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Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

5 months

Me: I like pancakes Twitter: Why do you hate waffles?

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Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

2 years

After all the terrible news this year, including my mother dying and the return of COVID, we got some fantastic news just before Christmas: our eldest daughter is pregnant, which means I am going to be a grandfather! I am clinging to this good news like a life-raft

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Seeing a lot of news alerts and headlines saying Colin Powell died of COVID while vaccinated, but virtually none of them mention that he had a massive co-morbidity: multiple myeloma, or blood cancer. This kind of thing is part of the problem

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Special operations chief Gallagher was reported by his own squad for stabbing a defenseless teenage captive to death, picking off a school-age girl and an old man from a sniper’s roost, and indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine-gun fire

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@nytimes

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Breaking News: President Trump is showing signs he will pardon several servicemen accused of war crimes. He asked for paperwork to be prepared by Memorial Day

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This tweet really aged well

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If you only read one thing today, let it be this obit of Freddie Oversteegen, who blew up bridges and railway tracks, smuggled children out of concentration camps and killed Nazis -- with a gun she hid in her bicycle basket -- after seducing them in bars:

The girl who executed Nazis after seducing them in bars dies aged 92

Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus would often go out looking for Nazis.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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A couple in Vancouver have spent $70,000 buying all the disinfectant wipes at multiple Costco outlets and selling them for up to four times as much on Amazon

‘We’re hustlers’: Amid coronavirus fears, this couple has made more than $100,000 reselling Lysol...

Manny Ranga and Violeta Perez have spent the last few weeks hitting up every Vancouver region Costco to buy Lysol wipes and liquid cleaners. They then resell the products on Amazon to make a profit.

www.thestar.com

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3 years

This headline is journalistic malpractice

Lindsey Graham’s Long-Shot Mission to Unravel the Election Results (Published 2020)

With unsubstantiated claims of vote-counting errors and calls to officials in several states, the South Carolina senator seems bent on reversing Joe Biden’s clear victory over President Trump.

www.nytimes.com

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Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew them before the caravan arrived

Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew...

Trump's "Operation Faithful Patriot" was a $200,000,000 exercise in which 6,000 US troops were deployed within the USA, to the US/Mexico border, nominally to repel the migrant caravan of desperate,…

boingboing.net

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2016: "Should we call them lies?" 2017: "Should we call him a racist?" 2019: "Should we call them concentration camps?"

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As far as I can tell, ABC News has suspended one of its senior correspondents for saying totally unsurprising and completely non-controversial things in one of those ridiculous "Project Veritas" sting operations

ABC News suspends correspondent David Wright after comments about Trump coverage, socialism, in...

The reporter was caught on tape by the organization that seeks to expose bias among media outlets.

www.washingtonpost.com

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2 years

According to this, the dedicated domain that Rebel News set up for their reporter — who they claim was deliberately attacked by police — was registered hours before the incident happened

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2 years

I think @ezralevant can see the future.

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3 years

My new favorite word is "umarell," an Italian term that refers to "men of retirement age who pass the time watching construction sites, especially roadworks, offering unwanted advice"

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Let this sink in: a hospital had to disguise a shipment of medical equipment so that it wouldn't be hijacked by the federal government

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He shot a guy who was an actual medic!

The New York Times

@nytimes

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Kyle Rittenhouse, who has idolized law enforcement since he was young, arrived in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020, with at least one mission: to play the role of police officer and medic. The night would end with him fatally shooting two men and wounding another.

