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This is a lot more fun if you imagine Shelby Foote reading it in Ken Burns' Civil War

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Correct. Also enjoying the replies pointing out "it's called the 'Imperial March'". Facts matter.

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

breakfast is now 30 small plates.

As I recall, a lot of the rationales were the same. "you're making the work of your colleagues more difficult"

Worth remembering that a female journalist at WaPo was punished for posting a link to a story about Kobe Bryant, who had just died in a helicopter crash, being credibly accused of sexual assault.

The Studio

Everyone was right, The Studio is pretty good
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Even in the book the plan is a state secret and the threat of it getting it out forces the president from office? He definitely doesn't post it to social media

The way this discourse is being run is a little like people complaining about 'kids getting participation trophies'. Guys, it wasn't the kids who insisted they needed participation trophies. It was the adults.

Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

The reason why fundraising text read like scams is because they are. The political fundraising system has imported the tactics of elder financial fraud. These tactics are designed to filter out skeptics and specifically target and exploit seniors.

95% of scam PAC donors are 65+, costing > $500m.

my Target weakness used to be clothes on sale. But some of the things aren't quite as nice and I simply don't need anything more. Once you get out of the habit of hitting the clearance rack every week you just stop.

Dear Katrice and Geraldine, We are deeply concerned about the manner in which The Marshall Project has been treating our members and approaching the bargaining process. Recently, The Marshall Project leadership has betrayed our organization’s values and compromised our position in the industry and the journalism we pursue. It’s time for that to change. The guild has worked tirelessly and in good faith on proposals that would keep high-quality health care affordable for Marshallers. We have also been steadfast in asserting that all recognized members deserve due process and fair treatment required under the law. The organization, in turn, has increasingly taken anti-worker stances that have eroded trust and created a culture that makes it difficult to do the work that makes us proud. Since the organization has taken such a hardline stance, refusing to work with the guild on the items listed below, we will be filing unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board and stepping up our public efforts to make it clear that we demand fair treatment.

The following recent actions by the organization have taken an immense toll on the workers of The Marshall Project: 1. The organization has repeatedly denied steward representation to a member facing a Performance Improvement Plan and possible termination, as well as denying another member representation in their termination meeting last week. This denial is illegal, egregious, and completely out of line with standards across our industry and the labor movement going back decades. We are shocked that the organization would take such a hypocritical and prohibitive stance on this, given our mission. The union has filed an Unfair Labor Practice about this illegal violation of members’ Weingarten rights and demands that members be allowed steward representation in any meeting they feel is appropriate. 2. The organization has caused a retaliatory ripple effect with its actions against one employee that has touched an entire newsroom in Cleveland with negative effects that go against the stated purpose of collaboration with local media and our ability to make good on promises we made to readers. When the organization recognized members it had a duty to follow the law and not proceed with layoffs without bargaining. We have filed an Unfair Labor Practice for the illegal layoff of employees and management retaliation.

3. The organization made a unilateral change to our outside employment policy without bargaining, changing expectations to require managerial approval. We have always maintained a workplace where outside work is permitted and the organization’s sudden termination of Chris Vazquez without a steward, without an opportunity to stop the freelancing project, and without severance is unjust and defies our values. 4. The organization is employing a strategic erosion of status quo through small changes to past practice while we bargain our first contract, including erasure of our cost-of-living adjustment, a significant change to our health insurance, and modifying the evaluation process. The organization has inconsistently complied with requests for information, which does not reflect good faith in bargaining. The Marshall Project, in retaining union-busting law firm Kauff McGuire & Margolis, is willingly participating in the erosion of worker protections across our industry, a project that takes advantage of the current anti-worker political environment. When The Marshall Project voluntarily recognized our union last year, it touted a “longstanding commitment to a fair, equitable and inclusive workplace, with generous benefits.” We are demanding a return to these values.

Today, we sent a letter to @themarshallproject.org‬ leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that management bargain in good faith.

This has to be a bit

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

You can also read it here www.ap.org/the-definiti...

For it will not do to grant that goodness must be weak as rain must be wet. It takes courage to say that the good were defeated not because they were good, but because they were weak.

Happy birthday America!

A source has just given me this photograph depicting Elon Musk stepping out onto the balcony of the SpaceX launch center.

Money?

I would say the issues are much broader than the current administration.

Personally, I also think the funder environment for paying for things like “diversity”—whether it’s racial, gender or just geography—has changed over the past four years.

The unit was grant-funded. They had managed to re-up funding previously but not again. Unfortunately, unit members had not been told how at risk their funding was. Some of them would have likely made different career decisions in the past six months if they had known.

Sorry for the Twitter x-post, which I know everyone hates, but PBS NewsHour Union doesn't have a Bluesky and this was too important not to share.

NewsHour Digital is a relatively small newsroom, so losing three of our colleagues has had a big impact.

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Something like this has already happened for public sector employees who forgoed(forewent?) pay increases for pensions later only to have municipal/state governments cite budgetary constraints later and renege on pensions.

In an environment where a contract (future promises) isn't guaranteed by law then, focusing only on that fact, the most rational course would be to front-load all the benefits, i.e. pay, promotions or bonuses, so the commitment to them can't be reneged on later.

The Tufts Daily - Thursday, March 27, 2025 by The Tufts Daily - Issuu

Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk:

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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.