😡 @ashtonpittman.bsky.social just shared one of the worst uses of the passive voice I’ve ever seen with me. Make no mistake: Too many in journalism use passive voice on purpose to give passes and to soften certain news about power. Why I basically outlaw it in our shop. (It also ruins writing.)

It’s a loss for our field. #Bioethics

In addition to being straight-up Nazi rhetoric, the "undocumented immigrants caused the housing crisis" lie seems designed to drive me, personally, insane.

Dear lord how does this get worse than what I had originally imagined

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has said he would evict the Elizabeth Street Garden in his first year in office. That promise just got a lot more complicated, thanks to Mayor Adams's First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro. hellgatenyc.com/adams-declar...

Randy "The Fucking Worst" Mastro

Randy Mastro is going to ratfuck the city as much as possible on his way out the door. The lame duck period is too long.

I sense the UK is experiencing what the USA went through after the Civil Rights Act: decreased support of universal programs due to racism

"she needed money for braces" it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are

Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey. The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content. (divine.video)

a lot of poor urban governance is because local politicians and powerful stakeholders like unions are simply incapable of grasping the concept of second-order effects of any policy (in this case, a ton of 99 unit affordable housing projects)

Young women want out of the US. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

These are the kind of things that make the trumps relatable to the working class

This is actually going to wreck top hospitals...one of their sources of $$$ is rich patients from other countries seeking top-notch care in the USA

Absolutely! I have 15 years of building media institutions. Would be nice to hear from people!

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

I had a uterine biopsy last month and omg it was so painful, I wanted to scream. Afterwards they told me people usually do scream. There is no way they would put men through that pain. Next month I have a colonoscopy and I'm grateful it's something men do too, because it means I get anesthesia.

Breaking WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to people familiar with the matter.

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

Klobuchar or Warren. Next.

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Federal cuts to Bay Area resettlement agencies imperil Afghan refugees in hubs like Fremont’s “Little Kabul.”

Say what you want about Pelosi's politics but she got her party in line and was effective. Can't say the same about Schumer and Jeffries.

Why does Donald Trump hate Nancy Pelosi so much? This is what she says about him in her book

It freaking rocks that an incoming council member is cheering on @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social. It'd have been easy for @linforseattle.bsky.social to focus only on his own race in the hopes of avoiding Harrell's ire in case he won. So many orgs/electeds took this path, it says a lot that he didn't!

incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

Damn, really an "every vote matters" situation goin' on right now. Holy fuck; hey if you're in Seattle, make sure you check that your vote was counted correctly!!! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Follow the $$$$

Adding to all the replies here...trans folks who transitioned pre-puberty don't have an androgen advantage. There's no logical reason why they should be barred from competing.

What this policy will do is wreak havoc on intersex women who will have had no idea they were intersex until they are forced to undergo an invasive DNA test. They will be disqualified and have their entire lives upended. Athletes have completed suicide over this.

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

In the latest tally, Katie Wilson has gained vote share in the Seattle mayoral race. Today's batch broke 54.85% for Wilson and 44.86% for Bruce Harrell. Harrell still leads with 50.74% of the vote while Wilson still trails with 48.86% of the vote.

I mean: 1. I don't believe this for one second and... 2. If it is true, @schumer.senate.gov is incompetent and should go retire and hang out with Andrew Cuomo, and let someone competent take over.

13 cases of infant botulism tied to tainted baby formula Infants in 10 states have been sickened, and all required hospitalization. www.cidrap.umn.edu/b...

The 2026 primaries could be the bloodbath Dem incumbents largely avoided in 2018

Would love to see some reporting on how the airline lobby put on the pressure.

Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ

Oh they absolutely will… …to distract from fact all the normies on FB are talking about it already. Or my normie SoCal parents who most get their news from TV, who asked me tonight “did the Democrats really cave?” (Yes. Yes they did.)

There really should be a coordinated effort to force Schumer out as Minority Leader as a result of his failure here.

if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

PSA to any Dems who plan on running for president in 2028: now is the perfect time to call for Schumer to step down and for the 8 Vichy Dems to be primaried

I'm willing to place $$ that the airline lobby freaked out

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

That’s why I say keep calling.