We've been asked a lot how we got our story about the sexual assault allegations against Eric Swalwell. @demianbulwa.bsky.social wrote about the fundamental acts of journalism, not opposition research, that unearthed this scandal: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

please don’t give Tiger ideas

Reporters (and editors) know so many more things than they can actually report publicly. Most of it second- or third-hand, through the rumor mill.

Many California Democrats now calling for Swalwell to drop out of the governor's race, including one of his campaign co-chairs: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

PODCAST: @sacbee.com reporter @liaoffleash.bsky.social was part of the team that broke the news of former Newsom COS Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol - and about all those tattoos capitolweekly.net/covering-the...

In a story on ProPublica reporters’ fight for AI protections, WaPo highlights Bee journalists who stand against McClatchy’s AI “articles” initiative. I wonder why McClatchy has now twice declined to comment on this AI tool. Internally we have heard corporate executives say they’re very proud of it 🤔

Unionized journalists at the Sacramento Bee stand united against McClatchy’s latest AI “articles” initiative. We have withheld our bylines from these stories because we do not want the public to think this is being done in our name — it’s not. We think it’s disgusting.

“right wing billionaires sell off chunks of longstanding American institutions to Arab oil billionaires” is a plot point in the 1979 Kurt Vonnegut novel JAILBIRD and it probably read a little heavy handed at the time

Busy day in Sac today: First: California intends to reward a $19M contract burnishing its image nationwide to a company that helped Saudi Arabia rehab its image after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Lia is a real one! Check out this interview!

PODCAST: @sacbee.com reporter @liaoffleash.bsky.social. Russell covers the governor, and helped break the story of Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in Maine and Baltimore capitolweekly.net/covering-the...

uh hey idk what's going on with this post (modest tiddy reveal really hitting i guess) but since you're here it would be dope if you went and listened to my album! linktr.ee/chapslovesyo...

C.S. Lewis’s advice on how to become a better writer to a young school girl (per Athenaeum Book Club on Substack)

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

Just updating this here with a New York Times investigation published today, documenting years of Chavez's sexual violence against underage girls and even Dolores Huerta:

New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @vox.com gift link: www.vox.com/policy/48276...

I wrote about Kat.

Ex-Newsom aide received $62,500 after leaving his office while under investigation by the FBI www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

@lauralippman.bsky.social I’m about to go to a wedding in Nola, any bookstores you recommend? I’m also a former sun reporter 👋

Polyamory seems most appealing when one looks at the state of childcare in this country

As Eric Swalwell aims to fend off attacks over his CA residency, Ben Paviour and I found that he rents a room in Livermore—not an apartment or home— in a home occupied by a family of 3. www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

they’re making sipping an ice cold beer after work illegal

One thing about straight couples who dominate queer bars: they really love singing “suddenly Seymour” at karaoke

'BEYOND THE LAW?' Lexis-Olivier Ray (2025) #ShotOn35mm 🎞

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

what an incredible thing to say www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Reactionary crank with an axe to grind who gained air time for bungling a study years ago is now writing op eds for the most powerful newspaper in the western world because media literacy is in her flop era and faith in legacy institutions is collapsing? Fork found in kitchen

I read Newsom’s memoir www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

i’m very proud of @theverge.com’s ongoing minneapolis coverage. i’m insanely lucky to work somewhere that takes immigration reporting seriously and did so even before trump’s reelection. we took many different approaches to DHS’s operation in MN, maybe they’re not all to your taste. that’s okay!

Gaby del Valle is one of the best reporters I know and the attacks against her on here are not only shocking in their violence and bigotry but also incredibly bad-faith and utterly without merit.

Surest way to get your email deleted or catch a block is to start with “Ms. Russell, why didn’t you do xyz—“

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

it's really not fun to have people who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year debate your humanity and how "far" your rights went when all you wanted to do was build a better life for yourself.

"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting. The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration. Read it here:

esquire theater, sacramento, california, 1980

This post just made me reconsider going to pick up my prescription

Jeff Bezos Could’ve Saved The Post But He Didn’t open.substack.com/pub/samaha/p...

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

New at PB: Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) reviews Davey Davis‘s “Casanova 20” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) and Grace Byron’s “Herculine,” two novels that—however different—both “quietly exalt real friends above other conceptualizations of love.”

at risk of sounding annoying, it was very, very cool to be asked to contribute to the BP Annual. kinda pinching myself at having my writing included alongside a stacked list of writers that I admire an insane amount. big thank you to @baseballprospectus.com, go buy the book folks.

Me 🤝 Jimmy Butler successfully undergoing surgery

“im not familiar with bad bunny but..” i mourn for the lack of baddies in your life brother

PBS kids is sending me

first touchdown lmao

Having such a good Sunday morning I’m ready to do a TikTok dance in public w a zoomer influencer

Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.

tfw you leave Plato’s cave awfulannouncing.com/nfl/pat-mcaf...