Taylor Lorenz said WHAT about 9/11???

The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn

This is bleak reading

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

the results Chotiner gets (like Mehdi Hasan) from simply a) doing his homework and b) asking follow-up questions rather than accepting deflections are remarkable - but also a testament to how much U.S. interviewers normally defer to power

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Thomas, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, on his recent publication in Poynter! @ryanjthomas.bsky.social Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Congrats to our own Jennifer Henrichsen, a member of @carnegiecorp.bsky.social's 2025 class of #CarnegieFellows! This esteemed group of scholars is researching the causes of political polarization & seeking ways to strengthen social cohesion & fortify our democracy. www.carnegie.org/news/article...

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An incredible achievement by my brilliant colleague!

Delighted to be included in this list with co-authors @ryanjthomas.bsky.social and @phoebesophist.bsky.social alongside some very fine colleagues from around the world.

I think of this as 'everything is comms' disease. This interview looked awful because the policy is, in fact, awful. You can't do an interview about it and come across well unless your interlocutor is under-prepared!

I don’t know what journal editors are out there telling authors to remove references to their own work by replacing the in-text citation with (Author) but they need to be launched into the sun, it’s bad practice and makes the author more likely to be identified

at this point amy schumer would be a better minority leader

The hypocrisy is so glaringly obvious and yet it's still worth calling it out:

Most notable line in Dodds’ resignation letter might be this: “I also expected we would collectively discuss our fiscal rules and approach to taxation”. First public cabinet dissent on economic policy.

Evergreen

Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

"replace toner"? no, Brother, the toner cartridge is getting pulled out and immediately shoved right back in. you print until the pages come out blank

Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety

At least the rich guys around the turn of the 20th built libraries and stuff as extracurriculars. The guys today seem largely focused on being upset that some people find them obnoxious

Bezos emailing all Amazon MGM Studios employees to dictate that the next James Bond will be bald and wear a vest

Basically want his own opinions repeated back to him

All those billions and Jeff Bezos still can't afford dignity

REMINDER: Jeff Bezos knows nothing about journalism and paid way more for his yacht than the Washington Post. To him, they are both toys

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

Oxford University be like "Graphic design is my passion"

why have a union at all then bsky.app/profile/atru...

i cannot imagine a more likely suspect for gambling a community's money away than a "successful, financially sophisticated banker"

A losing battle I know, but can we fight back against the equation of LinkedIn - a social networking site - and a CV - a document that you send to employees.

how is it that he manages to look like a werewolf AND a vampire

how is hakeem jeffries more out of touch than his 80 year old predecessor ????

This looks like a good read: “The View from the Top”: Elite Metajournalistic Responses to Normative Critiques of American Journalism” from @briancreech.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1461...

I really do think that much (not all) of the current calamity is a result of treating Silicon Valley with awe instead of healthy skepticism, which has been layered onto an existing discourse that venerates "efficient" and "smart" business over "slow" and "bureaucratic" government

I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

Really thorough/thoughtful report: Generative AI & Journalism Content, Journalistic Perceptions, and Audience Expectations bit.ly/GenAIandJournalism Huge props to @tjthomson.bsky.social, @ryanjthomas.bsky.social, @riedlinm.bsky.social, @phoebesophist.bsky.social & and the rest of the team!

What do news audiences expect of journalists' use of generative AI? New research from @tjthomson.bsky.social and @ryanjthomas.bsky.social on GAIN today outlining expectations and comfort levels with different uses of GenAI in news production: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-do-news-...

White Lotus is a prize an actor wins. If you do enough good character parts that highbrow critics like you but regular tv watchers don’t know who you are, Mike White takes you on vacation