I am leaving the Washington Post to join a new journalistic venture backed by Politico founder Robert Allbritton that will be both the hometown publication the D.C. region sorely needs and a scrappy and fearless national news organization. I hope you'll join us.

Not long ago, I interviewed several black Cubans about life there. Dissent can land you in jail, so we spoke over encryption & they were still afraid to talk to me at all. *That* is the regime Assata Shakur stood with. She was no freedom fighter.

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke@repyvetteclarke.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As we face the great fight for freedom of our day, may we find strength and purpose in these enduring words from Assata Shakur. If there is a single truth in this world, it is that Assata died a free woman. May she rest in power and paradise for all eternity.

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder

The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.

newyorker.com

A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.

Musk’s investors lost billions on the Twitter deal and may never see that money again — curious who would finance any potential deal here

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2y ago

New: Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app, according to people familiar with the matter

Well after 7 p.m., and no filing at #SCOTUS from Trump or the other Mar-a-Lago defendants. Looks like Volume I of the Special Counsel’s report (on the January 6 case) will be out in the world as soon as tomorrow.

Highly recommend Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings’ “It’s a Holiday Soul Party”. Great versions of classics, even has a Hanukkah song

Annual reminder that Billy Wilder’s “Stalag 17” is the only film you can watch that culminates in an escape from a Nazi POW camp on Christmas Day. It’s the ultimate “get home for the holidays” movie

I’m tired of sarcasm unless it’s mine

The US CPSC isn't messing around.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 2y ago

If other government agencies join Bluesky and become your favorite agency just remember who was here first and who has two eagles in their logo.

Notwithstanding my contempt for Musk, the preference of a government demanding control of content does not strike me as an auspicious reason for a social network to flourish.

Alexander Howard@digiphile.bsky.social · 2y ago

It will be WILD if Brazil banning X leads Brazilian government to adopt Bluesky, which in turns leads to other democracies doing so. This White House could have established social beachheads & adopted strategic silence on Twitter/X at any point, as Musk waxed anti-democratic & overtly partisan.

Trump has begun asking friends why Harris is raising so much more money than him and why she's drawing bigger crowds. He told an ally last weekend, “It’s unfair that I beat him and now I have to beat her, too" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump complains about campaign as advisers try to focus on attacking Harris

The GOP nominee has grown increasingly angry about Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers and media coverage since replacing Joe Biden on the ticket.

washingtonpost.com

rip to an unmatched legend 7news.com.au/news/obituar...

‘Tata and farewell’: The man behind legendary succulent Chinese meal meme dies

Whether you know him as Mr Democracy Manifest or Succulent Chinese Meal guy, you probably recognise Jack Karlson.

7news.com.au

The comments are a chef’s kiss

The Guernica essay was fine. Streisand Effect in full action here

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

“Former president Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social, is facing ‘substantial doubt’ about its future after burning through tens of millions of dollars in operating costs … Trump Media lost $22.9 million on only $2.3 million in net sales”

Trump’s Truth Social faces ‘substantial doubt’ following financial losses

Accountants for Trump’s media start-up say it “has suffered negative cash flows and recurring losses from operations that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue.”

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ok the full quote is incredible

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3y ago

Andre 3000 says he tried to make a rap album but “sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way. I’m 48 years old.”

Starring John Cusack as George Santos www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/n...

This is what I’m presented my first day back from vacation and a news blackout

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 3y ago

This raises serious questions about Joe Biden's brother's dick's suitability to be president