The in-industry circling-the-wagons around the author of the Verge piece in question (who appears to have tacitly admitted coercing Stancil's participation under false pretenses?) is frankly making it very easy to see how Olivia Nuzzi happened.

The will stancil story is really just another chapter in the forever story of the shitty journalist clique we have telling each other how much more brilliant & awesome they are than all the stupid mean people on social media

*Even scummier* behavior. This is like high school bully behavior.

I do think that if anyone needed proof the Stancil article was petty “mean girl“ bullshit. This response from the editor at the Verge ties a nice bow on that argument.

He’s saying Will posed for this photo? www.theverge.com/policy/88102...

This kind of talk from a publication's editor-in-chief (The Verge in this case) should be a Godzilla-sized red flag for anyone considering accepting a media request from them in the future.

*Incredibly* scummy behavior here from the editor in chief of The Verge.

This reporter is pretending they didn’t have agency here to specifically go out of their way to make Will look bad. They write about their awareness of the discourse in the story, but don’t grapple with how this story is framed specifically to participate in that discourse. In a dishonest way.

This isn’t a profile of Will. It’s a profile of all his anonymous critics.

Like, I do get the dilemma here, a painstaking piece about mutual aid in Minneapolis will not get the same number of clicks as just pointing at Will Stancil while making the jerk-off motion. But you do have to chose a lane.

worst trait of institutional journalism is the wagon-circling. people who seem generally inclined to conduct themselves honorably will instantaneously subjugate that impulse to protect a colleague, which then obviously raises questions about the reliability of their commitment to the virtue itself

We need to somehow get journalists to understand that this "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE MY FRIEND" wagon-circling bullshit in response to valid pushback is part of the reason their industry is dying. Who knows, maybe it starts with this very moment. A better future is possible!

One good way to build credibility with your audience is to be smarmy and rude online toward people who agree with you on 99% of issues. Very reporter!

You mean the coverage I’ve been wholly unaware of because why the fuck would one go to a Vox property to learn about Minneapolis much less anything I want to be sufferably written.

"Please DO NOT pay attention to the man protesting a dishonest, unethical hit piece!!! PLEASE LOOK AWAY!!!"

Super great and cool that what's left of modern US journalism is primarily staffed with downwardly mobile overgrown children who can't wait to show that dweeb his place for trying to sit at the wrong lunch table.

Please do not let Gaby's tantrum over getting the attention she wanted distract you from the amazing Minneapolis legal observers, protestors, organizers, and aid givers (all while also under federal occupation because they're just that good)

If I gave an interview to someone on the expectation they'd be talking about the *work* me and my colleagues do, and they instead wrote about me personally, I'd pissed off too.

The cherry on top is to accuse your hit piece subject of "throwing a tantrum over getting the attention he wanted." This is the "stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!" school of journalism.

Anyway I think that if you are going to write a gossipy hit piece about an influential political commentator who you find annoying then you should stand behind that decision instead of implying that your history of serious reporting means people can’t criticize your gossipy hit piece.

I know a LOT happened today but this seems like something cooked up in a lab to sow dissent among the ranks. And a hell of a thing for vets in Congress to burrow in on.

Somebody out there make sure to preserve this in the strongest ways possible, because future historians will be need contemporaneous accounts of the literal worst method in the history of humanity of how to keep experienced soldiers in the military. Otherwise people won't believe we were that stupid

It's just a humiliation ritual to get officers to eat shit publicly?

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

It was me I was the consultant that sold Microsoft and Sony their console strategy for this gen: Step 1: buy all studios Step 2: have terrible leadership Step 3: ??? That’s rough I wish they could have executed on my brilliant guidance, gotta go 🏝️ 🍹 🏝️ ☀️ 🌊

"Bedford Borough Council holds no authority over the Council of Nicaea and was not responsible for the creation of the moon 4.53billion years ago."

i really hate that rumfeld's "known unknowns" is constantly mocked because it's a legitimately really useful description

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

One reason I’ve shrugged off all the GaViN nEwSoMe Is tHe FrOnTrUnNeR takes is that Pritzker just so obviously outclasses him. I’m not saying it’ll definitely be Pritzker, but I think I’ll say that there’s no chance GAVIN manages to outmaneuver him.

imagining a health care system where refilling a prescription I've taken for 20 years didn't always involve begging a series of people to pretty please let me doctor know that I really do need them to press "refill" on the computer, it's not just that I love calling them multiple times a day

At least the people who talked like this in A Clockwork Orange had the decency to kill you.

Every single "oh mah gawd Claude Code" story is written by somebody amazed that Claude can barf out something that's ripping off an open source library or Tailwind CSS template. Every single claiming "the cost of developing software is going to zero" is written by an imbecile or industry plant.

Every Claude Code and ChatGPT subscription has Anthropic or OpenAI spending anywhere from $5 to $13 to make $1 when it comes to these coding products. To not include this is journalistic malpractice and to act as if this will go away is too. Disgraceful. bsky.app/profile/edzi...

every single piece like this should include a statement as to whether the writer is using a subscription to Claude or ChatGPT or if they're paying for the API, and if it's a subscription, the article should have a giant red sign that says THIS USER WAS SUBSIDIZED

Trump has already maxxmogged by finding multiple alternate bases for the tariffs, thereby reclaiming aura and- You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

America needs eight years of a Dem. president just obliterating the Republican Party. Jail those who deserve it, break up the companies who finance them and dissolve the 501c's that comprise their foundation. Paint GOP voters with the same brush we paint Klansmen. Then, hand it to AOC to rebuild.

This man has the juice. Pritzker/AOC 2028.

This is almost impossible believe, but it now seems undeniably true: That a serving president of the United States DOES NOT UNDERSTAND what a tariff is. It's like a football player running toward the wrong end zone. You can't believe it's happening, but it is.

i love when we don't question the premise of the government's nationalism

the way Polymarket & Kalshi are going, this will hold true to minor government functionaries, military and intelligence officials, law enforcement, FAA and air traffic controllers, etc. As the volume increases, so does the hazard. Congress should kill it all right this very second, but they won't.

at some point, there will be a polymarket/kalshi betting line on the next athlete to die at the hands of a bettor

Would you look at that? Now that Anderson Cooper isn't returning to '60 Minutes' due to Bari Weiss, they're now going to air his long-delayed (and heavily scrutinized) South Africa "white genocide" segment this Sunday. Sources told me it was Bari's meddling on this story that led to him leaving.

in reality if a woman this sheltered even existed, almost any exposure to the outside world would shake her foundations to the point where she’d leave him. she’d watch one movie from the criterion collection and have an existential crisis. you’d never see her again.

the basic desire here is for a woman who is extremely desirable but also so completely insulated from and uninterested in the real world that she could be tricked into being with a dumb loser and never even realize it

Learning recently that this lady has some sort of bloodlust for sea lions has been really funny. Somehow on brand but really funny.

Mentions of Trump during Thursday's coverage of Andrew's arrest (and the entire Epstein scandal) on: CBS: 0 NBC: 0 ABC: 1 (Trump says he's sad for fam) PBS: 1 (Same) ITV News at 10: Multiple Sky News The Wrap: Multiple CBC The National: Multiple Int'l media covers Trump; US media coddles him

Senator Gym Shorts: "you need to respect the office"

1-800-Cash-4-Libs

"If you seized all Elon's wealth it'd only be like $2,000 per American." Do you know what a $2,000 'Fuck Elon' stimulus check would do for people and the country economically, emotionally and morally?