Austin Clemens
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Formerly Washington Center for Equitable Growth, now freelance visualizing the economy
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So people on here are always talking about how newspapers over/under-cover certain events. For example, that important Trump scandals are under-covered bc they jump to the next scandal. But is it true? I investigated!
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Which political events does media focus on most?
Categorizing every political article the WaPo and NYT wrote in 2024 and 2025 to-date to see how newspapers choose to focus coverage.
https://austinclemens.com/austinclemens/media_attention/media_coverage.html
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Alex Andreou
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This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.
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Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer šļø)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoHuoFQyrI
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well this is wild
www.reddit.com/r/PeterExpla...
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From the PeterExplainsTheJoke community on Reddit: I don't understand...
Explore this post and more from the PeterExplainsTheJoke community
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/s/AtvEH2OpvJ
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Trying to experience the wonders of Claude code but like 5 lines into this stata file it put: display "=" * 80 Which is not valid Stata syntax :(
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Luke Knox
3 days ago
iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium
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Aaron Sojourner
about 1 month ago
We're gonna do a pathway to citizenship. Such a big, beautiful pathway. If you came here, worked hard, didn't hurt people. Pay a fine, like Pres. Reagan said: $185. Then you're right with the law. Red carpet path leads up to the WH East Wing. Welcoming people from all over to the American dream.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)
5 days ago
CBP didnāt give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. ā8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians.
shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
https://shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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Steven T. Dennis
4 days ago
The Cabinet this week *RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat *Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island *Bondi āThe Dowā / refuses to look at victims *Noem blanket *Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it *Bessent ātariffs donāt cause inflationā
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economicsecurity.bsky.social
4 days ago
1/ At a recent webinar hosted by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and
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laid out the mounting economic risks ahead, including the impact of healthcare cuts, weakening job growth, and the uncertain effects of AI on workers. ā¬ļø
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Yonah Freemark
4 days ago
Holy moly: Seattleās millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the cityās new social housing developer
publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
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Erica Chenoweth
5 days ago
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
5 days ago
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
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Had to look mine up bc I wasn't aware of any and found out Taylor Swift's mom is a graduate of the Singapore American School! But Tammy Duckworth is probably the most notable. And I guess Michael Fay is the most famous.
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I've been using Gemini to help me do DIY in my 140 year old home and Gemini now frames every question I ask it in those terms. If I ask it a JavaScript question it will say something like "This seems like a great way to visualize improvements on your 1880s Baltimore brownstone!"
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Tom Scocca
8 days ago
There's this guy, he's the most famous clown in the world, called the Great Pagliacci, right? So: the Great Pagliacci goes to the doctor one day.
indignity.net/the-clown-joke/?ref=indignity-newsletter&attribution_id=698a3cd4653fe5000118210c&attribution_type=post
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The Clown Joke
Indignity Vol. 6, No. 13
https://indignity.net/the-clown-joke/?ref=indignity-newsletter&attribution_id=698a3cd4653fe5000118210c&attribution_type=post
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Margarita
8 days ago
In good news, a little one was born in Utahš¦
www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
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Alexis ā
9 days ago
small crab eating a grape (important)
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Eoin Higgins
10 days ago
Concentration camps: āFor 280 days we havenāt eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We canāt see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
āFor 280 days we havenāt eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note
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wasn't there some kind of elite centrist consensus about living in information bubbles? I forget, was it good or bad?
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Kate Jackson
17 days ago
For those in southwest Ohio worried about a possible ICE surge next week, you can sign up to connect with community here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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GET INVOLVED
This group is for communities in the Greater Cincinnati & Northern KY area to protect neighbors targeted by ICE and over-policingāespecially Hispanic, Black, immigrant, undocumented, trans, queer, and...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI_ndMOcv-PpZlmuKmfmQKUVKDjqNmWf2ATHswKyu12CNlQg/viewform?fbzx=-5418656839764280733
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Coach Finstock
17 days ago
DUDE REMEMBER THIS LMAO. This is literally everything wrong with journalism wrapped neatly in one post. Nuzzi, Bowles, Weiss, and the fucking NYT sucking em all off. Pedos, pedo lovers, and pedo defenders.
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Remember when the entire GOP base believed that pedophiles used secret codewords like "pizza" to refer to their nefarious crimes? And no it's just like "hey you got any kids I can fuck?"
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Jack Bernhardt
17 days ago
From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Cain From The Bible Date: March 7th, 3000BC Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? šš go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)
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The eventual big Hollywood Trump biopic is just going to roast the shit out of him and Iām excited about that.
