Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Hm seems like OKC lost some rhythm and energy on the long delay
A two-and-a-half-minute ad break to decide if someone’s really going to shoot two free throws with more than eight minutes left
Replay review is bad
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hm seems like OKC lost some rhythm and energy on the long delay
A two-and-a-half-minute ad break to decide if someone’s really going to shoot two free throws with more than eight minutes left
Replay review is bad
First to 105 wins
December 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A two-and-a-half-minute ad break to decide if someone’s really going to shoot two free throws with more than eight minutes left
Replay review is bad
First to 105 wins
December 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Replay review is bad
Not sure describing MAGA foreign policy as "torn between an alliance of ideological noninterventionists and realists and a hawkish national security establishment" really captures the range of positions that produced the Venezuela and boat-strike policies www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
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December 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Not sure describing MAGA foreign policy as "torn between an alliance of ideological noninterventionists and realists and a hawkish national security establishment" really captures the range of positions that produced the Venezuela and boat-strike policies www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
And he extends it to Coleman Hughes, who has been nationally platformed since he was a teenage undergraduate
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
And he extends it to Coleman Hughes, who has been nationally platformed since he was a teenage undergraduate
The Atlantic ran a piece by Adam Serwer that answered that question with some specifics about the process
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
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December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Atlantic ran a piece by Adam Serwer that answered that question with some specifics about the process
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30 lists and 15,000 words to round out the year from (among others) @tomscocca.bsky.social ! @bcmerchant.bsky.social ! @caseyjohnston.bsky.social ! @taylorlorenz.bsky.social ! @choire.bsky.social ! @rilaws.bsky.social ! @libbycwatson.com ! @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social !
The Read Max year in review 2025
Over 30 lists and 15,000 words from Read Max friends, foes, and family
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December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
30 lists and 15,000 words to round out the year from (among others) @tomscocca.bsky.social ! @bcmerchant.bsky.social ! @caseyjohnston.bsky.social ! @taylorlorenz.bsky.social ! @choire.bsky.social ! @rilaws.bsky.social ! @libbycwatson.com ! @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social !
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Indignity Vol. 5, No. 209, THE STAIRS, Chapter Six: A serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-six/
The Stairs, Chapter Six
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 209
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December 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 209, THE STAIRS, Chapter Six: A serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-six/
I think it was @jackshafer.bsky.social who long ago awakened me to the fundamental emptiness of how writers use the word "should"
December 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I think it was @jackshafer.bsky.social who long ago awakened me to the fundamental emptiness of how writers use the word "should"
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Facebook friends, here is Indignity Vol. 5, No. 208, MR WRONG: Swab the Halls! Deck the Folly! Merry Happy The Holidays! www.indignity.net/its-the-most...
It's the most MR WRONG-iful time of the year
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 208
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December 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Facebook friends, here is Indignity Vol. 5, No. 208, MR WRONG: Swab the Halls! Deck the Folly! Merry Happy The Holidays! www.indignity.net/its-the-most...
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“The absence of a deportation order … is no scrivener’s error. Evan Bernick, an associate professor of law at Northern Illinois University, agreed: ‘You’re not fixing a typo. You’re literally creating a new order, out of nothing, that affects somebody’s rights.’”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/u...
Word of the Week: ‘Scrivener’ makes an appearance in the saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia | CNN
Hours after a federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released last week, an immigration judge entered a document into the record correcting what they called a “scrivener’s error.”
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December 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“The absence of a deportation order … is no scrivener’s error. Evan Bernick, an associate professor of law at Northern Illinois University, agreed: ‘You’re not fixing a typo. You’re literally creating a new order, out of nothing, that affects somebody’s rights.’”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/u...
It just seemed odd for that guy to cite gender ratios at Conde Nast without mentioning that Conde Nast runs a whole lot of women's magazines and only one men's magazine
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It just seemed odd for that guy to cite gender ratios at Conde Nast without mentioning that Conde Nast runs a whole lot of women's magazines and only one men's magazine
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This from @tomscocca.bsky.social has lived rent free in my brain for years, especially the part of taking stock of how you're enjoying the party after your 2 drinks. If you're not having fun, more drinks won't make it better. Go home. lifehacker.com/have-two-dri...
Have Two Drinks at a Party
Everyone has their own relationship to and tolerance for alcohol, but next time you’re at a party, you might do well if you have exactly two drinks. I
lifehacker.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This from @tomscocca.bsky.social has lived rent free in my brain for years, especially the part of taking stock of how you're enjoying the party after your 2 drinks. If you're not having fun, more drinks won't make it better. Go home. lifehacker.com/have-two-dri...
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Indignity Vol. 5, No. 207, THE STAIRS, Chapter Five: A serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-five/
The Stairs, Chapter Five
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 207
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December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 207, THE STAIRS, Chapter Five: A serialized novel by Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-five/
Cameras are traffic-calming infrastructure
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Cameras are traffic-calming infrastructure
How did the synthetic grandma commercial get a second wind
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
How did the synthetic grandma commercial get a second wind
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the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
Very basic disagreement going on about whether succeeding to power in a constitutional republic means you get to add your new pages on top of what's been written or you get to burn the books
Overturning Humphrey’s Executor represents the Supreme Court applying the same principle to itself it would apply to the president: whoever holds the job at the moment is under no obligation to follow any of the laws or limits set by all their predecessors
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Very basic disagreement going on about whether succeeding to power in a constitutional republic means you get to add your new pages on top of what's been written or you get to burn the books
Overturning Humphrey’s Executor represents the Supreme Court applying the same principle to itself it would apply to the president: whoever holds the job at the moment is under no obligation to follow any of the laws or limits set by all their predecessors
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Overturning Humphrey’s Executor represents the Supreme Court applying the same principle to itself it would apply to the president: whoever holds the job at the moment is under no obligation to follow any of the laws or limits set by all their predecessors
Admit it, being the hegemon was kind of a drag
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Admit it, being the hegemon was kind of a drag