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If he’s confirmed, then there’s one less R vote in the Senate, no?

05.03.2026 23:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher and CEO after job cuts British journalist’s tenure was controversial after being appointed by Jeff Bezos to turn around the newspaper

According to the Financial Times, it was the Super Bowl photos.

08.02.2026 00:09 👍 448 🔁 71 💬 39 📌 23

fired

The lack of a Lewis quote in statement is how we know:

07.02.2026 23:41 👍 62 🔁 12 💬 7 📌 3

When does a newspaper CEO make the cut for a Super Bowl guest list on the other side of the country? Especially for a sport that he didn’t grow up playing?

07.02.2026 23:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

04.02.2026 06:43 👍 8771 🔁 3821 💬 165 📌 792

The Grammys should have had T-Pain do the War Pigs tribute.

02.02.2026 03:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly thought it was a Volvo commercial

02.02.2026 02:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Memeorandum data: WaPo's presence on the news aggregator plunged since a peak in Trump's first term, while the NYT recovered from a drop to grow in his second (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

28.01.2026 00:25 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"

Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

19.12.2025 14:31 👍 3781 🔁 1425 💬 118 📌 265

Feels like the biggest difference between now and the 90s is how quickly any spy stuff would get resolved with iPhones & broadband internet.

29.11.2025 01:41 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

23.11.2025 13:31 👍 4471 🔁 1833 💬 125 📌 282
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Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

11.11.2025 17:25 👍 1935 🔁 589 💬 55 📌 78
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05.11.2025 02:41 👍 86734 🔁 18276 💬 3165 📌 2371
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Lab Monkeys Escape Overturned Truck Near Heidelberg, Mississippi Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck around mile marker 117 on Interstate 59, north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi, marshalling a response from numerous law…

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.

Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.

buff.ly/16gTRJa

28.10.2025 21:12 👍 454 🔁 188 💬 60 📌 201

anyway if you need some good news today... new robyn album soon www.stereogum.com/2323988/roby...

24.09.2025 15:46 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 4
“Ignore what's on Bluesky or Threads”: If you've heard this, it's probably from someone popular on X who's gotten dogpiled by the fringe left on Bluesky. And to be clear, these dynamics are real, unpleasant, and something I would imagine Bluesky management considers a problem, since repelling notable posters can crimp overall growth. But the typical experience for a typical Bluesky user is not unlike classic Twitter: people follow people they're interested in and interactions are generally positive. Moreover, in part by not imposing the “link penalty”, enough journalists who joined Bluesky in prior years have stuck around that it often feels like the current home of “tech journalism Twitter”, along with the sort of conversations that extend from that. Threads has gotten a bad rap for similar reasons, though with Meta shepherding millions of users each week to the app, the userbase now feels very normie. A lot of journalists and other news pundits in tech consider this an audience they can't ignore, so you'll find tech news-relevant conversations there as well. So while neither network has surpassed X in terms of tech industry news commentary (and both have a long way to go on AI, VC, and crypto chatter), if you care what people say on X, you should keep an eye on the other networks too.

“Ignore what's on Bluesky or Threads”: If you've heard this, it's probably from someone popular on X who's gotten dogpiled by the fringe left on Bluesky. And to be clear, these dynamics are real, unpleasant, and something I would imagine Bluesky management considers a problem, since repelling notable posters can crimp overall growth. But the typical experience for a typical Bluesky user is not unlike classic Twitter: people follow people they're interested in and interactions are generally positive. Moreover, in part by not imposing the “link penalty”, enough journalists who joined Bluesky in prior years have stuck around that it often feels like the current home of “tech journalism Twitter”, along with the sort of conversations that extend from that. Threads has gotten a bad rap for similar reasons, though with Meta shepherding millions of users each week to the app, the userbase now feels very normie. A lot of journalists and other news pundits in tech consider this an audience they can't ignore, so you'll find tech news-relevant conversations there as well. So while neither network has surpassed X in terms of tech industry news commentary (and both have a long way to go on AI, VC, and crypto chatter), if you care what people say on X, you should keep an eye on the other networks too.

So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...

12.09.2025 18:42 👍 192 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 8

That feels like the most obvious and correct name for a social media platform, tbh.

01.08.2025 20:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a little on the nose for an AI to suggest that particular story as an under-covered news angle, no? You sure this isn’t a play by Big LLM to proactively get rid of those pesky ethics people?

21.07.2025 19:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mississippi Marsala is great

25.06.2025 04:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nepo babies alllllllll the way down

25.06.2025 04:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyone who was in tech in Web 2.0 days needs to go watch Mountainhead right now.

01.06.2025 02:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Papal March Madness bracket with Villanova all the way

08.05.2025 17:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Francis clearly helped Argentina with the World Cup, so…

08.05.2025 17:21 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison.

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

30.04.2025 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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British urgently want the blood of Irish people NHS say it is ‘vital’ that Irish people in Britain step forward to donate blood

Whoever wrote this title at the Irish Times reporting on blood donation must have rubbed his hands together in mischievous glee.

www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...

11.04.2025 18:46 👍 78 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

22.02.2025 20:07 👍 107934 🔁 23193 💬 2107 📌 1384

Well, that explains the cameo!

13.11.2023 18:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s just make every day 25 hours long

06.11.2023 01:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Been playing the same starting word since this game started and finally hit paydirt.

Wordle 775 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

03.08.2023 20:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0