Alex Koppelman
@alexkoppelman.bsky.social
Most recently assistant managing editor, national security and justice, at NBC News. Previously CNN, Guardian US, New Yorker. My wife says I have to tell you I got my Bluesky invite from her and that it means she's the cool one in the marriage.
I was up all night thinking about Dan. I keep coming back to the last text he sent me, a couple weeks ago. It was just a dumb local news segment from when John Harbaugh was hired to coach the Ravens — but that, of course, was fitting. (Short thread coming, sorry.)
Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I was up all night thinking about Dan. I keep coming back to the last text he sent me, a couple weeks ago. It was just a dumb local news segment from when John Harbaugh was hired to coach the Ravens — but that, of course, was fitting. (Short thread coming, sorry.)
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Okay, two @dhm.bsky.social stories I need to share. Appropriately, one silly and one just deeply meaningful to me.
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Okay, two @dhm.bsky.social stories I need to share. Appropriately, one silly and one just deeply meaningful to me.
Dan -- I've known him for 25 years just as Dmac and it feels so weird to be calling him by his actual name -- was funny and kind and he was reliably weird in the best way and the world is less fun and good without him in it
Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
defector.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Dan -- I've known him for 25 years just as Dmac and it feels so weird to be calling him by his actual name -- was funny and kind and he was reliably weird in the best way and the world is less fun and good without him in it
This game broke me
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 AM
This game broke me
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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the Ravens are losing to the Texans 31-3
vibes in Baltimore:
vibes in Baltimore:
October 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
the Ravens are losing to the Texans 31-3
vibes in Baltimore:
vibes in Baltimore:
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at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them
Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The U.S. is preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, and the strikes could potentially begin within a matter of weeks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
U.S. preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, sources say
President Donald Trump has not approved any action yet, and the U.S. and Venezuela are talking through Middle Eastern intermediaries, sources told NBC News.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The U.S. is preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, and the strikes could potentially begin within a matter of weeks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Update on African aliens sent to Ghana who fear being forwarded to countries of origin where US immigration courts have found they likely face persecution/torture: 4 plaintiffs are still in Ghana, but they're now being denied access to Internet, they're attys say.
September 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Update on African aliens sent to Ghana who fear being forwarded to countries of origin where US immigration courts have found they likely face persecution/torture: 4 plaintiffs are still in Ghana, but they're now being denied access to Internet, they're attys say.
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RED MEAT FROM A RED-SAUCE JOINT
NEW: FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Charlie Kirk’s shooting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Kirk’s shooting
FBI Director Kash Patel was dining at Rao’s in New York on Wednesday night after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, two sources familiar with his whereabouts
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September 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
RED MEAT FROM A RED-SAUCE JOINT
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
Boy, I tell you, no better way to start your week than laying awake at 4:30, unable to fall back asleep because you can't make yourself stop thinking about the Ravens' collapse, realizing your mental health is apparently balanced precariously on top of a few dozen people you'll never even meet
September 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Boy, I tell you, no better way to start your week than laying awake at 4:30, unable to fall back asleep because you can't make yourself stop thinking about the Ravens' collapse, realizing your mental health is apparently balanced precariously on top of a few dozen people you'll never even meet
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
The Ravens have now lost 8 games since the 2021 season in which they, at one point, had a win probability of at least 90%.
That's three more than the next closest team.
That's three more than the next closest team.
September 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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The Derrick Henry/Lamar Jackson backfield actually happening and being as incredible as anyone could have hoped is one of the coolest things that has ever happened in football history and is somehow underrated
September 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Derrick Henry/Lamar Jackson backfield actually happening and being as incredible as anyone could have hoped is one of the coolest things that has ever happened in football history and is somehow underrated
It is just so genuinely fun to watch Derrick Henry run. A privilege, really.
This combination of size, speed, patience, vision, balance and violence is so beyond unfair.
September 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It is just so genuinely fun to watch Derrick Henry run. A privilege, really.
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12(!) federal judges gave rare interviews to @lawrencehurley.bsky.social about the Supreme Court increasingly overturning the lower courts in favor of the Trump admin. 10/12 were highly critical of the Court
Really impressive and important reporting here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Really impressive and important reporting here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases
Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism.
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September 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
12(!) federal judges gave rare interviews to @lawrencehurley.bsky.social about the Supreme Court increasingly overturning the lower courts in favor of the Trump admin. 10/12 were highly critical of the Court
Really impressive and important reporting here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Really impressive and important reporting here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...
Wesley LePatner, a 44-year-old Blackstone executive who oversaw its $53 billion real-estate investment fund, was killed in Manhattan's mass shooting
"We cannot properly express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley," the LePatner family told Fortune, adding she was a "driven and extraordinarily talented professional and colle...
fortune.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...
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The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
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The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
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July 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites
President Donald Trump rejected a military plan for more comprehensive strikes on Iran’s nuclear program that would have lasted weeks, NBC News has also learned.
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July 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
June 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
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“It’s like having a relay team, and instead of having six members you’ve only got four, and yeah, you can do it, but those four runners are going to have to run more than they’re trained for,” the FEMA employee said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Inside the scramble to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season
The Trump administration has been moving to drastically cut or even eliminate the disaster response and relief agency, but without a backup ready, it’s moving to keep some key pieces in place.
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June 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“It’s like having a relay team, and instead of having six members you’ve only got four, and yeah, you can do it, but those four runners are going to have to run more than they’re trained for,” the FEMA employee said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
(Make sure to read through for the Charlton Heston part)
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Gabbard's considering ways to revamp the daily brief for Trump, which he's been taking infrequently. One idea: Make it into a video that looks like Fox News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard considering ways to revamp Trump's intelligence briefing
One idea is to make the briefing, which according to his schedule Trump has been taking less often than his predecessors, a video that looks like Fox News.
www.nbcnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
(Make sure to read through for the Charlton Heston part)
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Gabbard's considering ways to revamp the daily brief for Trump, which he's been taking infrequently. One idea: Make it into a video that looks like Fox News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard considering ways to revamp Trump's intelligence briefing
One idea is to make the briefing, which according to his schedule Trump has been taking less often than his predecessors, a video that looks like Fox News.
www.nbcnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Gabbard's considering ways to revamp the daily brief for Trump, which he's been taking infrequently. One idea: Make it into a video that looks like Fox News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The Trump administration is working on a plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya. Details of who would go, how they would go, and where they would live are murky, but the admin's serious enough that it's talked to Libya's leadership. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The Trump administration is working on a plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya. Details of who would go, how they would go, and where they would live are murky, but the admin's serious enough that it's talked to Libya's leadership. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...