🧵We're current parents of TJ students. We are non partisan. We're just parents who were trying to shepherd their kids through HS when RW operatives started to use our school as a squatting ground during the pandemic & Governor's election.
stay to the end 👇
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Thank you Olga. I really appreciate your kindness and understanding, and I’m genuinely sorry this happened in the first place.
Just to clarify, I did send an email to the Gmail address associated with the YouTube copyright claims, so perhaps it ended up there.
I’m also sorry for my original tweet. I wish I’d handled things differently, and I understand why this was frustrating for you and your team.
And you are right about the need to take copyright seriously. I have already today put in place new processes in my post-production to ensure attribution isn’t something I miss again.
We’re all trying our best to tell Ukraine’s story, often with small teams and limited resources, and I know how much time, care and hard work goes into making good journalism. And that hard work to tell the truth deserves appropriate recognition. I have a lot of respect for that, and for your reporters.
I’d love to meet for a coffee sometime, or perhaps even collaborate in the future. 🙏🫡
I’m grateful we can move forward on good terms, and I sincerely wish you and everyone at The Kyiv Independent all the very best.
I’ve seen Caolan Robertson’s response, where he acknowledges lifting our video. He blames it on his editor but ultimately takes responsibility.
It’s always good to see people own their mistakes, it makes this space better for everyone. I appreciate it and accept his apology.
The five seconds of video is easy to dismiss, but five seconds of an animated map takes hours of work — research from a journalist and manual work from a videographer and a graphic designer. Our video team is small but we do our best to make sure our video reporting is well researched and properly sourced.
Caolan @CaolanReports says he wants to learn from this and improve his practices. I think that’s the right call, especially since other journalists have spoken out about past cases where Caolan used their work without credit. Hopefully, this will be the push to review those practices. It would help to look into the video’s origin before launching a public attack, too.
As for further steps.
Caolan says he emailed us to resolve it. We have checked our inboxes, including organization’s and my own, and found no messages from him. He is very welcome to reach me or the team directly. A private conversation is always more effective.
On the copyright claim. Yesterday, Caolan filed an appeal to our claim with Youtube, which automatically blocks our right to retract the claim while the appeal is being considered.
That said, we decided we will not contest his appeal or take legal action about the copyright infringement. If we don’t participate, YouTube will likely remove the strike from his channel. We made this decision because Caolan acknowledged his mistake and pledged to improve.
I hope this ends it and we can all move on and focus on our actual work: bringing truthful reporting from Ukraine to the world.
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NEW: @SecKennedy is allowing broad access to unapproved peptide injections in what appears to be a unilateral action.
FDA scientists had advised against these, inc. one peptide used in greyhound racing.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/healt…
Ted Cruz @tedcruz is now opening a wide door to being sued bc he’s promoting a doctored video that’s smearing someone and he’s on notice it’s a lie.
Here is Abdul Al-Sayed’s buddy Hasan Piker calling for Black people to be lynched. WATCH and judge for yourself:
nitter.gq/eyakoby/status/2100058…
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Pretty disappointed that @ProfEmilyOster would choose to lend her credibility to prediction markets (which are, in practice, sportsbooks with a side of wagering on elections and oil futures), particularly when one considers the harm they are bringing to kids and parents.
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ICYMI, Polymarket is closely tied to Don Jr & Peter Thiel: “1789 Capital, which Trump Jr. joined last year as a partner, invested double-digit millions of dollars into Polymarket, which recently was valued north of $1 billion by [Peter Thiel’s] Founders Fund. Trump Jr. [aka “Don Jr”] also will join Polymarket's advisory board.” 8/26/25 … 1/
He should have shared it long ago. Also let’s chat about OTHER countries giving US journalists money while we’re at it. Let’s clean up journalism.
I’ve had this weight on me for a while and felt the need to share it once and for all.
Years ago, the CEO and co-founder of Semafor, a media publication, approached me. He presumably wanted me to consider investing, because he spent a significant amount of time boasting about all of his supplemental sources of revenue.
I was stunned when he bragged about getting an enormous amount of money from the government of Qatar. The pretense was that he was receiving these funds to “train journalists.” I don’t recall the precise amounts, but recall that he acknowledged that the cost to conduct this “training” was a tiny fraction of what he was getting paid - directionally it was something like getting paid $2mm to conduct a “media training” boot camp that would cost Semafor $50,000 to execute. I pointed out that it sounded like he was being bribed - that nobody with proper intentions would offer to pay something that was 20-100X off market - and no entity pretending to be a journalism outfit should accept stuff like that, as it would compromise him.
