When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

I recently got a bike and have been taking it for a spin whenever I can. The weather was beautiful today, so I rode all the way to Alki Beach 🚲✨🏙️

tonight we got our first trick or treaters since moving to seattle (5 years) 🥲

"...a male correspondent was initially included on the layoff list but was removed after he appealed directly to the new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, leading to another female correspondent being added to the list at the last minute."

PSA: There's a relatively new and super useful Gmail feature: a "Manage Subscriptions" tab in the lefthand menu under More. It instantly shows you all the email lists you're subscribed to, including spam, and allows you to unsubscribe from most with the click of a button

Today I learned Verizon hires 20k people each year and gets more than 1 million applications. @paigemcglauflin.bsky.social has a fascinating story with VZ's global head of talent acquisition, culture and community, Spring Lacy, about how the company uses tech & AI. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

WIC runs out this week

They are called writers

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Just spoke to someone who drove an hour and a half to another state to get the Covid vaccine, which he had to pay over 200 for. People should not have to do that.

Spike Lee fanboying out over meeting Pete Townshend is oddly charming.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

just got the new covid vax. it was, ironically, probably the most uneventful instance i'd experienced getting that vaccine. i got the shot with 3 minutes of showing up to the pharmacy. i didn't have to answer questions/fill out paperwork beyond the questionnaire when booking the appointment

i am linking to the essay bc it seems many are critiquing it without having read it. the essay criticizes the buzzwords named in the headline, noting they're continuations of a decades-long trend conflating latte drinking with liberalism/emasculation. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In a bold change from senate norms, Chancellor Palpatine has declared himself "Galactic Emperor"

good morning to all the other folks in queen anne seattle who lost power at 6:15am

When obituaries go awry. Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

And so it begins... Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

both a great and terrible week to be an HR reporter on vacation

Journalists of Bluesky: If you're looking for an editor's role, and you know your way around IT, and you like working with (and managing) smart and caring people, and you enjoy WFH, and you like unlimited PTO, and you like having a large/devoted audience...see below. jobs.lever.co/morningbrew/...

Massive crowd moving through Seattle. The front of the march has reached Seattle Center. Meanwhile, people are still pouring out of Cal Anderson

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

spent my morning volunteering at a local pride event 🌈 happy pride month y'all 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

HR Brew's @mikaelacohen.bsky.social spoke with the Dept of Labor's former chief DEI officer about the state of DEI, as well as bias. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs. For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

LLMs and generative AI are fruit of the poisoned tree, and the plagiarism is one of the three main reasons why. The ecological impact is another (excellent work by @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social and @caseycrownhart.bsky.social for @technologyreview.com):

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

A film that takes place where you're from

More people being diagnosed with autism isn't being "afflicted." It's more kids having a better idea who they are, HHS.

dear pr ppl: ✨i don’t work at HR dive✨ i’m a daily reader and greatly appreciate their reporting, but I work at ✨the other publication with HR in its title✨

clicked on the 'costco vs target' trending topic and was blown away that it seems to have been started from this retail brew story from late last week. a good reminder that b2b publications can/should be in the mix. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

This is all because Maine wouldn’t remove two trans student athletes from their teams. Two in the entire state.

if y’all needed anything else to be terrified about, check out my latest story. i spoke with a job recruiter who caught someone using AI deepfake technology to pose as a job seeker. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

I’m looking thru the NYT archives for an assignment and came across this gem

I’ve spent the last hour crouched on my sofa like a gargoyle scrolling through posts about the severance finale

I’d first read about this story this morning… come to find out this dealer in Fairfield also sells Confederate and Nazi memorabilia: www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/15/n...

i envy him

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Later this month is the 20th anniversary of the start of the American version of The Office. For HR Brew, @kris10p.bsky.social interviewed Paul Lieberstein, aka Dunder Mifflin's HR person, Toby Flenderson about the role: www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...