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Yeah this in particular…A “60 Minutes” correspondent is a very specific type of job that he does not appear to have the credentials for?
Mike Boylan-KolchinWhatever one thinks of Douthat, he’s never been a correspondent, and to think that he can learn on the fly on 60 Minutes under an intense spotlight is, uh, optimistic. And it’s not like he’s the kind of name that’s going to pull in ratings or lend journalistic credibility to Weiss’s project.
"Instead, the great lotion lockup was a corporate moral panic, which has been a disaster for their profits and for the rest of us a degrading enshittification of running basic errands."
Tressie McMillan CottomAs good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
Half the room clapped, and "new WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, smiled, cheered, and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him." ????? www.status.news/p/the-white-...
The White House Correspondents’ DisgraceThe WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.www.status.newsWays to collaborate with librarians and other civil servants to bring quality information to hard-to-reach communities: rjionline.org/news/how-to-...
How to work with librarians and ESL teachers to reach communitiesA blueprint for finding ways to collaborate with librarians and other civil servants to bring quality information to hard-to-reach communities An update about immigration policies. News about the wars...rjionline.org"Our commanders could never articulate how our deployments, and all the violence we committed and the losses we suffered, made anyone safer in the United States. We were left to figure everything out on our own while they landed lucrative jobs at defense companies" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.www.nytimes.com"The raids and traffic stops now underway all over the US aren’t as showy as 2025’s military-style named surges, but higher arrest quotas ensure that they are just as aggressive." unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
Special Edition: ICE Is Still Everywhere — UnbreakingA special briefing from the Immigration team on what's changed—and what hasn't—since ICE reduced its emphasis on named, military-style operations.unbreaking.orgGrifting so hard, these self-described “alpha males”
kalibomeli1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵
I know some people who worked at/with the IRS until last year. The universal message I have received is that it's worse than you think.
Anna Merlan"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"we should also try to spend less time stuck in our heads and more time out in the world, pursuing the kinds of activities that support mental health without making us so obsessed with it." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/o...
Opinion | Obsessing About Our Mental Health Is Part of Our Mental Health ProblemWe need to support psychological well-being without fixating on it.www.nytimes.com