Stefonek
@stefonek.bsky.social
Father, husband, Wisconsinite. Journalist and miscellaneous writer. Sometimes musician. Author or The Adventures of #CarolAndBoscobel. Also noted kitten lord.
Every now and again, I remind myself that I am allowed and encouraged to report fun subjects, and hence a massive feature on #DungeonsAndDragons. #DND #TTRPG #criticalrole #strangerthings #DNDClub www.hngnews.com/the_star/loc...
Dungeons and Dragons has resurgence among students and teachers
At a time when elements of “nerd culture” are a popular, pervasive and sometimes even overwhelming force in media, the most surprising example may be the explosion of Dungeons and
www.hngnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Every now and again, I remind myself that I am allowed and encouraged to report fun subjects, and hence a massive feature on #DungeonsAndDragons. #DND #TTRPG #criticalrole #strangerthings #DNDClub www.hngnews.com/the_star/loc...
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UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
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In a democracy, the press – reporters – are the representatives of We, the People. That’s why our nation’s Founders protected the press in the First Amendment. When Trump attacks reporters, calling them “Piggy“ and threatening their networks, he is really attacking you and me.
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In a democracy, the press – reporters – are the representatives of We, the People. That’s why our nation’s Founders protected the press in the First Amendment. When Trump attacks reporters, calling them “Piggy“ and threatening their networks, he is really attacking you and me.
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A reminder that it’s virtually always a female journalist who has the courage and professionalism to ask the hard questions in the White House.
Clearly she understood the assignment.
Clearly she understood the assignment.
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A reminder that it’s virtually always a female journalist who has the courage and professionalism to ask the hard questions in the White House.
Clearly she understood the assignment.
Clearly she understood the assignment.
Agreed.
“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Agreed.
I’m okay with that.
We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m okay with that.
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We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
$4200 per year is 100 per week for 42 weeks, which would still be 10 weeks short, in addition to still being an economic miracle with current prices.
What the fuck?
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
$4200 per year is 100 per week for 42 weeks, which would still be 10 weeks short, in addition to still being an economic miracle with current prices.
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What the fuck?
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
What the fuck?
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Am I a better journalist than her? Yes. Would I also be very bad at running CBS News? Yes. Because like Bari I have zero experience running an operation of that size, or TV of any kind, and I am similarly stupid.
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Am I a better journalist than her? Yes. Would I also be very bad at running CBS News? Yes. Because like Bari I have zero experience running an operation of that size, or TV of any kind, and I am similarly stupid.
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Judge Nichols orders govt to explain why its 1st sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto—the one it deep-sixed because it mentioned Taranto's role in the mob violence of Jan 6—should remain sealed.
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Judge Nichols orders govt to explain why its 1st sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto—the one it deep-sixed because it mentioned Taranto's role in the mob violence of Jan 6—should remain sealed.
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Journalism tip: If someone says drop the story, that’s a sign to keep reporting.
Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Journalism tip: If someone says drop the story, that’s a sign to keep reporting.
Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
Back reporters who won’t flinch. Support our independent journalism ➜ propub.li/43MugoG
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this is evil
He’s still repeating that lie. Video link in replies.
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this is evil
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as tempting as it is to blame this on garland personally, I think a lot of it was an ingrained, institutionally cautious culure at doj. it was (before january 2025) a building full of careful, by-the-book people
The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
as tempting as it is to blame this on garland personally, I think a lot of it was an ingrained, institutionally cautious culure at doj. it was (before january 2025) a building full of careful, by-the-book people
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Some of Halo's actual designers find it "abhorrent" and "despicable," however.
www.avclub.com/microsoft-mu...
www.avclub.com/microsoft-mu...
Microsoft mum about ICE co-opting Halo imagery
Microsoft mum about ICE co-opting Halo imagery
www.avclub.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Some of Halo's actual designers find it "abhorrent" and "despicable," however.
www.avclub.com/microsoft-mu...
www.avclub.com/microsoft-mu...
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Two AUSAs were placed on administrative leave for truthfully describing Taylor Taranto's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege in a sentencing memo for later crimes. Unclear which specific truths were deemed unacceptable & by whom. Per @kfaulders.bsky.social et al.
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Two AUSAs were placed on administrative leave for truthfully describing Taylor Taranto's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege in a sentencing memo for later crimes. Unclear which specific truths were deemed unacceptable & by whom. Per @kfaulders.bsky.social et al.
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...
Some, perhaps much, of this I say is a direct result of news organizations closing foreign offices. Hence they don’t have any staff at the ready to report on regular people or other context in foreign countries. The few remaining reporters, understandably, stick to what they can see themselves.
Not seeing much about the massive anti-Trump pro-Gaza protests are we? Funny, that.
(Instead our media shows us Trump’s embarrassing dance moves and red carpet treatment)
(Instead our media shows us Trump’s embarrassing dance moves and red carpet treatment)
October 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Some, perhaps much, of this I say is a direct result of news organizations closing foreign offices. Hence they don’t have any staff at the ready to report on regular people or other context in foreign countries. The few remaining reporters, understandably, stick to what they can see themselves.
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Last week, a federal judge ordered immigration agents in Chicago to use body-cams: "That is not a suggestion."
Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him*
They had body-cams -- that weren't on
I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing
Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him*
They had body-cams -- that weren't on
I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing
October 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Last week, a federal judge ordered immigration agents in Chicago to use body-cams: "That is not a suggestion."
Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him*
They had body-cams -- that weren't on
I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing
Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him*
They had body-cams -- that weren't on
I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
There is no way to overstate how much decades of habit, audience demand, and managerial pressure have trained reporters to only consider politics as a matter of electoral sports.
There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!
But media elites find that boring.
But media elites find that boring.
It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
There is no way to overstate how much decades of habit, audience demand, and managerial pressure have trained reporters to only consider politics as a matter of electoral sports.
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When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD
For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD
October 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD
For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD
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After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
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typically you don't receive play by plays of what a grand jury is doing
Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.
October 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
typically you don't receive play by plays of what a grand jury is doing