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Saloni Gajjar

@salonig.bsky.social
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tv critic: The A.V. Club member: WGAE, Television Critics Association, Critics Choice Association formerly: NBC, Mashable, Complex, Interview

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Saloni Gajjar @salonig.bsky.social · 6h
some major stuff goes down in this week's #TedLasso episode & i wrote about why it all still feels emotionally manipulative and chaotic:
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Ted Lasso season 4 is just one odd choice stacked on top of another
Ted Lasso season 4 is just one odd choice stacked on top of another
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 7h
NAZA, the No Other Land team's latest film, exposes American influence on Israeli aggression
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NAZA, the No Other Land team's latest film, exposes American influence on Israeli aggression
Reading about American generative AI being used to kill Palestinian civilians is one thing. Hearing about it from the perpetrators is another.
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Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 10h
NAZA opens theatrically today. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
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Naza Is One of the Most Important Films of Our Time
24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic war crimes in Gaza. Their words are impossible to shake.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I posit to you, dear reader, that Robert Pattinson is the new Nic Cage. I wrote my thesis for @avclub.com. www.avclub.com/robert-patti...
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Robert Pattinson is the new Nicolas Cage
Robert Pattinson and Nicolas Cage both get weird to find something more exciting in a landscape obsessed with realism.
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Whitney Friedlander @whitneyfriedlander.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote a (very long, but could have totally been longer) oral history of our beloved The CW -- which turned 20 earlier this month and officially entered its new age when All American ended yesterday. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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From creating 'crack for girls' to superhero TV: The untold history of the CW, 20 years later
When the WB and UPN merged 20 years ago, the result was the CW, a network that took younger viewers seriously, spawning stars and hit series like 'Gossip Girl,' 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'Arrow.'
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Many people are asking.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
cornellsun.com
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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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 25/09/2026
A glib telling of The Lizzie Borden Story only reminds us of the futility of Ryan Murphy's salacious true-crime series. www.avclub.com/its-time-for...
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It’s time for Netflix to slay its Monster
A glib telling of The Lizzie Borden Story only reminds us of the futility of Ryan Murphy's salacious true-crime series.
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Saloni Gajjar @salonig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wrote about netflix's MONSTER, a misguided TV series that gets more and more disingenuous each time, as seen by the Lizzie Borden/Aileen Wuornos stuff in season 4. end it already!
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It’s time for Netflix to slay its Monster
A glib telling of The Lizzie Borden Story only reminds us of the futility of Ryan Murphy's salacious true-crime series.
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Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminder: Hang out and watch #TheTraitorsNewBlood with me for the @avclub.com's @surf.social feed! Who survived the Traitors internship program? What will Alan be wearing? Let's find out together. surf.social/feed/surf%2F... #TheTraitorsUS
Alan Cumming in the season prmeiere of "The Traitors" New Blood" wearing a tartan cape over a denim kilt situation.
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Jackson McHenry @jdmchenry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
had an incredibly lovely time wandering around Boerum Hill with Merritt Wever who would have been so happy to not have to talk to me or anyone who has ever held a tape recorder near her www.vulture.com/article/inte...
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Merritt Wever Would Do Anything to Get Out of This Interview
In Primetime, she puts on a standout performance as Chris Hansen’s producer. In real life, she prefers the shadows.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My only quibble with PRIMETIME is with the script, but Oppenheim and Pattinson make a hell of a team. My review on the movie about the man who would be the king of must-watch TV.
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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now up, my newest for @rollingstone.com: Private equity firms bought up all the big rock publishing. Now they're going after the indie labels. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Private Equity's Next Target Is Indie Music
For years, private equity firms have snatched up the catalogues of music's biggest names. Now they're after independent labels.
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ahhh yeah that feels good www.avclub.com/ai-plolicy
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some CNN staffers were still barred from entering the White House this morning following a judge’s ruling blocking Trump’s ban on multiple outlets
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Some CNN Staffers Still Unable To Enter WH Following Court Ruling
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“My nightmare is that we have bots on Emory Healthcare’s side, bots on Cigna’s side that keep talking to each other,” said Dr. Joon S. Lee, the chief executive of Emory Healthcare. “A whole data center could be occupied just doing that.”
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Woody Harrelson-Matthew McConaughey team-up Brothers is a strange object: The presumably expensive work of several sitcom pros working overtime to turn a vibe and a juicy anecdote into an actual television show. Lisa Gilroy innocent; Harrelson should be funny on TV more often.
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Unlike its stars, Brothers is only half-baked
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey play “themselves” in an Apple TV comedy that feels like a hazy memory before it’s even over.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Danette Chavez @danettechavez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can confirm Sharon Horgan's Youth is as good as you've heard. And if you didn't know about her new show, then let me be the first to tell you: It's very good! www.avclub.com/youth-premie...
