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Exploring the corruption of journalism with a focus on so called "independent journalism"

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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Imagine thinking his being more accepted on X than Bluesky, is a flex that reflects badly on Bsky. 🤦‍♂️
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
incredible things happening at the nazi bar
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Pepsi worked assiduously to create a "price gap" for Walmart relative to its rivals, in exchange for preferred shelf space at the largest retailer. It literally raised prices on competitors if they started to try to compete with Walmart. prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
For years, Pepsi monitored the market on Walmart’s behalf, and when it would see other retailers dropping prices, it would respond to maintain the price gap. Sometimes this translated into additional allowances or special in-store promotions for Walmart, but sometimes it meant reducing or eliminating promotional payments for competitors and increasing their wholesale prices. “In other words, to enforce Walmart’s price gap, Pepsi at times seeks to drive up retail prices for Pepsi soft drinks sold by Walmart’s rivals,” the lawsuit states.

One specific example involved Food Lion, a regional chain with over 1,000 stores. It was punished for being the “worst offender” of Pepsi’s pro-Walmart bias. Pepsi then enacted a multiyear strategy aimed at raising wholesale costs on Food Lion. So this was not about discounts; it was about forcing higher prices at Walmart’s competitors.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America. prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
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Pepsi and Walmart’s Monopolization Machine Revealed - The American Prospect
An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I see him as more of a #654
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yes decades of throwing one ethnic group off their land so another group can have it is ethnic cleansing. Did I say I was supporting Iran or Saudi Arabia or other Arab states. You changed the subject because you know you are wrong but you will keep lying anyway, because you are scum
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The Iron dome is very effective against rockets and Oct 7th happened because Israel relaxed it security for some reason The strategy I've always favored was Israel stopping the ethnic cleansing and abuse of Palestinians
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
He's a (Gazan) holocaust denier no better than a German who supported the Reich
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
No one us justifying Hamas massacres and rapes It's the Israeli ones that are muted archive.org/details/Albe...
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Funny how Israel for years never attacked the wealthy Palestinian homes. Of course they used to fund Hamas because they didn't want more moderate factions to gain power These stupid people have been fed Israel's propaganda for years
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Agreed but I feel like Israel's actions increased the danger for Jews worldwide
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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I mean i guess these people are the literal lifeblood of pro-wrestling. The true believers. Without them there could be no heat and without heat csn there ever really be a pop?
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I thought it was going to be an independent media company using a subscription model. Now it gets money from Disney, Netflix and Amazon too. Status deserved to be called out but Darcy wants to turn into a plus. Give us money so we can annoy Rupert Another grifter playing the division game
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
@status.news gets the scoops. But an independent media site that takes money from Amazon, Disney and Netflix and reports on them, is concerning. Is an Axel Spring ad coming soon?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:
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I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Isn't that what the article is saying??
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's @keribla.bsky.social's first story for @propublica.org! But it won't be her last on the Bureau of Prisons. Do you work for BOP and have tips, documents, or data you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside? You should contact Keri. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
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MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Players Avoiding Arbitration: 11/21/25
The deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players is this afternoon at 4pm CT. Throughout the day, we’ll surely see a handful of arb-eligible players agree to terms with their clubs to avoid a hearing. These so-called “pre-tender deals” usually, although not always, involve players who were borderline non-tender candidates. Rather than run the…
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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Joined @karenattiah.bsky.social ‘s Resistance Studies Series last month to lecture on Black press history. Columbia cancelled Karen’s race/media course before her firing from the WaPo. Still, she persists. And we resist. The work is for our communities. www.instagram.com/reel/DRSb0qG...
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Resistance Studies Series on Instagram: ""There ought to be media reparations. Every media outlet that has existed for any amount of time needs to go back into its pages and look at how it incited vio...
In this episode of the Resistance Studies Series, we explore the dark history of media inciting violence and the need for media reparations. We examine the untold stories of the Black press, its strug...
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
That would come as quite a surprise to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I’m thinking.
