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After landing at Newark airport, Norwegian tourist Mads Mikkelsen says he was detained and denied entry to the U.S. because immigration officials found on his phone a photo depicting JD Vance as a bald baby.

Thirty five years ago, I joined an expedition to Lenin Peak, a 23,406-foot (7,134-meter) mountain in the Soviet Union. By a fluke, I narrowly escaped the deadliest mountain climbing accident in history. Here's the story of what happened. Read it. Share it. Thanks. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Ferry home after a nail-biter of a Warriors game.

My brother and fellow journalist Daniel Helft had a great interview with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social about America under Trump for La Nación, Argentina's best-known broadsheet newspaper. (Published in Spanish, but GTranslate works well.) www.lanacion.com.ar/ideas/anne-a...

First they came for the judges...

So much winning

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

American desaparecidos

The government treating Teslas on fire as a big dramatic deal and what's weird about this is. They only care about Tesla fires when there are *NOT* people in the car. If a Tesla catches on fire while people are driving it that is apparently normal and the government sees nothing there to investigate

Some democracies work better than others. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

Timely new book by my friend @grivlin.bsky.social ... and for New Yorkers, an opportunity to catch him live in convo with the @theatlantic.com 's @nxthompson.bsky.social tongiht

Sure, but what about her emails? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

The attack against the independence of the courts is a) already underway in a coordinated fashion, b) standard fascism playbook, and c) if successful, it's game over. Pay attention.

This is how the NYTimes concluded an article about the creation of a migrant concentration camp

Exactly exactly exactly

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

horrifying

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Yep

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If she can do it, we can all do it.

My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆

I don't know why, but every time I see the name Lee Zedlin (EPA nominee), my brain registers Led Zeppelin

This

A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:

Inspiring words on innovation from the inventor of Stories, Reels, and Threads.

Truly heinous www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Is there a bluesky version of Facebook? Please?

hello papi

@dwillner.bsky.social was part of the original content moderation team at FB (I profiled his work in the NYT in 2010). He knows what he's talking about...worth a read.

man say what you will about x but at least they're like unapologetically full woke mind virus. this is some bleak, bankrupt stuff right here. www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

So prescient.

I guess Musk won the cage match.

Two salient facts about Facebook replacing its fact-checking program with community notes: (1) community notes are cheaper. (2) the incoming political regime dislikes fact-checking. So community notes are less trouble. The rest is just framing. Zuck's sole principle is to do what's best for Zuck.

Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021: Meta = $0 Tim Cook = $0 Sam Altman = $0 Google = $200,000 Amazon = $200,000 Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025: Meta = $1,000,000 Tim Cook = $1,000,000 Sam Altman = $1,000,000 Google = $1,000,000 Amazon = $1,000,000 The oligarchy is here.

Oh www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

A talking head on MSNBC just called Mike Johnson "a likable guy." The media's willingness to normalize the abnormal is killing us. Johnson is likable if you like pro-insurrection Christofascists who hate gay people, support a Muslim ban and want to rip away health care from millions of Americans.

I woke up this morning and for the first time in 364 days, I am not behind on my Strava/riding goals for the year. The sense of accomplishment is overwhelming.

Hey @bsky.app ...when I say "show less like this"...I mean it. Please

I hate to be a downer...but I fear 2025 is going to suck. Let's fight to avoid the worst of it.

Rotten news to wake up to. Condolences to the families of all these people.