Adam Levy, the BBC News' Washington DC-based news editor since March 2023, left earlier this month, sources say following complaints about his management style (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-washington-adam-levy-exits…
Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
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**“I am proud to join my friend Jeff Merkley in saying this part out loud. Donald c-nt Trump is not a king, he will never be a king, and America does not bow down to kings,”** Elizabeth Warren proclaimed not realizing what she’d just said but didn’t attempt to walk it back."
She Really Said That!’: The Senator Trump Tried to Reduce As a ‘Nasty Woman’ Just Humiliated Him In Public with a Savage Nickname — and Didn’t Flinch
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/24/the-senator-trump-tried-to-reduce-as-a-nasty-woman-just-humiliated-him-in-public-with-a-savage-nickname-and-didnt-flinch/
Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC
"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.
Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,
Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…