Probably hypersensitive from my old journo days covering poor folks, but ... "headache"?? GTFO. Energy prices this high are a life-changing event for a lot of folks. Try losing your job bc you couldn't afford gas to get to said job. Happens all the time. Do better, NYT hed writers.

Defenestration

Love this! Spurred me to donate to Dallas Hope in my old stomping grounds. They’re a really great group that provides support to homeless LGBTQ+ youth in North Texas. dallashopecharities.org/about/

I’ve read a few places that the Washington Post decimated its photo staff. Unconscionable. I worked in photojournalism for many years and can tell you what the crew at WaPo did, day in and day out, was a tremendous service to their community, the world at large. This is a staggering loss for all.

Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kid’s daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*. Find me one.

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Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

I think about this almost every day. No joke. It really was the beginning of what I think about as the No Shame No Consequences era, which is just so damn dark. Hopefully it’s not here to stay. Decency has to come back in style eventually right??

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

Good ... lord.

Happy National Sandwich Day to all that celebrate.

As someone who covered a lot of baseball games back in the day, can confirm this is the kind of image you’re hoping for if you’re stationed at an outfield photo position all game.

Another chance for me to shill for the fine folks at Tidal. Not only do they pay the artists a little more, they’re also not doing gross stuff like this.

Real world example: when I started at the newspaper in Dallas, like mid 2007, the photo staff alone was about 50+ people I believe. Photogs & video folks, editors, support staff. It’s less than 10 now. Rest of the newsroom is a similar story. Just bananas really.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

My Dune class got a little local news coverage this weekend: www.tmj4.com/news/milwauk...

Adelita Grijalva is projected to win a special election for Arizona’s 7th District. She will be the first Latina to represent the state in Congress. https://bit.ly/47ZjyhE

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

When I wake up and check the news

NEW: The FCC under Biden passed rules to make phone calls from prison easier, to help keep people connected to their communities. Trump's FCC has now blocked that change. Phillip Smith, a man incarcerated in North Carolina, reports for Bolts on what this means for people behind bars:

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

If you cut health care for 10 million people, how many of those people will die as a result? If you made those cuts knowing those people would die, what does that make you?

Absolutely atrocious. These people are a plague. www.wired.com/story/far-ri... Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC | WIRED

Sports was one of America's most accessible forms of entertainment. Now it's paywalled, splintered and sold to the highest bidder. Fandom isn't being nurtured. It's being mined. For @nytopinion.nytimes.com on on the state of sports, and what it says about America: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

We feed you. They hunt us.

Cannot express how big the disconnect is between what Angelenos are seeing/saying to each other right now and what delusional rabid conservatives are barking online. I know it's par for the course, but this is another level.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Rest in peace Jonathan Joss

1/ If I were pregnant, or considering ever becoming pregnant, I would be so outraged at RFK delisting COVID vaccination. Not only are unvaccinated women much more likely to miscarry or have a stillbirth if they contract COVID but it leaves newborns, who are extra susceptible, extremely vulnerable.

Same. I’ve gotten all my shots and boosters and would like to continue to do so. It’s not hurting anyone, it’s my business. Like … wtaf here.

Unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, happening right in front of us, while our entire National Conversation™️, led by this journalist to sell his book, is about Joe Biden.

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Lmao not this shit again

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

This is my old newspaper. Worked there for nearly 10 years. A lot of former DMN folks are talking about this on FB, text messages, etc. It’s … embarrassing, quite lame. It makes me sad for the paper, the state of journalism in DFW. All of it. There’s just no excuse for this AT ALL.

Morgan Stanley: “Investors should not expect the Fed to save the economy from recession. The problem is timing: tariffs tend to boost inflation after a couple months and then slow growth after a couple quarters.”

It’s hard to pick what to be outraged about anymore, but this is some serious bullshit. These folks helped us win the war — full stop. This kind of wholesale whitewashing of our diverse military history is a supreme cowardice that undermines the unwavering bravery of so many. Absolute garbage.

The scientists responsible for crucial fish and wildlife research projects in the West might be next in line for the Trump administration’s chopping block to improve government efficiency. from @highcountrynews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org

There are no parenting books that prepare you for conversations like this: 4yo: “Daddy can you come here and help me draw the alien’s penis?”

Last time I checked there are exactly zero measles vaccine-related hospitalizations or deaths in 2025, but there are 223 of measles cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths in Texas alone www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

The sheer cruelty of this dumb timeline we're living through is something I still don't understand. I suppose I can see where some of the resentment, distrust and such comes from. But shit like this? It's just plain evil. And we're teaching our kids that it's OK. www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.