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Andrew Blackwell

@blackwell.bsky.social

Making a documentary about cryptography, the internet, and the NSA. Prev, Supervising Editor of NYT Op-Docs @nytopinion. Author of "Visit Sunny Chernobyl.” Signal: Axolotl.89

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John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · last yr.

Alternate Headline: "Even the $5 billion NYC Spends on the NYPD Couldn't Prevent the Midtown Shooting. NYC has the highest per capita level of policing in the US. But Monday’s mass shooting showed policing's limits, security experts said." Why not go with that headline? Why not? WHY. NOT?

Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. But Monday’s mass shooting showed their limits, security experts said.
Jon Walker@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · last yr.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWS: Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan." We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs. One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · last yr.

“Never vote for someone you hate,” Dugar said. “We like to say: the first choice is the candidate you love. Your second choice is the candidate that you like. Your third and fourth choice is the candidate you like slightly less. And your fifth choice is the candidate you can stand.”

How Does Ranked Choice Voting Work in New York City?

The voting method is used in primaries for municipal offices only, not in state or federal races or general elections.

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Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · last yr.

Taking a page from the Tesla protests, people need to show up to Andrew Cuomo’s events and yell about his sexual harassment, corruption and more. Without that, low-information voters are only going to hear from the Post and local TV news something like, “Cuomo strong.”

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · last yr.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last yr.

reading Ian Toll's series on the Pacific war and was struck by the portrait of Admiral Spruance. dude delegated as much work as possible, read paperbacks during long voyages, was fanatical about lots of exercise & 8-9 hours of sleep a night, and prob the best naval commander of the war

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Cyd Harrell@cydharrell.bsky.social · last yr.

the thing here is that (much like Silicon Valley spending the last 25 years working to *fix* all the risks that got VCs clobbered in the 2000 NASDAQ crash), Rs have spent 50 years working to *fix* the checks that stopped Nixon

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last yr.

@Wired has been the Woodward-Bernstein of this moment. (Among diffs from that era: GOP then had Sens/Reps who would stand up to prez. Ditto that era's SCOTUS, with six GOP appointees. Still ruled unanimously that Nixon did not have absolute right to withhold WH tapes from Congress. Quaint!)

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2y ago

gonna post this every day until the deadline: Feb. 14 if you want to vote in NYC's June primary ***YOU HAVE TO PICK A PARTY BY FEBRUARY 14*** New York has closed primaries. if you're unaffiliated, you can't vote in June. if you're WFP or Conservative you ***CANNOT VOTE IN DEM OR GOP PRIMARY**

To Vote in This Summer’s Primary, Pick Your Party Now

You can only vote in NYC primaries if you’re registered with a party — and the deadline is coming up fast.

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Word Family Friday@wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Icicle" containing two distinct roots for "ice"—each possibly extensions of a shared base—is awesome 😀 Effectively equivalent to PIE *h₁eyHs-o(N)-h₁yeg-o(-V)-lós PGmc *īsą-jek-ulaz O.Eng. īs-ġiċel Eng. icicle Diamond inheritance, much better in etymology than programming 😄

Dr Danny Bate@dannybate.com · 2y ago

A Christmas gift from me to my fellow word nerds: Nine Christmas-related words with interesting etymologies, one for each of the nine letters of 'Christmas'! It was written with much linguistic love in an armchair beside a roaring fire. dannybate.com/2024/12/23/a...

Charlie Savage@charliesavage.bsky.social · 2y ago

As Trump prepares to take power, Republicans are blocking a fix to a mysterious provision added this year to the Section 702 warrantless surveillance law. The overly broad provision expanded the type of US service providers that can be forced to help the government spy. (gift link) nyti.ms/3CGzPdO

Republicans Blocking Proposal to Narrow Part of a Surveillance Law

The second Trump administration appears likely to inherit broader powers to force American service providers to help a warrantless wiretapping program.

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Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to Eric Adams and the New York City Council, Simple Loaf on 5th Ave in Brooklyn went from having a beautiful outdoor dining setup with space for more than a dozen patrons to having space for parking two cars.

Street showing outdoor dining setup: low wood panel barrier with plants. Brooklyn buildings (storefronts with apartments over them) are in the background.Same picture as the previous one, only with two cars parked instead of the outdoor dining setup.