Rob Gunther

We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊

Nytimes saying that this would ultimately have to clear a trump veto.

Gift link: so if this ultimately has to clear a Trump veto, does this end with the public release of the files or no? That question has not been an obvious part of this whole story until now.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

This sums up the last 10 years

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

Important update: it’s a hero

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Solidarity forever

From an old spider man newspaper strip.

Same

Opinion | Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor

Can’t stop thinking about the NYTimes’s “we don’t do endorsements anymore but don’t vote for Mamdani” pre-primary write-up. Big journalism spent the past 10 years trying to find real America, and willfully tried to suppress what was taking place in its own backyard.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Dick Cheney’s legacy is: he and his coconspirators took advantage of the collective fear and grief post-9/11 to lie their way into a vanity oil war that got a million people killed.

Wow, haven't seen a "racially charged" in a while.

Any of these guys using torpedo bats? Did that ever become a thing?

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Back at it for 2025. I’m a NYC based journalist and illustrator. I just finished #inktober, a 31 drawings in 31 days challenge I do every year. Pen and paper. Here’s how it came out, days 1-4:

If this were a 30 minute sitcom, the judge would say this and then the camera would immediately cut to a new scene where Bovino is throwing like five tear gas canisters right into a trick-or-treater’s candy bag.

Josh Harley being a coward.

Josh Hawley talks in biblical terms about America’s duty to feed the hungry, but can’t resist floating the caveat that, actually, undocumented people don’t deserve to eat. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Where Sports Betting Got Us Covering the spread of sports gambling to everywhere.

When your voice goes and you really really have to take a sick day, it's nice when a charmer like @1robgunther.bsky.social can fill in on the fly slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Where Sports Betting Got Us Covering the spread of sports gambling to everywhere.

Listen: I'm guest hosting for Mary Harris today on @slate.com's daily news pod, What Next. I talked with @jaywillis.net about the NBA indictments, gambling on everything, and why it feels like we're all living in Biff's nightmare world from Back to the Future Part II.

An ICE leadership purge because the Trump administration wants federal police to be doing more of what we’re seeing in Chicago.

I am so behind. Like 2 years behind now … it’s not fair that this happened to me.

Xbox’s Prized Sci-Fi Franchise Is Heading to PlayStation

Wow I got super excited imagining I’d be able relive my glory years in college … except it turns out this specifically does not include competitive multiplayer? That’s like the only reason I’d play. Gift link:

The Ku Klux Klansman Who Spent 34 Years As a Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black’s life is a case study in how public service launders the reputations of people who did not deserve the opportunities they received.

Definitely read this @jaywillis.net banger about a part of modern US history I had no idea of. There’s a direct lesson here for anyone thinking about the whole Graham Platner nazi tattoo business.

Text from the nytimes article.

We need new language to write about politics. Calling a disgraced former governor and a failed corrupt one-term mayor “moderate” comes off as lazy. Whatever your understanding of politics, these guys do not represent the ideological middle ground. Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

I knew right away it was because of “a latent defect within the service’s automated DNS [domain name system] management system,” if only people had listened to me!