Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

Reminded of this today: www.nydailynews.com/1999/03/24/s...

Just in: Today's blizzard has been updated to a Blizzaga, which does twice as much damage but costs more MP.

Insane indictment out of EDNY in Long Island today. Suspects charged with running a sham immigration law firm that staged fake immigration proceedings -- complete with fake judges in judicial robes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As reporters we need to do more of this!

I for one can’t wait for 2040, when Clavicular’s campaign manager boasts to CNN in the Spin Room about how he totally politicsmogged AOC in the first and only presidential debate.

More tales from Brooklyn Federal Court, where a worker at a restaurant popular with mobsters has pleaded guilty to helping try to bribe a juror in a heavyweight boxer’s drug trafficking trial. www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/19/r...

The law is weird! Here’s a Brooklyn judge saying murder isn’t a “crime of violence.” It’s always a wild ride when a ruling has a subsection, “The History of Murder.” Thanks to @kenwhite.bsky.social for providing the expert quotes to help pull this together. www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/16/m...

A small thread about an AI-assisted at the SI Advance (same owners as cleveland-dot-com): I've been covering a court case about a boxer on trial for drug trafficking, a plot to bribe a juror, and a mob lawyer under investigation. Here's the last thing I wrote. www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/l...

Also, most news outlets would not have run this lede today because of SEO. This timeline sucks.

Imagine if ChatGPT had written this story instead of Edna Buchanan.

Holy hell, how the Plain Dealer has fallen. This editor should resign from the field in disgrace, but instead, he’s whining that a job applicant saw his AI policy and rightfully ran screaming.

Doing the hard work of archiving the early life of America’s 51st President, I see.

Here’s @nathangrayson.bsky.social reminding us all of journalism’s golden rule — if it bleeds it leads. Great reporting here on @aftermath.site

Here’s why Tay Kolma has to die,” Luthen says, followed by a scene where Cinta says, “I’m killing you now, Tay Kolma, here’s why.” “Was it Luthen?” Tay asks. “Yes, here’s why. Now you die,”Cinta says. Next episode, Luthen tells Kleya, “I’m glad we ordered Tay Kolma’s death, Kleya. Here’s why.”

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

Alden Global Capital and Heath Freeman are so evil that even the NY Post wrote a sympathetic story about the Daily News. nypost.com/2026/02/13/m...

NEWS — attorneys for the Feds tell a federal judge that the first $30 million in restored funding for the Hudson River Tunnel should be available for the project by Tuesday. Story TK from me and @mollycranenewman.bsky.social

It cannot be reiterated enough that Heath Freeman - who really doesn’t want you to know his name - does not have a shred of interest in journalism or New York City. He treats the best city paper in NY like it’s just another asset. It’s profitable, just not enough for the private equity ghouls.

The once-mighty paper has already been on life support for years. If a billionaire who actually cares about American democracy wants to counter the fascist takeover of the US media, this is a prime candidate to buy and revive. No you won’t make much of a profit. But the country desperately needs it.

Another dark day at the NY Daily News. We were already cut to the bone in '18, and Alden has let staffer after staffer leave without replacing them. No more metro or politics editor, no more Albany reporter, rewrite ppl gone. And now, Heath Freeman cutting past the bone to briefly sate his greed.

This morning, Executive Editor Andrew Julien, citing a "a highly competitive media landscape," told NYDN staff to expect layoffs. The first cuts are primarily hitting our National Desk, but we're also losing some metro staffers and more cuts are expected — more than 25% of the unionized newsroom.

I think it's because people saw Ring as just a cheap sub for a home security system, and now the ad has let the mask slip by mindlessly using the visual language of dystopian TV and cinema (a surveillance network like in The Dark Knight! ID boxes like the ones in Person of Interest!)

New: ICE is now holding immigrants on MULTIPLE floors at 26 Federal Plaza, in addition to the infamous 10th floor cells. A federal judge, tasked with overseeing the facility's conditions, had no idea. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

New from me today: An NYPD 911 dispatcher who got into a romance with a wife-killer after (and possibly during) her past job as a Rikers guard is now charged with helping him smuggle drugs into the jail. www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/09/n...

Because I can tell y’all need some serious distraction: I’ve dropped the ebook price for the first of Richard Stark’s Parker novels, The Hunter, to $2.99. Buy it direct below, or from any major ebook retailer. You won’t regret it.

Turning Point USA Halftime Show Opens With Snake-Handling Preacher

Holy shit the commercials are universally terrible this year

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Do you think the owl will smile at me this year?

Ok, next episode is the one with the Joker’s garbage barge. “You killed Captain Clown!” (And my kids are barely watching.)

Rewatching the watching the “Clock King”episode of B:TAS and I love it when it the show went for a bonkers villain origin story. He misses a court hearing because the future mayor tells hm to take his coffee break off-schedule, so he decides to become a schedule-themed bad guy and get revenge!

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

This letter today by @richiefife.bsky.social has the right of it — the NY Daily News font change is a disaster and an abdication. More like this, please. The @nydailynews.com should be made to run a letter blasting Heath Freeman’s trashy redesign every day until the heat death of the universe.

Strange Ox spinoff series, let’s go!

Finally! Muzzle 2! I will never forget the ending to Muzzle 1 on AMC+. The people deserve a Muzzle 3!

Can’t argue with Carlos Danger…

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

Not sure I've ever seen anything quite like this press release from the NY State court system demanding a correction by the NY Post. 👀

They better cast Bo Jackson in this.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.