The best description I ever heard of News Corp was from a Murdoch biographer who called it a kind of free-floating state television which various regimes could contract with to provide propaganda. The new CBS is actually lower than that, even.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

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sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10mo ago

this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Happy anniversary to us! Today, MTG Wiki is 20 years old! From our start at @mtgsalvation.bsky.social to today, hosted by @scryfall.com, we've been here to serve the community for a long time. Here's a summary of our work this last year, and some thoughts looking ahead! reddit.com/r/magicTCG/c...

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Man I am going to be so annoyed if I have to protest on behalf of the governor I do not like because he gets arrested by the Trump administration for not freeing Tina Peters, who Trump cannot pardon.

I honestly can't think of an issue where my mind has been more thoroughly changed by listening to people on social media. While MAiD is something that in principle I'd support, it's not possible to have it as a truly consensual option under current systems- something I learned from disabled folks.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead. There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere. This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying 🧵

I see I gotta post this again.

Alright, let's talk about (what's public) about the new Strixhaven novel. Here's the full promo text for the novel! The novel is both a good entry point to Magic lore and has plenty for established fans. This was a blast to work on and is 100% a @seananmcguire.bsky.social novel.

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

I gotta give CNN credit here, Berman kept his boot on Cotton’s throat for a full three minutes. You can see the light just go out of Cotton’s eyes at 2:35.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 11mo ago

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘 The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

Mark your calendars!

DevLev Echoverse Observer@levdev.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just a quick heads up to people. The web stories for the upcoming Lorwyn set start on Dec. 8 . That's two weeks from now. I am pretty excited to ready magic story again, not going to lie. #MTGLorwyn

Is it possible, and hear me out here, that declining outcomes are perhaps correlated with the last fifteen years of trying a new, big dramatic way to “fix schools” every 18 months that entails paying a bunch of money to the tech industry or stealing tax revenue to fund charter schools?

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

And of course we get the brain-dead political analysis. The biggest crisis of public education (and the greatest threat to kids with mental illness) is the Republican Party's funding cuts. But guess who gets blamed in the conclusion of the article?

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP. Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

Taras Grescoe 🚇@taras-grescoe.com · 11mo ago

#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure. The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm). www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...

This is a classic.

Why Do Recipe Writers Lie About How Long It Takes To Caramelize Onions?

Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...

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If your Turkey is frozen you need to start defrosting it today.

Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are. It does the same for everyone that excused them.

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 11mo ago

NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won. Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co

Ah I see the conservatives have finally managed to implement their actual war on Christmas they've bern hyping up for 3 decades.

The video isn't doing well which isn't surprising since commander "deck techs" have a narrow audience, but if you know someone looking for Avatar commander "precons" then you can send them this: youtu.be/Nq5GLMVQfTk?...

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The Legendary Stoat Snow Sentry #art #sketchbook

Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed. The State Department had deleted history.

Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war

Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.

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NGL folks. Moving even just one of these originals would really make a difference for my husband & I with our continually piling up medical bills.🥲 Plz help spread the word, if you can. Even just re-sharing is powerful for small artists like me.🙏

Angela R. Sasser | Fine Artist, Goddess Art, and Watercolors@angelicshades.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you've ever wanted to collect one of my originals, here's a great opportunity! I'm offering these pieces currently via the @changelingart.bsky.social's Deck the Halls auction with extremely fair starting bids. Place your bids here by commenting on the images: www.facebook.com/share/19tZA4...

Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...

particularly when axios is reporting it and no one else — not even politico — is.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

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The continuous use of "decks" for powerpoint presentations .... it's made me want to scream for the last 6 years since I first heard it.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Suzan Phoenix@sphoenixwriter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES! If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒 I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI www.grammarly.com/blog/company...

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