He insisted that wouldn’t happen. But over the course of many years, I’ve observed how Semafor continues to receive government sponsorships and perform all sorts of “trainings” and “conferences” in partnership with Qatar, while providing very complementary coverage to the government of Qatar. This is downright unethical - and particularly unbecoming of an outfit pretending to be “training journalists”! The problem doesn’t end with Semafor.
The government of Qatar has been buying off media, education and other groups, with reports of how it deployed billions of dollars in the US higher education system. All of us who care about ethics should demand an investigation into these practices. Regardless of whether legal authorities choose to look into this, we as the people and the consumers should admonish such egregious behavior and ensure we avoid “media” publications that are so compromised.
Countless journalists risk their lives every day to expose abuses in power. Semafor does a disservice to the profession by undermining trust.
@buildersmideast @BuildersMvt
This is bad. Never make a doctored video to smear someone. snopes.com/news/2026/10/28/h…
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• DOGE administrator is hired
• Cuts HHS workforce by 22%
• Gives spouse a cushy fake job at HHS
It’s the same story again and again: loot & destroy our government, profit through harm. Don’t let them take what’s ours.
New: Amy Gleason was the acting administrator of DOGE as it worked to slash the size of the federal workforce through layoffs and incentivizing employees to quit.
Her husband got hired at an under-the-radar division of HHS just 33 days after widespread layoffs at the agency
🎁: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account.
Watch former DOJ prosecutor Mark Blumberg and human rights leader Brad Adams launch this critical accountability initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.
Been waiting for this! Rule of Law Project. Follow them!
I am part of a group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers that is coming together to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that is being ignored by the Justice Department under Trump -- the Rule of Law Project. trib.al/XSKy0i8
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New: Family and friends of two key figures in an Arizona public corruption case have spent tens of thousands of dollars to get rid of Attorney General Kris Mayes and elect her challenger.
By @robertanglen & @ecsantacruz3:
azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
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Jeremy Lewin is a rat. He was in my law school section. We all clocked him as a repulsive little sycophant. He didn't dismantle USAID and kill hundreds of thousands because he's a MAGA true-believer, but because he's an ambitious climber. He's genuinely the worst kind of evil.
Jeremy Lewin, a top Rubio adviser for Venezuela and Cuba, is leaving the State Department ahead of the midterms
axios.com/2026/10/27/rubio-a…
The AI slop exploiting Susan Dell's image is gross. Don't add to the AI slop biz by watching it. Let's leave middle school pettiness behind folks.
(@SusanDell)
Susan Dell is under scrutiny in many unkind posts. Hope she's thriving. She's got a long record of hard work + philanthropy.
The followings from their foundation page --
Michael and Susan have committed $10 billion to nonprofits and social enterprises focused on creating positive change in the United States, India, Africa, and Israel.
Their family foundation currently manages over 800 active projects worldwide each year.
In Texas, Susan and Michael have made significant investments in health care, including Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Dell Seton Medical Center, and Dell Children’s Medical Center. They also led efforts to establish the $100 million Rebuild Texas Fund, providing long-term support to communities affected by Hurricane Harvey.
This feels really creepy on the part of @CBSnews to pick up a minor local story and give the name & film footage of the mom & put it on multiple national platforms.
Bodycam footage shows Florida deputies arresting a mother at an airport after authorities say she left her four children, ages 9, 11, 12 and 14, home alone while traveling to Las Vegas for work.
Irene Miller, 50, was taken into custody Friday as she stepped off a plane. Two days earlier, one of her children had called 911 after a dumbbell fell on her 9-year-old brother's head.
When deputies arrived at the family's Kissimmee home, they found the children without adult supervision and had the injured boy taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released. Miller now faces four counts of child neglect.
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Replying to @TJHSSTParents
That’s very interesting, coming from such a strong supporter of Israel — and a former supporter of Netanyahu.
Huh. Welp at least AI has figured out 404 Media is amazing investigative journalism, right?
In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story:
404media.co/chatgpt-keeps-te…
An adorable cow 🐄 was on the loose in Pikesville last Wednesday until two Baltimore County Police officers and a farmhand wrangled it into custody. The cow's safe!
WATCH: A runaway cow led Baltimore County police on a chase through the woods and onto I-695 Wednesday.
Police said they used a rope to wrangle the cow to safety.
🎥 Courtesy: @troysvibing via TikTok
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