If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic

Make it a federal crime to operate or use a site like this

Reject the (bad!) readings of the First Amendment that would have a problem with that

I'm gonna throw some gasoline on the discourse fire

This is exactly what a lot of your orgs want and have made front and center in their policy platforms and you want us to believe that you're disappointed

very closed system, don't *trust* open sources of information and always overvalue private ones. So they didn't trust Taiwanese identity polling or public newspaper reports as much as they did some guy they were talking to at the KMT or a gangster, for instnace.

in the third case it's your classic incentive problem. The Taiwan Affairs Office *job* is to push Taiwan closer to the mainland, so their reports were always on how great they were doing, how the Taiwanese public loved China, and so forth. But also Chinese officials, existing as they do in a ...

they're generally not socially easy people, because if they were they wouldn't have the ability not to compromise. But it's also why the dissident diaspora from any autocratic state tends to have some really vicious internecine feuds.

If that ISN'T hors de combat, why exactly do we have that phrase

What IS it for??

USPS is required by law to try to break even. It generally doesn’t take taxpayer dollars to fund operations.

That’s what makes this a monumental gamble from Steiner.

Amazon is USPS’s largest client — by far. And he’s letting them walk out the door, and even become a top competitor.