Scott Dodd
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Scott Dodd
@doddcast.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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"Things Happen" - President Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ44...
Killing Jamal Khashoggi: How a Brutal Saudi Hit Job Unfolded | NYT - Visual Investigations
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November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Things Happen" - President Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ44...
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The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
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The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Here's what happened in Charlotte over the weekend as the Border Patrol surged into the city searching for immigrants in the US illegally. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Border Patrol Fans Out Across Charlotte, N.C., Arresting 81 People on First Day
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November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Here's what happened in Charlotte over the weekend as the Border Patrol surged into the city searching for immigrants in the US illegally. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The most detailed account yet, based on new videos, phone data, exclusive interviews and measurements from inside Camp Mystic, of how 28 people were killed there in the Hill Country floods. Gift article. This is NYT journalism at its best. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New Videos, Data and Reporting Give a Detailed Account of the Camp Mystic Disaster (Gift Article)
Never-before-published videos, data from smart devices, a crash report and the first interview that Camp Mystic's owners have granted since the July 4 disaster offer the most detailed account yet.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The most detailed account yet, based on new videos, phone data, exclusive interviews and measurements from inside Camp Mystic, of how 28 people were killed there in the Hill Country floods. Gift article. This is NYT journalism at its best. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Got chili on, wings dry brining, tomatoes still ripening in mid-November and Penn State just got a 75-yard TD through the air and blocked a punt after a 3-and-out. Living my best life.
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Got chili on, wings dry brining, tomatoes still ripening in mid-November and Penn State just got a 75-yard TD through the air and blocked a punt after a 3-and-out. Living my best life.
Here's a gift link to today's smart and important lead NYT story by my colleague @danagoldstein.bsky.social on how history curriculums are changing during the Trump era. Read it free. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Here's a gift link to today's smart and important lead NYT story by my colleague @danagoldstein.bsky.social on how history curriculums are changing during the Trump era. Read it free. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
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NEW: After the floods that killed 135+ people in Texas, we heard concerns about the performance of a radio system used by first responders. It was brand new and had cost Kerr County some $7 million.
So what went wrong?
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So what went wrong?
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October 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
NEW: After the floods that killed 135+ people in Texas, we heard concerns about the performance of a radio system used by first responders. It was brand new and had cost Kerr County some $7 million.
So what went wrong?
1/8
So what went wrong?
1/8
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Border patrol agents are heading today to the Bay Area for an immigration enforcement operation. They will stage at the coast guard base in Alameda.
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Border Patrol Plans Crackdown in the San Francisco Bay Area
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October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Border patrol agents are heading today to the Bay Area for an immigration enforcement operation. They will stage at the coast guard base in Alameda.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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My favorite parts of the Manningcast are just before halftime with no guests and Peyton being disgusted by poor time management.
October 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
My favorite parts of the Manningcast are just before halftime with no guests and Peyton being disgusted by poor time management.
"He got this whole fascination with Mormons, and they are the Antichrist, and they are going to take over the world."
ICYMI, our team managed to piece together a more comprehensive look at what appears to have motivated the ex-Marine who attacked a Michigan church.
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ICYMI, our team managed to piece together a more comprehensive look at what appears to have motivated the ex-Marine who attacked a Michigan church.
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Michigan Church Attacker Is Said to Have Held a Grudge Against Mormons
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September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"He got this whole fascination with Mormons, and they are the Antichrist, and they are going to take over the world."
ICYMI, our team managed to piece together a more comprehensive look at what appears to have motivated the ex-Marine who attacked a Michigan church.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
ICYMI, our team managed to piece together a more comprehensive look at what appears to have motivated the ex-Marine who attacked a Michigan church.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
It's clear that many readers (and media critics) don't understand how journalism works, and journalists are pretty bad at explaining it. So I'm glad to recommend this backstage look at how we wrestled with a really hard story, featuring my boss and several colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
Inside The Times’s Reporting and Judgment Calls on Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
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September 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's clear that many readers (and media critics) don't understand how journalism works, and journalists are pretty bad at explaining it. So I'm glad to recommend this backstage look at how we wrestled with a really hard story, featuring my boss and several colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
Is Sirianni wearing a fitted short-sleeve hoodie tee? That’s more offensive than the pre-snap spit.
