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Benjamin Detenber

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University professor in Singapore studying media and public opinion.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h
🧵 My weekly Stop the Presses newsletter just passed its 3rd anniversary. Its mission: to examine how right-wing extremism exploits weaknesses in journalism, and what we can do about it. In this thread, I highlight past pieces, including this takedown of Karoline Leavitt that's No. 1 in "likes." 🧵
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Karoline Leavitt is a professional liar
Trump’s press secretary is paid by the taxpayers to hoodwink the taxpayers.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is awesome: in lieu of autographs or selfies at events (this was from outside the XM Radio event in NYC this week), David Byrne now hands out this business card before cycling away. www.reddit.com/r/talkinghea...
FROM DAVID BYRNE
HELLO, NICE TO MEET YOU.
I NO LONGER SIGN AUTO GRAPHS OR POSE FOR SELFIES - OUTSIDE OF CHARITY OR OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS. HAVE A WONDERFUL REST OF YOUR DAY.
/s/ David Byrne
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In these troubling times, as a media educator, I find the work of student journalists incredibly heartening. Speaking truth to power and holding people to accountability is more important than ever.
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration’s illegal cuts to FEMA have undermined the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Congress must hold the line against further efforts to weaken FEMA and rebuild the agency’s capacity. bit.ly/4ypsAyP
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Administration’s Arbitrary, Unlawful Cuts to FEMA Funding and Staff Threaten American Communities
Grant cancellations, staff reductions, and other policy changes far overstep the president’s authority while limiting FEMA’s ability to respond to disasters.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anthropeum.com · Sep 30 2026 🟩🟦🟨🟦🟩🟦🟩🟦🟩🟩 81,420 · top 7% of players today!
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From the newsletter: - More encouraging national/battleground state polls - Evidence of Trump's decay is everywhere you look - OpenAI is delaying the release of it's next model due to safety concerns - Mass deportation has turned Americans into monsters 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/more-encou...
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More Encouraging Polls, Signs Of Trumpian Decay Are Everywhere, Monsters They Are - Monsters
Cait Conley (NY-17) joins us live at 1pm ET today, Josh Turek (IA-Sen) tomorrow at 3pm. Tomorrow is the last day of the quarter - let’s close strong everyone!
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dum Dum Dum
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this. Won't be long before Grok takes over though.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 29/09/2026
It's the final week to help shape our next community-curated merch. Got a design idea? Send it our way. Not an artist? No problem. We’re also looking for tagline ideas for T-shirts, bags and hats. What makes you think of Bellingcat? Tell us by Friday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Various bellingcat merch design mockups. Reads: We Want You To Design Our Merch
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.
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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool
The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Quilts demonstrate community, and they can have incredible, enduring power. www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...
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Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Given the failures of traditional news media in the context of this "alternate facts" regime, we need a serious rethink of how 1A-grounded press functions. So much is at stake.
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I study the apocalypse and this is the surest sign I've seen
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good. In a just world, actions have consequences, even for the powerful. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years after sexual assault conviction
Sentencing comes after years of appeals and retrials in the case involving former TV production assistant Miriam Haley
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here's a good test case for our framework, demonstrating how a real incident can be turned into a false "rigged election" rumor or narrative. Here the DOJ highlights a case where a postal worker discarded mail that included ballots, and uses that to suggest voter fraud and untrustworthy elections.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The synergistic effects of weather patterns and climate change are going to increase, in all likelihood, if the latter is not mitigated.
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is so wrong. Lukashenko is a murderous despot who has been the only president since the office was created in 1994. I guess that is aspirational for the fading cheeto.
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Field Marshall Windbag @marshallwindbag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Huber Heights Buc-ee’s
A sticker with Trump pointing at you that reads “IRAN YOUR GAS PRICES UP!”  Attached to a gas pump
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Voting absentee is so easy and secure (at least in most states). As it should be!
Screenshot of the State of Delaware Dept. of Elections notification saying Thank you (for voting).
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Am i doing my math wrong or is it distinctly possible that if the wave is big enough it’s not unreasonable to think Fetterman may not actually matter that much
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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You might remember @propublica.org’s series last year on the safety of generic drugs? The Senate has stripped a key requirement out of the Clear Labels Act that would have made it easier to directly connect your generics to the factory that produced them. www.propublica.org/article/clea...
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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote
The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The situation is not good here, but it is far worse in Indonesia and Malaysia. We need a few days of good soaking rain to help quell the smoke. www.reuters.com/pictures/bre...
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Breathing through the haze: Indonesia confronts a wildfire health crisis
A 'super-El Niño' driving up temperatures and punishing droughts is fanning Indonesia's most intense wildfires in over a decade.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the way.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Makes sense: they hold a shared set of values (generating faux educational content that serves the political goals of the very rich).
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Government intimidation tactics used against people for exercising free speech rights. That's authoritarian, right? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US judge blocks DHS from threatening prosecution against man who criticized ICE
David Streever was issued a ‘warning notice’ after sending an email critical of ICE to the agency’s director in January
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A good example of the problem of centering Trump’s emotions and aggression rather than substance. Trump’s response to the Fed rate increase may have been “fiery” but, for more importantly, it was ignorant, demonstrating his deep cluelessness about basic economic facts. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump offers fiery response to Federal Reserve rate hike
President Trump offered a fiery response to the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates on Wednesday, demanding instead that rates be drastically lowered quickly.  “Interest Rates i…
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👏👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Trump’s Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center, Judge Rules (Gift Article)
A federal judge told center officials at a hearing that he would not approve a plan to inscribe President Trump’s name on the building.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is this best described as an example of the tragedy of the commons or rapacious scraping for AI training data? Either way, it totally sucks.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah, you're just regular people and the $100k+ wedding costs footed by a Russian oligarch are just like getting a soup tureen from my aunt. Got it.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Highstep, by Emma Amos, 1983, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Earlier this week, Judd reported on a new Elon Musk scam. Musk is spending millions of dollars pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which advertises itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine. Judd joins us tonight to explain: joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Five Questions with Judd Legum
American journalist, lawyer, and political writer
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I already got my swim in, so this is good. We need the rain.
Map of Singapore showing thunderstorm activity and lightning alert across the entire island.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Votesafe dot org is a scam (and not to be confused with vote.gov) popular.info/.../the-hidd....
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nine months later and she has learned to vary the tempo and change the key but not vary the song. It's the same f*cking song, over and over again. The stuff of nightmares.
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