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Mason Wright

@thismason.bsky.social

New West dad who likes pro sports, journalism and great tunes. On the music nerd scale, I'm a tenor. I live on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. He/him

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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 03:44 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

27.02.2026 02:21 — 👍 5789    🔁 1402    💬 73    📌 138
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This AI-generated podcast network publishes 11,000 episodes a day. It also ripped off media outlets Daily News Now tops search results for local news podcasts with AI content

NEW on @indicator.media:

I found an AI-generated podcast network that has published 350,000 episodes in the past month. That's 11,000 episodes a day, or about one year's worth of audio content.

You'll be shocked to find out it's not generating original material.

25.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 62    🔁 40    💬 4    📌 9
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WHISTLEBLOWER: Kash’s personal use of the FBI jet delayed investigators after the Brown U Mass shooting

(H/T @atrupar.com )

24.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 4068    🔁 1650    💬 123    📌 62
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Federal Prisons Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People ‘People will die,’ an advocate warns, as standard treatments for gender dysphoria are replaced with therapy and antidepressants after Trump’s order.

BREAKING: The federal prison system will stop providing gender-affirming medical or social transition care to almost any transgender people, under a new policy released by the Bureau of Prisons Thursday. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/19/t...

19.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 25    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 4
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Immigration activists barred from hearing on requiring ICE at polls Immigration activists were banned from the Arizona Senate building while waiting to speak against a bill mandating federal agents at election sites.

And so it begins - (AZ Central) It (the bill) would force all county recorders and each county board of supervisors to partner with an immigration agency to place FEDERAL AGENTS anywhere ballots were "cast or deposited."

23.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 435    🔁 398    💬 39    📌 39
Summary of recommendation
Government, industry and the post-secondary 
sector should partner to create programs that will 
prepare graduates with cutting-edge knowledge of 
the rail industry so they can launch careers in the 
transportation sector. In particular, there is a need for 
bridging the divide between planning and engineering, 
so that rail industry specialists have a strong grounding 
in both technical and socioeconomic aspects.

Summary of recommendation Government, industry and the post-secondary sector should partner to create programs that will prepare graduates with cutting-edge knowledge of the rail industry so they can launch careers in the transportation sector. In particular, there is a need for bridging the divide between planning and engineering, so that rail industry specialists have a strong grounding in both technical and socioeconomic aspects.

You should absolutely read this document it is amazing. It also calls for a transit-focused degree at a Canadian university. 👀👀👀

23.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I feel the need to apologize for Vancouver having zero inches of snow this winter

23.02.2026 05:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mass shootings aren’t being driven by transgender folks. That’s just Tommy Tuberville’s lazy fear politics.

Alabama had 90 mass shootings since 2020. None were committed by transgender perpetrators.

But that’s not the conversation Tuberville wants to have.

23.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 1432    🔁 536    💬 107    📌 23

Here, have my grudging 'like'

22.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sudden death | noun | extra play to break a tie in a sports contest in which the first to score or gain the lead wins

22.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 585    🔁 111    💬 13    📌 15
So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature.

This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

20.02.2026 12:37 — 👍 1341    🔁 525    💬 13    📌 35
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You guys aren’t beating the allegations that the only victims of ICE that matter are white.

19.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 99    🔁 63    💬 0    📌 4

The sentencing trial for Yoon Suk-yeol will begin in 10 minutes.

19.02.2026 05:49 — 👍 529    🔁 97    💬 5    📌 49
Golden girls title scene on a modern-ish flatscreen. The episode title is "In a Bed of Rose's"

Golden girls title scene on a modern-ish flatscreen. The episode title is "In a Bed of Rose's"

Whoops forgot the pic

19.02.2026 05:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can't stop won't stop (great pun in the episode title too) #thankyouforbeingafriend #Goldengirls

19.02.2026 05:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reminding myself to download all of Wikipedia to my local machine—which I believe is possible—before it's overrun with LLM content

19.02.2026 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.

The DOJ has asked states to agree to sign a secret agreement “in connection w/ handing over their full voter files.” The agreement says that “the DOJ will ‘test, analyze, & assess states’ [voter rolls]’ & send each participating state a list of voters who must be removed within 45 days.” 2/5/26 …1/

17.02.2026 03:42 — 👍 339    🔁 272    💬 28    📌 42

I wondered the same thing. It's odd.

17.02.2026 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

15.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 1258    🔁 359    💬 10    📌 39
Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."

Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event.

They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

15.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 1158    🔁 479    💬 17    📌 17

They really kind of bully Rose for her intelligence and her storytelling...

15.02.2026 06:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting, thanks for sharing

15.02.2026 05:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a young boy wearing a formal shirt and tie.

Vintage black-and-white portrait of a young boy wearing a formal shirt and tie.

14 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Manfred Georg Broder, was born in Leipzig.

He was transferred from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in February 1944, from where on 4 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

14.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 558    🔁 129    💬 19    📌 12
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Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia. Sourced from 2,429 emails across 1,345 threads in the Jmail archive.

thank fucking god someone else made a jeffrey epstein wiki so i don't feel like i am leaving it dangling jmail.world/wiki/peter-t...

14.02.2026 06:44 — 👍 85    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1

I love this. Welcome!

#GoldenGirls

13.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
You Should Probably Leave Substack You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

12.02.2026 04:54 — 👍 713    🔁 358    💬 12    📌 27
Vintage black and white photo of a woman holding a young child, both smiling, with a dense hedge in the background.

Vintage black and white photo of a woman holding a young child, both smiling, with a dense hedge in the background.

12 February 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Lijmer, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in January 1943 together with her mother Naathje. They were most probably both murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

12.02.2026 05:00 — 👍 526    🔁 129    💬 12    📌 14
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Deadly attack shatters quiet community of Tumbler Ridge As residents grapple with new reality, police provide clearer picture of Tuesday’s events

“Canada is crying with you tonight”

As Tumbler Ridge grapples with its new reality, a police chronology paired with interviews and firsthand accounts shed light on how events unfolded
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

12.02.2026 04:48 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Ten episodes in and I'm struck at the gravity of the plot each episode. Blanche almost has to donate her kidney to a hated sister, Rose is conflicted about being intimate again after her husband's death, they think Sofia is DYING in this episode #goldengirls

12.02.2026 06:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0