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Hungry hungry journo. TED Talks Daily host, Forever35 co-host. Founded NPR's Seoul buro. Author of FLAWLESS. Ex-expat. Texan. Mammal. 刀子嘴豆腐心. elisehu.com @elisewho on instagram elisehu.substack.com

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Inside ABC's Shock Kimmel Decision At Disney, emergency meetings were convened after the FCC chair’s Jimmy Kimmel threat, with the late-night host ready to respond on-air—but Disney brass ultimately decided to bench the marquee talent ...

"The message is chilling: in Trump’s America, even the most powerful media companies will silence their own talent if it keeps them in the administration’s good graces. It is a remarkable, and deeply alarming, moment for free speech."
— @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

18.09.2025 02:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NikeCourt Slam Women's Dri-FIT Tennis Dress Find the NikeCourt Slam Women's Dri-FIT Tennis Dress at Nike.com. Free delivery and returns.

if anyone else was looking up aryna sabalenka's kit today, found it! It's also available in black www.nike.com/t/nikecourt-...

06.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers | Defector True to the spirit of America, the most catastrophic thing to happen at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month was not the attempted mass shooting in Atlanta of the agency’s public ...

"The CDC, once our nation's most powerful bastion against disease, injury, and disability, appears to be burning to the ground. This will be a prolonged, excruciating immolation, and people will die as a result."

29.08.2025 17:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Love a Foucault reference

26.08.2025 04:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just saw some clips of Summer I Turned Pretty and um, neither Conrad v Jeremiah come close to the hotness of Ben vs Noel back in my day

24.08.2025 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a "systematic erasure of those who bear witness."

--Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad

11.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

"Israel is murdering the messengers...Israel wiped out an entire news crew. It has made no claims that any of the other journalists were terrorists. That's murder. Plain and simple."

--Committee to Protect Journalists regional director Sara Qudah

11.08.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Rick and Morty || Fascist dimensions
YouTube video by MasterPeppers Rick and Morty || Fascist dimensions

oh my, this Rick and Morty clip is like a documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MU5...

09.07.2025 19:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Senate Republicans vote to take up Trump’s tax bill, overcoming resistance in their ranks Lawmakers pushed through the president’s massive tax and immigration bill in a crucial procedural vote Saturday night.

"The Congressional Budget Office said Saturday that the Senate version would result in $930 billion in cuts to Medicaid, more than the roughly $800 billion that the House version proposes."

29.06.2025 05:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

it would be really helpful for a journalist to be in the signal chat right now

17.06.2025 00:36 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

budget question. If homeland security has used up its budget already (per that congressional hearing where Kristi Noem had to answer for running out of $), how does the agency afford more raids/higher quotas for raids?

11.06.2025 00:26 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide From New York to Los Angeles, police officers escalated the national unrest.

do headlines the right way i.e. slate in 2020

09.06.2025 04:27 — 👍 1822    🔁 451    💬 19    📌 11
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A scene from the new UCLA Chancellor inauguration

08.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

worth jumping off a call so i could focus on this sinner djokovic match

06.06.2025 18:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
TikTok - Make Your Day

LeBron just casually showed up at a girls club volleyball tournament ystd to watch his kid; he’s just a sweet volleyball dad www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8M2QmQc/

27.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

had no idea what i was getting into but HOLY CRAP lilo and stitch was so so thrilling and well done

26.05.2025 02:30 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

im still ending my voice memos with "bye bye" and no one can stop me

19.05.2025 17:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The algorithm-fueled race to keep up with beauty standards | Terms of Service
YouTube video by CNN The algorithm-fueled race to keep up with beauty standards | Terms of Service

From “tomato girl summer” to “looksmaxxing,” algorithms and AI filters are changing how we define beauty. How do we keep up?
Thanks to @elisewho.bsky.social for joining Terms of Service this week to discuss!
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jxn...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

13.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A vital conversation rn, esp given what we know about the carelessness of our tech overlords

12.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

03.05.2025 01:42 — 👍 20814    🔁 7294    💬 393    📌 368
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John Bolton on why Trump 2.0 is going nowhere, fast Fascism, Bolton told Vox, is “too far above Trump’s capabilities.”

"To be a fascist, you have to think at some conceptual level, which Trump never does." —John Bolton, speaking with @vox.com

01.05.2025 20:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

"Where did these numbers come from? Apparently, an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots happen to recommend."

05.04.2025 18:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"You have given up..."

03.04.2025 00:23 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apartheid Clyde a petty, dangerous, incompetent man but what always amuses me is how no one likes him and he can’t even buy his way into getting people to like him. He can’t buy a good sense of humor or good looks or good reputation.

02.04.2025 02:17 — 👍 12765    🔁 1514    💬 385    📌 84

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

30.03.2025 23:14 — 👍 13787    🔁 3988    💬 273    📌 150

seems bad

(also, good for them)

31.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

14.03.2025 02:46 — 👍 132660    🔁 24581    💬 5021    📌 1473
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Five years since these 🔥 answers from @jiatolentino.bsky.social in Interview Mag.
Worth a reread. www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-...

13.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

04.03.2025 17:57 — 👍 76421    🔁 22794    💬 1775    📌 978
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

05.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 82242    🔁 25963    💬 1690    📌 2851

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