These dunces are unAmerican.
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@jswatz.bsky.social
UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him.
These dunces are unAmerican.
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This is a CRIME. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
25.11.2025 18:43 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4iโm not crying youโre crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
magnificent.
25.11.2025 03:11 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I would like to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner because I have always wondered what it would be like to witness my own death.
25.11.2025 03:10 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0From the candidate I got a klobรกsnรญk! I love democracy, but it might kill me.
25.11.2025 02:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Millions of us didn't.
25.11.2025 00:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm sure it was a good career while it lasted.
24.11.2025 23:54 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โThis is a basic human right, the ability for you to stop and drink water and be in the shade.," said Ana Gonzalez, organizing and advocacy director at the Texas AFL-CIO. "Itโs just insane to me that this is a debate.โ A sobering story from @psskow.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
24.11.2025 23:52 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
24.11.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 204 ๐ 87 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1โI kind of yearn,โ Mr. Nassirian said, โfor the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergรฉ eggs and prized ponies.โ
Hands off higher ed, you rich yahoos.
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My wife and I have been canvassing for the Pflugerville mayoral run-off, and at one house the homeowner is a professional cookie decorator and she gave us a couple of incredible soft sugar cookies with frosting and itโs been a couple of days but Iโm all still DEMOCRACY, YโALL!
24.11.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0When your plane falls out of the sky or collides with another plane because weโve let everything go to hell, youโll leave a natty corpse. And thatโs what everyone wants, right?
24.11.2025 22:51 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0A statement today from @nationalacademies.org "affirmed that childhood vaccines are safe for the general population (and have) long-established benefits of preventing illness and averting death." This is in response to misinformation published on the CDC website under orders of RFK Jr.
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A president is not a king. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
24.11.2025 19:05 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 3but we hear about people who veer off course, even if they aren't household names. and so the impressions accumulate
24.11.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Headline: "Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James."
Having often given NYT headline-writers a hard time, let me be sure to congratulate whoever decided on "Tosses" for this breaking news.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
Transmissible to editors of The Atlantic?
24.11.2025 17:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh come ON, guys.
24.11.2025 17:31 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I love my students. Full of surprises. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...
24.11.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Read the Facebook attacks trying to stir people up over higher water fees and mischaracterizing the multi-use development downtown, which will generate tax revenue, as a "Taj Mahal." Doug has been part of a council that has spent wisely to ensure we will HAVE water. The attacks are very MAGA.
24.11.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"For now, let me just reiterate that Bitcoin has become a Trump trade, and Bitcoinโs declining price is an indicator of Trumpโs declining dominance over the G.O.P."
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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For those of us who teach journalism students about ethics, we've had some astonishingly clear lessons recently, including one from a former NYT reporter. Great stuff from @sulliview.bsky.social
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โFireflyโ or no deal.
24.11.2025 12:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Pflugerville has 80,000 people, but it's a small town. My wife and I are canvassing for a mayoral runoff and picked up voter info cards. We mentioned a voter who had been reading attacks on our candidate, Doug Weiss. Doug said: next time you're with someone like that, call me. I'll talk to them.
24.11.2025 02:50 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A brilliant essay by @anandwrites.bsky.social about the insular elite he calls "the Epstein class": "On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away."
24.11.2025 02:19 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Some folks have suggested this is about not paying gasoline taxes, and that is the stated purpose, But Iโd like to see the figures justifying that charge based on what Iโd pay, considering my driving habits. At 20 cents a gallon, Iโd have to drive more than 27,000 miles a year to hit $200. I donโt.
23.11.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I love everything about my electric Mini, especially passing up gas stations. But Texas makes me pay an extra $200 to renew my registration.
23.11.2025 21:09 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 1"They say everybody has two lives and the second life starts when you realize you have one," Glover said. abc7ny.com/post/donald-...
23.11.2025 20:27 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Still life with menudo. Life is good, yโall, and even better if you can meet a friend at Joeโs Bakery for breakfast.
23.11.2025 17:22 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0