@sickosfc.bsky.social Talking with @bencollins.bsky.social about soccer fandom and Sickos was among the highlights of a recent journalism conference in San Antonio
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Just trying to get a hang of this thing. Same handle on the other site.
She looked like Eva Marie Saint / In On the Waterfront She read Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance - Lloyd Cole
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d agoBreaking News: Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for “On the Waterfront” and starred in “North by Northwest,” has died. She was 102. nyti.ms/4hQfOlZ
Not NOW pneumonic plague
Kevin Rothrock@kevinrothrock.me · last wk.Russian authorities still haven't confirmed reports that a 28-yr-old woman in Shelekhov died of pneumonic plague. But the local hospital is quarantined, a nearby city briefly warned residents not to travel there, & local pharmacies are running short of key antibiotics. t.me/Baikal_Peopl...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n... Student journalists are the heroes and heroines we need.
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
On Sept. 19th, OMB gave Customs and Border Protection $20 million. The next day, CBP awarded an ad company a contract for $20 million for a “national media campaign.” On Sept. 23rd, Trump ads start running on national tv as "paid for by U.S. government."
CBP Got $20 Million for a ‘Media Campaign.’ Lawmakers Say It Was a Misuse of Funds.
The administration started running Trump-focused national ads that have come under ethical scrutiny for using taxpayer funds.
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Time to start the clock on when it gets closed again. My guess is November 1.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoThe White House is set to reopen a portion of Lafayette Square, the public park across the street from the White House, eight months after President Trump closed the park for renovations.
The word is propaganda. This is taxpayer-funded government propaganda to sway an election.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoThe White House has expanded a series of taxpayer-funded advertisements boosting President Trump, including a new spot that repurposes imagery and political rhetoric Trump used while campaigning for president.
Paid for by American taxpayers.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2w agoWhat an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
I remember buying this on my birthday 9/26/94 in Dunedin, New Zealand
R.E.M.@remhq.bsky.social · 2w ago👹 Monster was released on this day in 1994. “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?,” “Bang and Blame,” “Strange Currencies,” “Crush With Eyeliner,” “Tongue” — and a run of music videos that makes this one especially fun to look back on. Share your favorite song in the comments…
Looking forward to seeing @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social ‘s new MUSK documentary youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28
MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Honestly one of the great heroes of the last century.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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You could get very far into journalism in the Gulf states by simply referring to "The Gulf" and not elaborating further.
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2w agoThe general manager of WBHM in Birmingham announces the public radio station is compelled to begin referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." view.reach.uab.edu/?vawpToken...
If Kansas isn’t on your radar screen for a potential 🟥 -> 🟦 Senate flip maybe it should be.
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 2w agoHamilton actually talked to me at length about exactly this last month. I.e., he sees his experience leading a politically diverse megachurch as directly transferable to both political campaigning and governing. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
Happy 77th Birthday to Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen. How is this possible?? a thread of interesting video clips in his honor
Awaiting the voices of the people dedicated to "Defending women's sports"
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3w agoICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly (Trump/DC) orders White House to restore credentials to POLITICO/CNN/MSNOW reporters. Kelly 'skeptical' Trump's decision to revoke the passes had anything to do with national security. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
CNNPOLMSOrder092426.PDF
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As an Indianapolis native I can say that this tracks.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3w agoFive cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
Raise your hand if you think someone with a public image like this wouldn’t rape an underaged girl. I see no hands.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w agoThe social media influencer known online as "Clavicular" has been charged with raping a 17-year-old girl at his family's Cape Cod home.
Canary Resuscitator could be a deliberately abrasive under the radar 90s indie band
Cliff PervoSCARY@pervocracy.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEy
My Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World
“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ...
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Good to see this piece emerge after immigrant rights and activist groups raised the alarm yesterday. Intentionally or not, this legal legerdemain creates the possibility of genuine atrocities worse than we have already seen.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoICE is erasing immigrants with final deportation orders from a searchable online database, leaving families and attorneys in the dark. “It is truly a forced disappearance,” said Atenas Burrola Estrada of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights.
Holy shit that is terrible journalism
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 3w agoSad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...