David Hajdu
@dhajdu.bsky.social
Writer, professor at Columbia Journalism School, National Council for the Humanities
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The @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social arts and culture transition committee for those who (like me) are into such matters:
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social arts and culture transition committee for those who (like me) are into such matters:
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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As food assistance runs out and he refuses to use the contingency fund— he posts about his new marble bathroom
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As food assistance runs out and he refuses to use the contingency fund— he posts about his new marble bathroom
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You shouldn't hold strong opinions about any work of art until you've actually seen/read/listened to it
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
You shouldn't hold strong opinions about any work of art until you've actually seen/read/listened to it
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Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.
Every member of the National Council on the Humanities except Trump’s four appointees fired today. So much we would have done never to be now.
Trump Fires Members of Humanities Council
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October 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Every member of the National Council on the Humanities except Trump’s four appointees fired today. So much we would have done never to be now.
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Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages.
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages.
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
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Update:
* He’s been charged with a felony
* Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345
* @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
* He’s been charged with a felony
* Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345
* @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
A DC man has been arrested for filming the police.
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August 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Update:
* He’s been charged with a felony
* Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345
* @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
* He’s been charged with a felony
* Initial spreadsheet of recent arrests lists officer’s badge as 12345
* @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social will be requesting body cam footage
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When the president is a TV huckster, all the world - even the streets of the nation's capital - is a set. Trump's D.C. police takeover is more about creating content and egging on conflict than about public safety. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When the president is a TV huckster, all the world - even the streets of the nation's capital - is a set. Trump's D.C. police takeover is more about creating content and egging on conflict than about public safety. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...
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Local news outlets cancelled local book reviews because AP reviews provided the same service. Now the AP cancels book reviews. Metrics, they say, meaning reviews challenge readers. In other words, they were doing their job. Challenging is an essential service!
Local news outlets cancelled local book reviews because AP reviews provided the same service. Now the AP cancels book reviews. Metrics, they say, meaning reviews challenge readers. In other words, they were doing their job. Challenging is an essential service!
Ron Charles
Ron Charles writes about books for The Washington Post. Before moving to Washington, he edited the books section of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Local news outlets cancelled local book reviews because AP reviews provided the same service. Now the AP cancels book reviews. Metrics, they say, meaning reviews challenge readers. In other words, they were doing their job. Challenging is an essential service!
Local news outlets cancelled local book reviews because AP reviews provided the same service. Now the AP cancels book reviews. Metrics, they say, meaning reviews challenge readers. In other words, they were doing their job. Challenging is an essential service!
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A dictator and an aspiring dictator meet to decide the fate of a democracy.
August 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A dictator and an aspiring dictator meet to decide the fate of a democracy.
Time to fight not for the freedom of the press but for the existence of the press!
Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza's most recognized television journalist.
Israeli airstrike kills a prominent Al Jazeera journalist and colleagues in Gaza
Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza's most recognized television journalist.
n.pr
August 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Time to fight not for the freedom of the press but for the existence of the press!
Like she said! Expertise and indivual both serve essential functions; they’re not mutually exclusive. We need to fight to preserve serious criticism. It fights for values under-appreciated and under siege.
Professional criticism is not the same as individual reviews. They can both be useful but criticism is a skill-based genre like any other writing. The yelpification of criticism isn’t evolution.
Life changes. Organisms/organizations need to adapt. I'm sure people go to crowdsourced info for reviews, like Goodreads, just like Yelp and others for restaurant reviews.
August 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Like she said! Expertise and indivual both serve essential functions; they’re not mutually exclusive. We need to fight to preserve serious criticism. It fights for values under-appreciated and under siege.
An unspeakable horror!!
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
An unspeakable horror!!
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This brainwormed monster thinks that if physically compromised people die from infections in big enough numbers, the "herd" will be stronger. And Republican Senators decided it was fine to give him this country as a lab to experiment on. Hell is too good for them, but I'll accept it as a compromise.
August 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This brainwormed monster thinks that if physically compromised people die from infections in big enough numbers, the "herd" will be stronger. And Republican Senators decided it was fine to give him this country as a lab to experiment on. Hell is too good for them, but I'll accept it as a compromise.
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I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp
Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.
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JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
July 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
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Very good on the perils of fetishizing "darkness", a point I often stress too (re Neutral Milk Hotel, David Berman, etc etc) -but off-base that "Needle in the Hay" in Royal Tenenbaums made Elliott famous: The "Miss Misery"/Good Will Hunting Oscar nom and performance was several years before that.
"The danger is in reducing a multifaceted contradictory individual and artist into a trope, a cipher to serve our purposes and biases – the patron saint of sad boys, chronicler of the fucked up, who got too close and felt too much."
Elliott Smith’s Second Album Revisited:
Elliott Smith’s Second Album Revisited:
Rejecting the Culture Morticians: Elliott Smith's Second Album Revisited | The Quietus
There’s an idea circulating in theoretical physics that suggests the Big Bang birthed two universes – ours, with time moving forwards, and a ‘mirror universe’ where time flows backwards. As is so often the case, science fiction got there first in trying to imagine what a reversed existence would look like (Philip K. Dick’s Counter-Clock […]
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July 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very good on the perils of fetishizing "darkness", a point I often stress too (re Neutral Milk Hotel, David Berman, etc etc) -but off-base that "Needle in the Hay" in Royal Tenenbaums made Elliott famous: The "Miss Misery"/Good Will Hunting Oscar nom and performance was several years before that.
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"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams...
“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”
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“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”
www.12news.com/article/news...
Peoria sushi shop owner faces deportation after 21 years of living in the US
Kelly Yu, who does not have legal status in the U.S., is in ICE custody in Arizona, leaving her business, customers and family behind.
www.12news.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams...
“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”
www.12news.com/article/news...
“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”
www.12news.com/article/news...
Becca Rothfeld is a titan — fierce but never cruel. James never confronted a writer like her.
“What can a style this capacious fail to encompass? It is an ethics, a politics, a complete way of looking at the world.”
Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's criticism:
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Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's criticism:
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Review | Revel in the brilliant cruelty of Henry James’s criticism
“On Writers and Writing” gathers 21 pieces by the great author, including a confident critique of Dickens when James was just 22
wapo.st
July 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Becca Rothfeld is a titan — fierce but never cruel. James never confronted a writer like her.
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“What can a style this capacious fail to encompass? It is an ethics, a politics, a complete way of looking at the world.”
Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's criticism:
wapo.st/46X4pwC
Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's criticism:
wapo.st/46X4pwC
Review | Revel in the brilliant cruelty of Henry James’s criticism
“On Writers and Writing” gathers 21 pieces by the great author, including a confident critique of Dickens when James was just 22
wapo.st
July 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
“What can a style this capacious fail to encompass? It is an ethics, a politics, a complete way of looking at the world.”
Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's criticism:
wapo.st/46X4pwC
Becca Rothfeld on Henry James's criticism:
wapo.st/46X4pwC