September 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Is Sirianni wearing a fitted short-sleeve hoodie tee? That’s more offensive than the pre-snap spit.
Best NFL season ever?
September 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Best NFL season ever?
Pretty wild to have the first day of August feel like Halloween and not the other way around.
August 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Pretty wild to have the first day of August feel like Halloween and not the other way around.
My favorite part of the great new Superman movie? Before journalism saves the day, Jimmy Olsen has to make the Planet’s big exclusive Copy Ready and Web Ready to publish. @jamesgunn.bsky.social really knows his way around a modern CMS!
(Journalistic quibbles to follow.)
(Journalistic quibbles to follow.)
July 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My favorite part of the great new Superman movie? Before journalism saves the day, Jimmy Olsen has to make the Planet’s big exclusive Copy Ready and Web Ready to publish. @jamesgunn.bsky.social really knows his way around a modern CMS!
(Journalistic quibbles to follow.)
(Journalistic quibbles to follow.)
From Day One, we've had a team of reporters and editors doing the difficult and heartrending work of documenting the victims of the Texas floods. Today we present some of the gut-wrenching losses. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Lives Lost to the Texas Floods
Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from work. These are some of the victims of the July 4 floods.
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July 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
From Day One, we've had a team of reporters and editors doing the difficult and heartrending work of documenting the victims of the Texas floods. Today we present some of the gut-wrenching losses. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here are the records that document the history of Pope Leo XIV's mother's side of the family, who were Creole people of color from New Orleans, and the fascinating story of an American family's journey. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
See Historical Records Documenting the Pope’s Creole Roots in New Orleans
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May 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Here are the records that document the history of Pope Leo XIV's mother's side of the family, who were Creole people of color from New Orleans, and the fascinating story of an American family's journey. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
Pope’s brother confirms to NYT that their maternal grandparents were Creole people of color from New Orleans, confirming genealogist’s research and connecting Pope Leo to the rich and often overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans
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May 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Pope’s brother confirms to NYT that their maternal grandparents were Creole people of color from New Orleans, confirming genealogist’s research and connecting Pope Leo to the rich and often overlooked Black Catholic experience in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
Huge global news day and this is the headline my employer recommended to me via email. Nailed it.
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Huge global news day and this is the headline my employer recommended to me via email. Nailed it.
Don't miss this terrific NYT swan song on the Unabomber's brother by the retiring Serge Kovaleski, who is already missed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
Ted Kaczynski’s Brother Wrote Him For Decades to Explain Why He Turned Him In (Gift Article)
Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Don't miss this terrific NYT swan song on the Unabomber's brother by the retiring Serge Kovaleski, who is already missed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
For everyone struggling to keep up, a very helpful service from my colleagues in Graphics, which will be updated daily. Warning: It's already very, very long.
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What Have Trump and His Administration Said and Done So Far? Gaza, Tariffs, U.S.P.S.
The New York Times is tracking the actions taken by, and significant statements made by, President Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term.
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February 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
For everyone struggling to keep up, a very helpful service from my colleagues in Graphics, which will be updated daily. Warning: It's already very, very long.
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Here's our ongoing coverage of the deadly air crash in DC and the search for what caused it.
Latest scoop: Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Reagan National was “not normal,” according to a preliminary FAA reporter reviewed by our reporters.
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Latest scoop: Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Reagan National was “not normal,” according to a preliminary FAA reporter reviewed by our reporters.
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D.C. Plane Crash Live Updates: No Survivors After American Airlines Jet and Army Helicopter Collide
An internal report suggested that the controller on duty the night of the accident was doing a job usually handled by two people. The collision between a jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people, w...
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January 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Here's our ongoing coverage of the deadly air crash in DC and the search for what caused it.
Latest scoop: Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Reagan National was “not normal,” according to a preliminary FAA reporter reviewed by our reporters.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Latest scoop: Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Reagan National was “not normal,” according to a preliminary FAA reporter reviewed by our reporters.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...