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Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes. It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more. www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/... #econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

The Atlantic pitch meeting: "We want to enable authoritarianism, specifically the South African Nazi's role in dismantling US democracy, but we're also gullible and dumb" "What if—and hear us out—we could be worse than The New York Times?" "I've got this source called Tresla Board of Mirectors"

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The Atlantic pitch meeting: "We want to enable authoritarianism, specifically the South African Nazi's role in dismantling US democracy, but we're also gullible and dumb" "What if—and hear us out—we could be worse than The New York Times?" "I've got this source called Tresla Board of Mirectors"

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

today in i hate it here

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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

submitted 14 days ago • 65 comments

Hello, I'm a real person who writes about actual books that I recommend you read. I read them too. I know, I'm old school. If that's your thing, maybe you'd like to subscribe to my newsletter? www.themarisreview.com

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

So, uh, Kevin Spacey is getting a lifetime achievement award at Cannes…in case you were concerned about how #MeToo is ruining abusive people’s lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Me, revising a chapter of my book.

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS has been out in the world for a whole year today! A dreamy ~ anti-MAHA, anti-tech billionaire, anti-trad wife ~ horror/satire for the times—just out in paperback! 🧙‍♀️🌊💀 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS has been out in the world for a whole year today! A dreamy ~ anti-MAHA, anti-tech billionaire, anti-trad wife ~ horror/satire for the times—just out in paperback! 🧙‍♀️🌊💀 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Why add the “with no strings attached”? Why? The NYT can’t possibly know whether or what strings are attached and it defies logic that there aren’t any. Stop this @nytimes.com. It is monstrously irresponsible. A “charm offensive” is deployed to soften someone up to give you or do what you want.

submitted 8 days ago • 118 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Some days, like today for some reason, I remember how a lovely carved wooden Seal of the USA gifted to the US Ambassador from a group of Soviet schoolchildren turned out to be a bug that allowed the USSR to listen to his personal conversations for YEARS www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how...

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

(you have to be sixteen or older to use the Library of Congress' reading rooms)

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

Big thanks to Lit Hub!!! THE WITCHES OF BELLINAS is a must-read paperback this May—it's out tomorrow! 🧙‍♀️💛🌊 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

More moves towards "network cities," where democracy is replaced by corporate governance. This is what @gilduran.com warns about. www.texasstandard.org/stories/elon...

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

To say legacy media is not built for this moment is a gross understatement. The people destroying this country are being treated with respect.

submitted 21 days ago • 159 comments

"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 22 days ago • 71 comments

BREAKING: A.G. Bondi reverses Garland policy against subpoenaing journalists. Stating that leaks "undermine President Trump’s policies," Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that "the news media ‘must answer subpoenas’ when authorized." Today, at Law Dork —>

submitted 27 days ago • 128 comments

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

submitted 28 days ago • 87 comments

Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

submitted 29 days ago • 790 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 29 days ago • 600 comments

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

submitted 40 days ago • 244 comments

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Classic abuser move: create a crisis and then position yourself as its solution. After the abuser “solves” the crisis, he will expect gratitude and adoration.

submitted 43 days ago • 75 comments

Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime 👇

submitted 43 days ago • 148 comments

So the Supreme Court’s strategy seems pretty clearly to be forestall admitting we have a constitutional crisis by giving Trump huge victories on narrow procedural grounds. This is akin to having engineers move the Rubicon River closer and closer to Rome to avoid Caesar crossing it.

submitted 44 days ago • 32 comments

In a normal world this would be the only news

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

submitted 45 days ago • 313 comments

maybe the real retirement fund was the friends we made along the way

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

investing in guillotines, no reason

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

are we liberated yet?

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submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a student here on a visa, change your social media handles, lock your accounts, etc

submitted 53 days ago • 9 comments

AI art sucks. Making it is bad. Please stop.

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 63 days ago • 159 comments

read this very smart, very fun story by @imbeccable.bsky.social on how napoleon dynamite took over movie theaters/everyone's hearts way back when! 🦙

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

it took one high-profile death to turn Ireland finally pro-choice for good, but most Americans seem to be treating women's deaths as collateral damage in the culture wars.

submitted 63 days ago • 18 comments

"the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative reviewed 40 special contracts...between utilities & data centers. If these contracts offer discounted electricity rates to data centers,...other customers may end up paying for the shortfall through higher utility bills." web.archive.org/web/20250314...

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

misread "influenza pandemic" of 1918 as "influencer pandemic" and for a second was like, "oh, yes, that"

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Daily reminder of the traitors: @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov and King.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

every radicalized wine mom from now until 2028:

submitted 69 days ago • 67 comments