Damon Darlin 🦞 🖋️
damondarlin.bsky.social
Damon Darlin 🦞 🖋️
@damondarlin.bsky.social
Journalist, now happily retired. Past life: WSJ, NYT, KFF Health News.
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Wait. Why would Marjorie Taylor Greene calling to release the Epstein files be a betrayal to Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party?
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*

Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Once wasn’t enough. Trump pardons a J6 rioter for a SECOND time.

@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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On November 14, 2025, in Evanston, Illinois, disturbing video footage emerged showing Border Patrol Goons attempting to flee the scene of an accident. In their escape, they resorted to pepper-spraying witnesses, instilling fear and intimidation in the community that resides just outside Chicago.
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
But what if the magnets get wet?
The Chinese Navy (PLAN) Type 076 amphibious assault ship Sichuan (31) has commenced her first sea trial earlier today in Shanghai. The large new amphibious carrier of a globally unique design features an electromagnetic catapult for launching fixed wing drones 🇨🇳
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Chinese Type 076 Amphibious Carrier Sichuan Starts Sea Trials
The Chinese Type 076 amphibious carrier Sichuan, equipped with an electromagnetic catapult, has today left Shanghai for her first sea trial.
www.navalnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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"Sheriffs in Maryland are assisting President Donald Trump’s administration in carrying out his immigration policy at a faster clip than almost every other part of the country."

Some good journalism from @merrillcollege.bsky.social students.

cnsmaryland.org/2025/11/13/m...
Maryland’s surprising role in implementing Trump’s immigration agenda
Maryland sheriffs have transferred at least 119 people from their local jails to Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump’s inauguration back in January.
cnsmaryland.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...
Keira Knightley stars in Waitrose’s Christmas ‘mini romcom’ ad
YouTube video by Daily Record
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Schrodinger's immigrant: driving down our wages with their cheap labor, and also buying up all of our houses.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Despite local, state, and federal safety campaigns, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston are among major cities that now report more traffic fatalities than homicides. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
‘They Don’t Return Home’: Cities Across US Fail To Curb Traffic Deaths - KFF Health News
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston reported more traffic fatalities than homicides last year. Despite local, state, and federal safety initiatives, such as Vision Zero, traffic deaths across the ...
kffhealthnews.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Not to be nitpicky but these (Wapo/ WSJ) are bad headlines. Is the important news here "The Democrats released emails"? Or is the important news, you know, "Epstein says Trump spent hours with underage girl"? Put the important news in the headline!
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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McGovern: Buried in this bill is a corrupt kickback for eight Republican senators, a million dollar payday funded by taxpayers, taken from the treasury and deposited directly into their pockets. What the hell is wrong with this place?
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#FDA political appointees Vinay Prasad & Tracy Beth Høeg believe #vaccine safety surveillance programs aren't adequately geared to finding risks. They're trying to restructure the programs, often leaving FDA scientists out of the effort. By @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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No, not Home Depot stuff 😂
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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It’s giving napoleon tried to invade Russia but was like shit, it’s cold here
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The latest in an endless river of corrupt Trump pardons for wealthy and well-connected Republican criminals.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Had missed this NYT piece on AI in newsrooms, which is pretty decent except for this egregious comment about AI from Stephen Adler of NYU:

"It excels at analyzing large data sets"

It absolutely does not excel at doing data analysis. It's very good at assisting in the code & approach.
A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool?
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Writers of "letters" (comments) to the editor can be people of interest if you take an interest.
www.notus.org/perspectives...
The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
www.notus.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM