I just finished the excellent book by ICE teen meme maker and bsky poster Megan Greenwell (plug for: Bad Company)

it really is nuts that i saw this pic maybe 4-5 times before realizing that my friend took it

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

weird day when you get your own photo suggested to you on Reddit lol. seems likely the ICE teens have now been seen by multiple people who know them considering how far this one spread.

counted 25 ICE officers (most with ERO vests) during my 26-minute wait in the LGA Terminal C Touchless line this morning. every one of them was either standing doing nothing or slowly walking the length of the line doing nothing. at least four were in masks.

If you're interested in freelancing but skeptical of the "don't get out of bed for less than $3 a word" philosophy, @charleylocke.bsky.social and I are doing a second round of our course on how to build a sustainable freelance career. We're 2/3 sold out, so get in now!

@hellgatenyc.com making me choose between my two strongest-held beliefs in the Sweet Sixteen of the annual hot takes bracket, absolutely brutal matchup. hellgatenyc.com/march-madnes...

allegedly flying out of LGA tomorrow for my fourth work trip of the month —WHO is going to help me stage a security-line anecdote so colorful it gets us on NY1? current plan is we start flirting in line, then have our first date at Calista when we both miss our flights.

can’t believe this shit has me rooting for Tennessee AND Florida, might just sell my 99.7-percentile bracket to the highest bidder

I don’t know why I’m like this either, but: insofar as Petco is majority-owned by a private equity firm, and the private equity industry gives money to 88% of members of the House and Senate, there’s more overlap with Tammany Hall than you’d think! 🙂

Here is a win worthy of some celebration: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

oh, we're doing Freelancer Pay Discourse? perfect time to announce that @charleylocke.bsky.social and I are starting another round of our class on how to build a freelance career! you can actually make freelancing work without just waiting for people to offer you $3 a word, I promise. sign up now!

you ever read a 23-year-old Kate Boo story while trying to crack a feature structure, except instead of getting inspired you become wild with jealousy? simply the best to ever do it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

good day of basketball, too bad there are no more games after this!

oh, we're doing Freelancer Pay Discourse? perfect time to announce that @charleylocke.bsky.social and I are starting another round of our class on how to build a freelance career! you can actually make freelancing work without just waiting for people to offer you $3 a word, I promise. sign up now!

This is by my former student/most recent podcast guest Sofia Barnett. Highly recommend listening to her interview on the show. www.cjr.org/kicker/lesso...

I don't say a lot about it online for... reasons, but this buffoonery has been a massive stressor in my household for nearly a year now. Science scholars' entire pay structure relies on these grants, which have been held up for literally no reason. Maybe the dam is finally breaking?

back on my "work in local news" soapbox

As an intern at the Minnesota Star Tribune, Sofia Barnett was the first reporter on the scene of the Annunciation school shooting. Then she was named to the team covering ICE raids on the city. On The Kicker with @greenwell.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

turns out people were interested in this — we sold out, and 100% of students said it was worth the cost. so we’re doing it again starting April 15! we’re opening registration tomorrow, but initially only to folks who have filled out our interest form: docs.google.com/forms/d/16cZ...

Yeah, this shit ripped. I need to do the evaluation, but here is a testimonial: This workshop provided me with a new community, a sense of hope about the future and the tools to not just get going in the freelance business but remember why I want to do this stuff to begin with.

turns out people were interested in this — we sold out, and 100% of students said it was worth the cost. so we’re doing it again starting April 15! we’re opening registration tomorrow, but initially only to folks who have filled out our interest form: docs.google.com/forms/d/16cZ...

I'm looking to talk to journalists who are not AI evangelists but who are experimenting with using AI in their journalism work (but not for writing!). If this is you and you'd be willing to chat about it, DM me here or email me at megangreenwellprojects at gmail?

I'm looking to talk to journalists who are not AI evangelists but who are experimenting with using AI in their journalism work (but not for writing!). If this is you and you'd be willing to chat about it, DM me here or email me at megangreenwellprojects at gmail?

First book of the year, highly recommend! @greenwell.bsky.social #booksky

seems like a great sign for a magazine when a newly posted job is the same job from which at least three people have been laid off in the past decade, and the low end of the salary band is less than they paid in 2016.

Folks in the Boston area: I’m looking forward to being in conversation with @greenwell.bsky.social this week on *Bad Company* — one of my favorite recent books and exceptional narrative non-fiction. Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/priva...

When the Washington Post issued its public explanation of February layoffs, the paper said it intended to take a more narrow focus on national politics and national security. But how does that serve readers? Miriam Berger joins @greenwell.bsky.social on the Kicker. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Yeah man, why would Graham Platner of all people have any obligation to make sure he’s not RTing Nazis? :touches earpiece: And apropos of nothing, being a fan of someone’s show isn’t an endorsement either.

oh god yes. Reading this now, but will also plug Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social which does a great job of walking through the real world impacts on People's Lives of the PE takeover of American institutions. www.megangreenwell.com/book

Hell yes, National Magazine Award nominee @rusty.todayintabs.com, for the only good newsletter Today in Tabs. asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!

it's genuinely very cool to me to see the world's richest newspaper swoop in immediately after a competitor's mass layoffs to hire some generational talents just because they can.

Miriam Berger was one of 300–plus journalists laid off this month by the Washington Post, all but eliminating the publication’s international desk. On The Kicker, she and host @greenwell.bsky.social discuss how she reported stories from Gaza. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

highlight of my day is that I got connected to this guy and am sending him a copy of my book to thank him for the piece of perfect cinema.

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream By @greenwell.bsky.social

seems like a good night to promote my strategy for avoiding the most annoying discourses on this website. when I figure out how to mute all instances of failure to understand jokes and all explanations of subjects I know about, I’ll be unstoppable.

Something that is very interesting about Bluesky is that often people reply to me as though I have never before considered the thing about which I am posting when in fact I probably have a great deal and that is why I am posting about it. Just one of life’s little jokes I suppose.

I am going to hunt down Punxsutawney Phil. I will find him and then I will grind his bones to make my bread.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Am currently reading Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social and based on what I have read so far I am sure that everything at Walgreens is very fine and very normal and that there is no need for concern, alarm or OH MY GOD WTF

In “Bad Company,” @greenwell.bsky.social brings people who are harmed by private equity squarely into focus through real stories of people whose local newspapers got gutted, whose nursing homes changed overnight, or whose jobs suddenly disappeared after a buyout.

Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets. Journalism is better when it’s backed— The internet was a huge mistake.

NYT v. Sullivan is truly nonpartisan, and for most of its history, until Trump's anti-media campaign, has been celebrated as such. @davidenrich.bsky.social joins @greenwell.bsky.social for a special Kicker focusing on press freedom, live in the CJR newsroom. youtu.be/VYid72uW1tA?...

Over at my blog, I review Bad Company, the new book by @greenwell.bsky.social in which she provides a deeply human and rigorously detailed examination of how private equity has ruined everything. dryvetyme.online/2026/02/18/b...

Wishing a meaningful & reflective Mark Wahlberg 40 Day Challenge to all who observe.

Why overturning NYT v. Sullivan would hurt conservative media first. Listen in to a special Kicker on press freedom, live in the CJR newsroom with @davidenrich.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and host @greenwell.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

COURT QUEENS comes out in one month! Women’s basketball from the 1890s to 2020s, in words and pictures, from AAU to AIAW to WBL to WNBA. You can preorder now wherever you get your books ✨ www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emma-...