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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h

Completely forgot about this bit until I heard @jessethorn.bsky.social interview Letterman. “Masterpiece” doesn’t cover it youtu.be/U5MYa4tyMeU?...

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How Many Guys Dressed As Spider-Man Can Fit In Jamba Juice? | David Letterman

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

How is it possible that the man deciding the future of our military doesn’t understand why radar stealth is useful Literally read one (1) thing

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16h

Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.

An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."

Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 14h

I appreciate the questioning that showed how morally vacant Durant's decision was

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19h

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a lovely bit of writing

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

All those black folks from the caribbean who moved to britain between the 40s and the 70s … how’d they get to the caribbean again?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Great encapsulation of conservatism. “Well I got mine so who cares what happened to anyone else?” bsky.app/profile/jord...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19h

Trying to think of some other policy areas where we should expect similar moves. *ever-more-brutal immigration enforcement *crackdown on nonprofit status of left groups *more press bans and FCC actions against news outlets *another round of tariffs *bogus charges in "grand conspiracy" case

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22h

Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21h

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"i'm fine, and..." what prompted this lol did the interviewer try to call 911 when he said he has the highest of IQs

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s going great!!

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026

I have advocated in the past for announcers addressing the off-field gendered violence committed by athletes during games. But I am coming around to the belief that this is a bad idea. These men cannot handle the assignment and aren’t qualified. They could learn, yes, but they won’t.

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RefDawg @refdawg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am 2.5 months older than Chris Sale. They are talking about him like he's going to die any moment

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 02/10/2026

Yeah I still do worry about this all these months later. Nothing has changed to remove or reduce his (repeated) interest in such terms, or change the fundamental dilemma which gives him no offramps other than eating shit or escalating.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The President is unable to stay awake during Oval Office press conferences

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.

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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal

A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

righteous among the nations

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In light of the news of Tennessee’s botched execution tonight, revisiting my colleague @laurengill.bsky.social’s piece on witnessing Alabama attempt to experiment with execution methods to kill a man. boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

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“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - Bolts

Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My late mother, a devout Christian and socialist, opposed the death penalty. Mom said the commandment was very plain and clear. I used to ask her — what if someone killed me? Mom said: the commandment is very clear. Mom was right.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Witnesss: Pike, at one point, told people in the execution chamber that "the vein in my arm feels like it's about to bust"

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.

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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Updates: the Ethiopian army is in control of the city of Alamata, after 3 days of fierce fighting on the city's outskirts. At least 50 people in the city died, many from artillery strikes, per medical sources reached by the BBC. A strike that targeted the city's marketplace killed a dozen people.

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Ethiopia fighting escalates in Tigray killing 52 civilians in Alamata, medic tells the BBC

The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Talarico is running in a state Trump carried by 14 points in 2024. Yet he’s actually leaned into the moral issues around immigration more aggressively than most other Democrats. He makes an expansive moral case that immigration is good for our country." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.

After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.

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statsboye @statsboye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Las Vegas Aces 79 Indiana Fever 90 4:10 - 4th A'ja Wilson gets grabbed by Sophie Cunningham, foul called, fan said something that caused Wilson to confront them. This is the only arena in this league that consistently has this problem and it needs to be made clear that is the case.

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 30/09/2026

Another F’ing fan incident in Indianapolis. Hard to keep claiming it’s not a Fever fan problem when it’s always happening there.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If your beat is “sports generalist” and your worldview is that fans are dopes and simps and saps and suckers, maybe it’s time to find yourself a more meaningful vocation.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are few things as boring as a person who passes off cynicism as wisdom, and sarcasm as wit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also important to note that it's not completely surprising to see a poll with Collins +3 if the race is really Jackson +3(ish), that's how polling and the distribution of errors works.

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