The American organ transplant system was built to be fair. But increasingly, officials are ignoring the rules and skipping over the patients most in need. Our investigation, with @cocteau.bsky.social and Jeremy White: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Two new — and really important! — jobs open at @cfr.org: ▪️Editor, News: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... ▪️Editor, Special Projects: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... Both roles must be based in our DC or NYC offices. Please share widely. There's, well, a lot going on in the world right now!

For @niemanlab.org, I wrote about how it's time to abandon middling stories and go very short or go very long. I was thinking about posts and stories and all the ambient formats we're consuming all day, but what I didn't include is something Brian Morrissey has also been talking about: spectacle!

Today's @niemanlab.org Predictions just posted! Featuring: @travelinganna.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @jamditis.bsky.social @millietran.com @nataliaviana.bsky.social @noahshachtman.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com @rasmuskleis.bsky.social (1/2) www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...

Congratulations to @maxboot.bsky.social for his honest and straightforward "Reagan" - one of The Times best books of 2024. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...

It took only ~2.5 hrs for the National Assembly to gather a majority of members (190 of 300) and generate a unanimous vote (190 of 190) to vote down the emergency martial law. The law says the president "shall comply" with parliament's vote, but doesn't specify a time frame.

Read @stevenacook.bsky.social on what’s happening in Syria, who’s actually behind the rebellion, Russia’s involvement & the response of other outside actors involved in Syria, including Turkey, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

Being able to use your domain as username here definitely reignited my teenage-era ‘let’s make websites’ passion

“ @peterbakernyt.bsky.social says that after learning from 2016, news organizations have a responsibility to ‘recognize that we’re not going to jump on every single stray voltage that comes out of his phone.’” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Fentanyl has become a major U.S. foreign policy and national security challenge, as the drug’s supply chain largely runs through China and Mexico. Find out more from our explainer:

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Agree with Max on this. Trump hates it when markets go down on his watch. The real test will be whether he carries through on his promised huge tariff increases — which markets will not like.

Who had Canada and Mexico first on the bingo card along with China?

If you need a refresher on tariffs, @cfr.org's got you. What are tariffs, who uses them, who pays? www.cfr.org/backgrounder...

“The American election is far from the determining factor in the global fight against climate change. Neither is what happens at this COP… What matters is how fast clean energy and climate technologies can get cheaper and better.” www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now

“2024 was the 6th consecutive change election in a row, and 9th out of the past 10 in which the party controlling the House, Senate and/or White House got ousted. 6-in-a-row is a new record. 9-out-of-10 only happened once before: the Gilded Age’s 1878-1896.” brucemehlman.substack.com/p/six-chart-...

“There are two ways to have faith in your own good taste: You can assume that it marks you as special and separates you from others, or you can regard it as an opportunity to share.” (Martha was the latter, of course.) By @amandamull.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I can stop whenever I want

“The patterns we perceive now rise less from information gathered in our close communities and more from what crosses our awareness along national paths.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A little obsessed with @atproto.com and the ability to make custom communities like swifties.social. Using your own domain for your handle was so easy — directions here: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Starter packs are great but worth considering making hyper-specific packs into Feeds! That way people can, for example, follow regular updates specifically from everyone that works at your publication. I’m less likely to follow a gazillion starter pack people then I am to simply follow one feed!

I remember Twitter when we’d do whole live chats via hashtags (#wjchat!). Fun to see the evolution of that to these automated/custom feeds. We’re so back

I made a lil starter pack of @cfr.org fellows on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/4ThRsBu

As someone who grew up online, it does depress me to see how many people genuinely can’t fathom why someone would want to be on social media beyond reasons linked to building clout so you can make money. It’s fun to talk to interesting people from around the world. That’s always been my reason.

Ok let me explain publicly. On the west coast you have bedrock broken up by a series of strike-slip faults, where plates are sliding along each other. A 4.8 there is a series of little jolts that doesn't travel far. The east coast is VERY FUCKING DIFFERENT. Bedrock is one big sheet for one.

Big Brian month! Congrats @brianmrosenthal.bsky.social 🤩 www.nytco.com/press/brian-...