Justin Rood

News: The Washington Post has suffered a cyber intrusion that compromised the emails of at least several reporters at the paper, including those on the national security and economic policy teams, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cc @adambecker.bsky.social

Very meta

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This is happening tomorrow. If folks are around, please come check it out.

Pour one out for a man who was 25 years ahead of his time.

BIG from @spytalker.bsky.social ... The Justice Department has effectively gutted its domestic terror unit. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

Here is a fatal flaw: the number of bills introduced should not be used as "a primary measure of legislative productivity." Ironically, it is not appropriate to use legislative effectiveness scores from the Center on Effective Lawmaking to measure legislative effectiveness b/c they don't measure it

God yes please

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity The biggest lie in media is the one that it tells about itself.

@juddlegum.bsky.social is a very, very sharp observer of media and politics.

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I’m inclined to agree. I loved your book and I’m grateful for your work.

Is Tom Homan Recruiting Proud Boys? Trump 'border czar' Tom Homan met with extremist-linked activist as Trump administration ramps up mass deportation agenda

Wanted to add this piece to the discussion. It appears to be a good, recent roundup of what’s publicly known regarding “border czar” Homan’s contact with far-right groups and figures, specifically the Proud Boys.

migrantinsider.com/p/is-tom-hom...

One possibility: there’s a single credible source with the only accessible copy, who has achieved their goal and isn’t interested in pushing things forward just now.

Have you heard any speculation regarding the source? It isn’t a huge universe of suspects, is it?

In the immortal words of Mike D, eternal vigilance is the price of partying

the Beastie Boys warned us this could happen

The Lord works in mysterious ways

FWIW That had nothing to do with the team name

Sonny, that’s a Longhorn District

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Why are people so easily bullied off of Bluesky, but will withstand any barrage of vile antisemitic conspiracy garbage spewed at them on X?

What

The only other scenario I can imagine is that it implicates someone else who cld damage him in some way, and has vowed to do so if certain info comes out. Which seems overly complex and ignores the lengthy, intimate history betw the two men.

The Axios article misrepresents the study’s findings. Pretty badly.

Similar to canceling one’s subscription to the New York Times.

I second the Ross Thomas rec

What does it even mean to say a fundamental, Constitutionally guaranteed right is “peripheral” to national interest? You could say the same thing about the First Amendment. In fact, many have and do.

Disgusting. This is as un-American and unpatriotic an act as I can imagine.

Serialization, incrementalization, crowdsourcing - there are tools to adapt (and strengthen!) investigative reporting via newsletters/social media. But there is no fix for getting SLAPPed. Just good lawyers and money to pay them.

As a career “vegetable” reporter and editor, I take issue with some of this. Investigations don’t have to be slow, or money losing, or result in massive articles.

TPM Muckraker was a model, as is Judd Legum’s Public Information, & Ken Klip.

What’s needed now: good lawyers, and money to pay them.