You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again. And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Hey New Yorkers! October 20: Last day to change or update your address for the election October 25: Last day your application to register to vote can be received meaning it needs to be sent in earlier Also October 25: Early voting begins! Check your registration now: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

free your mind from Shareholder Disease! I cannot think of a less joyful use of brainpower than sitting in a theater wondering "How could this possibly be profitable for WB?"

OK, not even getting into the ethics or the existential issues around AI: Have some goddamn self-respect. If you're a writer and you do this I don't know how you look at yourself, but I know exactly how I look at you.

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

This speech is now an Emmy winner.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I cannot express enough how supportive a colleague Aja was—and still is, even though it’s been almost a decade since we worked together—when I was a newbie fandom reporter. Even when it took years for us to meet IRL. They taught me so much about covering that space with intention and care.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

This is perhaps the best time to announce that that internet culture reporter has parted ways with Vox and is now open to freelancing, if anyone would like them to, oh, explain the increasing role memes and shitposts have played in extremist violence, for ex: www.vox.com/culture/2019...

Those jobs used to exist, but then a lot of those reporters got laid off 🙃 embedded.substack.com/p/is-the-int...

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

*stares in two years of unemployment*

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

Thanks to RFK Jr.'s new restrictions, you may have a tougher time getting a COVID vaccine. Here are some options for getting your booster:

Look, yes, sure, Bari Weiss is a sociopath and an incompetent writer, and she lacks the basic mental equipment to know what an idea or a principle might be, but set that aside and focus on the question of whether she has any idea of what news journalism is or how it works (the answer is no)

I haven't purchased any new yarn in like a year because I'm broke and have a sizable stash I can work through in the meantime, but this sucks on so many levels slate.com/business/202...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

The only remotely wise thing I can say is to directly support outlets that are still writing thoughtful, eloquent criticism. Shell out a few $ for a subscription to those who offer it, hit the free sites with your traffic, share good pieces here and elsewhere. It's a tiny thing, but it's something.

Working in media these days is getting the chance to build something beautiful with colleagues you love, and then watching it get destroyed for basically no reason.

Haven't updated this thread in ages, but we've finally reached the final season of THE AMERICANS—we're still pointing out every goddamn sweater (there are so many, and I love them all)—and I have a question for those who've seen it: What do you think is the best knit? Bonus if you have photos

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

gonzo journalism implies the existence of other muppets journalism

To help out public radio & television

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Logging off social media on my phone while on vacation

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

I hope there's a course correction, but it's incredibly plausible that Hollywood's desire to not offend reactionaries ends up costing us 20-ish years of more diverse stories, roughly akin to the comparative drought of POC and queer stories in the '80s and '90s when compared to the '70s.

This is exactly correct. When politicians attack Mamdani with lies about his policies, and twisted distortions of his record, and obvious hate speech about his faith and identity, they are opponents to be crushed. It does not matter if they have a (D) after their names.

Remarkably strong correlation between pundits who told me the Supreme Court upholding Texas’s abortion bounty hunter law was technical and not a sign it would overturn Roe, and pundits assuring me birthright citizenship is fine because people can “just file a class action” or whatever

“you come up with a mean nickname to call this guy on TV?” “sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked”

“It takes a lot to pull one over on New Yorkers, and when we looked around, the city described in Cuomo attack ads simply did not exist. We recognize that the city’s problems come mostly from the people above, and not the ones sitting next to us on the subway.”

I don’t go here with THE BEAR—never saw it, have no interest in it, and I’d never get screener access anyway—but GOT’s final season did the whole “don’t reveal the episode title until after it finishes” thing when it was the biggest show in the world. It was dumb then, and it’s really dumb now.

Flying to Europe in a couple of weeks—probably without my knitting because I don't want to risk my needles getting confiscated—and I'm looking to frontload my iPad with movies (more than covered for books). Got any recs?

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

NYC is an extremely safe city. ICE and related federal agencies are actively and purposefully making it less safe. As they stir up violence in the coming days, remember which side it's coming from.

One of the most common mistakes in casting TV shows is to go with an actor who isn’t right for the role, simply because (s)he is a “known quantity,” while ignoring a much better option who is not. In unrelated news, Andrew Cuomo is running for mayor of NY, and he sucks.