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always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
This is so great! congratulations!!
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4. Their genetic data is uploaded to an FBI database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
Insane dystopia scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
I see it lol
WE WON A PULITZER!
A big first for
@thebaltimorebanner.com &
@nytimes.com Local Investigations Fellowship.
Thank you to so many, especially those who trusted us with their stories, however painful or risky it may have been for them to share, because they knew it could make a difference.
🧵 The 51st is a part of a Pulitzer-winning project!
We contributed to this collaborative series that covered the opioid epidemic's devastating impacts on a generation of older Black men across America.
tinyurl.com/4jpsnpjj
Gonna miss Skype
Holy shit, just three years into its existence, the nonprofit Baltimore Banner has won its first Pulitzer.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
NYT conclave needle
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
Nothing feels worse than finding out everyone else in the group chat made a new group chat without you because they’re planning a war you aren’t invited to
Carrie Bradshaw at laptop
And then I wondered … had Pete Hegseth really meant to text me the state secrets?
Interesting! Did y’all run surveys in the years between elections too? Wondering if you saw any differences between those and the post-election responses mapped here
So am I understanding correctly that the GOP threatened to defund DC of its own money if they didn't tear up the BLM thing
And then DC tore up the BLM thing
And now the GOP is defunding them anyway
NEW: Who is *actually* running DOGE?
Insiders told us @propublica.org that the named administrator Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run the show.
The latest w/ @chrisbing.bsky.social + Avi Asher-Schapiro: www.propublica.org/article/doge...
all scrolling is doomscrolling under fascism
I just took the wrong train in the opposite direction to work, if you're wondering how Daylight Savings is going
It was small and musty, and the projector never quite aligned with the screen, but where else could you watch an old Scorsese film with three generations of moviegoers for $5 on a Tuesday night? :’)
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism
