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Know the veg
We’ll be off Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and will see you again on Tuesday. More than two dozen times over the past year, ICE agents have drawn or pointed their guns at people, alm...
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“In my twenties my watchword was ‘nothing even matters’ à la Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo (RIP) and now, well into my thirties, I can resolutely say that everything does.” ←
@tianareid.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“I genuinely do not believe we can go on like this forever. You have to believe that we cannot. There’s no other point in going on otherwise.” ←
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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Everything’s not all right, all right, all right
As America throws its weight around, it’s only a matter of time before other nations form new coalitions to rebalance power in ways the US won’t like. / Foreign Policy See also: Trump’s imperialist m...
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“For one brief moment in time, as the women swirled, the spectators gazed slack-jawed at the spectacle, and a young nerd stood up and made it rain dollar bills, I was happy, and I was not alone.” ←
@susannahbreslin.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“We invested zillions of dollars in data centers lured by the hype that chatbots will replace scientists and cure cancer.” ←
@danielwhiteson.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“Until we realize CEOs are selling futures, not seeing them, we’ll keep diverting talent, capital, and political attention toward fantasies.” ←
@nbj914.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“This year has largely been total shit, but community has saved it time, and again and delivered us to the end.” ←
@nikostratis.com
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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Watch the ripples change their size
The Minnesota US attorney’s office is in turmoil over the White House’s attempts to blame Renee Good for being murdered, with at least six federal prosecutors resigning. / NBC News See also: “You thi...
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“In 2025, then, the acceleration of eugenics at home and abroad has put me…a little uptight. The death-worship thing—it’s never been for me.” ←
@scheinman.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“Young journalists have a new home to get the same kind of recognition and eyeballs as old Twitter.” ←
@foiaball.com
on 2025
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“Filled with AI slop and disinfo, run by sociopathic technocrat dweebs, humanity’s digital id has had its impulses deadened.” ← Margaret Howie on 2025
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“We’re seeing historic consequences of this vaunted and despised technology.” ←
@milesklee.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“If you own an index fund, congrats, you’re now betting on AI, whether you wanted to or not.” ←
@deenamousa.com
on 2025
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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You’re not alone
In its airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean, the US reportedly disguised its planes to resemble civilian aircraft—which constitutes a war crime. / The Guardian Trump’s invasion of Venezuela comes wit...
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“The visuals of the incident were just so pleasing, man. This preppy-looking beanpole in his pastel pink shirt, jeering in those big beefy agents’ faces. The sandwich falling apart on contact.” ←
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“The campaign was powered by an embodied, local patriotism—of city pride and love of neighbor—rather than the imperial, saber-rattling faux ‘patriotism’ that has been misleading us for a quarter century.” ←
@petedavis.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“The slash-and-burn approach of the Trump administration has been so disruptive that it’s hard to fathom how we’ll end up on the other side.” ←
@brookeborel.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“I can’t totally blame anyone for treating politics like sports betting ... But it’s chilling to watch them refract chaotic policy developments through prisms of personal benefit and the promise of a dopamine hit.” ←
@advaitarun.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“President Trump’s second term has created a deeply chaotic news environment in which journalists can never quite get our feet under us before another wave hits.” ←
@oliviamesser.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“This year proved that if you aren’t on camera now, you basically don’t exist.” ←
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“It is a reminder of how many people in the world live perilously close to the edge...and that the great killers are disease and destitution even more than bombs and bullets.” ←
@timhirschelburns.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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Screen angst
Russian forces had been deeply embedded in Venezuela; but when the US showed up, they either showed no resistance or vanished entirely. / Euromaidan The Dept. of Justice has subpoenaed the Fed over b...
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Doug Mack
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I wrote this a few weeks ago, looking back at 2025. It's even more true today. Community keeps us together.
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“I’ve found reassurance and hope in human connections and the number of people just showing up for each other.” ←
@douglasmack.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“We are all waking up to the fact that it’s now on us to take care of one another.” ←
@janeborden.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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“Streaming isn’t going away. But it can certainly be less dastardly.” ←
@ryandombal.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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“Since peace was declared, Israel has killed more than 400 Palestinians and wounded over 1,000 more, while its de-facto annexation of the West Bank has only accelerated.” ←
@erikmbaker.bsky.social
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
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Amirio Freeman on 2025 → “Just when many thought the Trump 2.0 regime couldn’t be more cruel, the most basic of all basics—food—became a political weapon (fucking hell).”
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t
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It’s shot rocket science
The European Union agrees to a trade pact with South American countries that would create one of the world’s largest free-trade zones (no matter any French tractors.) / eNCA, DW The White House is co...
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Blood and oil
Multiple videos show very clearly that DHS is lying to you about ICE shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis. / 404 Media See also: The murder victim is Renee Nicole Good, who won the Academy of ...
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Bellingcat
12 days ago
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
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Zyn blossoms
France, Germany, and Poland meet to plan their response if President Trump decides to attack Greenland. / The Guardian Secretary of State Rubio says Trump’s goal is to buy Greenland, not invade it. /...
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It feels like we’ve turned a corner
“MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too” is something the president of the United States said in an interview where he declared the US is not at war with Venezuela. / ...
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The Tournament of Books
20 days ago
Likewise, we’re proud to have published this judgment—it’s also one of our favorite pieces of writing from this year. Thank you,
@emilyhughes.bsky.social
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In giving color
TMN is taking a holiday break, and we’ll return with our regularly scheduled headlines on Monday, Jan. 5. In the meantime, here are some places we and our friends like for year-end giving. United Way...
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Whiskey business
In case you missed it, the United States recently carried out “a massive strike” against the Islamic State in Syria. / BBC News Reporters use hard-to-find social media accounts to get a glimpse into ...
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The Tournament of Books
4 months ago
READRUM ~Coming Oct. 27~
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Welcome to the Horror Popup — The Tournament of Books
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After relaunching
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a couple months ago, I’ve been fixing up our old articles (there are a lot, oh wow, really a lot), and will be posting some favorites / some surprises / some honestly just weird stuff I’m running across while on this reformatting expedition
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Sensing a theme
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This checks out “Overlooking the realities of infectious disease epidemiology, these accounts portrayed COVID-19 as a mild disease and imagined a population of robust and physically normative individuals who would survive an epidemic unscathed and ready to return to work.”
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It’s a good idea to go download your statements while you’re still able It’s easy. If my 150-year-old nephew can do it, so can you
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸
about 1 year ago
See if you can guess what I picked as Most Important from 2024 🦸🏻♂️
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reposted by
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katie brigham
about 1 year ago
thanks
@themorningnews.bsky.social
for the chance to be a lil bit nihilistic while also mentioning love is blind! a fascinating end of year wrap-up that asks - “what were the most important events of 2024, and what were the least?”
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reposted by
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Allison C. Meier
about 1 year ago
My very specific thoughts on the year that was & wasn’t!
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Thank you to
@hayden-higgins.bsky.social
for another excellent installment of “The Year That Was and Wasn’t,” our annual round-up of the most—and least—important events of the year! + Improve your feed by following this year’s contributors, who are brilliant all year long:
go.bsky.app/E8RX9ju
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t: 2024
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@jakeromm.bsky.social
“The genocide will inaugurate a new world no matter how it ends.”
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The Year That Was and Wasn’t - The Morning News
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2024, and what were the least?
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bijan
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wrote about the year
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