Amy Widdowson

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Ben Shapiro reviewing Superman: "Not. Good."

"Are we the baddies?" meme

Fell in a hole, got out. Medium’s recap, financial turnaround, and difficult path back to health.

I'm obvi biased but it's rare that an executive is this honest and open about the challenges that have faced a company - and this frank about the tough decisions made to turn it around. Kudos to @coachtony.bsky.social for laying this all out medium.com/the-coach-li...

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!!

SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

ICE press release: Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. "It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park.

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If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

I get why people think everything is a distraction. But this appears to be a genuine falling out between the two most powerful people in the country.

Fascists are just messy and their power struggles always get weird. There are a lot of awful things still happening, but this isn't a distraction.

anyone else curious about news dumps that happen in the next 24 hours?

It was SO GOOD and made me reflect on how that newly porous membrane between celebrities and normals has broken everything from politics to self perspective (i.e., how we all feel the urge to release a personal statement when something crazy happens.) So, thank you!

Also, as an elder millennial, the cultural moments referenced cut deeeeeep.

What happened to Kanye? Podcast Episode · Panic World · 05/21/2025 · 1h 3m

Cannot rec this @panicworld.com pod episode with guest @akilahhughes.com enough. She and host @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social go deep on how celebrity + politics have morphed in the past 15 years into insatiable beasts built on responses and endless escalation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them The tool scans for users writing certain keywords on Reddit and assigns those users a so-called “radical score,” before deploying an AI-powered bot to automatically engage with the users to de-radical...

Please stop building AI tools to deploy bots to "engage" with unknowing posters. And especially stop doing it to "engage" with "radicals" or any other group you are identifying based on ZERO EXPERTISE IN THE MATTER.

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The appropriate answer to this is "Who gives a single fucking shit? He was better as a dead guy than the people installing the Plane Crashing Machines and disappearing people off the street so they can cash in on military contracts while firing veterans." It's possible to not take the bait, I swear!

Not to mention destroying the environment for babies and children

Imagine believing you can hurt Springsteen.

grateful for @alexwilhelm.bsky.social's writing, both in tone and content, more than ever. www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/so-that-wa...

The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas!

New email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Most people do not understand how much regulation it took to stop food poisoning from being a daily cause of death. They are about to learn the hard way that you can't feed yourself from those apartment deck planters year round.

Here's my new hobby. Seeing how many people lose their health coverage if Republicans pass their $880 billion in Medicaid cuts. In David Valadao's district 67,000 constituents lose their coverage. 67,000!

Federal workers required to report their daily location, email says “Unlike the ‘5 bullets’ this is not a strong encouragement. All employees are required to submit this daily information,” read an email to election commission staff.

There's a never ending stream of madness in the news, so every now and then I think about how a story that seems small potatoes compared to everything else would have produced weeks of pearl clutching in a Democratic admin (in the before times) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

Poppy looks so much like my Springerdoodle, Orca! What a perfect pup you have. (and yes, that is Orca's couch).

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
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