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This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
October 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
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This is extremely serious.
American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop.
Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
Farmer says 'we're in a very dire situation' ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer | Fortune
Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.
fortune.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is extremely serious.
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Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
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President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
www.nytimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
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The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Thank you, Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov. What you're doing is an amazing, patriotic act.
April 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thank you, Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov. What you're doing is an amazing, patriotic act.
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I know at a base level political journalism in this country is compromised when senate aides i’ve never communicated with email me “off the record, blah blah.” that’s not how this works, but it tells me they’re used to treating hill reporters like trained dolphins. and that shit doesn’t fly with me.
March 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I know at a base level political journalism in this country is compromised when senate aides i’ve never communicated with email me “off the record, blah blah.” that’s not how this works, but it tells me they’re used to treating hill reporters like trained dolphins. and that shit doesn’t fly with me.
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The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.
“Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...
Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies
Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
www.ft.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.
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Athens Clarke-County (GA) rally
February 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Athens Clarke-County (GA) rally
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People who rail against DEI are segregationists. They’re emboldened by Trump but it’s nothing new.
Just say that, call it what it is. It’s not complicated.
Just say that, call it what it is. It’s not complicated.
The first rule of frame warfare: do not use your opponent's frames.
I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.
January 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
People who rail against DEI are segregationists. They’re emboldened by Trump but it’s nothing new.
Just say that, call it what it is. It’s not complicated.
Just say that, call it what it is. It’s not complicated.
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Criswell: Firefighter for 12 years, Desert Storm veteran, head of NYC emergency management, confirmed to lead FEMA unanimously
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Rep. Andrew Clyde refers to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell as a "DEI hire"
(she's a woman)
(she's a woman)
January 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Criswell: Firefighter for 12 years, Desert Storm veteran, head of NYC emergency management, confirmed to lead FEMA unanimously
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
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NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC”
Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money.
In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end.
www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...
Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money.
In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end.
www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...
January 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NYTimes was the most credulous, calling 2012 “the year of the MOOC”
Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money.
In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end.
www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...
Soon the major companies (edX, Coursera) were bankrupt, bought out, and/or never made money.
In subsequent realignments, arts + humanities paid the price for universities’ bad investments. The end.
www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/e...
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![Chozick began writing about Clinton in 2007, while working for The Wall Street Journal.[4] In 2008, she was a member of the traveling press of both Clinton and Barack Obama.[3] That year, Chozick wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal questioning whether Obama was too thin to be elected president, given the average weight of Americans; commentator Timothy Noah wrote that this was a racist dog-whistle that invited white people to focus on his appearance and consequently "dwell on…his dark skin."[5]
After writing for the Journal for eight years, she joined the Times in 2011 to write about corporate media.[6] In 2013, she was promoted to the Times' political team, with a focus on Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family.[7] In 2016, she said that as a result of her reporting on Clinton, specifically on her clinching the Democratic nomination for president in June of that year, that she had received death threats from supporters of Clinton's rival in this campaign, Bernie Sanders.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e4musdh2uni44id3q5fhks2l/bafkreianzttmlhetqedbfnsnx5snpxbp4kbs53hna74pzf3nn3mfbc6qfe@jpeg)
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Lol this is how the New York Times identifies the author of that cuomo savior piece
January 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Lol this is how the New York Times identifies the author of that cuomo savior piece
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Which is so odd, because the fundamental skill, and real satisfaction, of being a reporter *is* listening.
You spend your days asking people questions, hearing answers, then sharing what you've learned.
You should always be learning, because you're hearing from people who know more than you do.
You spend your days asking people questions, hearing answers, then sharing what you've learned.
You should always be learning, because you're hearing from people who know more than you do.
"Journalism is terrible at listening. We train reporters to hit the streets with premade narratives and predictions, looking for quotes to fulfill them."
Many relevant insights on this @jeffjarvis.bsky.social's article.
Give it a read 👇
Journalism, Belief, & Belonging medium.com/whither-news...
Many relevant insights on this @jeffjarvis.bsky.social's article.
Give it a read 👇
Journalism, Belief, & Belonging medium.com/whither-news...
Journalism, Belief, & Belonging
The crisis in democracy is not just about information
medium.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Which is so odd, because the fundamental skill, and real satisfaction, of being a reporter *is* listening.
You spend your days asking people questions, hearing answers, then sharing what you've learned.
You should always be learning, because you're hearing from people who know more than you do.
You spend your days asking people questions, hearing answers, then sharing what you've learned.
You should always be learning, because you're hearing from people who know more than you do.
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I wrote about the New York Times ignoring the deadly stabbing of a 17-year-old in Manhattan as the paper goes all out on the killing of a rich CEO just up the street.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/new-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/new-...
New York Times Runs Dozens of Stories About Slain CEO – But Hasn’t Covered the Killing of Teenager in Possible Hate Crime Just a Few Miles Away
Two Killings in Manhattan a Day Apart, and the Gap in the New York Times' Coverage of Them Might as Well Be Measured in Light-Years
www.mediaite.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM
I wrote about the New York Times ignoring the deadly stabbing of a 17-year-old in Manhattan as the paper goes all out on the killing of a rich CEO just up the street.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/new-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/new-...