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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 20h

TAKE THE DUB

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 21h

Scoop: Even Fox News won't sign on to Pete Hegseth's draconian Pentagon press rules, setting up a showdown between the snowflake defense secretary and his former employer.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 20h

Access journalism is slop.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 23h

He took his wife to Branson and they had the surf turf in the Wayne Newton Suite.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 1d

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Maggie Westrum @maggiewestrum.bsky.social · 1d

kinda sad how the constitution only means what five people on the supreme court say it means 🤷‍♀️

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a dodge alright. Betrayal of the profession also. Like a firefighter who doesn’t want to get near any smoke. I mean, go into something else if you don’t like the assignment.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 3d

Love contracting for them but sometimes it takes me weeks of calling corporate to get my 1099.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

A “landmark trial” with 7 subjects and negligible 2 point improvement over placebo on the HAM-D ratings scale? Do better, KFF.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

You get what you pay for, right.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks. You as well at SI. I was once one of the highest paid writers at Men’s Health. I still never made what a mechanic gets in a year. So they can save their proposition for people just excited to get a byline.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

When Doug Tice ran it. I argued for it and got it or something close from the aughts through about 19 when I went on staff somewhere else. The last 2 I did recently I fought for $250. I pay my trombone player more than that.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

PS i used to get a buck a word from that opinion page, sometimes 1200-1400 words, until this new push for average Joe essays, probably unpaid, that often resemble AI.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

The column is great. I also thought the one they just ran from Mt. Olivet was embarrassing. I wrote a 6 word comment below it: “What gassy, pious nonsense. So sad.” They rejected it.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

Seems clear the @startribune is a toxic workplace given her chiding posted here - they do not respect her right to describe what happened to her — but also just so foolish with talent (again). The column they spiked is great. It reminds of the truth bomb @espiers.bsky.social wrote in the Times.

Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 4d

I’m finally sharing the (unpublished) column that led directly to my firing as a columnist at the Minnesota @startribune.com.

Read it here:

angeladenker.substack.com/p/the-column...

The column that got me fired

A Special Edition of News with Nuance ...

angeladenker.substack.com

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

Enraging on so many levels.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

I tried. I really tried.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

He’s a glib poseur.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

If I look at them through my window they warn each other and split. Extremely shy.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5d

If Trump invoked the Insurrection Act in these circumstances, it would be an unmistakable declaration that he's canceling our democracy and intends to rule as a dictator.
Everyone needs to understand that this would give us a sad but crystal-clear choice between resistance and submission.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 5d

This is the result of health media having long ago ceded its duty to understand good and bad research practices and norms. The public was then trained to spit back “where’s your M.D.?” any time a reporter looked closely at a study and highlighted its context. We act as if a M.D. confers omniscience.

Blobert v3.0 @theblobert.bsky.social · 5d

It doesn’t have to be based on one’s political persuasion, but the media keep portraying health through a political lens and amplifying voices who want to enforce their medical point of view, despite what scientific evidence might say.

NPR @npr.org · 5d

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics. n.pr/3KF1CiO

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NoBoneSpurs @usg1863.bsky.social · 5d

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”
Kafka, The Trial

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 6d

I’d rather see my senator trolling for her minority leader’s resignation at this point.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 6d

I started writing a dystopian novel a couple years ago and reality has already outpaced it.