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Dave Jorgenson
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · Jul 22
Dear Jeff Bezos …
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me trying to be friends with the barista at my favorite coffee shop just so they call me a “regular”
January 2, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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ok, can we get someone there who loves graphic design
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The Bari Weiss effect
CBS News posts a love letter to America from its main x account
January 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Grok won’t stop undressing people
January 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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does Mike Judge have a crystal ball, how did he predict the future with Idiocracy AND Silicon Valley?
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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The @wsj.com reports the newsletter business is booming. It certainly is for @davejorgenson.bsky.social and Local News International.

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Dave Jorgenson, who helped build the Washington Post’s TikTok presence, left the paper in July to launch Local News International on Beehiiv. It has 12,000 subscribers, fewer than 1,000 of whom pay. Audiences these days trust individual journalists more than they do established media outlets, Jorgenson said. The Washington Post helped him build his base, he said, but “I hit a ceiling on what I could do there.”
January 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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a little too late Jim!
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Happy New Year to the Duffer Brothers who did the impossible and stuck the landing for Stranger Things
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Five months ago, we left the Washington Post to start our own media company
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Big if true
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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me before buying another LEGO set for “adults”
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating,” he said in an email.
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
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December 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Social Security is running on IOUs
December 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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This might be one of the funniest talk show interviews I’ve ever seen.
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Jfc nvm it clearly worked.
davejorgenson.bsky.social Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 10d
the old "let's upload the worst stuff before Christmas so no one notices" trick may backfire when literally everyone is at home, not working and just staring at their phones
December 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Local News International is proud to launch our ethics and transparency pledge. We believe it's important for independent journalists to hold themselves to high standards. Should we add something to our promise? Let us know! @davejorgenson.bsky.social
Transparency and ethics pledge. Local News International makes this promise to our audience. We believe in Facts. Our journalism is fact-based and fact checked. We share our sources so you can go deeper. We are transparent. If we don't know something, we'll tell you. Same if a story is still developing. We are where you are. We put our videos where you already are. If we're missing a place, tell us. Our funding sources are public. You'll always know when a video is sponsored. We'll publish an annual list of our funders. We fix mistakes. If we get something wrong, we'll make a correction and tell you about it. We are human. We don't use AI to create our journalism. Absolutely no exceptions.
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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MAGA may be trying to buy up -- or kill -- the culture. But it pushed back against the regime in all sorts of ways. I wrote about some of them for the @nytimes.com, including the epic return of @theonion.com ...

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Onion returns
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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do the dogs know they’re earning commission or is this a conservatorship situation
December 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Merry Christmas to everyone who got a tariff fee after their packages arrived ❤️🎁
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
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December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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What Christmas is really about:

"It’s about a funny football-headed kid with a good heart but no sense of reality whose entire world view is at stake!"
December 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Am I imagining it or is the Grinch suddenly far more popular this Christmas season? I’m seeing him in way more memes, tiktoks and commercials.

Did Ron Howard release the rights to the live action version? What’s going on??
December 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The 1980s are coming back to haunt Congress.

In 1983, Congress changed Social Security to keep it solvent.

But since then, growth in worker earnings – especially among high earners – has outpaced the taxable maximum, making Social Security’s tax base smaller than expected.
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We made a video, then wrote a newsletter to help spread the news that Sam got an honorary degree from Harvard.

Here’s the video again (1/3)
davejorgenson.bsky.social Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 14d
Some organizations are intentionally influencing AI chatbots answers
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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*CBS hires Bari Weiss*

Virtually everyone: "this won't go well."

*it doesn't go well*

Aaaaand scene
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.

Sasse is just 53 years old.
Ben Sasse • @BenSasse G... Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too - we all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, "Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock." Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I've got less time than I'd prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can't begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we'd temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer - and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she's off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she's a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we've been driving off-book for six years — but now we've got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn't be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer - but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle | once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say "hope" when what we mean is "optimism." To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That's why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city - with foundations and without cancer - is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity's perspective: "When we've been there 10,000 years...We've no less days to sing God's praise." I'll have more to say. I'm not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God's grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatmen…
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM