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alexshephard.bsky.social
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I'm pretty skeptical about AI's utility in most areas of journalism, but it's pretty funny that it can't even handle doing the one area where it should be useful: The light, inconsequential, service-y sections that eat up a lot of man hours

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

this is unfortunately very funny (and about as useful as 95 percent of real summer reading lists)

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

I find the idea of a "cover up" of Biden's health both obvious and absurd. It's clear that the president and the people closest to him went to great lengths to try to obscure his declining health. But the idea that you can "cover up" aging is ridiculous and most people saw through the ruse

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

thats right

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I don't think this is hard or a big deal: most will say they didn't see much of him, that he did a lot of good things, and that running for reelection will be a mistake. This isn't Iraq and they can surgically separate the policies they like from Biden. Pete and Kamala will have a problem though

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I agree that this is not a "litmus test" - Democratic voters pick their nominee, and they won't care about this issue in 2028. It's a test, for the candidates, of whether they can answer a tricky (predictable) question from reporters.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

the first gay president

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A beloved, fan-owned soccer team in Germany — Schalke 04 — needed a sponsor. They got into business with Vladimir Putin. On the new PTFO, we report the inside story of what happened next. And why it’s relevant to your favorite team: youtu.be/TaOqrTO-RUE?...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

We sent @hooks.bsky.social to Greenland and he came back with a story about imperial folly, the return of the 19th century, and just what Donald Trump and his cronies are really up to there. It's the best thing I've read about Trump's second term newrepublic.com/article/1947...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

the big tell that Biden was losing it was was when he started to get way weirder way more often

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is a great review of what I thought was an appalling biography www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/b...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We sent Chris Hooks to Greenland and he wrote the best piece I've read about how Donald Trump sees the world newrepublic.com/article/1947...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

the absolute #1 core thing that New York primary voters don't understand is that Andrew Cuomo is going to collaborate with Trump not oppose him he keeps telling us this, during the primary, instead of lying about it like I assumed he would

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"The emerging conventional wisdom that Biden entered a steep decline in 2023, may be accurate, but it ignores the fact that voters had concluded he was unfit for the presidency much earlier—and were summarily ignored by Democratic politicians." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's totally unsustainable for Democrats to argue "Trump is a dangerous authoritarian criminal who is openly disregarding the constitution and taking bribes--which is why it's idiotic to call for impeachment." You can say it's too soon, but it's what the constitution requires.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

I reviewed a new book about an elderly man who doomed the country for The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

what exactly does Timothy Snyder do now? write Facebook posts and give talks to investment bankers called like "What Is Freedom?" and "Russia—Is it Even Worse Than You Thought? (Yes And It Always Has Been)" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

it really is amazing how easy it is to jangle your keys in front of these people

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1952...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

someone should tell the DNC people who are ousting David Hogg that none of that money is actually going to be spent primarying Democrats and that within five years he will be exactly like them. In fact, he's already exactly like them in nearly all the ways that count (to them)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I genuinely don't think good counter-messaging on trans rights is all that difficult. There are Democrats who aren't doing it not because coming up with it is hard but because they agree with the Republicans and want to disguise their disdain for trans people as a matter of political strategy.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments