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Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

28.01.2026 01:51 👍 25428 🔁 6952 💬 7 📌 155
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How a London newspaper botched a New York political story Welcome to New York.

"That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, and who assigned the de Blasio piece, per two people with knowledge of the situation."

Bari's wake is sloppy lies www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

29.10.2025 20:20 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3
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America’s Greatest Mistake Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.

“Lynch structures the book as a narrative autopsy of each presidential administration’s respective failures to shield the American worker from globalization’s most backbreaking consequences.” @sidhubaba.bsky.social analyzes a new book by journalist David J. Lynch.

trib.al/iGnZwmg

04.10.2025 18:00 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Share your Islamophobia story My name is Rozina Ali, and I'm a journalist and writer. For a research project, I'm collecting examples of Islamophobic (anti-Muslim) comments people in the United States have received over the last 2...

Hello: I'm collecting examples of anti-Muslim remarks people in the United States have received over their lives. Please fill out this survey fill out this survey if it applies to you (and please share!):

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

15.07.2025 18:39 👍 37 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 0

+1

09.07.2025 15:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PS, ready/eager/able to provide references to past collaborators of mine

30.06.2025 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy to offer free consultations to talk your project and come up with a game plan, too...!

30.06.2025 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Interested in any and all topics, including memoir, tech, politics, culture, business. Keen to work on finished manuscripts, proposals, as well as early drafts (i.e., turning proposals into actual chapters)

30.06.2025 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Should you find yourself in need of a developmental editorial for a book project — fiction, non-, something in-between or somehow neither — I’m looking to take on a few more clients between now and the fall

30.06.2025 14:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Lopez, an internationally renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has been publicly critical of the Salvadoran government's abuses.

I had the honor of interviewing Ruth earlier this year, she must be freed.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

19.05.2025 14:20 👍 381 🔁 153 💬 3 📌 8

*GOLDMAN SACHS RESCINDS RECESSION CALL AFTER TRUMP TARIFF PAUSE

09.04.2025 18:38 👍 110 🔁 12 💬 28 📌 51

i love blue sky dot com

26.02.2025 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yes

26.02.2025 16:54 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The final question was “what is it like inside the mind of a billionaire” and the answer was “my mind is a storm. It’s a storm.”

20.02.2025 22:46 👍 270 🔁 14 💬 18 📌 2
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An Unproductive Ambiguity Rebecca Pierce speaks with Mari Cohen, Noah Kulwin, and Siddhartha Mahanta about the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist .

On the new episode of our podcast, On the Nose,
@aptly-engineerd.bsky.social speaks with @maricohen.bsky.social, Noah Kulwin, and @sidhubaba.bsky.social about the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist.

20.02.2025 19:27 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

movie talk!!!

20.02.2025 22:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Modi’s Hindu-nationalist project in Jammu and Kashmir has become a nightmare for Hindus The end of the state’s “special status” was supposed to bring it inside the BJP’s big tent. Instead, it has imperiled civilians.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-hindu...

16.02.2025 19:30 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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As Modi Visits D.C., Sikh Americans Say Surveillance and Threats Continue An alleged transnational campaign of killings and intimidation targeting Sikh dissidents has not abated

www.dropsitenews.com/p/as-modi-vi...

14.02.2025 19:25 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Requiem for a Comedy Dream Jason Reitman’s new film about the origins of ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces a consideration of how the show turned into comfort food for its scared, self-satisfied liberal audiences.

This piece on SNL’s 50th anniversary by @sidhubaba.bsky.social clarifies for me why I haven’t cared about the show for a couple of decades. It revved its countercultural claims way past their expiration date. Its defanged satire points us away from doing real politics. prospect.org/culture/2024...

14.02.2025 17:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

hope he sees this bro....

05.02.2025 20:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To skeet is to display that one has no power

04.02.2025 17:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

just a guy with no power, skeetin'

04.02.2025 17:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Owned A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media ...

OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends.

I hope you check it out

04.02.2025 14:05 👍 1167 🔁 297 💬 23 📌 22

Our @hassankanu.bsky.social is at USAID right now as Democrats attempt to enter the building. More as we have it.

03.02.2025 18:42 👍 214 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 3
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“Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City Steered by a "right-wing Zionist" organization, the campaign is using facial-recognition technology to intimidate and out activists demonstrating against Israel

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-pal...

31.01.2025 12:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MAGA Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Sons Allegedly Committed War Crimes in Gaza. Trump May Be Able to Protect Them. They are two of the U.S. citizens included in a landmark criminal complaint filed against Israeli soldiers, a Belgian legal group says

Last July, MAGA world's favorite rabbi posted proudly about his IDF-serving son's activities in Gaza. In October, those posts wound up in a war crimes complaint brought before the ICC

www.dropsitenews.com/p/maga-rabbi...

24.01.2025 15:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Israel Invades Jenin Days After Signing Gaza “Ceasefire” Israeli leaders suggest the operation was plotted during a backroom deal made during Gaza ceasefire vote

A report from Jenin: www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-inv...

22.01.2025 13:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment — Switchyard By Mya Frazier

www.switchyardmag.com/issue-4/powe...

22.01.2025 13:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-har...

15.01.2025 16:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The man making a business out of China’s burnout generation Li Jianxiong was a highflying marketing executive in Beijing until a breakdown sent him to the west on a wellness voyage of discovery – just as his peers were losing faith in the Chinese Dream

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

15.01.2025 13:54 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0