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nathanmcdermott.bsky.social

Roaming Research Reporter formerly of KFile at CNN and BuzzFeed. Board member @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social (give us a follow!) What you'll find on my feed: Mostly journalism, history, gay absurdism, and the Simpsons

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Dante's Inferno, cliff notes version

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Elon Musk walked off stage and left his four year old son behind

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BlueSky generated 33% more subscriptions than Threads for the Globe in January.

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I think we're just evolutionarily programmed to look for problems, and when we've resolved all of our material needs, we try to find new problems to solve. And these "problems" tend to be other people. Idle hands are the devil's playthings and all that.

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Germany’s Social Democratic Party is on track to get its lowest share of votes in a multiparty election since 1887, when Otto von Bismarck was chancellor and Anti-Socialist Laws were still on the books

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Follow along for a dastardly tale of a deceitful French doggo

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I am sickened but curious www.the-independent.com/life-style/k...

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ROME (AP) — Vatican says Pope Francis in critical condition, suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis in the morning.

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In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

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Donald Trump the real estate developer? Destroying people’s lives for no reason?? That doesn’t sound like the Donald we all know and love

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Huge shout out to @people.com for linking to User Mag and giving me credit for my scoop! Now I just need the dozens of websites citing People as having broken the news to fix their stories…. 🫠 www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

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Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

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I've been thinking about The Tombs lately for reasons that definitely have nothing at all to do with New York City politics, so I wrote a short #history of the city's most infamous prison. #NYChistory

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One of the year's most acclaimed films, a documentary by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank was recently nominated for an Oscar, but no American company will distribute it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

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Fulfilled my lifelong dream of riding the LA metro

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i definitely signed up for a (print!) subscription

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I have been reading Maine Senator Peleg Sprague’s 6 hour speech on the senate floor opposing Cherokee removal, given in April 1830. He lost big time. He was right.