Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling.
We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
09.03.2026 19:22
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If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
09.03.2026 22:43
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Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.
09.03.2026 21:04
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If you can't even manage to wipe the stupid smirk off your face while writing about a war that started with 160 children being bombed in a school, it's time to start thinking about the decisions that led you here.
08.03.2026 17:42
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DOJ confirmed that 47,635 Epstein files have been removed.
That’s ANOTHER 47,635 reasons why we need ACCOUNTABILITY!
08.03.2026 07:30
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Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.
www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...
08.03.2026 12:11
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It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.
08.03.2026 12:27
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This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
07.03.2026 23:52
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hitting the same target twice is for killing emergency responders, and for making people afraid to help those who have been injured or maimed in a previous strike
the US did this to a schoolhouse
08.03.2026 14:29
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Yes they do
07.03.2026 22:45
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa”
Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.
Disabled people tried to warn you.
We said the “better off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.
The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.
Its eugenics on a massive scale
08.03.2026 09:39
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IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot
THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him
THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me
YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care
BECAUSE my position is immutable
07.03.2026 17:20
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump
Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
07.03.2026 00:20
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Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
06.03.2026 19:47
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Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
07.03.2026 01:59
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I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath
07.03.2026 01:05
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas
Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
06.03.2026 22:04
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
02.03.2026 10:20
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
04.03.2026 21:58
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the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing.
they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran.
for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation
28.02.2026 17:30
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They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
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It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
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It hurts to imagine what our democracy would be like without all the voter suppression, and if it didn’t take 67 Californians to equal the senate voting power of 1 Wyomian, and if we didn’t have billions of dark money pouring into the propaganda hellscape, and if we had no gerrymandering. Sad.
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.
“It’s dystopian. It’s like Black Mirror stuff.”
This is Mobile Fortify, an app used by DHS that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query databases for matches against passport records, visa files, and border entry photos.
Our latest with @france24.com:
05.03.2026 03:00
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Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
03.03.2026 21:48
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