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Nowadays: Freelance journeyman @ NYTimes, WaPo, Vice, Daily Beast Good old days: GF Herald, MLive.
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What did you just call me, Etsy?

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

sorry man you have only yourself to blame for this

submitted 28 days ago • 58 comments

Sell offs this big and fast don’t happen if there aren’t folks already worried an equity is overvalued

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

I am really glad this made it to international media, because this story is the comic relief we all need and deserve this week

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Chris is a great reporter and this is no criticism of him, but: A great many discussions of the federal judiciary now include a little note about who appointed whom. Not great!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 36 days ago • 321 comments

Who wants to see an airboat in snow?? (Video from Chase Businelle on Twitter)

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

This is a good-faith critique but I think it’s too clever by half. It’s centrist media fears of issuing corrections and fielding defamation suits.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

we're rarely if ever afraid of losing a defamation case its the cost of even trying to defend yourself that gets you

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

If you feel frustrated by the events of yesterday, SUPPORT your local newspaper! The collapse of local news has led to less accountability, fewer information sources, and increased polarization / nationalization of politics. Help yourself and your neighbors by reinforcing your local news!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Jay Johnston trying to explain prison life but he keeps knocking the thimbles over

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Game changer: Did you know every single bluesky account also has an RSS feed? Just add /rss to the end of it. I plugged @reckless.bsky.social’s post RSS feed into the free app feeeed and now I can check in on what’s happening with the TikTok ban without the overhead of getting sucked into Bluesky

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

Beware of thinking the top of the political cycle is the new norm. The beginning of the Biden administration brought FDR comparisons, expectations of major institutional reform, & assumptions that Trump was finished. Trump's first term honeymoon was anomalously short

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

My opinion about TikTok is that the American newspaper industry shed more than half its newsroom staff between 2008 and 2019

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Tapping the sign. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-plotle...

submitted 80 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 96 days ago • 7 comments

People dunk on Phantom Menace for trying a “trade route negotiations” plot but Andor shows it COULD have been good

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment