Robin Epley

A child inside of a claw machine smiling

The GWB “sir, a second plane” meme

Time for my biennial rant about how, if you are campaigning for election, YOU NEED TO HAVE A VALID PHONE NUMBER OF EMAIL WITH WHICH THE MEDIA CAN CONTACT YOU, PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED ON YOUR CAMPAIGN WEBSITE, BRUH.

Thank you for your attention to this matter 🙏

Oh that's a dope column idea thank you!

I did a really fun story a couple years ago about “ghost candidates” in Connecticut who appear on the ballot but have scant, if any, contact info and never seem to campaign: www.ctinsider.com/election/art...

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

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Time for my biennial rant about how, if you are campaigning for election, YOU NEED TO HAVE A VALID PHONE NUMBER OF EMAIL WITH WHICH THE MEDIA CAN CONTACT YOU, PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED ON YOUR CAMPAIGN WEBSITE, BRUH.

Thank you for your attention to this matter 🙏

If news of the media rapidly falling into the hands of right-wing billionaires is disturbing to you (it should be!), you need to be thinking not just about individual reporters you like (or places that tell you what you want to hear) but places that are building a better, organized news future

Newsrooms with scale can break bigger stories and stay on top of everything. Freelancers can get big scoops too, but there is a firehouse of news every day that deserves to be written down -- and we need big, organized newsrooms dedicated to writing it down every single day to cover the torrent

Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money

But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting

we just lost the post’s international desk — one of the best — and now we’ll lose this.

and after the pentagon kicked out all the actual correspondents.

right as the nation/mad king is on the brink of another illegal war. yeah, this is bad

there was a lot of critical reporting CNN did last year during/after the CDC attack. losing that big newsroom reporting capacity is bad, especially for atlanta. many journalists of color work there too. this all comes as the town paper AJC cut half its newsroom (almost all POC and women, apparently)

CNN has a solid, well-funded newsroom, regardless of the network’s editorial slant. a lot of good reporters will lose their jobs, and the public will lose all the stories they would’ve reported. and they are one of the last newsrooms to pay for costly but critical on the ground war correspondents.

One of the most clarifying and revealing things you can realize about authoritarians is that they are just irrepressibly soft, pathetic, and only comfortable if they are crushing skulls or playing the victim.

when a tv station that's an affiliate of a HUGE mainstream media outlet reports some atrocity or tragedy etc. -- and people share the link saying "msm doesn't want you to know this," i just block... (informed criticism is great. mindlessly bashing good work that get done serves no purpose.)

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

Amazon is opening its wishlists to third-party sellers, which means it can no longer control who has your delivery address. this is a huge privacy risk for sex workers, influencers, and anyone who uses public lists: www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

Pelosi’s surprise endorsement jolts Sacramento race, deepening Democratic rift | Opinion A war of words at the California Democratic Party state convention hints at a bitter campaign and a generational rift between Democrats.

This move by Dorus Matsui reeks of desperation. They must be really scared of Mai Vang's campaign.

Good reporting from @byrobinepley.bsky.social www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

tHeY JuSt NEeD mORe tRaIniNG

Thanks Yousef!!

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

You mean the guy who still can't find an 82 year-old woman taken from her home?

Interior photograph of a square tower supporting a decorated domed ceiling at the Shah Imam mosque in Isfahan. Three of the four sides of the tower have windows open to a blue sky with white clouds. The walls of the tower are predominantly blue tile with intricate gold decorations. At the ceiling the decorations become more intensive, making gold the main color. The overall impression is of great beauty and serenity, arising from the labor, craftsmanship, and care of vast numbers of people.

During the 2010s, physics student Reza Domiri Ganji got permission to take high-quality photos in various Iranian mosques. As a completely avoidable, pointlessly destructive conflict looms, it's worth remembering what can be achieved when people create instead of smash.

www.cnn.com/travel/galle...

A monarch caterpillar next to a large leaf void that’s been eaten

just demolishing a leaf, look at this Eric Carle ass bug

Pelosi’s surprise endorsement jolts Sacramento race, deepening Democratic rift | Opinion A war of words at the California Democratic Party state convention hints at a bitter campaign and a generational rift between Democrats.

From @byrobinepley.bsky.social of @sacbeeeditboard.bsky.social

Pelosi’s surprise endorsement jolts Sacramento race, deepening Democratic rift | Opinion
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Out of all the political signage at the convention this weekend, I think this Kounalakis sticker stuck to the top of the escalator has caught my eye the most times…

Out of all the political signage at the convention this weekend, I think this Kounalakis sticker stuck to the top of the escalator has caught my eye the most times…

I love the hater pope

I’ve written about this multiple times, but MOST countries aren’t prepared for this kind of war.

I don’t think folks understand how much combat has evolved during the Russo-Ukrainian war.

It’s unrecognizable from other modern conflicts.

www.thetimes.com/business/com...

When you've been bingeing "24" on Netflix too long...