Rob Gunther
@1robgunther.bsky.social
producer at Slate's daily news podcast What Next | rob.gunther at slate dot com - audio journalist, podcast producer, illustrator | 1robgunther at gmail
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Back at it for 2025. I’m a NYC based journalist and illustrator. I just finished #inktober, a 31 drawings in 31 days challenge I do every year. Pen and paper. Here’s how it came out, days 1-4:
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We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
Gift link: so if this ultimately has to clear a Trump veto, does this end with the public release of the files or no? That question has not been an obvious part of this whole story until now.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Gift link: so if this ultimately has to clear a Trump veto, does this end with the public release of the files or no? That question has not been an obvious part of this whole story until now.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
This sums up the last 10 years
Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This sums up the last 10 years
Solidarity forever
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Solidarity forever
Can’t stop thinking about the NYTimes’s “we don’t do endorsements anymore but don’t vote for Mamdani” pre-primary write-up. Big journalism spent the past 10 years trying to find real America, and willfully tried to suppress what was taking place in its own backyard.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
Opinion | Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor
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November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Can’t stop thinking about the NYTimes’s “we don’t do endorsements anymore but don’t vote for Mamdani” pre-primary write-up. Big journalism spent the past 10 years trying to find real America, and willfully tried to suppress what was taking place in its own backyard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
Dick Cheney’s legacy is: he and his coconspirators took advantage of the collective fear and grief post-9/11 to lie their way into a vanity oil war that got a million people killed.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Dick Cheney’s legacy is: he and his coconspirators took advantage of the collective fear and grief post-9/11 to lie their way into a vanity oil war that got a million people killed.
Wow, haven't seen a "racially charged" in a while.
“.. It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” a person who attended the party said.
#CO04
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#CO04
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November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wow, haven't seen a "racially charged" in a while.
Any of these guys using torpedo bats? Did that ever become a thing?
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Any of these guys using torpedo bats? Did that ever become a thing?
Back at it for 2025. I’m a NYC based journalist and illustrator. I just finished #inktober, a 31 drawings in 31 days challenge I do every year. Pen and paper. Here’s how it came out, days 1-4:
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Back at it for 2025. I’m a NYC based journalist and illustrator. I just finished #inktober, a 31 drawings in 31 days challenge I do every year. Pen and paper. Here’s how it came out, days 1-4:
If this were a 30 minute sitcom, the judge would say this and then the camera would immediately cut to a new scene where Bovino is throwing like five tear gas canisters right into a trick-or-treater’s candy bag.
Ellis says that, given her chat with Bovino today, "I don't know that we're going to see a whole lot of tear gas being deployed over the next week."
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If this were a 30 minute sitcom, the judge would say this and then the camera would immediately cut to a new scene where Bovino is throwing like five tear gas canisters right into a trick-or-treater’s candy bag.
Josh Hawley talks in biblical terms about America’s duty to feed the hungry, but can’t resist floating the caveat that, actually, undocumented people don’t deserve to eat. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Josh Hawley talks in biblical terms about America’s duty to feed the hungry, but can’t resist floating the caveat that, actually, undocumented people don’t deserve to eat. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
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When your voice goes and you really really have to take a sick day, it's nice when a charmer like @1robgunther.bsky.social can fill in on the fly slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Where Sports Betting Got Us
Covering the spread of sports gambling to everywhere.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When your voice goes and you really really have to take a sick day, it's nice when a charmer like @1robgunther.bsky.social can fill in on the fly slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Listen: I'm guest hosting for Mary Harris today on @slate.com's daily news pod, What Next. I talked with @jaywillis.net about the NBA indictments, gambling on everything, and why it feels like we're all living in Biff's nightmare world from Back to the Future Part II.
Where Sports Betting Got Us
Covering the spread of sports gambling to everywhere.
slate.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Listen: I'm guest hosting for Mary Harris today on @slate.com's daily news pod, What Next. I talked with @jaywillis.net about the NBA indictments, gambling on everything, and why it feels like we're all living in Biff's nightmare world from Back to the Future Part II.
An ICE leadership purge because the Trump administration wants federal police to be doing more of what we’re seeing in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
An ICE leadership purge because the Trump administration wants federal police to be doing more of what we’re seeing in Chicago.
Wow I got super excited imagining I’d be able relive my glory years in college … except it turns out this specifically does not include competitive multiplayer? That’s like the only reason I’d play. Gift link:
Xbox’s Prized Sci-Fi Franchise Is Heading to PlayStation
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October 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Wow I got super excited imagining I’d be able relive my glory years in college … except it turns out this specifically does not include competitive multiplayer? That’s like the only reason I’d play. Gift link:
Definitely read this @jaywillis.net banger about a part of modern US history I had no idea of. There’s a direct lesson here for anyone thinking about the whole Graham Platner nazi tattoo business.
The Ku Klux Klansman Who Spent 34 Years As a Supreme Court Justice
Hugo Black’s life is a case study in how public service launders the reputations of people who did not deserve the opportunities they received.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Definitely read this @jaywillis.net banger about a part of modern US history I had no idea of. There’s a direct lesson here for anyone thinking about the whole Graham Platner nazi tattoo business.
We need new language to write about politics. Calling a disgraced former governor and a failed corrupt one-term mayor “moderate” comes off as lazy. Whatever your understanding of politics, these guys do not represent the ideological middle ground. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We need new language to write about politics. Calling a disgraced former governor and a failed corrupt one-term mayor “moderate” comes off as lazy. Whatever your understanding of politics, these guys do not represent the ideological middle ground. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
I knew right away it was because of “a latent defect within the service’s automated DNS [domain name system] management system,” if only people had listened to me!
Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline
Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline
AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications
Amazon has revealed the cause of this week’s hours-long AWS outage, which took everything from Signal to smart beds offline, was a bug in automation software that had widespread consequences.
In a lengthy outline of the cause of the outage published on Thursday, AWS revealed a cascading set of events brought down thousands of sites and applications that host their services with the company. Continue reading...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I knew right away it was because of “a latent defect within the service’s automated DNS [domain name system] management system,” if only people had listened to me!
Compare Barzal’s intermission interview, only talking up Schaefer. Compare it to Tavares calling Barzy “the kid with the Calder.” Night and day. #isles
October 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Compare Barzal’s intermission interview, only talking up Schaefer. Compare it to Tavares calling Barzy “the kid with the Calder.” Night and day. #isles
Say a prayer
For the internet billionaires
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For the internet billionaires
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A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
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October 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Say a prayer
For the internet billionaires
Gift link:
For the internet billionaires
Gift link:
Trump: me and my rich friends are paying for the unapproved $300 million White House demolition.
Also Trump: I demand the federal government give me, the president, $230 million.
Also Trump: I demand the federal government give me, the president, $230 million.
Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff.
More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.
New piece:
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More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse
It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.
newrepublic.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Trump: me and my rich friends are paying for the unapproved $300 million White House demolition.
Also Trump: I demand the federal government give me, the president, $230 million.
Also Trump: I demand the federal government give me, the president, $230 million.
Ah yes, the most surprising and deft move of the night: the Republican nominee saying he’ll take a “conciliatory approach” with Donald Trump. I never thought about partisan politics this way. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Ah yes, the most surprising and deft move of the night: the Republican nominee saying he’ll take a “conciliatory approach” with Donald Trump. I never thought about partisan politics this way. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...