will peischel
@willpeischel.bsky.social
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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
I don't care what anyone says, this is the most important news story of the day. The CEO who went on a Virgin Cruise and was so revolted by garden variety middle class behavior that he tried to murder a guy.
I don't care what anyone says, this is the most important news story of the day. The CEO who went on a Virgin Cruise and was so revolted by garden variety middle class behavior that he tried to murder a guy.
April 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
I don't care what anyone says, this is the most important news story of the day. The CEO who went on a Virgin Cruise and was so revolted by garden variety middle class behavior that he tried to murder a guy.
I don't care what anyone says, this is the most important news story of the day. The CEO who went on a Virgin Cruise and was so revolted by garden variety middle class behavior that he tried to murder a guy.
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This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Needless, stupid, and cruel
Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.
February 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Needless, stupid, and cruel
this is right. wokeness, a term nobody can agree on—but that the Harris certainly did *not* campaign on!—is just a fall man. If anything, the Dems' failure to defend policies associated with "wokeness" allowed the right to decide how negative connotations would be. nymag.com/intelligence...
February 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is right. wokeness, a term nobody can agree on—but that the Harris certainly did *not* campaign on!—is just a fall man. If anything, the Dems' failure to defend policies associated with "wokeness" allowed the right to decide how negative connotations would be. nymag.com/intelligence...
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This piece by @quinnslobodian.com is the best analysis of DOGE out there. Quinn is spot on that what we are seeing with Trump/Musk/DOGE right now is "the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Speed Up the Breakdown | Quinn Slobodian
For the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young
www.nybooks.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This piece by @quinnslobodian.com is the best analysis of DOGE out there. Quinn is spot on that what we are seeing with Trump/Musk/DOGE right now is "the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union
NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
January 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union
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Our colleagues at @nymagunion.bsky.social need your support! Sign the NY Mag Reader Pledge to honor the picket line in the event of a unit walkout, and pass it on! nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our colleagues at @nymagunion.bsky.social need your support! Sign the NY Mag Reader Pledge to honor the picket line in the event of a unit walkout, and pass it on! nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
I love fact-checking at @nymag.com, but management has dismissed serious concerns from workers around basics like paying the bills and getting access to healthcare. If we have to walk out to get their attention, fine. Sign. Join us. Don't visit the site if we walk out. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
January 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I love fact-checking at @nymag.com, but management has dismissed serious concerns from workers around basics like paying the bills and getting access to healthcare. If we have to walk out to get their attention, fine. Sign. Join us. Don't visit the site if we walk out. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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my colleagues and I are tired of hearing in all-hands meetings that our business is doing well, and then in contract negotiations hearing that they can't afford to pay us salaries that keep pace with inflation. we've pledged to walk out if we need to. join us. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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January 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
my colleagues and I are tired of hearing in all-hands meetings that our business is doing well, and then in contract negotiations hearing that they can't afford to pay us salaries that keep pace with inflation. we've pledged to walk out if we need to. join us. nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb.
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
January 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb.
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
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Before "Mommy Meanest" was a Lifetime movie, an exasperating cyberbullying case in a small Michigan town stumped all the authorities. Some suspected the culprit was all too close to home.
My latest for @NYMag and @TheCut
www.thecut.com/article/kend...
My latest for @NYMag and @TheCut
www.thecut.com/article/kend...
Who Was Cyberbullying Kendra Licari’s Teen Daughter?
For a year, parents and school officials searched for the person behind the vicious, relentless texts. The culprit was under their noses all along.
www.thecut.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Before "Mommy Meanest" was a Lifetime movie, an exasperating cyberbullying case in a small Michigan town stumped all the authorities. Some suspected the culprit was all too close to home.
My latest for @NYMag and @TheCut
www.thecut.com/article/kend...
My latest for @NYMag and @TheCut
www.thecut.com/article/kend...
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This piece on how the civil disobedience squad from @climatedefiance.bsky.social is thinking about Trump ends with hope and a challenge:
"One silver lining of an administration that [doesn't even pretend] to care about climate change. Barriers bw the factions of people who do care tend to fall. "
"One silver lining of an administration that [doesn't even pretend] to care about climate change. Barriers bw the factions of people who do care tend to fall. "
How Do You Confront an Administration That Can’t Be Shamed?
Climate Defiance made a name for itself confronting and shaming its theoretical allies: Biden officials. Now it faces a very different set of opponents.
newrepublic.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This piece on how the civil disobedience squad from @climatedefiance.bsky.social is thinking about Trump ends with hope and a challenge:
"One silver lining of an administration that [doesn't even pretend] to care about climate change. Barriers bw the factions of people who do care tend to fall. "
"One silver lining of an administration that [doesn't even pretend] to care about climate change. Barriers bw the factions of people who do care tend to fall. "
Wrote about Climate Defiance and the role of action-oriented environmental advocacy after Biden.
How Do You Confront an Administration That Can’t Be Shamed?
Climate Defiance made a name for itself confronting and shaming its theoretical allies: Biden officials. Now it faces a very different set of opponents.
newrepublic.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wrote about Climate Defiance and the role of action-oriented environmental advocacy after Biden.
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An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
www.nola.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
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At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out
December 24, 2024 at 6:51 PM
At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out
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Great overview of how the effort is going by @willpeischel.bsky.social (from last year)
Inside the rough-and-tumble race to clean up America's abandoned oil wells
With a little art, a little science, and a lot of luck, the niche oil-well-plugging industry is hoping to pick up steam.
grist.org
December 11, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Great overview of how the effort is going by @willpeischel.bsky.social (from last year)
Italian anarchists were not on my centennial bingo card.
December 9, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Italian anarchists were not on my centennial bingo card.
If something is going to ruin my life it better have a way cooler name than Lot-Less.
December 3, 2024 at 9:04 PM
If something is going to ruin my life it better have a way cooler name than Lot-Less.
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I wrote about how two potential targets are preparing for the promised revenge tour. nymag.com/intelligence...
What It’s Like to Be on Trump’s Enemies List
“Revenge does take time.”
nymag.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM
I wrote about how two potential targets are preparing for the promised revenge tour. nymag.com/intelligence...
Now I can finally share that the real reason I stopped tweeting was because I forgot my account password.
November 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Now I can finally share that the real reason I stopped tweeting was because I forgot my account password.