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features writer @ slate
[email protected]
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Graham W. Jenkins
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Great
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article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
2 months ago
(Story by the great
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Beer Is Officially on the Decline in America. No One Saw the Real Culprit Coming.
The war on suds has multiple frontsâbut they all come from the same place.
https://slate.com/life/2025/09/beer-sales-decline-bud-light-donald-trump-news.html
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Steve Harbick
2 months ago
I'd be curious how US trends compare to global/ROW trends. Is this really an American only phenomena?
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@slate.com
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participated in my first People Magazine exclusive, in which I am "man."
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Man Got an Unexpected Text Offering a Dream Job, So He Said Yes â and Discovered a Strange Scam Ring
In 2024, Americans reported $470 million in losses to text scams, more than fivefold the amount reported in 2020, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The digital landscape continues to evolve, ...
https://people.com/what-happened-when-journalist-responded-to-scam-text-about-dream-job-11786404
4 months ago
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Tiffani
4 months ago
Today in âOne-liners That Absolutely Destroyed Meâ: âSomeone should invent a currency thatâs just the amount that it is.â -
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Mark Joseph Stern
4 months ago
This shameful episodeđ 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.
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Longreads
4 months ago
Congratulations to
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! He won this week's audience award for "My Scammer" at
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I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a âRecruiterââThen Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of âCathy,â my scammer.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/indeed-job-recruiter-text-message-scam.html?src=longreads
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Tim Newman
4 months ago
widespread adoption of crypto + proliferation of AI + softening of the labor market + enforcement âreplaced by crypto industry toadiesâ = âIt is a great time to be a scammer.â
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Is Everyone Else Tired?
4 months ago
This is incredible.
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4 months ago
'This whole march of human cultural productionâincalculable progressâand 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, âCathyâ had run me for $96.'
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
4 months ago
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.
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Greg Linden
4 months ago
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."
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Clive Thompson
4 months ago
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:
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I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a âRecruiterââThen Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of âCathy,â my scammer.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/indeed-job-recruiter-text-message-scam.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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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.
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I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a âRecruiterââThen Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of âCathy,â my scammer.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/indeed-job-recruiter-text-message-scam.html
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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.
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Ken McLeod
5 months ago
"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."
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Carlton Reid
5 months ago
This by
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is a very good and funny piece on that tank:
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Itâs the Car That Explains Everything About America Right Now. Elon Musk Only Wishes He Made It.
In Florida, on the countryâs most dangerous roads, I had a 9,500-pound revelation.
https://slate.com/business/2025/06/cars-trucks-hummer-elon-musk-tesla-donald-trump.html
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Chelsea D Chamberlain
5 months ago
great piece
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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.
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Itâs the Car That Explains Everything About America Right Now. Elon Musk Only Wishes He Made It.
In Florida, on the countryâs most dangerous roads, I had a 9,500-pound revelation.
https://slate.com/business/2025/06/cars-trucks-hummer-elon-musk-tesla-donald-trump.html
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Disappearance has become a feature of the Trumpâs 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 Siberiaâthe newfangled ICE detention towns where people are sent to disappear. 1/
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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.
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I Went to the Biggest Party for the Most-Hated Democrats in America. One Moment Said It All.
There was one clear idea for how to beat Trump.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/donald-trump-democrats-slotkin-protests-aoc-torres.html
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Henry Grabar
7 months ago
Read
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on a visit to Mahmoud Khalil, America's most famous political prisoner
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Mary Harris
7 months ago
My colleague
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from inside Louisiana's immigrant detention:
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Itâs Easy to Forget the Reality of What Weâre Doing to People Like Mahmoud Khalil. One Hour in His Facility Shows That.
A heartbreaking afternoon in ICE custody in Louisiana.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Katie Rayford
7 months ago
exclusive reporting by
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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)
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Trump Is Sending People Like Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana for a Reason. See It for Yourself.
A heartbreaking afternoon in ICE custody in Louisiana.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Lizzie O'Leary
7 months ago
How Mahmoud Khalil first saw photos of his son. by
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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David Dayen
7 months ago
Terrific feature by my first hire at the Prospect way back when,
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, 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.
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Jeremy Stahl
7 months ago
Gut-wrenching reporting from
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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:
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Mark Joseph Stern
7 months ago
Heartbreaking piece by
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from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speechâon the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son.
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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nadira đ
7 months ago
Really grateful for (and devastated by)
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'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.
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Seth Maxon
7 months ago
Amazing reporting and a great, maddening story.
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How Mahmoud Khalilâdetained by ICE in "the black hole" in Louisiana alongside 1000 others, refused by ICE to be present for his wife giving birthâfirst saw photos of his newborn son.
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
7 months ago
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excited to announce that i am now a Features Writer for
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David Moore
9 months ago
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.
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Dave Weigel
9 months ago
Yeah,
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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."
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Utamu
9 months ago
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
: âDems need a Project 2029âa detailed plan they can execute upon inheriting a horribly corrupted govt. A plan to move fast & build things.â
www.offmessage.net/p/the-succes...
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The Successful Presidents Curse
We need Democratic leaders who can solve the Trump-related crises of their time, not the problems of decades past.
https://www.offmessage.net/p/the-successful-presidents-curse?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=but6&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Dave Infante
9 months ago
Smiling serenely thinking about
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's dispatch for
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from the National Automobile Dealers Association's 2023 convention:
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Brian Beutler
9 months ago
Iâm most galled by the up-is-down chutzpah. In Jeffriesâs world, swaddling chickenshit frontliners by making the party captive to Trumpâs abuse is a power move, while taking unprecedented steps to express contempt is getting ârun off the blockâ like cowards. Thatâs piss on your leg, not rain.
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Henry Grabar
9 months ago
In which
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brings back the goods from the healthcare industry's public relations gala
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Nine weeks after Brian Thompson was murdered, the bigwigs of the health care industry bravely returned to Midtown Manhattan to celebrate the yearâs greatest successes in public relations. I drank champagne and reveled with the Luigi Mangione Prevention Force.
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One of Their Top Executives Was Gunned Down in Manhattan. Five Months Later, the Industry Partied Seven Blocks Away. It Was a Revealing Night.
Luigi Mangione wasnât the only one haunting the event.
https://slate.com/business/2025/03/luigi-mangione-robert-f-kennedy-jr-united-healthcare-medicine-awards-insurance.html
9 months ago
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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.
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Chris Wright's Energy Order Prioritizes Abundance | OilPrice.com
Secretary Wright's new energy order emphasizes increasing domestic energy production, enhancing research and development, and streamlining regulations to ensure energy abundance and bolster America's ...
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Chris-Wrights-Energy-Order-Prioritizes-Abundance.html
10 months ago
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Jaya Saxena
10 months ago
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...
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For Undocumented Restaurant Workers, Everything Is in Question
President Trumpâs threats against undocumented immigrants put Americaâs entire food chain at risk.
https://www.eater.com/24359357/undocumented-immigrant-restaurant-worker-trump-deportation-fears-preparation
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Nitish Pahwa
12 months ago
as
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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?
12 months ago
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Katie Robertson
12 months ago
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...
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Los Angeles Times Owner Wades Deeper Into Opinion Section
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiongâs public comments and actions, including recently blocking an editorial weighing in on President-elect Trumpâs cabinet picks, have concerned many staff members.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/business/media/la-times-patrick-soon-shiong.html
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ahh yes, another day of Yglesias having a meltdown over something (correct) I wrote.
12 months ago
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read the piece that has Fetterman freaking on main
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What on Earth Is Going On With John Fetterman?
Maybe he should go back and listen to some of his own campaign ads.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-cabinet-dr-mehmet-oz-john-fetterman.html
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Gottheimer leaving congress, Jared Polis preemptively ruining his 2028 presidential run by bearhugging RFK Jr.âtoday is actually a hopeful day for the future of the Democratic Party.
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