Thinking this morning about the family of Jamal Khashoggi. Sending some love out into the random weird space that is social media.

"The secretary of state’s office told 12 News there is no record of Raimondo being currently or previously registered to vote in Rhode Island." 🤡 🤡 🤡

Copy editors shouldn't be considered optional in journalism. I got my start editing copy as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing intern at the Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin. My first full-time role was on the copy desk at the then-New York Times' owned Gainesville (Fla.) Sun.

No notes.

"Most of the trailer focuses on how small Rhode Island is..."

The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"

“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.” BRO.

I've now seen "One Battle After Another" and I'm ready to discuss it. I liked it.

The White House stands by Trump's repulsive, misogynistic insult. people.com/white-house-...

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The National Press Club's statement on President Trump's ghastly remarks in the Oval Office yesterday is worth a read.

I listened to the new Robyn single yesterday and -- no surprise -- it's great. She is such a gift.

Not surprised to see this since the main audience for this whole shitshow -- journalists -- track stuff down for a living. What a time to be alive.

Two Qs: How is teaching not a "public activity"? How are students expected to take a professor seriously when it's now clear he was pen pals with one of the world's most notorious sex-criminals?

it is frankly a *scathing* indictment of the White House press corps

So I was checking out the events schedule for the RI public library where I'm speaking about news and misinformation tomorrow, and I saw that the library's true crime book club is reading "Prescription for Pain" this week. 🥹

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It's a shocking thing to see anyone say to someone else in public, let alone an elected official. It also strikes me as the kind of thing you'd only say if you've enjoyed a lifetime of impunity for awful behavior. That comment, and where he said it, tells his whole life story, in a way.

This Thursday evening, November 20, at 6:30 p.m. I'll be talking about journalism and misinformation at the Coventry, R.I. public library. Swing by if you're in the neighborhood!

Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.

Authoritarianism arrives with emails like this. The masked brute squad may or may not accost you later, be sure to carry your papers.

Yes, this. And I say this as a longtime fan of, and subscriber to, NYMag.

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Cloudflare's down. Look at Capybaras.

Only a publication viewing this president through the narrowest of horse-race-politics lenses -- stripped of all the damage he's causing, the fear and pain he's inflicting, the real-world stakes of his actions -- would use "groove" to describe DJT's second presidency.

A despicable and unacceptable way for a public official talk to people. And yet this is the President of the United States.

"Stepping back from public commitments" is a weird phrase for anyone who's not Prince Andrew (or another lower-rung royal) to say about retreating in well-deserved shame.

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

This guy's campaign already didn't have a chance. But, also: wow. Good reporting from the ProJo's Nish Kohli and Kathy Gregg here.

yep. holding up to the pressure really well.

Good afternoon from Providence.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Because none of the tech bros read to the end I fully expect a space company called Challenger eventually

Me, a serious writer, looking at the catastrophic California wildfires of early 2025: "This is a metaphor for my life. This is about me."

I've only published one book. But the advice I find myself sharing with other nonfiction authors I encounter, when they ask is: lower all of your expectations for the book's post-publication response. Particularly any financial expectations. It is extremely hard to make any kind of "splash."

Here's the thing: there is some news value to Olivia Nuzzi stating, in clear language, what transpired between her to RFK Jr. Because of his power and position. There is little to no news value in obscuring those facts via garbled, MFA-workshop, grasping-for-literary-merit prose.

A "time out" or "nap time," if you will.

I'm convinced that Vanity Fair "American Canto" excerpt is a psy-op designed to break the brains of journalists.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

People magazine has been stepping up.

He doesn’t know about the discourse :’)

"probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested."

"encroachment"?

Yesterday I went for a walk on the East Bay Bike Path without realizing I’d go past the troll. So I saw the troll.

Toni Morrison said that "the function of freedom is to free someone else." That's it—that's the skeet.

I'm old enough to remember when the New York Times had a Public Editor whose job it was to take criticism of the paper seriously and ask tough questions about the work it published.

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

I'm looking for some light -- fun, sweet, funny -- literary fiction recommendations. Can be new or old. Thoughts?

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.