Big differences this time around, as I see them: a) the GOP is now fully bought-in to election denialism and ran off those who aren't b) the legal activism wing of the GOP has spent years cooking new schemes c) many state/county election boards are now full of people eager to screw with counting

IMHO this is the most obvious point at which Objective Journalism fails to meet this moment. "Conspiracy" is the bad-faith public frame used to provide cover for racist policy. Such Journalism can only report on racism if someone admits they're racist, not if they simply say it's something else.

No op-eds in major newspapers that he has major cognitive health issues. No cable news panels exploring whether he has major cognitive health issues. No political reporters in legacy media talking about his cognitive health. They're all too scared to question the naked emperor.

At the risk of stating the obvious: when reactionaries say elections are "rigged," what they mean -- in their hearts, in their guts -- is that their opponents are illegitimate and it only counts if they win. That's what they've always meant.

One thing that really melts my brain is constantly seeing people scold anybody who even suggests that the right might try and functionally end free and fair elections, while also watching the right very literally say "the government should step in and take over California's election."

She's claiming that the Times twisted her story insofar as they didn't use all the corroborating evidence that she gave them to prove Platner's alleged guilt. Just to be clear what direction she says they twisted it.

Last year when I was on the job hunt I was constantly telling friends that hiring had quickly hit Dead Internet Theory. It's made personal connections the *only* way to get a job. This alone must be setting back goals for diversifying the workforce (not to mention *gestures at world*).

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

I have a loved one who has struggled with alcohol use and when their friends first realized, they were all like "But that's not THAT much, we all drink like that...right?" They were actively invested in normalizing the behavior so they could continue their own bad habits. This reminds me of that🤷

Being a 100% organic writer in the AI era is to want everyone to understand that if there’s something about my writing that’s boring or bad or cliche it’s actually because there’s something deeply inadequate about me as a person.

Yesterday in a cabinet meeting, Trump casually threatened to "blow up" Oman, one of America's oldest allies in the region. Here's how that's reported in today's NYT (it's not). It's front page news around the world, however. NYT editors think you don't need to know this.

Considering recent outbreaks of Ebola, hantavirus, and ya know, that whole pandemic we had, I wish resources like this would also include advice on keeping journalists healthy. Not all World Cup events will include crowd violence, but all will include crowds!

I'd like to see U.S. news broadcasts and weather forecasters adopt this color scheme. When the black/gray region here is depicted as red/orange and the rest is blue/green/cool tones, it implies that other regions are not feeling the heat, when they are! Misleading through color.

"it turns out that [index fund investing] cedes a great deal of power to the people who make the rules about what is allowed into the index." prospect.org/2026/05/20/e...

Gave a lecture to students yesterday and slipped in this Very Important slide.

THIS IS GOOD @matthew.flux.community "In the current media ecosystem, Republicans own and Democrats rent. Democrats pay for seasonal access to the networks, stations, platforms, and newspapers owned by Republicans or right-wing entities, to advertise and communicate with voters."

I think if you're a journalist writing about a potential space trillionaire you should be required to mention he's an overt white supremacist with a head full of conspiracy theories and recreational ketamine. that seems not only relevant to the public interest, but to investment understanding

Shrinkflation & low quality are the biggest retail harms right now but I need to add this to the conversation because it affects me every single day. All Packaging Is Bad Now.

this is a really important story but I gotta say I opened this article to save this hero image to my meme folder in RECORD time

like this right here. Trump is straight up looting the Treasury, no different than if he had bashed in Fort Knox and stolen the gold in there with his own hands--worse actually--but our precious professional norms forbid a clear description of what's happening bsky.app/profile/axio...

if someone does a coverup, that's consciousness of guilt and so Objective Journalists have an alibi for critical coverage. but if you just shoot someone in broad daylight, Peter Baker's hands are tied

“Compensate” is a wildly inappropriate word here, @apnews.com.

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

Once again the New York Times kneels before power and wealth rather than dare criticize the powerful or wealthy

Punditry’s fixation on parallelism between right and left creates the same conceptual error as does the balance imperative. It imposes symmetry onto real-existing asymmetry.

"Voters will have the final say" responding to a court decision that overturned an election result... which now disenfranchises huge swaths of voters. Make it make sense.

I am against tear gassing or pepper spraying children. Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.

we should stop calling video-based programs "video podcasts." a video podcast is not a podcast. it is a talk show.

A great reason to hire journalists who have done things besides journalism before: we're more likely to have worked in a Real Live Place where you learn about actual retail loss and how to spot giant corporate lies a mile away

Regurgitating RFK's argument & throwing in a few (of the majority, medical consensus!) disagreements is NOT journalism. At no point does this article challenge the idea that potential withdrawal symptoms keep anyone *on* medication or they're not worth their benefits, which is his whole argument!

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

So @cnn.com says Trump passport only avail in person in DC. Some could choose to get one. Apart from everything else wrong with this, doesn’t seem great for democracy to have people display political loyalties on a document used for entry and proof of citizenship. www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/p...

Yeah I noticed it yesterday in that Wrap article about McClatchy. Advocates are always doing rational things like "framing" but skeptics are the ones reacting emotionally ("fear")

No idea who this reporter is but if that's what you're seeing ... maybe write that, rather than waiting for TMZ? nymag.com/intelligence...

they're not bigots, but quoting them verbatim is unacceptably offensive

"Critics say" continues to be a scourge upon journalism. Instead of simply SAY WHAT THE BILL SAYS, one must couch verbatim description in the frame of "critics" rather than appear (maybe, to a vague "someone" out there, who has likely never raised this issue to the headline writer at all) biased.

AI is going to "take all our jobs" but companies are still paying people to do silly stuff like make this app so how true could that really be

The worst stage of every hobby

Avoiding "who accused" and "accuser" as identifiers has been standard issue decency in journalism for a while. Except at the NYT I guess.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

YIKES In a story about the unavoidable bias baked into AI products... "all twenty participants interviewed said they preferred using AI over going directly to a news publisher, partly because they believed AI tools to be less biased." www.cjr.org/tow_center/c...

A better way to reframe this is "most job growth is in sectors that have historically been dominated by women workers. These roles are gendered & devalued, often seen as un-masculine, as they often entail care provision or provision of social services."

Water in the glass that you're drinking: drips, sips at most, barely enough to quench your thirst Water in the glass once the cat has spilled it, somehow:

Man, I wish there was a term to describe people who are against women or against people of color. Or maybe a term to describe someone who thinks their faith is something to impose on an entire country. Or that they think their demographic is superior type of human. Oh well.