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Roy Edroso

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2h
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Kayfabe
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1h
I’ve been wondering whether this was less about the shock of watching Schmitt get pantsed than it was about realizing that you’re the next Republican questioner, and your script was based on following up this accusation, and now you have nothing.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h
Actually reviewing the checks that Chuck Grassley released yesterday to gauge how many people clearly asked Trump to do something other than pay Melania's dress designer with the money. Someone in the The Villages was using "Stop the Steal" by 11/20/20.
A $100 check made out to Trump for President, dated Nov. 20, 2020. The memo line reads "Stop the Steal" 

The address is mostly redacted but shows it was from The Villages in Florida.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1h
I am writing this weeks newsletter on the feeling that Jonathan McKinsey, an SF trans man murdered by his in-laws in broad daylight, is being treated as a suspect, not a victim in the wake of his own death. Subscribe to support trans journalism. assignedmedia.org/support/
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h
NEW: CBP just seized an American attorney's phone as he returned from Palestine, despite it containing attorney-client privileged communications. …Here's some interesting context — this attorney is married to another lawyer who *just last month* filed an ethics complaint against this Florida judge:
Zeteo news story headline:

Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Says, 'To Be American Is to Be a Zionist'

Judge Roy Altman boasts about taking '10% of the entire federal judiciary in America" on trips to Israel, and promotes his genocide-denying book from his chambers.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 5h
This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️
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College radio stations are disappearing
Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h
👍🏻
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2h
A federal judge ORDERED the Trump admin to privately show him the memo purporting to justify boat strikes that have killed 234 people in the Caribbean and Pacific. Judge Engelmayer rejected several rationales for withholding the memo from the public and will determine whether to release it.
The Court directs defendants to file the declaration(s), and to arrange for the Memo to be available for in camera review, within two weeks of this decision. See ACLU II, 2016 WL 889739, at *6 (ordering Government, within five days, to produce document at issue and “advise the court who has received [it] (including persons who received it from its original recipients) and for what purpose”); Elec. Frontier Found. v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 826 F. Supp. 2d 157, 172 (D.D.C. 2011) (directing agency to “provide further explanation regarding whether it shared with non-Executive Branch entities the responsive documents that it withheld from the plaintiff”). Defendants are authorized to make appropriate redactions in the declaration as publicly filed, while filing the unredacted declaration under seal. Upon review of these materials, the Court will determine whether to commission supplemental briefing.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h
Thinking now for some reason of RFK Jr. saying that patients should confirm their doctors' diagnoses and treatment plans with AI before accepting them.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 3h
Thank god for Chris Geidner and @lawdorknews.bsky.social
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 3h
🎶You can hate Z now 🎶But he won't stop now
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h
A couple recently received a $575,000 settlement from the city of Milwaukee after 55 swatting calls over the course of three years summoned police to their home. Officials knew the calls were made by pranksters. nyti.ms/3TtgRQH
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h
google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 3h
"Modular toilets" have a deservedly bad rap. Their design conjures long lines at music festivals or East German chic. But the 17 new modular toilets that the Mamdani administration is scattering across the city are a cut above the usual temporary toilet. hellgatenyc.com/we-test-peed...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3h
I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h
"The entire exercise is, 'Here’s how to be a racist in a smart and polite-sounding way'... [but] When there’s so much hardcore freely available out there, how are you gonna get them to subscribe to Cinemax?" www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitp...
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From Shitpost to Bullshit
The Function of Conservative Intellectuals
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13h
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 4h
The image of dominance is not the same as dominance. @jamellebouie.net explains how authoritarian spectacle works—and why puncturing the image matters. From LibCon2026. #LibCon2026
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 6h
Robert Sietsema, who should know, gives the reopened Carnegie Deli a good review robertsietsema.substack.com/p/carnegie-d...
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Carnegie Deli Steps Back Into the Spotlight
A review of the reopened Midtown mainstay
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 7h
This is excellent
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h
4) In January, the Trumpists wanted to break the will of the people in Minneapolis, hoping it would serve as a warning to the rest of the nation. But the failed paramilitary occupation of the city turned into something else: A reminder of democratic freedom and solidarity.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 7h
Thread.
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 7h
“I refuse to do my job. The solution is to destroy the Constitution, rather than fire me and hire someone willing to work.”
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h
populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h
joe biden is the most powerful president in american history, able to control world events from his home in delaware, far away from the trappings of the presidency. biden, god emperor, manipulator of markets and media. bow before his grace, first of his name.
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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7h
While this is definitely something to be encouraged and many people are sincere, also remember that most Texans see economic exploitation as a god-given right. They aren’t happy about losing cheap labor.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7h
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 12h
Absolutely meaningless bullshit. Stop this fetish for punishing workers in this stupid country.
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Erick Erickson explains the white backlash to Huckabee's ad featuring a white man on relief: it's not white racism, for there is no such thing, conservatives having "rejected" racism long ago; it's rather whites "adopting" the racism of black people.
Gas, The Senate, Islam, and the White Right
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SEP 30The casting was not an accident. In Arkansas, more white people are on welfare than black people, so the ad used a white guy because the ad was telling the truth about Arkansas. The same people who said French could not be criticized because he was on the ballot are now
furious at Sanders, an incumbent Republican on the ballot, for putting a white man in her ad. They insist she should have used a black woman,
which would ha
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have traded on the very racial stereotype conservatives have spent decades rejecting.The white right wants to play the victim. Its members have decided the world is aligned against them, and they hav concluded that the future of conservatism is to adopt the identity politics of the left and run it on behalf of white people. They want to be Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones with a different complexion.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16h
Does any other major news website publish absolute garbage side by side with excellent journalism? And by garbage I don’t mean shitty political coverage (looking at you, NYT) I mean stupid, rancid, tired, mendacious trolling like this. At WaPo or WSJ it’s confined to the opinion pages.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
Black text on a white page that reads as follows: 

Too often, homeless New Yorkers cycle from our hospitals to our streets — making it harder to continue treatment and find long-term stability. 

The City's Bridge to Home program in Manhattan ends the cycle by providing a safe place for New Yorkers to live while they receive medical care, apply to jobs, and find an apartment. The program has been a massive success.

Today, we’re expanding Bridge to Home to Brooklyn and Queens, so more New Yorkers get the help they need.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h
this is the funniest imaginable explanation for the Hawks/Hawkeyes mixup and I desperately hope it's true
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h
Today wasn’t the first time Eric Schmitt tried to use sports to go after someone only to have it blow up in his face because he knows nothing about the teams he’s talking about.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 17h
I think we need to talk more about how Axios has multiple reporters that openly collude with the Trump admin Wait sorry my handlers tell me if we point this out Barak Ravid will report us to the ADL
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steve-o @freerangesteve.bsky.social · 17h
Yankees vs Red Sox energy
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h
Former food coop manager & decades-long anti-zionist Jew, and I approve this message:
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 17h
Exactly why the "maybe Mary Cheney can reason with them" approach doesn't work. Their brains are cooked. Go after independent/undecided voters. www.editorialboard.com/how-the-righ...
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How the rightwing media can turn humiliation into victory
Eric Schmitt will never face the consequences of today's spectacular failure.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 19h
This drunk, coked out idiot throwing other countries into chaos:
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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 19h
@NYTimes.com: There are so many issues with this article. How do you ask 37 experts how to improve schools and NOT ask a single classroom teacher? No wonder their list of ideas is so jarring to anyone who spends time in a classroom. #MTBos #edusky www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts (Gift Article)
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS is how it's done. Ithaca Mayor tells Cornell where to get off.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19h
The core appeal of reactionary politics is hatred of competent and smart people who follow evidence rather than use it to support conclusions. A million incidents like this happen daily in academia and legal settings, and they're behind almost all right-wing "liberal bias" accusations.
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