turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Maybe one of the several news outlets in Minnesota could ask all of our elected Representatives, including the high ranking House Whip, if would they push for a resignation of the president if (more) evidence of systematic sexual abuse of minors came out

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

God damn

@bsky.app last week my DMs were cut off. Moderation said I could not be trusted. Hours later, you said it was a mistake. Then you cut off them off again—but said it was my fault, tho wouldn't explain (before turning them back on.) Maybe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's ban is a mistake, too?

We're a post-revolution nation. The tech revolution of 1995-2015 and beyond was as transformative and consequential, if not more in some areas, than the 200 years of the industrial revolution. It impacts politics, urban planning, retail, arts + culture, and more.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Incredible analysis on the Mpls RCV votes. The only thing I'd add in is that the last election didn't really correspond to policy positions, but narratives pushed by mostly news media, some candidates, and bad actors to frame candidates. Just read the end: www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...

We really don’t talk enough about how much the 21st-century three-branch equilibrium (executive branch makes policy; judicial branch red-light-green-lights policy; Senate turns the judge-making machine on and off) is an absolute disaster for a) basic administration and b) policy predictability.

Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.

Using any chance I get to push Susan Jefford's 1993 book 'Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era', such a foundational study when it comes to action cinema in particular

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Absolutely no mention of what policies, positions, or perspectives would constitute 'moderate' or 'progressive', which is of course not a mistake but the exact function of reporting like this.

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

This is 1000% more accurate than any news media coverage I’ve seen of the MPLS mayoral election, esp The NY Times report

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Chowdhury was one of two council members to get more than 10,000 first-choice votes (Palmisano was the other). She got more votes than the winners of Wards 4, 5, and 6 combined. She's got this job as long as she wants it. Carol's cohort is neither silent nor a majority

If you haven’t yet, and want to join the thousands of twin citians who have signed up for the defense of our immigrant neighbors, there’s several more trainings this month: 11/11 Chaska 11/20 Plymouth 11/23 Longfellow Mpls 11/25 Kingfield Mpls 12/4 Bancroft Mpls More info here monarcamn.org

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was "that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

Google has updated the Play Store page for the Mobile Identify app, saying Google has verified it is affiliated a government entity. This is the app DHS is giving to local police departments around the country to identify immigrants with just a photo of their face www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Bovino, on resistance to their operations in Chicago: “I didn’t have any reason to think it would be this bad, but it’s far worse than I ever thought.” For the most part, they’ve been met by whistles, insults, and the occasional person blocking a vehicle.

Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.

Dick Cheney led America into a disastrous war based on false evidence. But he did so with civility, and for that I am eternally grateful. by David Brooks

Let us remember who Dick Cheney really was. Me for Zeteo, with 🧾: zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

Every aspect of American media is now controlled by a small group of far right billionaires. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

There's a legit diaspora of humanities media and it's getting crazier. Boomers still consume legacy news media; almost 40% of Gen gets news media from digital influencers. Teen Vogue carried that spirit/ethos of a time of alternative press, despite its ownership, and its one of the last.

100%

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

"yeah, i mean...of course we changed it" *louvre2*

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social analysis on NYT and WSJ coverage of No Kings. Guess what- the leadership at both papers minimize and downplay. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

“defund the police was a bad slogan”

Toddler 🤝 boomers Not understanding everything isn't a touch screen

beyond parody

How do you do, fellow cats?

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