Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/know-the-veg/

Here's @mattielubchansky.com on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“In my twenties my watchword was ‘nothing even matters’ à la Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo (RIP) and now, well into my thirties, I can resolutely say that everything does.” ← @tianareid.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“I genuinely do not believe we can go on like this forever. You have to believe that we cannot. There’s no other point in going on otherwise.” ← @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

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“For one brief moment in time, as the women swirled, the spectators gazed slack-jawed at the spectacle, and a young nerd stood up and made it rain dollar bills, I was happy, and I was not alone.” ← @susannahbreslin.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“We invested zillions of dollars in data centers lured by the hype that chatbots will replace scientists and cure cancer.” ← @danielwhiteson.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“Until we realize CEOs are selling futures, not seeing them, we’ll keep diverting talent, capital, and political attention toward fantasies.” ← @nbj914.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“This year has largely been total shit, but community has saved it time, and again and delivered us to the end.” ← @nikostratis.com on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

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“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...

“Young journalists have a new home to get the same kind of recognition and eyeballs as old Twitter.” ← @foiaball.com on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“Filled with AI slop and disinfo, run by sociopathic technocrat dweebs, humanity’s digital id has had its impulses deadened.” ← Margaret Howie on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“We’re seeing historic consequences of this vaunted and despised technology.” ← @milesklee.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“If you own an index fund, congrats, you’re now betting on AI, whether you wanted to or not.” ← @deenamousa.com on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

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“The visuals of the incident were just so pleasing, man. This preppy-looking beanpole in his pastel pink shirt, jeering in those big beefy agents’ faces. The sandwich falling apart on contact.” ← @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“The campaign was powered by an embodied, local patriotism—of city pride and love of neighbor—rather than the imperial, saber-rattling faux ‘patriotism’ that has been misleading us for a quarter century.” ← @petedavis.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“The slash-and-burn approach of the Trump administration has been so disruptive that it’s hard to fathom how we’ll end up on the other side.” ← @brookeborel.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“I can’t totally blame anyone for treating politics like sports betting ... But it’s chilling to watch them refract chaotic policy developments through prisms of personal benefit and the promise of a dopamine hit.” ← @advaitarun.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“President Trump’s second term has created a deeply chaotic news environment in which journalists can never quite get our feet under us before another wave hits.” ← @oliviamesser.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“This year proved that if you aren’t on camera now, you basically don’t exist.” ← @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“It is a reminder of how many people in the world live perilously close to the edge...and that the great killers are disease and destitution even more than bombs and bullets.” ← @timhirschelburns.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/screen-angst/

I wrote this a few weeks ago, looking back at 2025. It's even more true today. Community keeps us together.

“I’ve found reassurance and hope in human connections and the number of people just showing up for each other.” ← @douglasmack.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“We are all waking up to the fact that it’s now on us to take care of one another.” ← @janeborden.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“Streaming isn’t going away. But it can certainly be less dastardly.” ← @ryandombal.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

“Since peace was declared, Israel has killed more than 400 Palestinians and wounded over 1,000 more, while its de-facto annexation of the West Bank has only accelerated.” ← @erikmbaker.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

Amirio Freeman on 2025 → “Just when many thought the Trump 2.0 regime couldn’t be more cruel, the most basic of all basics—food—became a political weapon (fucking hell).” themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

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Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/blood-and-oil/

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/zyn-blossoms/

Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/it-feels-lik...

Likewise, we’re proud to have published this judgment—it’s also one of our favorite pieces of writing from this year. Thank you, @emilyhughes.bsky.social!

Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/in-giving-co...

Today’s edition → themorningnews.org/whiskey-busi...

READRUM ~Coming Oct. 27~

After relaunching themorningnews.org on @ghost.org a couple months ago, I’ve been fixing up our old articles (there are a lot, oh wow, really a lot), and will be posting some favorites / some surprises / some honestly just weird stuff I’m running across while on this reformatting expedition

Sensing a theme

This checks out “Overlooking the realities of infectious disease epidemiology, these accounts portrayed COVID-19 as a mild disease and imagined a population of robust and physically normative individuals who would survive an epidemic unscathed and ready to return to work.”

It’s a good idea to go download your statements while you’re still able It’s easy. If my 150-year-old nephew can do it, so can you

See if you can guess what I picked as Most Important from 2024 🦸🏻‍♂️

thanks @themorningnews.bsky.social for the chance to be a lil bit nihilistic while also mentioning love is blind! a fascinating end of year wrap-up that asks - “what were the most important events of 2024, and what were the least?”

My very specific thoughts on the year that was & wasn’t!

Thank you to @hayden-higgins.bsky.social for another excellent installment of “The Year That Was and Wasn’t,” our annual round-up of the most—and least—important events of the year! + Improve your feed by following this year’s contributors, who are brilliant all year long: go.bsky.app/E8RX9ju

@jakeromm.bsky.social “The genocide will inaugurate a new world no matter how it ends.” themorningnews.org/article/2024...

wrote about the year