T.Fisher

T.Fisher

@fishret.bsky.social

Cautiously dips toe back into social media. More to come, maybe.

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"Dumb McNamara" is so very good

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

"Among various staffers and officials working within the august confines of the Pentagon and Department of Defense, the former ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host...is known as “Dumb McNamara.”" Pete Hegseth's new nickname, among his colleagues, per reporting for Zeteo's First Draft this morning:

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"Among various staffers and officials working within the august confines of the Pentagon and Department of Defense, the former ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host...is known as “Dumb McNamara.”" Pete Hegseth's new nickname, among his colleagues, per reporting for Zeteo's First Draft this morning:

zeteo.comFirst Draft: The Thug of WarPete Hegseth’s colleagues at the Pentagon are calling him 'Dumb McNamara,' and Biden’s secretary of state almost, sort of feels bad about enabling a genocide.

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LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam. RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”

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Garbage editorials that flatter the wealthy. Dynamic pricing for the dwindling subscriber base. The current strategy for revitalizing The Washington Post is indistinguishable from a desire to destroy it.

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Cult

Miles Taylor@milestaylor.bsky.social

NEWS — Trump coercing staff to wear the same black pair of shoes that he wears. “Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a staffer said, as some reportedly ditch their own footwear to comply with Trump’s wishes. We’re officially in the dumbest timeline.

"This means that the markets don’t always reflect what people think will happen as much as they reflect what people think other people think will happen." Am more and more appreciating Warzel's tech converge at The Atlantic.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Let A.I. solve cancer and such? Sure. Otherwise, pretty much f**k off at this point.

404 Media@404media.co

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

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"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

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Watch this. We are holding random moms and dads in torture-like facilities with no medical care or ability to communicate with family or counsel. You should never do this to anybody, but many of these people haven’t even done anything wrong. They are completely legal asylum seekers in the US system.

Rep. Kelly Morrison@kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

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Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

So uplifting. I'm just gonna stop my morning news intake so I can get through the day.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Enten: "Trump has just fallen off a cliff when it comes to Gen Z. Trump's net approval in February of 2025 was +10. It's a drop of 42 points to -32. My goodness gracious."

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In a few months, we've progressed from snuff films of the US military killing civilians at sea to a snuff film of paramilitary secret police killing a mom in Minnesota—in both situations bogusly invoking "terrorism."

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social

One of the obvious concerns about the administration's killing spree at sea was that if the US government would lawlessly kill people on the high seas just because the administration spuriously labeled them as "terrorists", it might do so elsewhere—including in the United States.

You get a free Rolls Royce! And you get a free Rolls Royce! Is perhaps a convenient way to understand how the top %0.1 benefits from the GOP tax bill? Sure, it's the cheapest Rolls, but adversity builds character and all that.

The problem is not that the US ain’t wealthy enough, the problem is, wait for it…

Paul Kiernan@pkwsj.bsky.social

Total wealth for the richest 19 U.S. households jumped to about $2.6 trillion in 2024, the biggest one-year increase on record www.wsj.com/economy/1-tr...