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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.

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:

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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.

NEW: Argentina’s military is deploying to surveil hundreds of Chinese fishing boats off its coast. Here’s why:

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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.

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.

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.

A backpack found in Central Park is believed to belong to the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a source says.

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.

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.

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...

Speaker Johnson says he’s going request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report
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Well I'm fucked.

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.

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...

Decided to start using Bluesky again

Here’s my answer: this framing misses the true shape of Musk’s project, which is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism. Just as he graffitis his 420s and 69s all over corporate filings; and just as he paints over corporate signage and office rooms with his little sex puns; so does he delight in erasing the Twitter that was. All of this has been clear since at least November, when Musk gleefully mocked a stack of Black Lives Matter T-shirts that he found in a company closet. Yes, Musk regularly issues grandiose pronouncements about how Twitter will someday become a WeChat-style “super app,” ensure the future of civilization, and so on. But at its core, Musk’s misadventure at Twitter has been reactionary: an ideological purge of the employees he saw as “woke” and entitled; a gleeful inversion of industry standards around content moderation; a hollowing out of the free product; and a redistribution of the company’s attention and wea

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

I’m officially on Bluesky now!