are there any latinists or italofoni who would care to join me in a dante reading club? i just finished l'inferno with facing-page help (michael palma's terza rima). was thinking of doing the rest in company. per l’amor di beatrice e nel nome del summo poeta, vi prego — mandatemi un messagio 📚

went to the store __________ AI Summary ✨ Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

"With sit-downs protected, the union was soon able to go on the offensive with a daring feint...." || for our latest issue, @lukewsavage.bsky.social revisits the landmark sit-down strikes in Flint:

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

"Despite the three disasters, dedicated queer and trans Ugandans — many who could flee to exile to secure their own personal safety — refuse to give up trying to protect the health of their community, even as they’re being crushed."

Former WaPo staff: I’m sorry for the bloodbath. Question Everything is taking pitches for stories about the state of journalism, attacks on the press, our information ecosystem, and accountability for big tech. Pitch us/send tips: [email protected] Signal: brihreed.45

using multiple screens in the 15th century

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit

"Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity." || via @thepointmag.bsky.social

Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]

bezos' vandalism of wapo + bari weiss' defilement of cbs + trump's desecration of everything from civic architecture to the constitution are fundamentally the same political project. america's most enterprising billionaires are working night and day to make this country a stupider, uglier place.

Who’s ready to talk about conservative book publishing www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/box...

The problem with @attackerman.bsky.social being cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy is that we keep having to add things he’s predicted to his pieces as I edit them

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White House’s enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, they’re cheering the real thing. theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...

As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com This is America.

I wrote about Bari Weiss and CBS’s pivot to “scoops of ideas” newrepublic.com/article/2059...

new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone

If you're a health provider or health worker in Minneapolis, especially at a hospital, I'd love to talk for a story! [email protected] or Signal in bio

Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...

"Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse?" @lukeoneil47.bsky.social:

There's a similar thread here to the whole "everyone must return to office full time or else there will be a commercial real estate crisis" meltdown circa 2022, where major companies seem to have decided they should get to invest billions of dollars risk free

student journalists continue to step up. from yesterday's daily tar heel:

Once again I find myself asking the invigorating question “Is it 1933 or 1938?”

“In 2025, then, the acceleration of eugenics at home and abroad has put me…a little uptight. The death-worship thing—it’s never been for me.” ← @scheinman.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

this is indistinguishable from a half-assed digital media pitch from the pivot-to-video era that would have been rejected by thrillist's senior video producer for being pointless and corny

Hannah has been a top, top reporter on all things DOGE and the federal government. Hard to see this other than anything but an attempt to chill journalism and the First Amendment protected right to a free press. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:

Hard to neatly summarize the career and impact of Miles Davis but @scheinman.bsky.social gets there. Restraint as a creative force, growth as a personal ethos, exploration as a life philosophy.

if you need a break today, you can read my little tribute to Miles Davis, which opens this month's issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

the only MCU that matters is the munch cinematic universe

This is some real, Severance-level dystopian corporate behavior…

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

Merry Christmas, friends

WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry

I wrote about things going from bad to worse for the people who actually make movies. alt headline: The Dream Factory Turns Nightmare

merry christmas! 'camp austen' makes a delightful stocking-stuffer for any of your loved ones who delight in books, dancing, frivolity, and (literal) gallows humor. do your friends + family a service and buy some copies 🎩📚😇

really enjoyed this piece by ellen wexler, which quotes some of my favorite folks around. on the letters of jane austen: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/jane...

Rachel Aviv on Oliver Sacks, WHEW.

For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025! And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #podcasts #booksky #documentary