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17 days ago
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Pedocon theory: still undefeated!
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I Used To Snort Cocaine Off Of Popehats
18 days ago
I like neither Ezra Klein nor shouting down speakers. I think Ezra Klein profits, metaphorically and literally, by being shouted down by Sarah Lawrence students, and that doing it to him was more or less like trying to discourage a dog by throwing bacon at it. /1
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they surrounded him lol. Surrounded by 2 people!
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Indivisible Baltimore āš
18 days ago
Baltimore!
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NYT has now pushed the arrest of journalists even further down the page to make way for new Epstein files release.
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Journalists being arrested in America is a below the fold thing for NYT?
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Katie Stairs is NOT afraid. We keep us safe in MN. š
18 days ago
If you are seeking a way to financially support Georgia Fort right now, this is the best, and most direct, way to do so (info from a family friend):
www.georgiafort.com/support?utm_...
Free Georgia Fort now!!
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Support Independent Journalism | GF
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You know things are going poorly when Hassett doesn't look like he just took Joker Venom
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Mark Jacob
18 days ago
I wrote this last week. It's newly relevant today with the arrests of Don Lemon and another journalist who covered a Minnesota protest.
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Fascists are at war with journalism. Why arenāt journalists at war with fascism?
Mainstream media seem willing to drop their duty in order to pick up profits
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/fascists-are-at-war-with-journalism
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Microplastics Sommelier
about 1 year ago
you let me circulate you you let me ventilate you you let me radiate you you let me refrigerate you
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Republicans being +2 or w/e on the budget deficit is an indictment of the media.
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Since everyone is talking about Aronofsky, re-upping my most correct opinion: Requiem for a Dream is a stupid movie UNLESS you interpret it, contra Aronofsky, as being about failures of the state and society.
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AI is amazing for generating short clips of old guys looking pensive.
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Chris Hayes
19 days ago
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministryās casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-01-29/ty-article/.premium/idf-accepts-gaza-health-ministry-estimate-of-over-70-000-palestinians-killed-in-the-war/0000019c-0918-dec4-adfd-fd5dde830000
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SE Gyges
20 days ago
grok is elon musk correctly noting that chatbots were a new and poorly understood ideological battleground, the same way social media was at its inception, and attempting to seize the field for nazism, as he has also done with twitter
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Hetan Shah
30 days ago
I know attention is on the US/Greenland, and itās hard to get proper news from Iran, but this from
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estimates at least 16,000 people have been killed and over 300,000 injured. Many (most?) victims are thought to be under the age of 30
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Iran report says 16,500 dead in āgenocide under digital darknessā
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
https://www.thetimes.com/article/01baaba8-a273-41bf-9a61-723f14691d95?shareToken=d62be35019b9b6d63ef11fe26f6b9cf9
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The Tonearm
21 days ago
"Now knowing of [Warhol's] fame, I thought of the Eno quote, and something didnāt sound right about it. Surely, with Warholās involvement, the band would have been better known ā and would they not then have sold more than 30,000 records?" How Popular Was the Banana Album?:
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The Velvet Underground Myth: How Popular Was the Banana Album?
The Velvet Underground Myth: Brian Eno was Wrong. The Velvet Underground and Nico Sold 150,000 Units in the Band's Lifetime. And this is How I Worked it Out!
https://grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet-underground-myth-how-popular?ref=thetonearm.com
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Morgan Gold - when a country turns the gun on itself
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The Narrative Machine vs. Your Own Eyes
For Alex Pretti, recording the government becomes a capital offense.
https://morgangold.substack.com/p/when-a-country-turns-the-gun-on-itself-alex-pretti
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Megan McArdle is the standard bearer for libertarians who crave a boot on their neck.
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Aaron Rupar
24 days ago
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
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Osita Nwanevu
24 days ago
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary.
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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Rebecca Schoenkopf
24 days ago
Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Good and Pretti.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man, DHS officials say he was armed
A bystander video shows several agents wrestled with man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian OāHara issued a plea for calm, as protesters gathered at the scene: āPlease ...
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news&utm_term=Breaking%20News
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Mark Andrew Price
25 days ago
If a President works with the law to modestly to forestall catastrophic climate change CEOs loudly invoke the Boston Tea Party. If a President violates the constitution and personal freedom they shower him with cash and privately snitch in the Wall Street Journal. Profiles in courage.
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I used to think of Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out as kind of a throwaway Replacements songs but honestly these are great lyrics
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