Lizzie O'Leary

Please don’t harass reporters who have nothing to do with this.

Also, I’m not implying intent. I just think this is a very difficult time and we (journos) need to be super careful with our framing choices.

I am not insinuating CNN was trying to trick people. I am a journalist with 25 years of experience (including at CNN) saying this was poorly done. Standards matter. Doing our jobs well in very difficult times means being exacting in what we put out. I think it showed poor news judgment.

The post definitely. I could make an argument for using it on the story. The “what is the insurrection act” hed is ok with it. One that implies Portland/Chicago would not be ok.

It’s a tough editorial call imo. Because this is such a charged issue.

Yes. Most people will not read the piece or look at the date on the photo. I’ve been a journo for 25 years, and we know how readers will interact with this. This is poorly done.

Important* lol. Damn phone.

Ben Walsh Portland native.

Entirely on*

I know and respect Zach and the piece is good. It’s just a bad photo choice based on entirely how we know readers interact with stories and photos.

I read the piece and I like and respect Zach. I still think it’s a bad combo.

I have read the article and I know and respect Zach. But when a post circulates like this, without the impotent context, and you place it as a header image, you are strongly risking the reader drawing the wrong conclusion

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

And from LA

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.”

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Jingle bell sing, in the jingle bell dock.

Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock

Lmao nah

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Relevant to my, uh, interests

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

In cool autoimmune disorder news www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m so sorry.

well now I hate myself

“He’s Bringing Sexy Grok” was right there

I’m turning 50 in December, so it doesn’t quite count but I’m training for a 5k a year and a half post cancer.

YES.

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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DJT post on Truth Social: "Japan has just elected its first female Prime Minister, a highly respected person of great wisdom and strength. This is tremendous news for the incredible people of Japan. Congratulations to all! President Donald J. Trump"

I know these details are tiresome, but Japan did not, in fact, just elect its first female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi was elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and is *expected to become* prime minister. But someone else is in that job right now.

Met my husband when I was 41. Recommend.

Sunscreen, exercise (weight bearing), call your friends to check in, prod your parents to have a plan for the inevitable.