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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations @timnitgebru.blacksky.app !
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/09/2026
being very professional in my latest monologue

Shut the fuck up! You build cloud software! You are in full control of what gets built or not! Just because you don’t fully understand how Large Language Models make their decisions doesn’t mean that they’re “out of control” or “have their own intentions,” and your unwillingness to explain the difference and further fuel anthropomorphism only makes me more certain that you need to shut your fucking mouth.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I sympathize. The industry relies on these anthropocentric projections, and they have paid off -- until they don't, at which point it spawns an ontological panic in the industry that can't figure out what just happened to the thing they are designing while believing it has designed itself.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We better grapple seriously with this: Trump is a disturbed authoritarian who is surrounded by people who either share his delusions, are too sycophantic to confront him, or believe his warped perception of the world serves just fine as a vehicle for their own greed and/or ideological extremism.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 02/09/2026
The Maine Supreme Court unanimously got this right: Courts don’t have to ignore documented psychological harm, medical neglect or coercion simply because religion is involved. Faith deserves no special exemption from protecting a child’s well-being.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This too! "it emerged that she was helping to fund the Moderna vaccine efforts through a donation of $1m (£716,000) to Vanderbilt University medical centre near her home in Nashville, Tennessee."
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Dolly Parton gets first dose of Covid vaccine she helped fund
Country music star sings adapted version of Jolene while getting Moderna jab in Nashville
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/08/2026
Who’s better for the economy? Ordinary people or billionaires?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hey, genius Democratic moderates who LOVE Ossoff, maybe take a cue from him. He spent his time ATTACKING Trump instead of progressives or those to his left. Just a thought. Again, he's your "moderate" King. Follow his lead. (I like Ossoff, btw)
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Our remarkable colleague @tmgneff.bsky.social returns to Afghanistan to talk with the Taliban commander he fought against as a Marine many years ago. "This time as a guest not an occupier." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
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Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought
First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Read our story from July 9 about how an MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we published our first story about the surveillance machine at Madison Square Garden—an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Read that here:
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The AI Resist List is here airesistlist.org - so much hope and positivity for crafting positive, different futures in the room and on the list.
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The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I don’t always agree with AOC‘s politics. But she is smart, articulate, and compelling. She also seems like a person of real decency.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Zohran Mamdani rebukes Trumpism with pro-immigrant speech for US’s 250th birthday
New York mayor’s speech cut ideological counterpoint to policies of president, who will deliver his own remarks later today
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is a brilliant story. Hooray for archives, and for their staff and volunteers. 📝📄🗄️🗃️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
PSA: We are all Democratic Socialists, we’re just in various stages of admitting it.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Jonathan Bellack @bellack.com · 26/06/2026
Another important piece from @masnick.com, whose paper "Platforms not Protocols" inspired @bsky.app. "Despotification" is Masnick’s new term for platforms leveraging market concentration, lack of credible exit, and algorithmic recommendations to seize political power.
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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
THE PROBLEM IS CAPITALISM #ClimateEmergency #Renewables #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #ClimateJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness
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The University of Utah @utah.edu · 24/06/2026
Last August, Utah Volleyball announced it signed a special team member to the position of “Ultimate Ute”—Briar Rose, a 9-year-old with a rare genetic disorder called Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome. During her two-year contract, Briar Rose is participating in practices, games & other team events.
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One of the Team - The University of Utah Magazine
A nine-year-old girl finds friendship and belonging with Utah Volleyball.
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The authoritarian speedrun caught me off guard, especially because it seemed to be working. It’s been a relief to see signs that political gravity is still working too: that elections can’t just be swept away overnight; and (deeper), it’s hard to seize dictatorial power quickly when you’re unpopular
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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New newsletter: Generative AI is becoming the new crypto and multi-level marketing scam, promising non-techies that they can vibe-code their way to prosperity, without being candid about the costs and risks. www.whatwelo.st/p/generative...
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Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment
How predatory vibe coding startups are selling false hope to young people
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/06/2026
"If people stop believing that he can actually deliver on those promises, or if they stop believing in Musk himself, those valuations could disappear overnight…Musk is a modern-day Tinkerbell: if enough people stop believing in him, he simply ceases to exist in his current form."
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This is how Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar house of cards could collapse
His fortune and empire are more fragile than his IPO’s backers believe
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/06/2026
"Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre—but nonetheless extremely dangerous—adversary," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/B7ghHIPJ
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
But read Valenti's whole piece: "Leaving aside for a moment that the public does not have “concerns about the right to life”—81% of Americans don’t want the government involved in abortion at all—let’s consider what the “freedom” of a 12- or 15-week ban looks like for women."
“Democrats might solve this problem by embracing nuance on abortion again.”

