Josh Cain
@joshcain.bsky.social
Recovering reporter. Now I organize. IATSE Local 871. Former Newsguild-CWA. Forever SCNG Guild.
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for the nyt defense squad who spent yesterday crying that people were mean to the nyt, you don’t have to rush to their defense. you can just Not Post
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
for the nyt defense squad who spent yesterday crying that people were mean to the nyt, you don’t have to rush to their defense. you can just Not Post
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In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer.
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer.
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
Good things are possible and all, but we're talking about law enforcement types here -- a serious and hard nosed insider who the rank and file dislike for being a hard ass is probably the best you're gonna get
I think it's fine if Tisch is in there when he takes office on January 1.
She seems to have some genuine sense of propriety and takes orders. She can't be bought. She's happy to get rid of corruption/nepotism. Let her keep going on that path.
It will be v. hard to replace her w/o mutiny in ranks.
She seems to have some genuine sense of propriety and takes orders. She can't be bought. She's happy to get rid of corruption/nepotism. Let her keep going on that path.
It will be v. hard to replace her w/o mutiny in ranks.
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Good things are possible and all, but we're talking about law enforcement types here -- a serious and hard nosed insider who the rank and file dislike for being a hard ass is probably the best you're gonna get
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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WHAT
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
WHAT
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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as a current new york times employee or former one who was supposed to be covering all of this, let me just say some of you should absolutely trust me when I say there’s no funny business going on with the epstein documents. what reason would I have to say otherwise
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
as a current new york times employee or former one who was supposed to be covering all of this, let me just say some of you should absolutely trust me when I say there’s no funny business going on with the epstein documents. what reason would I have to say otherwise
Journalists who make a big point of defending their institutions: That is theater kid energy. It's not going to work, because it's inherently lame.
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Journalists who make a big point of defending their institutions: That is theater kid energy. It's not going to work, because it's inherently lame.
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
I am sorry, but while these conspiracies are incorrect on the facts, they are directionally correct: You have super powerful bosses whose daily work is to set the nation's news agenda, and they do so in a way that often pisses everybody here off. Of course they're going to come out guns blazing!
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I am sorry, but while these conspiracies are incorrect on the facts, they are directionally correct: You have super powerful bosses whose daily work is to set the nation's news agenda, and they do so in a way that often pisses everybody here off. Of course they're going to come out guns blazing!
"no tool to stop it" except oh I dunno DOING POLITICS
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"no tool to stop it" except oh I dunno DOING POLITICS
I don't think this former NYT reporter is wrong at all about their Epstein coverage in 2018-19; they wrote dozens of stories about him and his connections to Trump.
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I don't think this former NYT reporter is wrong at all about their Epstein coverage in 2018-19; they wrote dozens of stories about him and his connections to Trump.
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
Newspapers refused to take a side for decades, and for all that objectivity they got public polling as bad or worse today than either major political party lol
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Newspapers refused to take a side for decades, and for all that objectivity they got public polling as bad or worse today than either major political party lol
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Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
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Sloppy Steve doing damage control with the cult today trying to talk them off the ledge.
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sloppy Steve doing damage control with the cult today trying to talk them off the ledge.
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Karoline Leavitt claimed today that Trump was always "extremely professional" while hanging out with [checks notes] Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Karoline Leavitt claimed today that Trump was always "extremely professional" while hanging out with [checks notes] Jeffrey Epstein
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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that’s their only “idea.” gut all the public programs to free up budget headroom for tax cuts for the rich, and everyone gets fake insurance that doesn’t cost much up front but doesn’t cover anything
Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
that’s their only “idea.” gut all the public programs to free up budget headroom for tax cuts for the rich, and everyone gets fake insurance that doesn’t cost much up front but doesn’t cover anything
"And his editors benched him instantly from any professional contact with Epstein"
Must be nice being the sort of reporter who gets a slap on the wrist for soliciting bribes from a guy on your beat
Must be nice being the sort of reporter who gets a slap on the wrist for soliciting bribes from a guy on your beat
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"And his editors benched him instantly from any professional contact with Epstein"
Must be nice being the sort of reporter who gets a slap on the wrist for soliciting bribes from a guy on your beat
Must be nice being the sort of reporter who gets a slap on the wrist for soliciting bribes from a guy on your beat
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This is a huge victory that should be broadcast nationwide in all the major outlets. Big big big deal. I have been following this. Make them pay
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is a huge victory that should be broadcast nationwide in all the major outlets. Big big big deal. I have been following this. Make them pay
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first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Even if you live in the bluest possible American city -- Portland, Denton TX, Burlington VT, it does not matter -- property owners who turn out for meetings like this to oppose low income housing are the strongest front line soldiers for reactionary neocon and MAGA politics, and they must be fought
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Even if you live in the bluest possible American city -- Portland, Denton TX, Burlington VT, it does not matter -- property owners who turn out for meetings like this to oppose low income housing are the strongest front line soldiers for reactionary neocon and MAGA politics, and they must be fought
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Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.