Michael Scherer
@michaelscherer.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Previously at the Washington Post, TIME, Salon, others. Signal: michaelscherer.11
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When your boss has to tell people you oppose slavery. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
When your boss has to tell people you oppose slavery. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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The A's turned their social media comments back on after almost two full years. You can imagine how that turned out.
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After 655 days, the A's turn social media comments back on
Few American professional sports franchises had engendered less goodwill in recent years than the Athletics, and it shows in the comments.
awfulannouncing.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The A's turned their social media comments back on after almost two full years. You can imagine how that turned out.
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Don't miss out on breathing vapor with @lauraloomer in this fine Antonia Hitchens @NewYorker profile. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Don't miss out on breathing vapor with @lauraloomer in this fine Antonia Hitchens @NewYorker profile. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
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@zacheverson.com
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Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns. From NYT Health:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate
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November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns. From NYT Health:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
Not since the tobacco giants has a public company knowingly done so much harm: Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/m...
Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads
Meta projected that about $16 billion in 2024 revenue came from running ads for scams and banned goods, according to a Thursday report from Reuters.
www.cnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Not since the tobacco giants has a public company knowingly done so much harm: Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/m...
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The unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds is 9.2%, its highest level since 2016.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds is 9.2%, its highest level since 2016.
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My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
The stuff that fuels revolution.
The average first-time homebuyer age in 2025 was 40 years old. That must have a huge negative impact on young Americans’ view of the economy.
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My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The stuff that fuels revolution.
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Americans are still experiencing sticker-shock when it comes to housing, with mortgage payments about double pre-covid levels.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Americans are still experiencing sticker-shock when it comes to housing, with mortgage payments about double pre-covid levels.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
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CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...
Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says
Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...
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X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers: Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.” Read CJ Robinson. www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”
www.cjr.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers: Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.” Read CJ Robinson. www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
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Seeing deranged takes using Jared Golden's retirement to blame progressives or whatever.
Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family.
This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.
Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family.
This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.
Jared Golden: I won’t seek reelection. Here’s why.
"What I could accomplish in this increasingly unproductive Congress pales in comparison to what I could do in that time as a husband, a father and a son."
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November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Seeing deranged takes using Jared Golden's retirement to blame progressives or whatever.
Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family.
This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.
Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family.
This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.
Heritage leader eats crow on Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes defense. freebeacon.com/politics/i-m...
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I Made A Mistake’: Heritage Foundation President Apologizes to Staff for Video Refusal to Cancel Tucker Carlson and Throws Shade at Former Chief of Staff
"I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop," Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told the staff of the conservative think tank on Wednesday, a week...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Heritage leader eats crow on Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes defense. freebeacon.com/politics/i-m...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New! Show! From @cwarzel.bsky.social! Go get it:
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60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…
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So Andrew Cuomo posts this tweet saying that Curtis Sliwa was campaigning for Mamdani in March.
That’s a lie.
All mayoral candidates, except for Cuomo, gathered at a memorial for Covid deaths and to denounce Cuomo’s nursing home deaths.
That’s a lie.
All mayoral candidates, except for Cuomo, gathered at a memorial for Covid deaths and to denounce Cuomo’s nursing home deaths.
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
So Andrew Cuomo posts this tweet saying that Curtis Sliwa was campaigning for Mamdani in March.
That’s a lie.
All mayoral candidates, except for Cuomo, gathered at a memorial for Covid deaths and to denounce Cuomo’s nursing home deaths.
That’s a lie.
All mayoral candidates, except for Cuomo, gathered at a memorial for Covid deaths and to denounce Cuomo’s nursing home deaths.
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As I predicted in @thehill on Friday, the Project Esther coalition is crumbling. This morning a prominent Jewish lawfare advocate resigned from Heritage Foundation’s ‘fighting antisemitism’ task force in the wake of the Kevin Roberts/Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes fiasco
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As I predicted in @thehill on Friday, the Project Esther coalition is crumbling. This morning a prominent Jewish lawfare advocate resigned from Heritage Foundation’s ‘fighting antisemitism’ task force in the wake of the Kevin Roberts/Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes fiasco
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Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Scoop: Venezuela's president has made multiple requests to Moscow this month, including "overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles," according to U.S. government documents obtained by The Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
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The Comandante Bovino play-acting was a performance piece. But who was the performance intended for? I see four audiences... www.thebulwark.com/p/this-man-i...
This Man Is the Face of the Future
Greg Bovino is next.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Comandante Bovino play-acting was a performance piece. But who was the performance intended for? I see four audiences... www.thebulwark.com/p/this-man-i...
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
If you care who becomes president in 2028, make time to read @ashleyrparker.bsky.social 's wild ride profile of Rahm Emanuel, the "pile-driver" candidate in waiting.
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www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Rahm Emanuel … For President?
He’d like you to keep an open mind.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you care who becomes president in 2028, make time to read @ashleyrparker.bsky.social 's wild ride profile of Rahm Emanuel, the "pile-driver" candidate in waiting.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Maybe the craziest pop song I’ve ever heard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...
ROSALÍA - Berghain (Official Video) feat. Björk & Yves Tumor
YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO
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October 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Maybe the craziest pop song I’ve ever heard. m.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...