Yong Xiong
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Journalist, covering China and more.
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H I Sutton
9 months ago
Great additional images and analysis of the
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- Taiwan invasion barges
add a skeleton here at some point
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David Folkenflik
9 months ago
NEWS: Top Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigns, accusing publisher Will Lewis of killing her piece criticizing Jeff Bezos' overhaul of the opinion section My story for NPR:
www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
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Top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5323136/washington-post-editor-ruth-marcus-resigns
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Avery Schmitz
9 months ago
NEW: Argentina’s military is deploying to surveil hundreds of Chinese fishing boats off its coast. Here’s why: From me,
@isaacyeephoto.bsky.social
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@yong.bsky.social
and Betiana Fernández Martino
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Why Argentina’s military is deploying to surveil hundreds of Chinese fishing boats off its coast | CNN
The Argentine military is ramping up efforts to combat these fishing operations in a region experts warn is on the brink of environmental collapse.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/americas/argentine-military-hunts-chinese-fishing-vessels/index.html
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The New York Times
12 months ago
Applicants for government jobs, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked in interviews about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election — questions that seemed designed to assess their loyalty to President-elect Trump.
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Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test.
Applicants for government posts, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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CNN
12 months ago
A backpack found in Central Park is believed to belong to the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a source says.
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Manhunt underway for UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter: Live updates | CNN
Police are searching for the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan in an apparent targeted attack. Follow for live news updates.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-news-12-6-24#cm4dbfqbi00003b6mm4nzpujz?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2024-12-06T23%3A47%3A16
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dell cameron
about 1 year ago
WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit. It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/
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Ram Ramgopal
about 1 year ago
Speaker Johnson says he’s going request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report
www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...
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Speaker Johnson says he’s going request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report | CNN Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that he does not think the House Ethics Committee report on allegations related to Matt Gaetz should be released and is “going to strongly request that the Et...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/politics/johnson-ethics-report-gaetz/index.html
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Matthew Gertz
about 1 year ago
Well I'm fucked.
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Noah Shachtman
about 1 year ago
Russia didn't even bother to hide its election interference this time around. Iran and China were only slightly less brazen.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/t...
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How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts
The Kremlin did not bother to hide its efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election, as it did in the past.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/technology/russia-us-election-interference.html
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Decided to start using Bluesky again
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Casey Newton
over 2 years ago
Let’s get clear on what Twitter’s rebranding to X really is: a political project from a right-wing reactionary.
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x
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I’m officially on Bluesky now!
over 2 years ago
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