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There are no presidential elections when the United States is at war. That could suggest a motive for a "suckers and losers" commander-in-chief.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
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RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New from me: Trump and his allies have decided that they are the real victims of the criminal justice system. And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
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MAGA's $300 million heist
Donald Trump supports immunity for cops and prosecutors. Unless they try to hold him and his allies accountable. Then we all have to pay Donald Trump.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/11/2025
No administration should have the power to decide who gets to express themselves and who doesn’t. takebackctrl.org/stay-loud
Woman shouting into a megaphone against a blue sky
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Senator Vance?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
maybe they can be shamed sometimes? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Trump admin backs off idea to force SNAP users to reapply
Officials will rely on state standards that are already in place to ensure eligibility, despite USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ comments last week.
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Jack Wheatley @jacktwheatley.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New from me for @mmfa.bsky.social: “Pat Buchanan was right about everything”: As Heritage scrambles over Nick Fuentes, its endorsement of the nativist pundit for a presidential medal remains www.mediamatters.org/pat-buchanan...
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“Pat Buchanan was right about everything”: As Heritage scrambles over Nick Fuentes, its endorsement of the nativist pundit for a presidential medal remains
Amid the fallout from Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, the Heritage Foundation has faced accusations of condoning antisemitic extremism and Heritage President Kevin Robe...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So you guys are Hillary people?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The WH closing this to press tells me Trump was afraid of being shown up LOL.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
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Jason RR Martinez (FanGraphs/RosterResource) @rosterresource.fangraphs.com · 21/11/2025
Non-tender deadline is later today. 62 players were non-tendered last offseason, including a few who went on to have productive seasons ... •R. Laureano (ATL -> BAL/SDP) •G. Canning (ATL -> NYM) •M. Tauchman (CHC -> CHW) •G. Sheets (CHW -> SDP) •A. Hays (PHI -> CIN) #MLBOffseason
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's not just alcoholics. I've seen this pattern Whatever it is that makes someone unable to be an honest journalist..... The most important thing to remember is they are not an honest journalist
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Is it possible to take @vanityfair.com seriously if Nuzzi remains there?
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I've been for a mandatory retirement age of 75 for all elected or Senate confirmed offices or posts for years
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Probably, depends on the show and the host
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MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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The Opener: Non-Tender Deadline, Trade Candidates, Posting Windows
Here are three things we’ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world headed into the weekend: 1. Non-tender deadline arrives: This evening, teams around baseball will need to decide whether to offer contracts to their arbitration- and pre-arbitration level players. Those who are non-tendered will head directly into free agency without being placed…
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There is nothing amusing about corrupt politicians no matter which party Shame on you
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MLB Trade Rumors @mlbtraderumors.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Twins Acquire Alex Jackson
The Twins have acquired catcher Alex Jackson from the Orioles in exchange for minor league infielder Payton Eeles, according to a report from Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports. More to come…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“Federal prosecutors dismiss charges against Marimar Martinez, shot by a Border Patrol agent multiple times after allegedly using her car to assault federal law enforcement in Chicago…” So THEY rammed HER, shot her, and bragged about “5 shots, 7 holes” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Defector @defector.com · 21/11/2025
Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Today in alternate realities: Larry Kudlow says high prices and affordability are “a made up issue”
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Larry Kudlow says high prices and affordability are “a made up issue”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Public grocery stores run into a monopoly problem: big grocers get better deals from suppliers. That's actually illegal, but the law that bars price discrimination to small grocers is effectively dormant. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social writes that NY is writing its own version of the law:
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New York Gets Serious About Food Prices - The American Prospect
A proposed state antitrust law has the potential to cut food prices in New York, a boon to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Why men are flocking to dubious online clinics for testosterone therapy
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Why men are flocking to dubious online clinics for testosterone therapy
The proliferation of online testosterone sites is a sign of the health care system’s lack of regard for male sexual hormones and their role in health
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Flipso @flipso.com · 21/11/2025
Bill Gates Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Alleged Jeffrey Epstein Messages — CBS has uncovered a series of alleged messages between Jeffrey Epstein and an account linked to Bill Gates, prompting fresh questions about Gates’s past interactions with the disgraced financier. Reporters and…
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Bill Gates Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Alleged Jeffrey Epstein Messages
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The Pretendipent @pretendipent.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
There is no such thing as unbiased and only those that admit it have a chance of seeing and reducing the impact of theirs
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