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Trevor Metcalfe

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Norfolk reporter. tips@pilotonline.com.

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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 51m
Neon District used to be a creative hotspot in Norfolk: arts shows, halfpipes, graffiti artists tagging huge shipping containers. It looks a lot different today: closed streets and exposed concrete pipes. How can it get back to being place where artists thrive? www.pilotonline.com/2026/10/03/n...
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The Neon District was a haven for creativity. Can stakeholders relight that spark?
On any given weekend night in the late 2010s, the Neon District was the place to be. But as a streetscape project drags on, the once vibrant arts district is more like a ghost town. Stakeholders hope ...
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 2h
WHERE IS LOVELESS. rkhub.site/albums9
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22h
All of the pundits saying so confidently that polls are overestimating Democrats fail to mention that the polling error in 2025 in VA and NJ was twice as large as the average state poll bias in 2016 and 2024. Nobody knows direction of error ahead of time! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...
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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave
When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 04/10/2026
Donald Trump has announced that if Republicans maintain control of Congress after the midterms he will give every American a little kiss
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If true, this is a great way for outlets to erode any remaining trust with sources and reputation in the community .
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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Catherine Shaffer @cathshaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A year or two ago, Gannett was advertising heavily on LinkedIn for AI reporter roles, described as a reporter that would use AI to assemble large numbers of stories with fast turnover. I didn’t apply. Worth reading the whole thread here.
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Personal nightmare as a reporter. Our union is fighting for Ai protections so situations like this don't happen.
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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is an absolute mess
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hampton Roads white sauce wellness check
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months. Read More👉 ebx.sh/FFZdl8
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1
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💀norfölkology🎃 @norfolkology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dang 'O’s Donuts, at 222 W. 21st St., Suite N, in Norfolk announced on Facebook that its last day will be Oct. 11.'
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The latest business openings and closings in Hampton Roads
Whether businesses are opening, closing, or moving to a new location, here’s the latest on what’s happening.
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trying to imagine a world where I spend *checks notes* $4,000 a year of my own money on AI services www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will...
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Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food.
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The wife emailer
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald
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Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's the most important month of the year for me (4K theater re-release of Ken Russell's The Devils) Turning 36 is a very distant second.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 30/09/2026
The first U.S. federal appeals court to examine fair use in AI training has sided with Thomson Reuters, upholding its landmark copyright win against the AI startup Ross Intelligence. buff.ly/UclLmsM
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Federal appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters’ landmark AI copyright win
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters, upholding the company's landmark win in a copyright infringement case against the now-defunct legal AI startup Ross…
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A former James City County police officer has been charged with misusing Flock Cameras www.pilotonline.com/2026/09/30/f...
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Former James City County officer charged with misusing Flock camera system
Androu Eskandar, 30, is alleged to have used his position as an officer to access law enforcement information systems for purposes unrelated to his job, according to a release.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 29/09/2026
This is such a great profile of Dinosaur Jr “It’s annoying, because you’re saddled with these guys — god dammit, what the fuck? But it sounds better, so what are you going to do?” — J Mascis on Lou Barlow and Murph
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How Dinosaur Jr. Learned to Tolerate One Another, Kind Of
For 40 years, J Mascis has quietly led his incredibly loud band into the annals of indie rock. But during his annual vacation in Cape Cod, he opened up about almost everything: interpersonal dynamics,...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blood Meridian ah headline
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"USS Fort Lauderdale was in the Caribbean, part of the Trump admin's operation around Venezuela.. "It was constantly like getting texts like, 'Guys, you'll never f***ing believe it. We just got extended again,' & I think it happened 4x. It's just that uncertainty & promises unfulfilled": Calderon
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Heart-Wrenching Movie Scene Immediately Cuts To Liberty Biberty
Heart-Wrenching Movie Scene Immediately Cuts To Liberty Biberty
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when i'm mad at the butthole surfers singer but forgot his name
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💀norfölkology🎃 @norfolkology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Will Lamberts Point also get TopGolf who can say
Photo Via Dust Solutions, Inc.
An example of a wind fence at a coal mine in Illinois.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
absolutely amazing chart
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dragula is actually the number one song in America
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 27/09/2026
Honestly amazing that no one can convince him that this is not going to have the political effect that he thinks. Probably letting him do it just so he doesn’t waste PAC money.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A provocative article in Rolling Stone titled "What some folks really mean when they claim to have never done the Humpty Hump."
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How do I get this beat
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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DGM @notredale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jack Lemon with a broccoli cut and iced coffee
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hearing a lot of talk about a song about Cleveland youtu.be/ysmLA5TqbIY?...
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HASTILY MADE CLEVELAND TOURISM VIDEO
YouTube video by bishopvids
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My hottest take about TV is it takes too long. You could watch so many movies
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Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leftovers and twin peaks the return robbed
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Breaking News: A sheriff in California was ordered by the state Supreme Court to return about 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact. nyti.ms/4hejTBu
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco walking between SUVs parked in the street. A headline reads: "Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules." Photo by Noah Berger/Associated Press
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 24/09/2026
Americans may not be able to afford to buy a home, but at least they also can’t afford gas or groceries
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Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market (Gift Article)
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability.
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