What does “nuance” mean, exactly? According to Jilani, it’s Democrats supporting 12- and 15-week abortion bans in states like Texas and Georgia. “Such a compromise would give women in those states far more freedom than they have today while addressing the public’s concerns about the right to life,” he writes.

Leaving aside for a moment that the public does not have “concerns about the right to life”—81% of Americans don’t want the government involved in abortion at all—let’s consider what the “freedom” of a 12- or 15-week ban looks like for women. (Remember them?)

Ciji Graham was just 34 years old when she was killed by North Carolina’s 12-week ban. Graham had a heart condition that made her pregnancy life-threatening, and was unable to get care in time. She left behind a toddler son, who I’m sure would love to hear all about the “freedom” his mother enjoyed under their state’s law.

Then there’s Deborah Dorbert, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term under Florida’s 15-week abortion ban1. Because Dorbert couldn’t afford to leave the state for care, she had to watch her son, Milo, die painfully over 94 minutes. “He gasped for air, and you could tell he was really trying hard to breathe,” Dorbert said.

Perhaps Jilani could comfort her by explaining that Florida’s law is “nuanced.”
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
And business went up. Wins all around.
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Pike Place Market Pedestrianization Pilot Boosts Sales and Visits
All signs point to Seattle's pilot program limiting car access to Pike Place being a success: sales were up 6.5% in 2025 compared to 2024, and the number of local visitors jumped by 5.6%. As the City ...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/06/2026
"One incapability is easy to assess: Almost none of these would-be antiquarians are able to read Greek or Latin." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...
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Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong
Online bigotry masquerading as a love of history in the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Melissa @martasso.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Andy Kim leads by example
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“The biggest problem with AI is the foundationally awful oligarchs in charge of its trajectory, scope, and implementation. The biggest problem with AI is terrible human beings.”
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/05/2026
like look at this family. five kids, including a tiny baby, just trying to live their lives, and the fucking Russians were going to massacre the lot for some supposed nanoscopic battlefield advantage. whole world full of stories like this today
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/05/2026
She's in the race. Yes, she could win. Yes, I would vote for her. She doesn't have Bernie's oblivious anti-Blackness baggage. She doesn't have Biden's "play to the middle!🤡" centrist suck-up baggage. She understands turnout. She can communicate directly to voters. She's not all "Fund more cops!🤡"
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I don't agree with all in @michellegoldberg.bsky.social's column, but it is a nuanced and thoughtful analysis -- which is rare these days. The cold hard fact is that Platner is the Democrat running against a Republican for Senate control. Support him! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Graham Platner Is No Nazi
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 26/06/2025
You know you've been conditioned to live in a black & white paradigm when you have no ability to distinguish between -Marxism -Communism -Socialism -Democratic Socialism If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not only is there no such evidence, just about everything we know from cognitive science about the importance of building knowledge, IN YOUR HEAD, suggests that we should prohibit AI usage in elementary school, and beyond. (Good thread from @janerosenzweig.bsky.social on all this nonsense)
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, America was not a democracy. It was certainly not what we, in widely accepted parlance today, call “democracy.” It absolutely had no reasonable claim to be considered a *multiracial* democracy.
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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
'Donald Trump utters or does something vile, and the media notes it and moves on. Or he does something outrageous, and the media takes the edges off it with polite wording. And moves on' @sulliview.bsky.social: Why does Trump get a free pass so often? margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-medias...
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The media's double standard for Trump needs to stop
Call it normalizing, sane-washing, or giving him the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't serve the public.
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