fundraising emails are now just full on "U up?"

If you were in charge of a Smithsonian exhibit featuring photos of Trump, post which one you would put in reply to this.

Trumpmenistan www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/a...

there should be more events like the biathlon. do a triple lutz then fire a gun. ride the bobsled down the hill while shooting targets. armed ice hockey.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

Suppose someone posted something super racist on your BlueSky account. How long would it take you to delete it once you were made aware?

One of the issues with being a newspaper reporter has always been that the jobs were spread out, so after a layoff you had to either uproot your family or get out of the field. Fortunately in D.C. there are a lot of other options, but this isn't the case in smaller regional markets.

Attention reporters, including laid-off ones! Anyone want to go live in Burlington VT and report for one of the last truly fantastic alt-weeklies in the country? Seven Days publishes real investigative stories and a ton of culture. Great paper jobs.sevendaysvt.com/job/writing-...

Ok this is not the headline, it’s a problem with the social headline field in the CMS … but as a headline it’s not inaccurate either

I don’t think legacy news institutions are fully ready for what this new pivot to short form video means. >>> daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/how-journa...

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

It appears friends of his occasionally emailed articles I wrote to him? Weird. But y'all: Search your name. You never know. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Look at how much fun this guy is having every day

Trump, running for election in 2024: "What I want to do, and what I will do, is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country."

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Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million votes, but won the Electoral College thanks to 77,000 votes in three key states, so what he's alleging here would be a world-historically incompetent massive conspiracy.

honestly not a bad informal heuristic for vetting polls

A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website. www.404media.co/this-tool-se...

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Despite the Trump administration's gaslighting, only 22% of voters think the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti was justified — including only 16% of Independents — according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/chat...

Not employee-owned, but Philadelphia Inquirer is owned by a nonprofit and, as a bonus, employs @willbunch.bsky.social

this is the problem. i pay for 3* of these rn and might be able to do 4-5 but that still wouldn't get close to the quality of bundle i was getting from WaPo for $6. i need international news, incomprehensible fashion show reviews & bullshit advice columns. you can't replace 100+ journalists with ~20

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

A GoFundMe for Washington Post journalists has already raised $73,000 www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

One time I assigned a reporter to write a story about former Scouts in Congress and we had to postpone publication several times because so many lawmakers wanted to be in the story. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

1. D.C. statehood 2. Turn the Kennedy Center over to D.C. 3. Mumbo sauce subsidies

"I decided I would get a job at a business publication, become an expert in a subject, and then use that to leverage myself into a newspaper job — where, eventually, I could cover the State Department." — Glenn Kessler yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...

People have so many choices: social media, Reddit, the “Melania” documentary

He likes his women like he likes his coffee: Part of a fictional scenario meant to promote Trump

Fundraising email subject lines that would also work for the other side

okay, list of trump admin plans to fix the economy: 1) start working right after high school 2) postpone retirement 3) consumers pay tariffs 4) buy your kids fewer toys/pencils 5) limit meals to a piece of chicken, broccoli, corn tortilla, & "1 other thing" 6) 50-year (high-interest) mortgage

Let me take a victory lap here for predicting back in November what Trump would say this weekend www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Say what you will about Tina Brown but this rules

Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."

This just makes me imagine some really wild justices' conferences where they're, like, doing hard drugs

Sometimes the critics have a point. Christopher Nolan's casting is deeply ahistorical. Tom Holland looks nothing like how Telemachus is described.

Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."

What did they do on Leg Day

Did You Know? You can be female and gay. Until next time...

🎵 I shouted out who killed the Kennedy Center / but after all, it was you and me 🎵

Nov. 19: "If he follows his playbook, then the next argument is clear: pretend he was exonerated." Feb. 1: "Donald Trump said he was 'absolved' of wrongdoing after the department of justice released the latest batch of Epstein files." www.ms.now/opinion/msnb... www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Shot —> Chaser

This feels like how a millennial would describe my vibe

A short story

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.