Remembering some interactions with a true gentleman: open.substack.com/pub/andybeta...

Hire Lauren!

The Texas employee pension system has beaten a workplace discrimination lawsuit, for now. Wrote about it for The Allocator newsletter from With Intelligence. Subscription info: pardot.pageantmedia.com/register-the...

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

yeah, criticism and feature writing may not bring in the easy traffic that executives want to see. but when you cut out any sort of real brand identity, your publication will suffer. and now most publications are a shell of their former selves -- it's all one big stupid internet now.

the irony of cutting so many critic roles? sure, every publication might have a review of a new show, but at least they are *different*. you can't say the same about silly celebrity news items that no one will ever return to.

maybe they shouldn't have stuffed every page with site-crashing videos and ads? maybe they could have invested in content that people actually want to engage with instead of 500-word news articles that can be found literally everywhere else?

maybe every website should not be covering the same news stories without any sensible difference. maybe instead of paying premium rates to people with "large twitter followings" (that never really delivered any traffic), they could have invested in the talented people they had on staff?

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

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someone let these guys know that if they want to un-monetize their lives, journalism is a profession they could consider

Gift article: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk. with @zhirji.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tonight at 11:30

BlueSky is not just an app, it's an experiment in public data, but the experiment is hidden under a normal-looking app that doesn't really give you different powers than you have elsewhere. If you're curious to see under this surface, I made a thing to help. Explained here: furia.com/log/518

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

in case you missed it

I wasn’t sure journalism could be devalued more but here’s Business Insider helping it along

Very excited about this book!

Here's an AP/NYT tidbit from 1976 after "Skunkman" Redford helped kill a planned coal power plant.

After 45+ years of accumulation, more if you count that copy of Changesonebowie from high school, this is sort of unreal. It’s almost like a family member died (or at least got adopted.) But it also feels like I'm passing a legacy onto future generations.

I've said this take before, but All the President's Men is the most accurate journalism movie in large part because there are long stretches where no good source will talk to them and it's not clear they're going to get the story even if they stay really dogged at it and it's really boring to watch

What sort of unpublicized hell is going on in Sony’s tape archive if multitracks less than 50 years old are either missing or deteriorating

There sure was a lot of pushback last year to my NYT op-ed arguing that PE-backed music catalog deals might result in pop culture cannibalizing itself www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

This is one of those issues that later-era Steve Albini was 110% correct on: digital media is fundamentally too unstable, too vulnerable to erasure, to be the “permanent record” of anything, ESPECIALLY political/governmental records.

Oh look a woman got written out of cultural history again, this is my shocked face

Very sad to hear about the passing of the brilliant Hermeto Pascoal. I interviewed him for the Chicago Tribune 24 years ago and it was a mind-opening joy to hear him describe how he could only be himself and what that was all about. www.chicagotribune.com/2004/10/28/p...

Really excited to see Suzanne Ciani perform at a plant conservatory tonight 🌳

getting into my local punk scene as a kid legit saved my life (like, i am not saying this metaphorically, i was in a Very Bad Place when i was a preteen) so i am extremely supportive of this. getting into creative hobbies and interests is the Way

Halt and Catch Fire?

Significant, on many levels.

“It is a cruel irony that just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists at the CDC,” former CDC official Tom Simon told me. My story at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...

Sound & Gravity Day 2 — insanely loaded with great guitarists.

the chicks, gillian welch, lucinda williams, rhiannon giddens, brittany howard....all people who have lost americana awards lol

“WPSU is a source for news, information and education in a mostly rural service area of 1.3 million Pennsylvanians”

high is 88 degrees here today but still an automatic quote-post

"In a scathing 3.7 review … journalist Marc Hogan took issue with The Presets’ apparent lack of sophistication." OK, so my review makes no sense in 2025, and I'm sure the album is fine and they're great, but let's be clear: I was making fun of them for chasing trends! themusic.com.au/features/sli...

Not sure how beloved this album is more generally but it was my intro to Blur and I still love it

If you’re a true sicko, check out the related article “How Bloomberg News Vetted the Epstein Emails” with all the sicko details: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Wrote about a legal dispute involving a Texas oil heiress, for The Allocator newsletter. Subscription info is here: pardot.pageantmedia.com/l/284832/202...

Loved this @larryfitzmaurice.bsky.social interview with Jens Lekman, especially having finally met Joel from Air France for the first time last year. Jens Mpls tickets secured! last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/jens-lekman-...

S&G stands for both Sound & Gravity and Synth & Guy. (Not a complaint, was just what I needed last night)

Really good piece of writing involving that story from my old job, by @alexrawls.bsky.social antigravitymagazine.com/column/my-sp...

Just heard this old favorite (via last night's #kexp streaming archive), and there was already a Reddit thread for the exact thought I also had www.reddit.com/r/macdemarco...

🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...

Love this, from @markrichardson.bsky.social : “Was the revolution in sound I perceived happening entirely in my own mind?” open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

great @ryandombal.bsky.social quotes in here! (i keep trying to quote-post this and say so; here's hoping third time is the time the tagging sticks)

Terrific reporting- and sickening: How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...