Joe Gillis
@joegillis23.bsky.social
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
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We’re trying to raise $1 million for desperately poor people in Rwanda to beat last year’s mark and do more good.
www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...
www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...
One million dollars
How you can live a happier life, crush our Substack rivals, and help people in need
www.slowboring.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We’re trying to raise $1 million for desperately poor people in Rwanda to beat last year’s mark and do more good.
www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...
www.slowboring.com/p/one-millio...
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There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries
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As we have long reported, a city DOT report on daylighting is flawed — and now City Council researchers agree:
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As we have long reported, a city DOT report on daylighting is flawed — and now City Council researchers agree:
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RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.
Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.
Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social :
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.
Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”
“Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts.
Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”
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The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.
HEAVY TRAFFIC: Driving Continues to Rise, Undermining Literally Every Effort to Make the City Better - Streetsblog New York City
The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.
buff.ly
October 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The trend of increased vehicle miles traveled undermines safety initiatives, pollution reduction efforts and the traffic mitigation of congestion pricing, a new report makes clear.
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What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
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Think I'm going to cancel my Post subscription and find some other local news source to support
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Think I'm going to cancel my Post subscription and find some other local news source to support
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Rather than this justify yourself nonsense that treats adults like children, the correct question to ask to spur innovation and make people feel like they have a stake in transformation: What do you WANT to make? The onus is on the leaders to inspire and challenge and ask.
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Rather than this justify yourself nonsense that treats adults like children, the correct question to ask to spur innovation and make people feel like they have a stake in transformation: What do you WANT to make? The onus is on the leaders to inspire and challenge and ask.
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✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
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This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
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“To see an unhoused person and think first of optics and not of the human soul involved is callous. That’s not what nurses do.” - a union nurse on Trump’s DC homeless sweeps.
August 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“To see an unhoused person and think first of optics and not of the human soul involved is callous. That’s not what nurses do.” - a union nurse on Trump’s DC homeless sweeps.
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To the finance people out there: If you thought Trump will successfully take over the Fed and go full Erdogan. - install a lackey who cuts rates whenever he wants him to - what trades would you be making?
August 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
To the finance people out there: If you thought Trump will successfully take over the Fed and go full Erdogan. - install a lackey who cuts rates whenever he wants him to - what trades would you be making?
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More than 150 injuries from traffic crashes could have been avoided.
Nearly a quarter-million bus riders could have had faster commutes.
Instead, Eric Adams’s City Hall stymied several redesigns at the behest of powerful interests. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/28/s...
Nearly a quarter-million bus riders could have had faster commutes.
Instead, Eric Adams’s City Hall stymied several redesigns at the behest of powerful interests. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/28/s...
'Safety for Sale': How City Hall Corruption Hurt New Yorkers and Slowed Bus Riders - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor Eric Adams's interventions into DOT projects at the behest of campaign donors hurt New Yorkers — literally.
nyc.streetsblog.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
More than 150 injuries from traffic crashes could have been avoided.
Nearly a quarter-million bus riders could have had faster commutes.
Instead, Eric Adams’s City Hall stymied several redesigns at the behest of powerful interests. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/28/s...
Nearly a quarter-million bus riders could have had faster commutes.
Instead, Eric Adams’s City Hall stymied several redesigns at the behest of powerful interests. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/28/s...
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The extent to which the American economy is being transformed into a machine for scams and outright bribery should be spoken about more directly.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...
Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy
It's bad and you should be alarmed.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The extent to which the American economy is being transformed into a machine for scams and outright bribery should be spoken about more directly.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...
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As someone who has been writing about comparative democratic decline for a decade, I think we've just seen the two most dangerous signs in the US so far. They are:
1) Successful attacks on media, specifically cowing CBS and defunding NPR
2) The Supreme Court's deference to Trump on executive power
1) Successful attacks on media, specifically cowing CBS and defunding NPR
2) The Supreme Court's deference to Trump on executive power
July 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As someone who has been writing about comparative democratic decline for a decade, I think we've just seen the two most dangerous signs in the US so far. They are:
1) Successful attacks on media, specifically cowing CBS and defunding NPR
2) The Supreme Court's deference to Trump on executive power
1) Successful attacks on media, specifically cowing CBS and defunding NPR
2) The Supreme Court's deference to Trump on executive power
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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A lot of bangers recently on the old bird site
June 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A lot of bangers recently on the old bird site
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There was no New York Jewish consensus against Zohran Mamdani. According to polls, he ran 2nd among Jewish voters. He became part of the ongoing--and escalating--American Jewish civil war over Israel peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-zohra...
What Zohran’s Victory Means
Throughout American History, Movements For Freedom Have Moved from the Streets into the Political System. That’s Happening Now on Gaza.
peterbeinart.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
There was no New York Jewish consensus against Zohran Mamdani. According to polls, he ran 2nd among Jewish voters. He became part of the ongoing--and escalating--American Jewish civil war over Israel peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-zohra...
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Zohran raised a lot less money than you'd expect given his vote share and educated coalition - he barely outraised Lander!
His prioritization of persuasion over fundraising in his public facing communication was extremely unusual and more Democrats should follow his lead!
His prioritization of persuasion over fundraising in his public facing communication was extremely unusual and more Democrats should follow his lead!
June 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Zohran raised a lot less money than you'd expect given his vote share and educated coalition - he barely outraised Lander!
His prioritization of persuasion over fundraising in his public facing communication was extremely unusual and more Democrats should follow his lead!
His prioritization of persuasion over fundraising in his public facing communication was extremely unusual and more Democrats should follow his lead!
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War with Iran would be the most catastrophic US foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. It would give Trump vast new authoritarian powers. Americans of both parties oppose it overwhelmingly. So why are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries so silent? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Opinion | Trump Might Take the U.S. to War. Where Are Schumer and Jeffries?
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
War with Iran would be the most catastrophic US foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. It would give Trump vast new authoritarian powers. Americans of both parties oppose it overwhelmingly. So why are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries so silent? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
May 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
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Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza.
Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.
Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.
May 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza.
Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.
Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.