this is such a good metaphor for where America is at right now
— Boone Ashworth (@boone.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Russia’s New Weapon: Child Suicide Bombers
— Hassan I. Hassan (@hxhassan) May 1, 2025
Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting unsuspecting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, for suicide missions.
By @michaeldweiss and @jimmysecuk for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/UZiH2n7Pzf
("The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units. 'Brave 1 Market will be like Amazon for the military'")A couple of other details about this program. One of the goals was to improve data collection so that leaders in Kyiv could determine which strike UAS units were most effective and efficient and should be scaled. This is how they chose to promote Magyar, Achilles, Rarog, Phoenix,… https://t.co/UF9xMSPGKt
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) May 1, 2025
OK the guy who is saying everybody is sad and has no friends, remind me, what was his company supposed to be about?
— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview that's at the center of the Trump lawsuit and an FCC news distortion probe just got an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Edited Interview category pic.twitter.com/7VAgqWHNbB
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) May 1, 2025
("Six months later, SydTowleSnark had more than 1,000 members, a relatively small group but one with an active core."...“Does something feel off to you about Syd Towle’s cancer story?” the subreddit asked. The group’s rules included “Be respectful to each other” and “No defending Syd.”)Great piece on a psychotic snark subreddit about a young woman on TikTok with cancer (the Redditors were trying to prove that she didn't have cancer) One of the most obsessed critics on Reddit criticizing the young cancer patient is a 53-year-old woman. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...
— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
— Steven Rich (@datab.ae) May 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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This is a really big deal in New York. The state senate has reversed itself -- and gone against all precedents -- and allowed billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen's casino project to move forward, over the objection of the local senator. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If anything they actively work to obfuscate & erase whatever talent they have. At Kotaku, for instance, we’ve lost most front-page bylines in recent years and were outright told we couldn’t do our own individual, personal lists of the year’s best games with our names in headlines, among other things
— Carolyn Petit (@carolynmichelle.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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In the law firm executive order cases, DOJ says an injunction barring implementation will only be enforceable against the govt agencies named in the complaint. So Perkins Coie just amended its complaint to name all the relevant fed agencies. The case caption is now 40 pages long. pic.twitter.com/2JhnuRqsog
— Roger Parloff (@rparloff) April 29, 2025
“If you’re you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person to use their work to create the product that's destroying the market for their work—I just don't understand how that can be fair use.”
— neil turkewitz (@neilturkewitz) May 1, 2025
— Judge Chhabria https://t.co/StOhRjqgR1
SF public schools have a dirty little secret — parents who use fake addresses to cheat the lotto and get their kids into preferred schools
— Annie Gaus (@AnnieGaus) April 29, 2025
B/c of budget cuts, there's currently no one investigating it
"It's open season"https://t.co/QzRm6VNkgh
(The Fortnite Galactic Battle cinematic trailer is fun)You can catch the first two episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld exclusively in Fortnite this Friday (10AM ET)!
— Fortnite (@Fortnite) April 29, 2025
Earn the Assaj Ventress Loading Screen by watching both episodes in the Star Wars Watch Party Island, and catch the full premiere on May 4 on @DisneyPlus.… pic.twitter.com/mbVhmvD2nl
Fred VanVleet impatiently waiting for his turn in the press conference room
— Danielle Lerner (@danielle-lerner.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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If Nico waited a few months he could’ve traded Luka for Giannis right
— kang (@jaycaspiankang) May 2, 2025
📍 Intuit Dome pic.twitter.com/6i9mBg2Ndg
— Mirjam Swanson (@MirjamSwanson) May 2, 2025
Nikola Jokic will feel right at home tonight pic.twitter.com/8Nnlt6QbBw
— DNVR Nuggets (@DNVR_Nuggets) May 1, 2025
Hoopla Digital — free with a library card — now has comic strips. More than 100 newspaper strips are available digitally + the complete PEANUTS. They also have manga, comics, and graphic novels — all free to "borrow." A treasure trove. www.hoopladigital.com/bingepass/co... #Comics #Manga #BookSky
— Will McKinley (@willmckinley.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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i know nothing abt lego
— 🍉 jg 🇵🇸 (@juangeedraws) April 23, 2025
meanwhile in rome https://t.co/KcHIPqOXq8 pic.twitter.com/cok626sYPJ
— gavino (@gmoult) March 30, 2025
If y’all just wanna read the book, you can find it for free on The Internet Archive archive.org/details/runa...
— Ivonne (@servoisnaked.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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— Alex Ross (@thealexrossart) March 30, 2025(Don't remember seeing this before--love when he sneaks in easter eggs)
TIL Sandler missed oneI will always think of this @hausofdecline.bsky.social comic.
— Mark Primiano (@doctor1hundred.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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@adventures_of_the_dude_ ♬ original sound - Ryan & The Dude
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