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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
Was walking down the street tonight and saw someone had thrown out a lightly used coffee table that was the exact one I was going to buy. Maybe 45 minutes of work to fix a couple minor issues, and it’s a like-new $250 table. It is now in my garage.
August 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Was walking down the street tonight and saw someone had thrown out a lightly used coffee table that was the exact one I was going to buy. Maybe 45 minutes of work to fix a couple minor issues, and it’s a like-new $250 table. It is now in my garage.
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Treasured Public Lands Are on the Auction Block in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'
A Senate provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill puts millions of acres of recreation lands up for sale to the highest bidder.
rollingstone.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Treasured Public Lands Are on the Auction Block in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
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The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.
This thread will dive into its activity.
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This thread will dive into its activity.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.
This thread will dive into its activity.
🧵 1/x.
This thread will dive into its activity.
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I’ve complained about refs—hated them, really—for 25+ years, and I’m not gonna stop now.
(OKC did not win because of the refs.)
youtu.be/0oiNzoglbVs?...
(OKC did not win because of the refs.)
youtu.be/0oiNzoglbVs?...
June 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I’ve complained about refs—hated them, really—for 25+ years, and I’m not gonna stop now.
(OKC did not win because of the refs.)
youtu.be/0oiNzoglbVs?...
(OKC did not win because of the refs.)
youtu.be/0oiNzoglbVs?...
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Another angle of Senator Padilla's confrontation with Kristi Noem here via FoxNews:
June 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Another angle of Senator Padilla's confrontation with Kristi Noem here via FoxNews:
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What is the city but the people?
June 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What is the city but the people?
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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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From @wired.com: an interview with #WatchDuty app founder. Many of us have depended on them through the LA Fires:
"We're doing like 30,000 requests a second at peak right now. We're doing more users in an hour than we've done in like a month. It's absolutely bonkers."
www.wired.com/story/watch-...
"We're doing like 30,000 requests a second at peak right now. We're doing more users in an hour than we've done in like a month. It's absolutely bonkers."
www.wired.com/story/watch-...
‘All Hands on Deck’: How Watch Duty Keeps Up With the California Wildfires
While the destructive Los Angeles fires rage, all eyes have turned to the app that lets you track them. WIRED spoke with Watch Duty founder John Mills about how the platform has met the moment.
www.wired.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
From @wired.com: an interview with #WatchDuty app founder. Many of us have depended on them through the LA Fires:
"We're doing like 30,000 requests a second at peak right now. We're doing more users in an hour than we've done in like a month. It's absolutely bonkers."
www.wired.com/story/watch-...
"We're doing like 30,000 requests a second at peak right now. We're doing more users in an hour than we've done in like a month. It's absolutely bonkers."
www.wired.com/story/watch-...
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January 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Five things most people don't know about editors and editing:
(1) The job of "editor" is really something like thirty different jobs rolled into one—not just revising, copy editing, and proofreading but developing ideas, mentoring talent, promoting pieces, etc. And nobody is good at all the jobs.
(1) The job of "editor" is really something like thirty different jobs rolled into one—not just revising, copy editing, and proofreading but developing ideas, mentoring talent, promoting pieces, etc. And nobody is good at all the jobs.
Becca Rothfeld on editing as an underappreciated art. I have a great many thoughts on this... but I'm too busy editing at the moment to share them!
substack.com/@afeteworset...
substack.com/@afeteworset...
December 31, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Five things most people don't know about editors and editing:
(1) The job of "editor" is really something like thirty different jobs rolled into one—not just revising, copy editing, and proofreading but developing ideas, mentoring talent, promoting pieces, etc. And nobody is good at all the jobs.
(1) The job of "editor" is really something like thirty different jobs rolled into one—not just revising, copy editing, and proofreading but developing ideas, mentoring talent, promoting pieces, etc. And nobody is good at all the jobs.
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Beating Oklahoma in our first game in more than a decade to preserve just the *possibility* that they'd miss a bowl for the first time in almost 30 years felt good.
To be in Texas A&M's shoes would be phenomenal (a sentence I will never write or think again).
To be in Texas A&M's shoes would be phenomenal (a sentence I will never write or think again).
The idea of Texas A&M knocking Texas out of the playoff in a rivalry game they haven’t played in over a decade gives me a secondhand hater’s high so intense I probably shouldn’t drive right now
November 20, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Beating Oklahoma in our first game in more than a decade to preserve just the *possibility* that they'd miss a bowl for the first time in almost 30 years felt good.