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Sharon Horgan's Youth is bawdy fun for most ages
Sharon Horgan's Youth is bawdy fun for most ages
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW and Politico to sue Trump administration after the president banned them from the White House. cnn.it/4cXFIma
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Saloni Gajjar @salonig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
did you know South Asian dance competitions in American colleges are a very real and intense thing? netflix's BEST OF THE BEST captures that in a flashy & astute YA movie, with a great turn from Never Have I Ever's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. highly recommend: www.avclub.com/best-of-the-...
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am ALSO back this morning at The A.V. Club, with another piece on Lanterns. In this one I ask: What's going on with aliens in this show? Are they a metaphor or what? www.avclub.com/lanterns-hbo...
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Lanterns can't quite make up its mind about aliens
Lanterns can't quite make up its mind about aliens
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to conceive of a piece of entertainment I would less like to view. "Birth of a Nation" starring Tilly Norwood?
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Angie Han @ajhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
anyway, here is my review of a Monster season that should've just been taglined Women Be Choppin'
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‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Review: Ryan Murphy’s Latest Netflix Serial Killer Saga Is Faux-Feminist Nonsense
Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall and Vicky Krieps join lead Ella Beatty in co-creator Murphy and showrunner Ian Brennan's take on the infamous axe murderess.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 15/09/2026
The final word(s) on #Emmys 2026 from @erikadams.bsky.social and @salonig.bsky.social: All the most deserving winners, inexplicable creative choices, and ghoulies of TV’s biggest night. www.avclub.com/emmys-2026-b...
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The best, worst, and weirdest of the 2026 Emmys
All the most deserving winners, inexplicable creative choices, and ghoulies of TV’s biggest night.
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So the strategy was... Give as many awards as possible in an hour and then make people cry for two hours and forget that there were actually awards being handed out. This is not a criticism. It's just a general pondering of approach. #Emmys
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 15/09/2026
"We will always remember her." #Emmys
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Saloni Gajjar @salonig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
let's fuckin gooooo
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 15/09/2026
Give it up for Matthew freaking Rhys, who just won his second award of the night for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for WIDOW'S BAY!!!!!! He just made history by winning two lead acting categories in the same year at the #Emmys
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 14/09/2026
The red carpet is in full swing & there's only one hour left for the #Emmys to officially kick off. You can still make some last-minute predictions or go through ours at the link below. Follow along for the rest of The A.V. Club's coverage tonight. www.avclub.com/emmys-2026-p...
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Saloni Gajjar @salonig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
it was a true pleasure to interview Poorna Jagannathan about all things #Lanterns, our love for Deli Boys (bring it back!!!), & some of her cool upcoming projects: www.avclub.com/poorna-jagan...
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 14/09/2026
As we all brace for the #Emmys tonight, revisit our interview with Sepideh Moafi, who talks about the significance of her history-making nomination for THE PITT & why Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi is exactly the type of role she wants to be known for: www.avclub.com/emmy-nominee...
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Surf @surf.social · 14/09/2026
Move over Mariska Hargitay! @avclub.com is hosting the Emmys — or at least, the Emmys Watch feed here on @bsky.app. Pin it to stay up to date on the winners, snubs and surprises, reactions and more. bsky.app/profile/avcl...
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 14/09/2026
It's #Emmys night, and @avclub.com will be your guide through the red carpet, actual ceremony, and the aftermath (for the victors and the better-luck-next-years). Tell us who you want to see walk away with the night's biggest prizes: www.avclub.com/emmys-2026-p...
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Who will and should win at the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards?
Who will and should win at the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards?
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So much good stuff in @salonig.bsky.social's #Lanterns interview with Poorna Jagannathan www.avclub.com/poorna-jagan...
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Lanterns' momentous twist surprised Poorna Jagannathan, too
Lanterns' momentous twist surprised Poorna Jagannathan, too
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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@salonig.bsky.social and I take a stab at predicting who'll take home the big prizes at the Emmys on Monday avclub.com/emmys-2026-p...
Sepideh Moafi, Oscar Isaac, and Kate O'Flynn in stills from, respectively, The Pitt, Beef season 2, and Widow's Bay
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 11/09/2026
Our TV team, senior editor @erikadams.bsky.social and critic @salonig.bsky.social, make their predictions for who will win (and stump for who should win) at this year's #Emmys. Get up to speed and follow all the news with #EmmysWatch over @surf.social! #promoted www.avclub.com/emmys-2026-p...
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Who will and should win at the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards?
Who will and should win at the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards?
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Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A series of interviews in which IDF officers confess to war crimes, NAZA is a devastating expose: www.vulture.com/article/revi...
vulture.com
Naza Is One of the Most Important Films of Our Time
24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic war crimes in Gaza. Their words are impossible to shake.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The interview the FCC didn’t want you to see. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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