happy new AP style guide release day, to all who celebrate

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

The Broadview Six should absolutely apply for compensation from Trump's "weaponization" slush fund and sue when they don't get it. In fact, they'd arguably have the strongest case for standing of any possible plaintiff. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Maricopa County supervisors put County Recorder Justin Heap on blast Wednesday for suggesting election workers could face felony charges for handling early-voting drop boxes: "incompetent," "egregious" @morgfisch.bsky.social in @phoenixnewtimes.com — www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/supervi...

the Republican race for one of Arizona's top political offices has turned deeply ugly bsky.app/profile/zhbu...

daaaamn london

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

I got the chance to talk to Editor & Publisher about news fatigue, a phenomenon that goes hand-in-hand with feelings of powerlessness The antidote, for @phoenixnewtimes.com + other local media, is coverage that gives our readers a stronger sense of agency www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/why-...

BREAKING: Kris Mayes is suing to stop the controversial planned ICE facility in Surprise from opening. The suit claims that the Department of Homeland Security did not perform required environmental reviews. Story:

my pet version of this is free registration for cars with utterly daft paint jobs. property tax breaks for deranged buildings could be part of this package. bsky.app/profile/eric...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Just gave $100 - need to support independent journalism.

at @phoenixnewtimes.com we have a membership program. throw us a few bucks, we turn your money into ball-busting local reporting. and we're nearing our spring goal! if the spirit moves ya, you can still get bespoke merch by a Phoenix artist ... phoenix-new-times.fundjournalism.org/support/?cam...

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

guys maybe we can't believe everything we see in the daily mail after all?? bsky.app/profile/zhbu...

fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world

Phoenix sky > Phoenix skyline

wait till you hear about an actual media company that used to call itself Time Warner bsky.app/profile/mobi...

me, splattered in so many borscht drippings I look like a human drop cloth: "nature is healing" bsky.app/profile/spec...

in their wisdom Turning Point packed Phoenix's utility regulators election with pro-"industry" (i.e. fossil-fuel) candidates who'd punt on solar power. In the sunniest city in the world. During an oil shock. It didn't go so hot. By @zhbuchanan.bsky.social www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona...

This is my favorite game called the Pope or Norwegian black metal lyrics?

The US AID destruction is one of the sickest things anyone has ever done in human history. No one got anything out of it besides the gleeful thrill of mass black death. It’s truly bone chilling to even contemplate what this really was.

hmm

A student from Surprise, Arizona calmly + methodically drags the town's leaders. They don't seem to care how a gargantuan ICE detention center will affect kids who have to walk past it to and from school new in @phoenixnewtimes.com www.phoenixnewtimes.com/opinion/surp...

Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media)

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

one potentially underrated thing about being a socialist in a highly visible public office is, most of the people you make happy actually deserve to be made happy. like what must it do to the spirit to cater endlessly to the Money and its slimeball morlock attendants

Wow, turns out that a glorified militia standing around with their thumbs hooked under their vest straps like farmers relaxing on the porch of the five-and-dime don't actually accelerate 21st century mass-scale air transportation hubs, who could possibly have guessed

ICE riding random escalators at airports is the new NYPD texting on subway platforms bsky.app/profile/zhbu...

today Phoenix's airport is crawling with ICE agents who don't even seem to know why they're there. but of course ICE's massive cost is one reason TSA isn't getting paid right now. just amazing stuff all around, very stable genius country we're running here. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

Contempt for others leads to immolation of the self

polls are unnecessary if the median voter is the candidate

For at least 10 years journos have been working so hard to dissemble and obfuscate under the Honorable Notions of What Journalism Is and now even the people whose water they’ve been carrying are like wtf I’m trying to be racist

LOCAL PAPERS DOGWALK THE NATIONAL BRANDS EVERY TIME. This is spectacular work. My goodness gracious. I love it.

your local nautical-themed speakeasy's new spring cocktail menu just dropped (firm limit of two Bottom Mines per customer)

I used to think media jobs were mostly safe so long as AI lacks awareness but reading the front page of CNN today I'm realizing basic awareness is highly optional

Italy's espresso machine has the numbers of everyone who hits a homer on it

"From the studio that brought you LONGLEGS"? Well done, Hokum trailer. But I say go further. "From the genre that brought you TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE!" "From the medium that brought you CITIZEN KANE and STAR WARS!" "From the planet that brought you THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON!"

LOL, she asked them to put in the paper that she's not mad.

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

NEW: Two years ago, over brunch, Trumpists working under Project 2025 began plotting ways for Trump to deploy the military on U.S. soil. Election-denier Jeffrey Clark suggested invoking the Insurrection Act. We have their files. Welcome to the Insurrectionist Brunch:

I can write good abstracts not because I have a natural talent for it but because I have spent twenty years consciously practicing it. The only way to get good at something is to keep working through the part where you're not good at it … yet. cf. james.grimmelmann.net/files/advice...

This is a terrifying thread. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the idiots running this war never considered it.

Gov. Hobbs ensured AZ drivers won't see Charlie Kirk license plates any time soon. A GOP pol whose businesses have made millions from Turning Point blasted her veto today as "grotesque." TP would've earned $17 every time someone paid their registration fees. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/hobbs-v...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Since we're sharing our fondest Kristi Noem memories: Mine was the day she came to Phoenix and lied repeatedly about the quality of Arizona's elections, leaving us at New Times to weigh the grammatical nuances of using "most bullshit" in a headline www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/false-a...