court’s Republicans made sure he’d never have the chance.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I obviously have no idea if Jack Smith could have gotten a conviction in the January 6 case, but the main reason he didn't get the chance to try is that the Supreme Court's Republican justices helped Trump run out the clock
And you tell me the legal system still works?!
A federal judge has been found to have violated ethics rules … by criticizing Samuel Alito for MAGA flags flying at his houses. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Judge Broke Rules by Criticizing Justice Alito During Flag Flap
An investigation concluded that it was an ethics violation to question the ethics of a Supreme Court justice.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
And you tell me the legal system still works?!
In the ’90s, She Was a Surprise Oscar Nominee. It May Happen Again.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s lead role in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh, is her most substantial onscreen role since “Secrets and Lies” earned them Academy Award nominations in 1997.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
December 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
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BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
December 3, 2024 at 4:21 PM
BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
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December 1, 2024 at 10:59 PM