To be in Texas A&M's shoes would be phenomenal (a sentence I will never write or think again).
To be in Texas A&M's shoes would be phenomenal (a sentence I will never write or think again).
100%.
I didn't even mind that paying for twitter meant paying its owner. I objected because you were paying for features that shouldn't exist in the first place and that actively made the platform worse.
I didn't even mind that paying for twitter meant paying its owner. I objected because you were paying for features that shouldn't exist in the first place and that actively made the platform worse.
Here’s the thing: I’m 100% happy to pay for a social media app. Every month. Roll out Bsky Blue tomorrow and I’m in.
The problem with Twitter premium wasn’t the premium. The problem was that you would be giving money to manic, drug addled Bond villain.
The problem with Twitter premium wasn’t the premium. The problem was that you would be giving money to manic, drug addled Bond villain.
the big questions now, from @davekarpf.bsky.social: “eventually they need to figure out: All right, how do we pay for the service? How do we pay our employees? How do we sustain this growth?”
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 AM
100%.
I didn't even mind that paying for twitter meant paying its owner. I objected because you were paying for features that shouldn't exist in the first place and that actively made the platform worse.
I didn't even mind that paying for twitter meant paying its owner. I objected because you were paying for features that shouldn't exist in the first place and that actively made the platform worse.
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2025 white house cabinet meeting
November 19, 2024 at 11:35 PM
2025 white house cabinet meeting
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The Bernie-Biden task force resulted in the Build Back Better agenda. In a normal democracy, it would've passed. It included:
- $15 minimum wage
- Free community college
- Universal pre-k
- Cap to out of pocket child care costs
- Subsizied elder care
- Taxes on the wealthy
It failed in the Senate.
- $15 minimum wage
- Free community college
- Universal pre-k
- Cap to out of pocket child care costs
- Subsizied elder care
- Taxes on the wealthy
It failed in the Senate.
Another (not totally mutually exclusive) way to think about the last four years: Democrats tried to enact an FDR sized agenda to deal with the threat of fascism and materially improve the lives of the working class, but our political system makes it impossible to pass a working class agenda.
one way to think about the dems in the last 8 years is that they wanted all the electoral benefits of being a popular front against authoritarianism but none of the substantive commitments
November 19, 2024 at 5:41 AM
The Bernie-Biden task force resulted in the Build Back Better agenda. In a normal democracy, it would've passed. It included:
- $15 minimum wage
- Free community college
- Universal pre-k
- Cap to out of pocket child care costs
- Subsizied elder care
- Taxes on the wealthy
It failed in the Senate.
- $15 minimum wage
- Free community college
- Universal pre-k
- Cap to out of pocket child care costs
- Subsizied elder care
- Taxes on the wealthy
It failed in the Senate.
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"If science tried to be efficient, if it refused to replicate, we would end up only with observations and correlations." writes @beebrookshire.bsky.social
The Stupid Reason That Elon Musk Is Complaining About Scientists Spraying Bobcat Urine on Alcoholic Rats
Science is inefficient. That’s a good thing.
slate.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:37 PM
"If science tried to be efficient, if it refused to replicate, we would end up only with observations and correlations." writes @beebrookshire.bsky.social
In light of the news of Elon Musk's role in the upcoming administration (and to establish on this platform that I'm a real person), I'm sharing this story I wrote about a car, my grandfather, and the value of midlevel bureaucrats.
www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024...
www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024...
www.motortrend.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:11 AM
In light of the news of Elon Musk's role in the upcoming administration (and to establish on this platform that I'm a real person), I'm sharing this story I wrote about a car, my grandfather, and the value of midlevel bureaucrats.
www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024...
www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024...
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When I see Dems do the usual “we need to go centrist” I am reminded of Truman nailing those idiots to the wall in the fucking 1950s.
November 8, 2024 at 8:21 PM
When I see Dems do the usual “we need to go centrist” I am reminded of Truman nailing those idiots to the wall in the fucking 1950s.
My landlord told me last night she has multiple citizenships and will probably move to Australia for the next four years.
I’m so envious.
I’m so envious.
November 7, 2024 at 5:55 PM
My landlord told me last night she has multiple citizenships and will probably move to Australia for the next four years.
I’m so envious.
I’m so envious.