Peter Wade reposted
Peter Wade
Peter Wade
@peterwade.bsky.social
social media and bylines at rolling stone, esquire, fast company
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Peter Wade reposted
"I was talking about that ICE stuff onstage, talking about my people, white people. We’re not nearly as upset as we need to be, because we don’t see ourselves going into the van... They’re gonna work their way back to you eventually. People think they’re in the in-group." - Bill Burr
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In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
Dr. Alycia Halladay, the chief science officer for the Autism Science Foundation: “All of those studies have shown no link between vaccines and autism. “It remains the No. 1 studied environmental factor in autism, and there is no link whatsoever.”
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Attention journalists & fact-checkers: We’ve just added a language filter to our X Community Note Tracker app—an important new tool for anyone researching misinformation across different languages. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca #Journalism #InvestigativeJournalism #DataJournalism #OSINT
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Replying to @swin24.bsky.social
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BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
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Replying to @noahshachtman.bsky.social
Here's the latest piece. Like @katie-drummond.bsky.social says, it's free for everyone to read, because James Dolan doesn't want you to: www.wired.com/story/for-ta...
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DHS is investigating a sophisticated network of scammers targeting people caught in immigration proceedings, taking their money and causing some to be deported. The move follows a ProPublica report that complaints of such fraud doubled under the second Trump administration.
"Taken with Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan clearly has Armageddon on his mind."
Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the State of the Union address and more than a dozen others on the prediction market Kalshi.
“It’s just very, very sad that we are devolving into a nation of cruelty and that cruelty is becoming so normal that we sort of are living with it and accepting it, and people who are cruel depend on that. They’re wearing us down, so that cruelty becomes the norm."
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“To Trump, a modest Washington, with its low limestone buildings and reflective memorials, is a city for losers.”
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I had the great pleasure of showing @katienolan.bsky.social and @jayjurden.bsky.social MSG's secret VIP database (thanks to reporting by @wired.com and @404media.co)... youtu.be/B2_Skx5oFXc?...
“I immediately knew that [the takeover] was going to be a disaster,” says a Kennedy Center employee who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “I think a lot of people did.”
"If you’re wondering how Vance can denounce America’s “deep state” while applauding Viktor Orbán’s version, welcome to the Matrix." - @stephenrodrick.bsky.social Read
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"I don’t think we’ve begun to scratch the surface of understanding all the different ways that money is flowing into the Trump family throughout this presidency." - Jonathan Swan
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Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...
"The future is bright for solar, and not even the Trump administration’s vendetta against clean energy can change this fact." Read more from @thorbenson.bsky.social ↓
"Boomer is reshaping his image from a sports guy to the uncle you’d like to avoid at Thanksgiving."