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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026

the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reminder that David Ellison's fortune is entirely contingent on Larry Ellison & Oracle's fate The whole Skydance Project sits on top of a parent balance sheet that the credit market is actively betting against This merger has virtually no chance to actually survive unless AI magically turns around

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who else is old enough to remember take back the night? Who else thinks nothing will come of this?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

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Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was a rape crisis counselor for many years. The Cornell story is not just Cornell. It’s all colleges and universities. And it reminds me why I am so relieved that my own daughter is done with college.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I say this as someone who for years got into ridiculous fights on the internet, sought out pointless conflict, and got into trouble for it: mass harassment only makes the target's behavior and health worse. It achieves literally nothing else.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It doesn’t get better with age You just care less

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

By extension, the guarantor of the Paramount deal is financially beholden to the Chinese government, is that correct? In addition to being under the thumb of ours?

In 2024, Oracle made a $6.5 billion deal to build an enormous data center complex in Malaysia from which it could supply computing power to ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, and other foreign companies. Oracle's facility in Malaysia was soon on track to become the second-biggest in the world,
providing by one estimate more than one-fifth of China's total A.I. computing power.
Ellison is now fueling the A.I. ambitions of America's biggest geopolitical rival.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I broke out of my container and visited three sites today too

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Yes there’s room for discussion we are very reasonable” *hesitantly expresses minor concern* “You’re a believer in [insert heinous thing] and definitely are a [-ist.]!”

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Do you have an airgapped computer?” Is the new hot question

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Megs @therealmegs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

usually don’t like bragging about taking expensive trips, but i just got back from the grocery store. Now i’m on the way to the gas station

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah yea i see bullying people on social media til they fall in line is still happening

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I never had macklemore and ed sheeran as a harbinger of the end times. My nt needs an updated translation

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate).

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 09/09/2026

This just showed up in my inbox, and well … all my posts in the Barenaked Ladies newsgroup in 1999 and 2000 are still there. This is one of the most in-depth revivals of Usenet archives I’ve seen. It’s actually kind of scary how much this resurfaces. www.usenet-rewind.com

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Usenet-Rewind

Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Following the phrase "stochastic parrots" on social media this week is ... an experience (and also a choice, I remind myself). >>

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage

XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And this is why they want to steal the election

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tiktok is fox news for young people. Said what I said

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

one time on facebook a local farmers wife was losing her mind about socialism so i showed her how their farm received over $1 million in farm subsidies and her husband made her delete the post and i think about that more and more lately

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Recently discovered crafting thrift stores.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...

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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Life is hard enough without being a sour and cynical turd in the punchbowl. So bored with that in people. I had cancer.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Very few will understand that this is citizens united repeal on steroids

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I starred listening to “Careless People.” Yowsa. Did you know the author was attacked by a shark as a child? Crazy description

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mamdani is the litmus test for my candidates.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Messi’s papa passed. He was very ill during the world cup. The treatment Leo received onlineduring the world cup was unconscionable and I will never forget or forgive anyone who participated.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Watching in real-time as the right wing media machine's attempt to hijack the WNBA spotlight to push anti-trans hate morphs into an effort by a bunch of men to bash the WNBA by mocking the player's athleticism (comparing them unfavorably to eighth-grade boys) and gender presentations.

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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I can't tell you how many times I've shared this clip of yours youtube.com/shorts/CZCg1...

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The real reason the rural US is so red

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This right here. And it’s why there’s a brain drain.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So rural employment is low-key a giant GOP patronage network. Anybody who speaks out against GOP politics stays unemployed! And/or has to leave! THAT is the real secret to GOP dominance in rural areas. It's not "messaging." It's gatekeeping livelihoods.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

FACTS There is nothing like being lectured by Professional Rural Understanders(TM) about how "we just need to reach out to farmers!" Sir I AM A FARMER. Zip it & shovel something while I catch you up on how farms & money actually work. Or just plain zip it.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A lot of the "rural voters" that we worry about are, in fact, recent transplants & white-flighters. They're urbanites who are bringing their day job $$ with them. They have VERY different concerns than people who actually grew up rural & have to deal w rural opportunities.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Now imagine what they already did to twitter, fb, tt….

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Twenty six years ago this was considered a real ethical conundrum on The West Wing.

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Melinda Byerley @melindabyerley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

People discovering that Infantino was the real villain all along

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

maybe this is ego talking, but i’ve had two popular left-leaning podcasts for several years now and never once has anyone reached out to us looking to invest, help expand, etc. there’s just no infrastructure for that on the left.

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