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So all the fact-checking of Trump's lies, all the investigative journalism about his failures, even the tapes -- none of it meant anything

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Facebook unleashes the nuclear option in Australia: The company just announced it will block Australian news publishers and Australian users of Facebook from posting, viewing or sharing any news content whatsoever

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Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of U.S. individuals in the documents, saying "Just wait for what is coming next"

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7 years

To recap: The billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby may be funding ISIS by buying religious artifacts on the black market

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3 years

YouTube takes down Trump video, bans new uploads for a week

It's also axing comments throughout his channel.

www.axios.com

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Militia leader Stewart Rhodes says he has men stationed outside of D.C. ready to engage in violence on Trump’s order

Militia leader Stewart Rhodes says he has men stationed outside of D.C. ready to engage in violence...

www.mediamatters.org

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Today I learned that automakers either amplify existing engine noise or pipe straight up fake engine noises into the cabs of vehicles like the Ford F-150 to satisfy customers obsessed with the throaty roar of older cars and trucks

America’s best-selling cars and trucks are built on lies: The rise of fake engine noise

The growl from some best-selling cars and trucks is actually well-tuned lip-syncing or digitally faked.

www.washingtonpost.com

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7 years

The threat is the part where you say you'll renege on the deal and reveal his identity if he doesn't behave

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5 years

Metaphor alert: Newseum failed due to a crushing debt load caused by overspending on a ridiculously expensive building and inflated management salaries

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5 years

"Unusual leadership style," LOL. This is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer had an unusual courtship ritual

Kara Swisher

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Short version: He’s a shitty boss: Why Trump’s Unusual Leadership Style Isn’t Working in the White House via @NYTimes

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The future of TV is 15 different streaming services that all have one show that you want to watch

Julia Boorstin

@JBoorstin

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The latest in the battle for content- NBCU streaming service launching in April will be called “Peacock” and will include 30 Rock, Cheers, and reboots of Punky Brewster, Saved by the Bell and Battlestar Galactica, in addition to Parks & Rec and The Office @NBCUniversal @CNBC

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@Nicole_Cliffe I got a job at a summer camp as the outdoor/nature counsellor because I said I had studied plants and wilderness survival, but I basically just made things up, including the names of all the plants we saw. So I feel like there are adults now who call everything the wrong name

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5 years

This is a crucial point. What happens when all the good information is behind paywalls and all the bad information is free and plentiful?

𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛

@jarroddicker

5 years

When information is expensive and misinformation is cheap, we restrict access to what we assume to be known. The problem isn't just algorithms and platforms, it's accessibility and the business of media (subscriptions/advertising). New models should enable the discovery of truth.

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Whenever someone's name was trending I used to assume they were dead, now I assume they've admitted to sexually harassing people for decades

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4 years

Saw this somewhere: "The curve is flattening, we can start lifting restrictions now" = "The parachute has slowed our descent, we can take it off now"

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Short answer is no. Long answer also no.

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Sarah Sanders admitted she lied to the White House press. Does she have any credibility left?

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The neo-Nazis at The Daily Stormer said they interpreted Trump's comment about the Proud Boys to mean "wait until I give the signal." And no, I'm not linking to it

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“We were busy dealing with a life-altering pandemic, and this couple just strolls off the plane like cartoon characters,” said Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm. “Living on the land here is dangerous. It’s not like you wake up in the morning and birds dress you"

A Couple Drove 5,000 KM to Yukon to Escape Coronavirus. Locals Were Furious

"We were busy dealing with a life-altering pandemic, and this couple just strolls off the plane like cartoon characters," said First Nations chief Dana Tizya-Tramm.

www.vice.com

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I know it's an incredibly small thing, but it really bugs me when people say they weren't "phased" by something instead of saying they weren't "fazed." Please send me the ridiculously small grammatic hills you are prepared to die on

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3 years

Asked and answered

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5 years

This is Kafka-esque: I posted yesterday about Twitter removing a tweet from TorrrentFreak because it contained a link to an article about pirated copies of Starz shows appearing online (with no links to said content). Twitter has now removed my tweet linking to that story

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3 years

The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India

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We were talking about this in an editorial meeting — if you are trying to be fair, you don't want to use a sneering or angry photo, but that's virtually all there is available

Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social)

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one thing i will say is that it’s very difficult to pick just one photo

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Man who named a line of steaks after himself calls someone else a "showboat"

Variety

@Variety

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President Trump called ousted FBI Director James Comey a "showboat"

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I don’t usually do this, but a little personal news I forgot to mention: I’ve been awarded the James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Journalism by the Media Ecology Association. Past recipients include Kevin Kelly and David Carr. Very honored. I am a huge admirer of Carey’s work

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8 years

Trump campaign staff right now

Dana Bash

@DanaBashCNN

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Senior trump staff just called me all together to tell me they're not frustrated. More on @cnn top of the hour

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3 years

Tom Brokaw, 80, says he is retiring. Dan Rather, 89, just started a Substack :-)

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7 years

Greatness, blah, blah, blah, big league, blah, blah, blah, winning

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Last-minute practice in the limo makes perfect. Pretty great, we rarely get a shot like this.

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1 year

Streamers gaming geo-targeted algorithms by broadcasting from underneath an overpass in a wealthy neighborhood (via Reddit)

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3 years

I've said this privately and now I will say it publicly: For the founder of Snopes to write his ex-wife out of the site and its history when she clearly did most of its best work -- something @brooklynmarie flagged long ago -- should have been a real clue something was wrong

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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Mum: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Mum Mum: Not asking for a Twitter expert to help, are they? Me: Mum, there's a medical emergency happening right now Mum: Go and see if being verified helps

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5 years

Facebook and Google didn't destroy the journalism business, they destroyed the advertising business. There's a difference

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Journalism has treated Big Tech with stunning reverence, given the fact those companies were destroying our business. It’s a joke that Facebook is complaining about unfair coverage, given its crimes against the press.

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4 years

Read the first letter of each of the first 23 tweets on this account

Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) on X

Representing AZ’s 9th District

twitter.com

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When I was young, I assumed people who were middle-aged and older had everything figured out and were operating on a solid plan, but as I got older I realized that isn't even close to being true. Almost everyone is making it up as they go along, even if they don't admit it

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In case anyone is wondering where I've been lately, my mother passed away on Monday after a massive cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 84. She was an amazing lady, and she helped me become who I am in so many interesting ways, and I will miss her a lot

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In some ways, it's easier to think of the Kenosha shooter as a dedicated terrorist than what he probably is — a confused 17-year-old who thought he was doing the right thing, according to some twisted set of values he inherited and/or picked up off the internet

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It seems obvious now that Bret Stephens should be fired and David Karpf should be hired to take his place

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5 years

Medieval browser with multiple tabs open (via Joao Rita on Instagram)

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I don't talk about personal stuff on here a lot, but our middle child Meaghan came out at work and to her extended family this week as non-binary (her mother and I have known for some time), and we are so proud of them for taking this courageous step forward! #PrideMonth2021

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Today's terrifying news is that hundreds or even thousands of jet aircraft engines around the world could have fake parts in them

Ghost in the Machine: How Fake Parts Infiltrated Airline Fleets

A little-known distributor in London sold thousands of engine components with bogus documentation. Carriers and repair shops are frantically hunting them down.

www.bloomberg.com

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4 years

Watched Contagion again last night, and one of the things that struck me was how quickly and decisively US authorities moved even after only a few cases of that virus — that was the most unrealistic thing about the movie, as it turns out

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7 years

This is the personal news I was referring to earlier -- excited to join @CJR in this new role!

Kyle Pope

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As @CJR expands its coverage of Twitter, FB et al, I'm thrilled that @mathewi will be joining as our chief digital writer to lead the charge

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8 years

In an alternate universe, Twitter never went public and is a profitable real-time news utility with an open API and multiple revenue streams

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4 years

Facebook's top news executive has her own media outlet — and it's been savaging Elizabeth Warren by @JuddLegum

Facebook's top news executive has her own media outlet — and it's been savaging Elizabeth Warren

This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week. Sign up here: Former NBC News anchor Campbell Brown is a...

popular.info

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I know you don't like wearing a mask because you're a big baby or because it infringes your rights etc. But while I was putting on a gown and mask and face shield and gloves to visit my 85-year-old mother on the COVID ward I thought of maybe telling you to go fuck yourself

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Deaths like Kobe's reinforce how we don't really have a way to talk about both the good and bad aspects of someone like him -- it has to be either hero or villain. If the former, then you can't mention the rape accusations; if the latter, then you can't talk about his talents

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Fact-checking columnist gives up because people who share hoaxes don't care whether they are true or not:

What was fake on the Internet this week: Why this is the final column

The 82nd (and final!) column in a series that debunks the Web's hoaxes, rumors and exagerations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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6 years

This story is insane -- congressional candidate freely admits he is a pedophile and neo-Nazi who talked about raping his ex-wife, says "A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it"

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8 years

So in just 9 months, Facebook pulled in more advertising revenue ($18B) than the entire U.S. newspaper industry:

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3 years

I recall when A&W tried to market a competitor to the McDonald's quarter pounder and they made theirs a third of a pound, but it didn't sell, because most people thought a quarter-pounder was bigger than a third-of-a-pounder

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3 years

If you think cryptocurrency and NFTs are weird and/or based on a shared delusion, wait until I tell you about money

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Proposed settlement would see Facebook pay $40 million to resolve claims that it inflated video metrics by as much as 900 percent via @thr

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7 years

I hope someone is transcribing those whiteboards as we speak

Rabbi Shmuley

@RabbiShmuley

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With @SteveBannon in the White House on #israelindependenceday . Steve is a great, stalwart friend of the Jewish State

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According to Avaaz, a fake news story about Nancy Pelosi was flagged as false by fact-checkers, and whoever shared it got a popup warning saying it was false -- and it still got viewed more than 24 million times:

Disinformation still running rampant on Facebook, study says

Most of the attention on Facebook and disinformation in the past week or so has focused on the platform’s decision not to fact-check political advertising, along with the choice of right-wing site...

www.cjr.org

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I feel like these names were invented by an AI program that was just fed random letters

Page Six

@PageSix

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Tinsley Mortimer gets flirty with model Bertil Espegren

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Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal

Opinion | Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal (Published 2017)

Congress long ago outlawed discrimination based on national origin.

www.nytimes.com

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7 years

300 layoffs at Time Inc (including me). Vocativ entire editorial staff gone. Almost 40 at HuffPo. That's just yesterday and today

Mediagazer

@mediagazer

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Layoffs hit HuffPost today in NYC and DC offices. ( @mlcalderone )

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Just to recap, Facebook's decision on whether to fact-check political ads is being driven in part by a billionaire who personally funded a nuisance lawsuit designed to drive a media organization he didn't like into bankruptcy via @WSJ

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This thread is amazing

jordan

@JordanUhl

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why

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The guy who told parents of Sandy Hook victims that their childrens' deaths were a hoax asks the media to be respectful

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Alex Jones releases statement on his ongoing custody trial: “I urge the press to be respectful and responsible"

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I mean, if the organization’s ideology includes white supremacy and violent racism, then yes, I do want you to exclude it from your “trusted sources” list. Not sure why this is so hard

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This was a really disappointing decision by the Post, to run something so factually inaccurate from a known bad actor

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6 years

@yashar "I am sincerely woman" made me LOL

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4 years

What the hell is this? State propaganda?

Voice of America

@VOANews

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has weathered storms that have shaken the Trump White House, standing by the president through an impeachment trial and many Cabinet reshuffles. 👉Mike Pence: Backing Up a Demanding Boss

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I think my favorite fact about Sumner Redstone is that at 93, in control of both Viacom and CBS and fighting with his own daughter, two ex-wives and multiple lawyers, he communicated solely through an iPad programmed to say "Yes," "No," and "Fuck you"

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Man wrongly identified as a suspect in Dallas shootings has gotten "thousands of death threats" his lawyer says

Man falsely connected to the shooting by Dallas police is now getting ‘thousands’ of death threats

But he was toting a rifle as he marched in protest.

www.washingtonpost.com

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So good RT @dgoldenberg : Richard Scarry's Busy Town jobs for the 21st century: http://t.co/vbjd8w5t8L http://t.co/uDw8R35CCf

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I mean, declaring victory even when you're losing was pretty much their whole coronavirus strategy, so this is 100 percent on brand

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2 years

Timeline cleanse: look at this little weirdo

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10 years

Exclusive photo of the devastation caused in Los Angeles by this morning's earthquake: http://t.co/UbbiRtT7mx

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In case you haven't had enough about "cancel culture," former Globe columnist Margaret Wente writes about how she was forced out of an appointment at Massey College because of a few minor transgressions like plagiarism and promoting racist pseudo-science

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Just a reminder that April Fool's Day is fun for kids and maybe even some adults, but if you're a news company, playing a trick on your readers is an incredibly dumb idea

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Today I learned that the town of Boring, Oregon — named after its founder, William Harrison Boring — twinned itself with the town of Dull, Scotland, then later they both joined together with Bland, Australia to form "The League of Extraordinary Communities" in 2013

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"Supertide" briefly turns Mont Saint-Michel into the coolest island kingdom ever: http://t.co/Duvo5YhNL1

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8 years

Well played, New Yorker cartoon:

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At the risk of diving into a dumpster fire, I appreciate the criticisms of The Daily Caller's fact-checking unit being a Facebook partner, but their fact-check of Politico's story -- which implied Trump called the virus a hoax -- is accurate. In other words, they are right

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1. Facebook made THE DAILY CALLER an official fact-checking partner. That gives The Daily Caller the ability to label anything posted on Facebook as "false information" and dramatically reduce its distribution. It's now using that power to boost Trump.

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I know this isn't going to be a popular opinion, but I don't think Milo said anything to Leslie Jones that deserves a permanent ban

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@mathewi

3 years

Today I learned that playwright Tom Stoppard wrote pretty much all the dialogue in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," and also significantly reworked the script, action scenes, plot points, etc. but was credited as "Barry Watson"

Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade

Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stoppard, called Tom Stoppard: A Life. It was released in the United Kingdom on...

kottke.org

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Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

4 years

The problem here should be obvious -- a billionaire in his 30s who runs the largest media entity that has ever existed, is deciding what qualifies as a "real" news outlet and what doesn't. Breitbart: Yes. Courier: No.

Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

4 years

"After the launch last year of Courier Newsroom, a network of eight progressive local-news sites that is part-owned by a left-leaning nonprofit with close ties to Democratic donors, Mr. Zuckerberg argued that Courier wasn’t a real news outlet"

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@mathewi

4 years

From a friend: "The end of stay-at-home orders doesn't mean COVID isn't a problem, it means they have room for you in the ICU"

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@mathewi

6 years

These actual one-star reviews from TripAdvisor for Paris attractions like the Eiffel Tower made me laugh out loud. For the historic cafe Les Deux Magots: "Hemingway ate here all the time. Hemingway also shot himself. Draw your own conclusions."

Paris, Reviewed

So is Paris any good or not? Real life reviews from the City of Light, compiled from TripAdvisor.com

www.theparisreview.org

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Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

2 years

According to the agreed-upon facts in this case, Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two unarmed men, and now walks free -- not even a finding of manslaughter. How do you shoot two unarmed people with an assault rifle and emerge innocent of any charges?

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Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

5 years

Strong candidate for quote of the year

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@mathewi

4 years

How bone-headed do you have to be not to see that taking this kind of action against your worst critics is going to blow up in your face? Truly mind-boggling via @vice

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