“The group warned the markets could create financial incentives for arson and criticized what they described as profiteering from disasters affecting vulnerable communities.”

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterday

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

If I had a dollar for every time someone with power in media said rebuilding trust in rural communities was a top priority and never mentioned building any trust with the many more people in urban communities who don't trust them...

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 24h ago

9 times out of 10, when you encounter "we need to rebuild trust in the media" in the wild, what the speaker means is not that news needs to be more accurate, but that it used to be left-wing and now it needs to be more right-wing.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Editors "absorbing commercial logics so reporters could experience their work as professionally guided"-- wowza, but in my experience very true! "The public deserves to know" is a thought-terminating cliche I've seen used to defend clickable, harmful beats.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last mo.

"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

one of the downsides of stocking U.S. media with affluent nepobabies and brunchlords is class bias erodes stakes and urgency from the coverage since most of their lived experience involves being shielded from the worst outcomes

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a completely insane interview in that the things they are discussing are so alarming that their heads should be exploding and yet they are calm. History will be unkind to those, like the NYT, who underreacted to Trump’s violation of the country. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Growing up I had a good friend whose deep hatred of diplomatic immunity began in 7th grade after watching a Law & Order episode.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

I think this is generally correct: most people don't know what the government actually does...although I think that's changing, now that they're, uh, no longer doing it.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.

{screams into the void}

WBUR@wbur.org · last wk.

Recycling food waste nationwide instead of tossing it into a landfill could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research from the University of Vermont. But without changes to food packaging, it could also dump up to 20,000 tons of microplastics into farmland each year.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I promise I didn't see this first, I love that we both had this visceral reaction though

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2w ago

oh, come on — “Grieving”! As if he felt a thing for the guy except as a tool.

I try not to spend a ton of time dunking on the NYT's headlines (because it could be a FT job) but COME. ON. a GRIEVING Trump? The number of horrific journalistic decisions that boil down to "we cannot assume intent or feeling of the subject", and THIS gets a mind reader pass?? WHAT ON EARTH

Today in the casual media normalization of wildly illegal & unconstitutional corruption, the complete bypassing of official channels of diplomacy, & unprecedented norm violation of having family members & cronies act in lieu of actual executive branch employees.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w ago

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

I am curious what every newsroom that does NOT write with this sort of context thinks about the Guardian doing so. Is accurately quoting a source unjournalistic? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How many are still in business after 2, 5, 10 years? How many are side hustles because a FT job isn't making ends meet? How many were supposed to be FT but can't sustain the founder? Weirdly credulous reporting here, very nyt

Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 3w ago

Er, sponcon from the Heritage Foundation? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/b...

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Yes. It's sold as a back-to-basics nostalgic vision of What Made Our Country Great when the truth is that the constant demands for someone else's money to pay for a lifestyle of farmer cosplay is actually a symptom of late Empire decadence bsky.app/profile/bigf...

BigFarts420@bigfarts420.bsky.social · 3w ago

The entire modern “rural” way of life is a creation of automobile age government subsidies. Prior to the automobile people couldn’t afford to live on unproductive 1+ acre lots in the middle of nowhere! Rural communities were tightly clustered around the local economic driver and usually a rail line.

Newsrooms should very seriously have a plan for this kind of thing. And that plan shouldn't be "just put his quote in a headline like it's fact."

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

So like… if he just arbitrarily tweets out we own Greenland now but there’s no actual deal that was made or plan to implement, what happens then? Do we just pretend he said something else, Danish commandos start blowing up all the runways, what?

Reminder there is no evidence that any initial statements by ICE or DHS should be trusted — and reporters should state that in all coverage and stories. Every ICE shooting we’ve seen the agency lie about the circumstances.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3w ago

"BIDDEFORD, Maine (WGME) -- A person is dead following a shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, according to House Speaker Ryan Fecteau." wgme.com/news/local/i...

An apparent ICE-related shooting in Maine is a good time to remember to treat the agency's initial claims with skepticism rather than credulity.

It has now been revealed that the CEO of StubHub also owns hedge fund that scalps millions of dollars worth tickets on StubHub.

[sniffling] freakin go birds

Jennifer ♾️ aura points KP@jeniuskp.bsky.social · 3w ago

I see my lifelong hatred of jellyfish has been reinforced yet again.

Houston Public Media@houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 3w ago

An invasive jellyfish is washing up along the Texas coastline and, according to researchers, while their sting doesn’t pack a big punch, they can hurt local ecosystems.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Six days of renewed war with no end in sight and the NYT still calls it a "cycle of attacks that is unraveling the cease-fire." It's a shameless disinformation campaign that serves Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 4w ago

U.S. news outlets are not calling it a resumption of war. Some aren’t even saying the ceasefire has been broken, just “threatened” or “all but shattered.” presswatchers.org/2026/07/say-...

My friends have discovered a neighborhood bowling alley that is still reasonably priced and it has been revelatory. We started a league and everything.

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 3w ago

Have you noticed it can cost hundreds of dollars for a family bowling outing? Thank private equity. @spettypi.bsky.social reports. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I do think we should stop using the term "unitary executive" in public discourse and simply call it what it is: dictatorship

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's important to do what's Sam's doing here and parsing the law & Constitution, but we must keep in view the forest: This is a huge advance in the US's transition into a presidential dictatorship. It gives the dictator effective authority to cancel laws by firing those tasked with enforcing them.