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Lance Knobel

@lknobel.bsky.social

CEO and co-founder, Cityside Journalism Initiative. Berkeleyan.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 5mo ago

Things Mike Johnson hasn't called "detestable": - DOJ covering up the Epstein files - Stripping millions of Americans of their health insurance - Trump’s masked ICE agents killing people on our streets So, forgive us if we don't give a damn. See you on the Mall at 8.

Johnson calls it "detestable" that some Democrats are boycotting Trump's State of the Union

"We play for one team," House Speaker Mike Johnson told "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil ahead of the State of the Union. "We're all for America."

cbsnews.com

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

News gathering is not a profit-making enterprise. It never has been, it never will be. Indeed, since it challenges power and corruption, it always faces blowback from rich people who can give money to the opera or Harvard or whatever instead.

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More than a week before his crucifixion by Roman law enforcement, Jesus of Nazareth infuriated other authorities as he overturned vendor tables at the temple farmers market and cursed at an innocent fig tree causing it to wither, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

More than a week before federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, different agents pushed him to the ground after he spit at them and broke a taillight on their SUV, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 6mo ago

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Anders@derzquist.net · 6mo ago

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm not quite sure how this is true, given that he's not seeking new statutory authority for ... pretty much any of this. At most, what they could do is shut down the government + refuse to confirm any more Trump nominees.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Insights from Ben Affleck on AI: • AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies. • Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations. • ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x. • Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.

Lance Knobel @lknobel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One thing to add to @sarabethb.bsky.social's op-ed is that many of the new wave local newsrooms are determined to do a better job for the whole community than most of what happened in the past. We don't want to restore a wholly imagined golden age.

Sarabeth Berman@sarabethb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The closing of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is disheartening. But it doesn’t have to mean the end of #localnews. In @nytimes.com today, I write about trusted, independent newsrooms rising to meet community needs across the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Lance Knobel @lknobel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There's a philosophical gap between nonprofit and for-profit news organizations. It's not just the pursuit of dollars – nonprofits need to make a surplus, too. It's the root motivation for what we do and who we think we're serving. My Nieman Lab prediction for 2026: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

The gap between nonprofit and for-profit local news will widen

"The harsh truth is that taken in isolation, there is likely no viable economic model for decent news provision in economically struggling cities or rural areas."

niemanlab.org

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”

Interview by Patrick Healy with Joseph Kahn Why does The Times publish work that challenges our audience’s assumptions at a time when many people want their views validated?
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

Ben Werdmuller@werd.io · 9mo ago

One of my underlying working models for non-profit news is that nobody is in competition with each other. We should all be co-operative. We should be open sourcing code, sharing wins and losses, and doing as much as possible to lift each other up - out in the open so newcomers can benefit too.

Nikkolas Smith@4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.