Ryan Teague Beckwith
@ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
If you leave now, the police will tell everyone you've been missing for nearly a week
Okay folks, my husband and I are hosting our first ever family Thanksgiving dinner this year. Any advice?
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you leave now, the police will tell everyone you've been missing for nearly a week
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A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
.@KingHenryII: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
.@KingHenryII: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
My dog likes to sleep with a couple bones in its bed and it just struck me how hard-core that is. Imagine sleeping on a pile of the bones of your defeated enemies.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My dog likes to sleep with a couple bones in its bed and it just struck me how hard-core that is. Imagine sleeping on a pile of the bones of your defeated enemies.
"Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
You know how I saw this? Because a man reposted it with a comment. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
You know how I saw this? Because a man reposted it with a comment. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"I guessed editor emails and I wrote 'NYTimes featured freelance writer' in the subject line to stop the eyes of editors who had no idea who I was." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...
My First Byline: Ashley Hoffman
Senior audience editor, Hearst Newspapers
yourfirstbyline.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"I guessed editor emails and I wrote 'NYTimes featured freelance writer' in the subject line to stop the eyes of editors who had no idea who I was." yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...
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Officials are facing threats and intimidation for resisting Trump’s plan. The situation is particularly alarming in Indiana, where four Republican lawmakers have been targeted in so-called “swatting” incidents after voting against a partisan redistricting session.
Those Who Resist Trump’s Gerrymander Bid Face Threats, Intimidation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Officials are facing threats and intimidation for resisting Trump’s plan. The situation is particularly alarming in Indiana, where four Republican lawmakers have been targeted in so-called “swatting” incidents after voting against a partisan redistricting session.
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In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding, Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, went to financier Jeffrey E. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean during their honeymoon.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding, Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, went to financier Jeffrey E. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean during their honeymoon.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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Now I’m really confused
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Now I’m really confused
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
As someone who used to cover seven small towns, this would have been revolutionary
Today I gave a preview of Scribe, a new tool I'm developing at the Inquirer to track, transcribe and summarize public meetings to aid local reporters.
Here's a slide from my part of a discussion today hosted by INMA, with the Inky's Kevin Hoffman, Matt Boggie and several other great presenters.
Here's a slide from my part of a discussion today hosted by INMA, with the Inky's Kevin Hoffman, Matt Boggie and several other great presenters.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
As someone who used to cover seven small towns, this would have been revolutionary
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Today I gave a preview of Scribe, a new tool I'm developing at the Inquirer to track, transcribe and summarize public meetings to aid local reporters.
Here's a slide from my part of a discussion today hosted by INMA, with the Inky's Kevin Hoffman, Matt Boggie and several other great presenters.
Here's a slide from my part of a discussion today hosted by INMA, with the Inky's Kevin Hoffman, Matt Boggie and several other great presenters.
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Today I gave a preview of Scribe, a new tool I'm developing at the Inquirer to track, transcribe and summarize public meetings to aid local reporters.
Here's a slide from my part of a discussion today hosted by INMA, with the Inky's Kevin Hoffman, Matt Boggie and several other great presenters.
Here's a slide from my part of a discussion today hosted by INMA, with the Inky's Kevin Hoffman, Matt Boggie and several other great presenters.
Axios has a political section called "Axios Vibes."
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Axios has a political section called "Axios Vibes."
When I was a kid I really liked this book about Chinese dragons so I went to get the sequel and I accidentally picked up a book from a similarly named author that was one of those "sensitive portrayals of immigrant life" kind of kids books and I read the whole thing waiting for a dragon.
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When I was a kid I really liked this book about Chinese dragons so I went to get the sequel and I accidentally picked up a book from a similarly named author that was one of those "sensitive portrayals of immigrant life" kind of kids books and I read the whole thing waiting for a dragon.
My doctor told me to "take a drag off" the asthma inhaler "like it was a cigarette" and I don't recall hearing this advice from my pediatrician.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My doctor told me to "take a drag off" the asthma inhaler "like it was a cigarette" and I don't recall hearing this advice from my pediatrician.
fun fact: mortgage means "dead pledge" in french
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
fun fact: mortgage means "dead pledge" in french
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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I feel like we've got to a point where some millennial journalists cling onto their Twitter/X perches the same way boomers and older gen x tried to cling to print.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I feel like we've got to a point where some millennial journalists cling onto their Twitter/X perches the same way boomers and older gen x tried to cling to print.
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This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
If it's a reimbursement, does that mean I paid it? I thought other people were paying the tariffs.....
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
If it's a reimbursement, does that mean I paid it? I thought other people were paying the tariffs.....
italics doing some heavy lifting here
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
italics doing some heavy lifting here
World historical bad judgement on display here www.roadandtrack.com/news/a694744...
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
World historical bad judgement on display here www.roadandtrack.com/news/a694744...
it has begun www.science.org/content/arti...
Have wild wolves learned to use tools?
Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?
www.science.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
it has begun www.science.org/content/arti...
Whenever I have a bad cough, I try to look a kid in the eye and say "Never vape, kid." I never vaped, but they don't know that.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Whenever I have a bad cough, I try to look a kid in the eye and say "Never vape, kid." I never vaped, but they don't know that.