Great @alexsammon.bsky.social article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all slate.com/business/202...

(Story by the great @alexsammon.bsky.social) slate.com/life/2025/09...

I'd be curious how US trends compare to global/ROW trends. Is this really an American only phenomena? @alexsammon.bsky.social @slate.com

participated in my first People Magazine exclusive, in which I am "man." people.com/what-happene...

Today in “One-liners That Absolutely Destroyed Me”: “Someone should invent a currency that’s just the amount that it is.” - @alexsammon.bsky.social

This shameful episode👇 set the stage for what Trump is doing today. Cynical Democrats and pundits claimed that D.C. couldn't be trusted to write our own criminal laws, legitimizing Republicans' insistence that we don't deserve home rule. A straight line from there to here. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Congratulations to @alexsammon.bsky.social! He won this week's audience award for "My Scammer" at @slate.com slate.com/technology/2...

widespread adoption of crypto + proliferation of AI + softening of the labor market + enforcement “replaced by crypto industry toadies” = “It is a great time to be a scammer.”

This is incredible.

'This whole march of human cultural production—incalculable progress—and the one constant that has survived and adapted and thrived? The scam. ... In the end, I arrived at a simple truth. Over the course of two months, “Cathy” had run me for $96.'

Crypto is the scam enabler. It's where crooks hide money. It also does important cultural work by lubricating transactions with a magical get-rich-quick aura. It says you don't fully understand what's happening with your "earnings" because the rules are different in the cryptosphere. Duh.

Scam job offers requiring you to initially pay fees in crypto, "pay" you in crypto that you can't withdraw or access so you get nothing in the end, and use your labor to generate bogus click traffic and "clicks ... captured to beat captchas or overcome security measures that target bots."

You know those spam text messages you get, saying it's a recruiter with a job for you? what ... how does the scam work? @alexsammon.bsky.social took one of the jobs, and the story is *fascinating* Go check it out: slate.com/technology/2...

i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...

In just over two years, 155,000 migrants passed through the aging Roosevelt Hotel. Eric Adams conspired to kick them out; Dr. Phil choreographed an aborted ICE raid of the facility, conservative media claimed it was Tren de Aragua HQ.

"The front end, which was also a trunk, came up right to my rib cage, a contact point that would have chagrined any high school football coach as bad tackling form: too high."

This by @alexsammon.bsky.social is a very good and funny piece on that tank: slate.com/business/202...

great piece

I wrote about the return of the war on terror, and its favorite mascot, recently rebooted just in time for us to lose another great conflict, our war with climate change. slate.com/business/202...

Disappearance has become a feature of the Trump’s ICE raids, a process that often finds people in a prison network in central Louisiana. I got a behind-the-curtain look at the operations of American Siberia—the newfangled ICE detention towns where people are sent to disappear. 1/

Hey *YOU*, Bluesky user! Would it shock you to know that the big money, corporate-backed centrist organs have decided that YOU are the greatest threat to the Democratic Party, and the reason it loses elections? They convened a gathering to make sure of it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Read @alexsammon.bsky.social on a visit to Mahmoud Khalil, America's most famous political prisoner slate.com/news-and-pol...

My colleague @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside Louisiana's immigrant detention: slate.com/news-and-pol...

exclusive reporting by @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com on what life is like for Mahmoud Khalil inside the remote ICE detention center he's being held, including the moment he saw his newborn son for the first time (via pictures that a friend snuck into the center) slate.com/news-and-pol...

How Mahmoud Khalil first saw photos of his son. by @alexsammon.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

Terrific feature by my first hire at the Prospect way back when, @alexsammon.bsky.social, who went down to Jena, Louisiana, home of a notorious ICE detention center, to see Mahmoud Khalil get a first glimpse at pictures of his child. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Gut-wrenching reporting from @alexsammon.bsky.social inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil is locked up, on the day Khalil was first allowed a glimpse of a photo of his newborn child: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Heartbreaking piece by @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speech—on the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Really grateful for (and devastated by) @alexsammon.bsky.social's latest: a report from the remote ICE facility in Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is being held (among many others), detailing the first moments Khalil was able to "see" his son. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Amazing reporting and a great, maddening story.

How Mahmoud Khalil—detained by ICE in "the black hole" in Louisiana alongside 1000 others, refused by ICE to be present for his wife giving birth—first saw photos of his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...

excited to announce that i am now a Features Writer for @slate.com :)

House Democrats voted 131-84 in a secret ballot vote to give the chair of the Oversight Committee to 74-year-old Gerry Connolly over AOC. Connolly has put out one tweet about the Jeffrey Goldberg / Atlantic bombshell today. He and his committee have not put out an IG post, reel, or YouTube video.

Yeah, @kenklippenstein.bsky.social has been all over the optics of the top Oversight Dem battling cancer at age 74, but the Zoom Room stuff is extra bad. He's a 30-min drive from CNN DC but he Zooms in from "grandmother's sitting room." It screams "guy who doesn't run anything."

@brianbeutler.bsky.social: “Dems need a Project 2029—a detailed plan they can execute upon inheriting a horribly corrupted govt. A plan to move fast & build things.” www.offmessage.net/p/the-succes...

Smiling serenely thinking about @alexsammon.bsky.social's dispatch for @slate.bsky.social from the National Automobile Dealers Association's 2023 convention:

I’m most galled by the up-is-down chutzpah. In Jeffries’s world, swaddling chickenshit frontliners by making the party captive to Trump’s abuse is a power move, while taking unprecedented steps to express contempt is getting “run off the block” like cowards. That’s piss on your leg, not rain.

In which @alexsammon.bsky.social brings back the goods from the healthcare industry's public relations gala slate.com/business/202...

Nine weeks after Brian Thompson was murdered, the bigwigs of the health care industry bravely returned to Midtown Manhattan to celebrate the year’s greatest successes in public relations. I drank champagne and reveled with the Luigi Mangione Prevention Force. slate.com/business/202...

The "Abundance" ideology being shelled by Klein/Thompson/Yglesias as the future of liberalism is rapidly being taken up by the fossil fuel industry, which is celebrating Big Oil's handpicked Energy Sec Chris Wright's Abundance Mindset as he pledges to bring back coal. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Here, I spoke to undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry, and some orgs who support them, about what everyone is facing right now www.eater.com/24359357/und...

i will post

as @alexsammon.bsky.social notes in his latest slate.com/news-and-pol...

It's data point 8429748 but is there any question that Democratic leadership would rather stand pat and get steamrolled by Republicans than move even an inch towards their juniors and win?

Scoop: Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong killed an editorial that was critical of Trump's Cabinet picks, weeks after he blocked a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris by the LAT editorial board www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

ahh yes, another day of Yglesias having a meltdown over something (correct) I wrote.

read the piece that has Fetterman freaking on main slate.com/news-and-pol...

why is no one on Bluesky talking about the new John John edit, is this the future liberals want or isn't it??

Gottheimer leaving congress, Jared Polis preemptively ruining his 2028 presidential run by bearhugging RFK Jr.—today is actually a hopeful day for the future of the Democratic Party.