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As EIC of Deadspin, @greenwell.bsky.social learned that Jacuzzi is a trademarked brand + she could laugh to the point of tears in a Times Square cubicle farm

Most importantly, she learned that private equity had gotten into the media industry to eat it alive

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There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thanks to Elon Musk's changes to X, no one shares links to stories anymore.

Instead, they're more likely to post pictures of headlines or exciting paragraphs from articles — creating "a far stupider discourse," @daveweigel.bsky.social says.
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How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The 2010s were the era of the listicle.

@jonallsop.bsky.social explains why they had such a hold on digital media at the time, and how the basic DNA of the listicle is still all around us.

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Seven Reasons Listicles Didn’t Suck, Actually (And One Of Them May Surprise You)
“The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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"It’s become a nexus of consternation between him and Senate Republicans."

More from @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:
Trump Wants to Scrap the Filibuster Because He Doesn’t Care About the Republican Party
This is your TPM evening briefing.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social entered the media industry full-time in summer 2020, when newsrooms wanted frontline dispatches from the Floyd protests and nuanced Black perspectives, and wanted them now. It seemed like empathy itself had gone viral.

It didn't last.

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The Summer the Internet Found Empathy — And How Quickly We Lost It
In May 2020, a nation already cracked by a pandemic convulsed further...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's an epiphany stemming from Democrats’ nationwide victories on Tuesday evening, when voters roundly rejected what’s been going on during the first nine months of Trump’s second term.

More here!
MAGA Suddenly Worried It’s Not Talking About Affordability Enough
This is your TPM evening briefing.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Nonetheless, a few prominent MAGA voices suggested Wednesday that the party’s anti-trans vitriol and demonization of immigrants may not make for a winning campaign platform.
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM