More than 3,000 meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, have been on strike since mid-March, the first major labor strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry since 1985.

Earlier this month, we published statistics about the detainees held in ICE's Colorado "hold rooms." Today, we are looking beyond the datapoints and sharing the individual stories of the people behind them -- 2,800 of them. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl...

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

this is the second "how I use AI as a journalist" piece in the last 24 hours and both are entirely disqualifying for those involved, embarrassing stuff

This is not journalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Man…when I was coming up as an investigative reporter at Fortune, the writing and editing process was grueling (and rewarding!). What an embarrassment this is for a brand that meant so much to us.

This reads like a press release. Word for word. You don't need to just copy and paste every sales pitch that comes to your inbox as news

this is the fourth time a company has said they'd either send openai billions or get openai to send them billions that's never actually come through - AMD's 6GW of data centers, SK Hynix/Samsung's 900k of DRAM wafers, NVIDIA's $100bn, and Broadcom's 10GW - none of them are real!

Dying of laughter because ICE is hiring Steve from Resident Evil Code Veronica to patrol our airports.

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You’re not sticking to graphics when you stick to graphics.

very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america

Even one guy who looks like Pat McAfee is too many and they’ve shown several in the crowd rooting for Team USA

Venezuela did it babyyyyyy!!!!

Top 5 strikeout pitch ever thrown in the history of the game.

It’s always neat to see when they enforce editorial standards and when they don’t

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I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

She has said exactly one line of dialogue on screen, what the fuck are we doing here

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

Again, I wrote about this three years ago. Here's what Thomas Friedman had to say about Iraq in 2003. Now he's writing a piece for NYT saying this new war might be a good thing. www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

News outlets do not only publish op-eds like this. They frequently publish op-eds that are outside the mainstream set of opinions in an attempt to shift the Overton window of acceptable policy in one direction or another. Easy to demonstrate on e.g. NYT push for anti-trans stuff

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric. So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*. I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

Going to the White House isn't political, says the guy who let the FBIs very own Make A Wish kid chug a beer with them in the locker room while the President called on speakerphone to shit on the Women's Team

The only way you can think AI does lit reviews better is if you’re not interested in making an intellectual argument or building theory … which uh, is pretty key to the advancement of knowledge

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

the journalistic instinct to not let someone talk shit about capital lmao

Please shoot me.

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

Now that the tariffs are gone the DOW Jones is definitely going to go over 50,000.

SC could have enjoined the obviously unconstitutional tariff policy a year ago.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

So it turns out we didn’t need to comply in advance.

Minority owners of FOUR NBA teams are profiting directly from business deals with the DHS concentration camp industrial complex. Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota. www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...

Can't "move past the blank page" on your research? Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

This started as the last paper I wrote in a graduate seminar back in 2014. Increasingly I felt like it would be useful to share another boundary concept with my friends in sports media research.