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Justin Purnell

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I like surprises

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Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · yesterday

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 3d ago

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d ago

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

Douglas Reyes-Ceron@dreyesceron.bsky.social · 4d ago

“FIFA is not a private enterprise. It is a body held in trust for the game and its members. Those appointed to serve it carry a fiduciary duty, a duty of service over power. Where that duty is not upheld, accountability cannot be optional.” holy hell, CONCACAF brought out the axe against Infantino

Jonathan Tannenwald@jtannenwald.bsky.social · 4d ago

Concacaf drops a hammer on Gianni Infantino: "This recent unilateral and egregious act of poor governance and leadership follows a pattern of missteps and similar behaviour. A comprehensive reckoning with this presidency is imperative." www.concacaf.com/news/concaca...

Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social · last wk.

Sheriff Edwin Raymond. Yesterday, at Brooklyn College, Attorney General Letitia James administered the oath of office, and Edwin Raymond became Sheriff of the City of New York, a job Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose him for. 🧵

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

Once again reminding people who run companies that they have autonomy, and that there is freedom (and money!) in trying to appeal to actual humans and not the machine pretending to be billions of them.

To me, you will always be the guy who understood the internet the best because you saw its worst parts, and still held out hope for something better. How do you think the internet has evolved, and how do you think about covering it through The Onion now versus when you left NBC? It’s reverting, at least for young people, to something closer to what was exciting about the internet 10 to 15 years ago—a means to an end to meet people in real life. That’s how I moved to New York, met my friends, discovered music and movies I never would have found. It destabilized culture in a way that let me exist functionally for the first time. Then people got the wrong idea—that being on the computer all day was the point. It never was. The internet helped me understand a world that had seemed vacuous and weird. Now we’re back in a place where the people who consolidated the internet seem to think the goal is to keep us on the computer feeding the machine. I don’t think that’s what people want. For us it’s the opposite: How do we get you back into real life using the information? The Onion, at the end of the day, is a really good sentence generator for the real world—the distillation you can say in the elevator. We want people out in the world talking to each other again—which is part of why we have almost 83,000 people getting a physical newspaper in their mailbox again this month. We view the internet as a means to an end to get people into The Onion in real life. Dominating ChatGPT is not the goal.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

AOC: I think when I make decisions about my life, they aren't just rooted in polls. They're rooted in what people need, what is best for the country and what is appropriate for the moment… and I think that right now, the most important thing before the country is for Democrats to win the midterms

James T.@jathaj.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m pretty sure Graham thought he would outlive Trump, a safe enough bet TBH, and get a chance to do a takebacksies on all his misdeeds and end his career as a venerated statesman. Oh well.

Justin Purnell@justinpurnell.com · 4w ago

big baby wants people to say they love him if you care about the people of maine, get the fuck out and support someone who will win. don't muddy the waters and try to make yourself the leader of a shitbag movement

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”