This is a fantastic bit of lawyering by a prosecutor who just effectively told the judge that a declination memo exists without technically violating his direct instructions

I was interviewed for this piece—one thing that didn’t make it into it that I want to note: there’s been a lot of attention on the battle for press freedom here in LA—but as I’ve noted, this isn’t just a press rights fight, but a fight for the 1st amendment protections of all Angelenos

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Curious about the journeys of space probes, butterflies, and billionaires? This week's Data Vis Dispatch has all of that and much more! 🛰️ 🦋 📊 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

"Downtown businesses supported free buses because they helped bring people downtown & decreased workers’ transit costs." Ditto protected bike lanes. If you make travel easy, it turns out that people spend their time & money doing what they need & want to do--not fighting traffic. (Gift link)

A minor fender bender was turned into so much more. Informative thread.

“MBS of course also ordered the killing and ghastly dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018. A member of a prominent Saudi family himself, Khashoggi self-exiled from the kingdom in 2017 shortly after MBS seized power and cracked down on the press.”

Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer

Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth. Journalists must speak out.

The rule of law is dying right in front of us. Impunity for the president's allies, vengeful prosecutions for his opponents.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Very cool, very neat. I hate how @greenwell.bsky.social's book keeps appearing in the wild. Need to read it again cuz I don't have enough extreme rage these days. When this country undergoes Reconstruction v.2, PE has to be one of the biggest targets (reposting with ALT)

And David Ellison, the new owner of CBS.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Condé Nast emptied out every single trans and Black journalist from Teen Vogue while clearing a six figure salary for a woman who slept with people she was covering while she mocked real concerns about their fitness Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC

I will have to read this but.. On the wings of a bird

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My bike* doesn't work because Cloudflare is down. * Indoor trainer with an app hooked to Garmin who are presumably using Cloudflare for some things.

Speaking of Larry Summers. Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown. What a di*k! 🤡 Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:

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tubes! for all your needs

I love how he says what he says as if he’s using technical terms. ‘To be precise…’

For pregnant women—“every 1% increase in state-level firearm ownership was signf’ly associated w/a 6% increase in all-cause homicide & 8% increase in firearm homicide… results suggest…even incremental increases in firearm avail may contribute to measurable increases in homicide risk in preg women”🧪🛟

“In our study population, pregnant women experienced a 37% higher firearm homicide rate compared with nonpregnant women. Firearms were the leading mechanism of pregnancy-associated homicide, accounting for 79% of the weapons used for homicide. This pattern was consistent across states….”🧪🛟

“Altho several states had ZERO homicides in pregnant women during the study pd, other states had MORE THAN 100 deaths of preg women per 1 million live births….likely reflect[ing] differences in state-level firearm-related legislation + policies re: access to comprehensive reproductive health care”🧪🛟

Larry Summers was doing dating the right way. by Ezra Klein

Universities never indoctrinated anyone. It’s simply that right wing views don’t survive critical thought or serious scrutiny. And it’s really easy to call everything a conspiracy when you don’t know how stuff works.

Two things. One, to pretend that people don’t care whether or not the president allegedly used to rape children is ridiculous and every Republican knows it. Two, Republicans are the ones who are making everything more expensive so what is this guy even trying to sell here.

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

Academia is way meaner than business! Lots of mean/picky professors on here too! But academia has way more room for 'vengeful resentment/spleen/passive-aggression' than does professional advancement in the business world, where you mostly congratulate winners, even if for selfish purposes.

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere

It's both... but given the nature of rural population density, guess who has the most might in a rural area... if you guessed the car dealership owner, you'd be right.

Check out the @climatetown.bsky.social response to this episode if you haven’t. It’s good! youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ?...

You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket. Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.

Goodnight. May we all sleep safely and warmly in our setts until a new day wakes us. 🖼️ Anita Inverarity

These people think the New Deal was about giving a handout to working Americans, when it was primarily about FDR keeping the necks of his millionaire friends out of the guillotine

I got the video. We shouldn't get acclimated to this racist, edgelord shit.

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain. but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain. BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.