Chrissy Yates

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

The whole NYTimes debacle about Zohran Mamdani's identity is extra painful because of course they would defend themselves and not back down. Even in 2025, there are white people who feel entitled to ultimately determine the identity, professional privileges, and public perception of non-white people

Uh oh.

The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment.

Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account Welcome to the 4chan administration.

I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

A photo of Ta-Nehisi Coats. Words at the bottom read: “wow, that was really racist

This week:

A Black woman wearing a cat headband poses next to a piebald tabby cat

For all those wondering, this is my son, PER-C (Percy). We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Tennessee (legally, of course) four years ago and lives with me in Germany.

I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I've done in my life.

Exclusive | Insurance industry leaned on DOJ to take Luigi Mangione case as deterrent against copycat killers: sources Health insurance industry leaders leaned on the US Department of Justice to prosecute accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.

health insurance ceos pressured the doj to pursue federal charges against mangione to act as a “deterrent” against “copycat vigilante killers”

then he got hit with federal charges.

nypost.com/2024/12/20/u...

The Oxygen of Amplification New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; interviews journalists on accidental amplification of extreme agendas

Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources.

1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators

Chess set.

"The suspect is believed to have played a violent simulation of warfare, involving deliberate targeting of horses and reigious figures, with the ultimate goal of regicide."

Prefer a remote Fellowship? We have those too! Work on a project that will build a resource, tool or platform for journalists - while keeping your day job!

Come ask questions: bit.ly/rjifellowshipQA

I also like when journalists are a little petty while covering important news events.

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TMZ SAIC BEYONCÉ WOULD PERFORM AF DNC. FAKE NEWS.

Our generation’s DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN