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Fascinating new report from @thesentryorg.bsky.social on what happened when Mali invited the Wagner Group into the country to help fight terrorism. Short answer: nothing good. thesentry.org/reports/merc...

In the weird, terrible moment we're all experiencing of contested reality / distorted reality / unreality, I was heartened by this wonderful Zach Helfand piece about the brilliant, heroic fact checkers of @newyorker. May they save civilization.

Big update on this piece tonight...

The gargantuan Upper East Side residence of Arthur and Jillian Sackler just hit the market. When the Sacklers lived there, the 12,000 square-ft triplex had its own dedicated address --- 666 Park Avenue --- but someone decided it might be a good idea to rebrand as 660M 😂 nypost.com/2025/08/21/r...

I saw George Mitchell give a talk last night about the diplomatic effort to end the Troubles, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and he said something so sobering but obviously true: if social media had existed in the 90s the negotiators would never have been able to get an agreement.

New book coming.

Reminiscent of one of my favorite articles from years ago: "Mexican Clown Convention Condemns Cartel Assassins Who Dress Like Clowns: 'These People, They're Not Real Clowns.'"

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

This is very sad news. Pineapple Street was a real pioneer, a dominant force in what I guess in retrospect was the golden age of narrative podcasts. It was also, in my experience making Wind of Change, just a wonderful company full of decent, creatively brilliant people. variety.com/2025/digital...

Kind of sobering to realize we've crossed some invisible time threshold and now when you hear people generalize about "millennials" it's no longer old people complaining about young people but young people complaining about old people

Growing up, a lot of the romance I associated with journalism was tied to war reporting, of the Vietnam era but also the Balkans - dashing, flawed, passionate characters like this. “What was the point of being a journalist if you didn’t make hidden injustices visible?”

I will always think of heat like this as Do the Right Thing weather

In Nantucket for the Book Fest, hundreds of people out raising their voices in the rain and going hard with the signs.

This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded: www.nokings.org#map

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Book publicity conundrum: at what point does your memoir receive so much advance coverage that by the time it is actually available to read people feel like they've already read it.

Baltimore's fledgling answer to the decline of independent American journalism -- the online non-profit daily known as the Baltimore Banner -- has just been awarded its first Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's overdose crisis. Subscribe now. Great cities have great metro dailies.

The New Yorker won three Pulitzer Prizes—the most ever awarded to a magazine in a single year—for its journalism on the effects of war throughout the Middle East.

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What a wonderful surprise: SAY NOTHING just received a Peabody Award. I'm so proud of this series. If you haven't watched yet, it's on Hulu in the US and Disney+ everywhere else, please check it out!

Early contender for a defining image of this era.

Hope everyone with HBO sees these 2 new films- real life thrillers on how Dark Money took over America, setting the stage for Trump: news.wjct.org/2025-04-14/w...

Happy pub day to @michaelluo.bsky.social. STRANGERS IN THE LAND is a sweeping & meticulous account of the history of the Chinese in America, full of suggestive parallels to our present moment, as this terrific @steveinskeep.bsky.social review makes clear: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

Piper, NO!

Happy pub day to @forestissacj.bsky.social, whose new book GOOD TROUBLE tells the story of how the movement for Catholic civil rights in Northern Ireland was inspired and influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S. www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.

It seems weird to post good news in the midst of all this fresh hell but this was a nice surprise, and I'm so grateful to everyone who helped make Say Nothing. www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

A good reminder for all you journalists out there: never underestimate the power of (sic)

You guys have to read the full article. This shit is insane.

Ah yes, I do love a tricky "ethical question"

new saddest six word story just dropped

Congrats to my brilliant wife @justynapg.bsky.social who has just been named Executive Director of The Sentry, a fantastic organization dedicated to investigating and combating illicit finance, corruption and kleptocracy. thesentry.org/2025/03/03/8...

It feels like a metric of something, and not a good one, that at a moment like this virtually no one in the Oscar telecast has said anything remotely political

Grateful to the new iPhone OS for these helpful AI cliffnotes of all my sentence-long texts messages. I was really feeling overburdened there but tech to the rescue once again!

Writer prom. A great great night. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/s...

In Dublin last night, SAY NOTHING won 4 Irish Academy Awards. So wonderful to be there to celebrate with some of our wonderful cast and crew. I love 'em.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Hats off to @WIRED.com which is doing hugely valuable, dogged, deeply alarming reporting on the young coupsters of DOGE. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Not the only part of this worth scrutinizing but fentanyl has not killed "tens of millions of Americans."

Hey ChatGPT write an FT story about DeepSeek but in the style of the Onion

@praddenkeefe.bsky.social: Historical dramas let us have conversations about things still happening today www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Surely you guys can get into the Capitol Building