Erinn O'Dear
@erinnthered.bsky.social
Redhead. Texan. Vagabond.
Expect typos she/her
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Pinned
It isn't even a paper anymore. NYT is has always been access oriented, facsist adjacent, wealth apologia, and even they are more of a newspaper than WaPo right now.
Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 AM
It isn't even a paper anymore. NYT is has always been access oriented, facsist adjacent, wealth apologia, and even they are more of a newspaper than WaPo right now.
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jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
A complete video and context of Sir Ian McKellen's performance on Colbert.
The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...
The Strangers’ Case
I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by
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February 6, 2026 at 2:15 AM
A complete video and context of Sir Ian McKellen's performance on Colbert.
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It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.
Genius Act living up to its name.
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Genius Act living up to its name.
There's regulation to protect investors, right? /s
February 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
There's regulation to protect investors, right? /s
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cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
www.forever-wars.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
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Discontinued Food News! This will be especially devastating for those of you, who like me, have the childhood sensory memory of clunking a cylinder of orange slush around in a plastic pitcher of water with a wooden spoon to produce the most underwhelming OJ imaginable, burned into your brain!
The iconic, slush-filled tubes of orange juice concentrate, which have been around for 80 years, are being discontinued, the Coca-Cola Company says.
Minute Maid discontinues frozen juice concentrate after 80 years
The process to make juice concentrate was invented by the research team C.D. Atkins, Edwin Moore and Louis MacDowell in the 1940s.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Discontinued Food News! This will be especially devastating for those of you, who like me, have the childhood sensory memory of clunking a cylinder of orange slush around in a plastic pitcher of water with a wooden spoon to produce the most underwhelming OJ imaginable, burned into your brain!
It really is just the US not doing consequences for coddling or collaborating with known child sex traffickers and abusers.
But it’s not. Essentially everywhere in Europe there are people being sacked and facing prosecution because of their appearance in the Epstein files, and rightly so!
I kind of feel like the focus being on one bad man instead of how a shadowy cabal of abusers was using a network of patronage to influence society is a problem. If I were a shadowy cabal of abusers, that’s exactly where I’d want to focus the news
February 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
It really is just the US not doing consequences for coddling or collaborating with known child sex traffickers and abusers.
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Columbia Heights has now connected the located child and her family with legal counsel. But TX lawyers told MPR they have spoken to MN families at Dilley who were not provided required legal counsel before being shipped out of state. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
www.mprnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Columbia Heights has now connected the located child and her family with legal counsel. But TX lawyers told MPR they have spoken to MN families at Dilley who were not provided required legal counsel before being shipped out of state. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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I want to call out two things. First, Judge Blackwell has to repeatedly ask Le why the govt never responded to his inquiry about "safety concerns" which delayed release. After repeatedly suggesting she told the Court in a letter she never sent (her testimony) she admits the info wasn't in the letter
Things start to break down when Judge Blackwell presses Le on why she never explained a supposed "safety concern" delaying someone's release, even after he specifically asked. She tries to blame it on a letter which was never sent, because of other people, before admitting it didn't have the answer.
February 5, 2026 at 4:58 AM
I want to call out two things. First, Judge Blackwell has to repeatedly ask Le why the govt never responded to his inquiry about "safety concerns" which delayed release. After repeatedly suggesting she told the Court in a letter she never sent (her testimony) she admits the info wasn't in the letter
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once again: lawyers are morally responsible for their professional decisions. people get really mad about this but … you picked the job. you took the money. you own what you’ve done.
A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
February 5, 2026 at 4:02 AM
once again: lawyers are morally responsible for their professional decisions. people get really mad about this but … you picked the job. you took the money. you own what you’ve done.
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The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 4:25 AM
The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.
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OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.
Trump on Alex Pretti and Renee Good: "He was not an angel and she was not an angel. You know, you look at some tapes."
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.
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I wrote this about Teen Vogue getting nuked near the end of last year, and today, especially, it feels particularly apropos.
Made it public and sharing here again, in case you want a little bit of expressed rage in your afternoon reading.
Made it public and sharing here again, in case you want a little bit of expressed rage in your afternoon reading.
It was never about the numbers
On trying to work in the dying American news industry
www.wordsaboutwork.news
February 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I wrote this about Teen Vogue getting nuked near the end of last year, and today, especially, it feels particularly apropos.
Made it public and sharing here again, in case you want a little bit of expressed rage in your afternoon reading.
Made it public and sharing here again, in case you want a little bit of expressed rage in your afternoon reading.
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
February 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
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My criticism of oligarch-owned news outlets does not stop at Jeff Bezos' gutting of The Washington Post.
For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce.
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For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce.
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BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC to cut staff as it continues digital transformation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Tuesday it will lay off staffers in the newsroom and other segments of the business.
www.ajc.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
My criticism of oligarch-owned news outlets does not stop at Jeff Bezos' gutting of The Washington Post.
For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce.
bsky.app/profile/alex...
For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce.
bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce.
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In 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer, emerging from a messy bankruptcy, was acquired by Lenfest and donated to a nonprofit community trust. The Graham family, meanwhile, sold the Post to the richest man in the world.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
The Washington Post is worth more to Jeff Bezos dead than alive
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce.
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2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide.
This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant
ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.
www.texastribune.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM
2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide.
This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
Great thread. Turns out weather exists and affects things.
Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...
February 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Great thread. Turns out weather exists and affects things.
🎵Maybe this time...🎵
Between Jeff Bezos' evisceration of The Washington Post, Bill Gates' appearance in the Epstein Files, and, you know, every single thing Elon Musk has done, at least we'll see the end of the Myth of the Benevolent Billionaires.
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
🎵Maybe this time...🎵