"That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, and who assigned the de Blasio piece, per two people with knowledge of the situation." Bari's wake is sloppy lies www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

“Lynch structures the book as a narrative autopsy of each presidential administration’s respective failures to shield the American worker from globalization’s most backbreaking consequences.” @sidhubaba.bsky.social analyzes a new book by journalist David J. Lynch. trib.al/iGnZwmg

Hello: I'm collecting examples of anti-Muslim remarks people in the United States have received over their lives. Please fill out this survey fill out this survey if it applies to you (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Should you find yourself in need of a developmental editorial for a book project — fiction, non-, something in-between or somehow neither — I’m looking to take on a few more clients between now and the fall

The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Lopez, an internationally renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has been publicly critical of the Salvadoran government's abuses. I had the honor of interviewing Ruth earlier this year, she must be freed. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

*GOLDMAN SACHS RESCINDS RECESSION CALL AFTER TRUMP TARIFF PAUSE

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The final question was “what is it like inside the mind of a billionaire” and the answer was “my mind is a storm. It’s a storm.”

On the new episode of our podcast, On the Nose, @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social speaks with @maricohen.bsky.social, Noah Kulwin, and @sidhubaba.bsky.social about the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist.

movie talk!!!

This piece on SNL’s 50th anniversary by @sidhubaba.bsky.social clarifies for me why I haven’t cared about the show for a couple of decades. It revved its countercultural claims way past their expiration date. Its defanged satire points us away from doing real politics. prospect.org/culture/2024...

To skeet is to display that one has no power

just a guy with no power, skeetin'

OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends. I hope you check it out

Our @hassankanu.bsky.social is at USAID right now as Democrats attempt to enter the building. More as we have it.

Last July, MAGA world's favorite rabbi posted proudly about his IDF-serving son's activities in Gaza. In October, those posts wound up in a war crimes complaint brought before the ICC www.dropsitenews.com/p/maga-rabbi...

A report from Jenin: www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-inv...

"For four seasons, Saverio Costanza, alongside a staff of writers including Elena Ferrante herself, has been transforming the Italian novelist’s beloved tetralogy into one of the most stunning pieces of television I’ve ever seen." newrepublic.com/article/1882...

content moderation is my passion.-)

Good news everyone! @garrisonlovely.bsky.social, @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and I are all gonna be Omidyar Reporters in Residence over the next few months. Excited to be fellows with my friends! omidyar.com/omidyar-netw...

i wrote about comedy prospect.org/culture/2024...

i still think about this incredible Simon Han essay www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

It's okay to take the joke to the audience -- they can handle it, and they will love you for it.... !

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via @timshorrock.bsky.social: www.dropsitenews.com/p/south-kore...

people's memories are short, but not as short as Rahm thinks, IMO.

Holding the right + its institutions to account means interrogating the structures of power that produce them, which can lead much of the Great Punditocracy to uncomfortable places, stones they would rather not kick over lest they self-indict/show own ass

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Earlier today the NY Times made a reference to a 4-page memo written by Seth London to build "a party within the [Democratic] party," a new moderate faction to spread influence. I have the memo. It's a blueprint for a new Democratic Leadership Council. Explicitly so:

really interesting findings prospect.org/politics/202...

need a new track from the 'rich guy of northern richmond' dude