ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Tbh the fact that the media cannot ingest this information means it isn't being 100% laundered through anti-establishment polarization, which may help the trend continue unabated. Tldr; media missing this makes souring on Trump feel like an original thought

a lazy cynical affect is one of the worst things you can do to yourself as a reporter or analyst, it will corrode not only your work but your soul.

Remember: no one can smell you on video chat

"Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital." The hedge fund offered more money. Did you hear what I said? "Alden Global Capital is well known as the worst possible newspaper owner for anyone who cares about journalism." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

Ngl that My Chemical Romance song Foundations of Decay is an absolute banger

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

That false WSJ report on "transgender ideology engravings" whatever the hell thst is is gonna get people killed. I hope they sre investigating internally about how the clear established rules of engagement on covering these events was broken. Journalistically, its a massive failure.

the great khan of the plains is undefeated. he spreads his protection and his bounty across the land

Devin Bartlett is one of the best cops reporters in the country -- www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

DUCK DOWN, PUDDLES HAS LOST HIS HEAD (h/t @kwade.bsky.social)

I was at a volunteer event last month writing get well soon cards to kids at a local ronald mcdonald house, and more then half the volunteers (people in their 50s and 60s) were using chatgpt to generate text for the cards. I was legitimately shocked.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I was struck by this, too -- the article makes no real attempt to defend its thesis

Sorry y'all, but the Milwaukee Brewers possess the sacred Rune and we will bring it to as many games as we damn well please

I knew my boy @alecluhn.bsky.social would emerge from wild like a fuckin' Phoenix -- the man is simply unstoppable. But still, we mere mortals are very very relieved ❤️❤️❤️ www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Lol, I mean, true. BUT the best part of this essay is the charming thru-line wink where he throws himself under the bus for being a shallow travel dilettante

This is culturally inappropriate

Now see this here a good ass question. I have found the only solution is to mock them relentlessly until they don't mention it again. Then, you never mention it again either. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...

Still honored and touched that SZA reads the suggestions I post in the chat

This rule truly never fails

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Or that reporters can be easily replaced by TikTokers, YouTubers, or Substackers who brand themselves as independent media but who offer little original reporting or expert analysis, often just repackaging the work of the journalists they love to criticize

Defendants claim their product is “the Original Ray’s Pizza,” but Defendants in fact serve several dozen such pizzas every night

feeling SEEN

“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”

I think one underrated aspect of money becoming so important in politics is it tends to drive out your classic gladhander types. selects instead for dead-eyed psychos who don't mind begging rich people for money 8 hours a day bsky.app/profile/real...

I really sympathize with my man Bouie rn. I can think of few more annoying things than hundreds of randoms who spend too much time on the Internet ordering me, a Black guy who writes for a living, to quit my job

My parents are middle class Nigerians who moved to Wisconsin a year before I was born. When U.S. forms ask for a checked box, I say "african-american" because it is literally true. If you believed its a magic status checkbox (its not. I assure u), same racist hitpiece tactic could be used on me!

Lol im literally writing a book right now about how hip hop culture taught us the power of the written word

NYTimes Ed Board 1935 on Mayor La Guardia: "[He is] fond of toying with haphazard proposals that may be benevolent in intention but are dangerous or impossible in practice. He seems always to want to have in hand some socialistic plaything or other. Just now it is a municipal power plant."

Maaaaybe just maybe, the endless barrage of racist anti-Mamdani fliers stuffed into my mailbox is backfiring on Cuomo

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Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

The crazy thing i hate to think about is none of this would have happened if the first Obamacare website had worked

With a bit of training in parsing news media, the conclusion is obvious: Fordo in Iran per Def. Dept. suffered "damage and destruction" (this means its not destroyed) Iranian trucks were at the site with 16 wheelers days before (uranium was already gone) Strike likely accelerated Iranian bomb