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Danielle Kurtzleben

@titonka.bsky.social

NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Battle-axe. Jesus freak. Real piece of work. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com

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Really hung up on the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, a supposed journalist, having no shame about telling the president, "nobody questions the success of the military operation."

Uh, yeah, there are questions. You're a journalist. Question it, man.

05.03.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

05.03.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3836    πŸ” 620    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 10

You never told us you’re Maureen Dowd.

06.03.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just posting until I get fired/sternly reprimanded

06.03.2026 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean rough men always help ME sleep better amiright THERE it was an EASY JOKE

06.03.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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How I Got Into Journalism, Part 1 The first in a thrilling two-part saga aimed at telling you that you are not washed-up and you should probably just go follow your dreams or you will die wretched and bitter.

A read for your evening commute: Part 1 of how I got into journalism (part 2, I promise, will be more about how you can too)

Anyway, go follow your dreams, because the world is terrifying and you deserve to live with as little regret as possible.

daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

05.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a lewd joke I’m not making uggggggh being a professional is the worst

05.03.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

ROUGH MEN. [bangs on the masculinity sign] People. You NEED ROUGH MEN SO YOU CAN SLEEP.

05.03.2026 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude one of the first things I said was β€œI really don’t think he said that.” And it seems he didn’t.

05.03.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How I Got Into Journalism, Part 1 The first in a thrilling two-part saga aimed at telling you that you are not washed-up and you should probably just go follow your dreams or you will die wretched and bitter.

A read for your evening commute: Part 1 of how I got into journalism (part 2, I promise, will be more about how you can too)

Anyway, go follow your dreams, because the world is terrifying and you deserve to live with as little regret as possible.

daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

05.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

but he drives a pickup

05.03.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a friendly email so i'd say good. (Also he thanked me for being kind to him, which hahahahahaha i have SO MUCH POWER)

05.03.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is, I have been told, a good thing about my writing. :)

05.03.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Update: this post prompted a many-years-ago ex-boyfriend to email me, which is proof of the power of my lore. You should definitely read and share.

05.03.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh.......oh my God.

05.03.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

OK look. I only became a full-time journalist at 27. Still young, but in DC baby journalist years ANCIENT.

05.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Preach

05.03.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How I Got Into Journalism, Part 1 The first in a thrilling two-part saga aimed at telling you that you are not washed-up and you should probably just go follow your dreams or you will die wretched and bitter.

Today: I get annoyingly inspirational and tell you to follow your dreams and go be a journalist (or whatever else you want).

open.substack.com/pub/danielle...

05.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students β€” and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

05.03.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5481    πŸ” 2621    πŸ’¬ 280    πŸ“Œ 573

how dare you

05.03.2026 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œfuck ok fine I will be so mad if I don’t do this”

05.03.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I like this rebrand

05.03.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This rules.

05.03.2026 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My bad news is that the following things in fact do make life better:

1) exercising early in the morning
2) staying hydrated
3) not drinking too much
4) gratitude journaling (I know)

My good news is that these things also work:

1) retail therapy
2) drugs
3) screaming
4) aging

05.03.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

04.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2512    πŸ” 1016    πŸ’¬ 457    πŸ“Œ 951

"And here's a song about the ol' ball and chain's menses. Aint that right honey?"

[wife offstage, smiling hard. very very hard.]

"I'm just kiddin. You know i love ya. Three weeks out of every month that is!"

[wife smiles until her teeth shatter]

04.03.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think maybe once a week about this dude folk singer I saw once like 10 years ago, who toured with his wife (also a singer), and who wrote a fun jokey song about his wife's PMS.

Said song was called "Ragtime Blues."

I just

04.03.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

YES

04.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It took until I started marathoning to even put a crack in the Body Stuff. I finally realized β€œwelp if I can run 26.2 miles at a good pace and my body still looks like this, maybe I’ll never be thin.”

It’s just relentless.

04.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why can’t they just do the asterisks? So weird.

04.03.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0