I think it would reduce blurring the line between "source" and "friend," and hopefully would stop people from saving scoops for books.

This has been messy since they beginning because wth.

Her former fiance being nearly 52, meanining he likely met her in the newsroom in her 20s and he was in his ate 40s has me like 👀. Also, prior to his engagement, he was fired for alleged sexual misconduct. This is a rabbit hole I didn't need to go down.

That changes a lot of things but I also haven't been following all of the scandal post-RFK news. No use in following someone I didn't follow before a scandal.

More focused on proximity to power and book deals than doing the actual work of journalism while everyone who actually cares about this work is scrabbling for freelance scraps or being reporter/editor/ceo/social manager/cfo/cto of their newsletter.

Yep! Toy prices and clothing seem really high. I've been trying to fulfill the wishlist of two children in foster care and everything is so expensive. But, I just nabbed a good gift during the pre-Black Friday holiday sales.

Anywho, come out and support our writers.

I had hoped to start sending around invites a month ago but even with the invite going out a week ago, we received 100+ RSVPs with one email.

Like, this is applying the lowest possible standard here: I’m not even asking the US press to manage the impossible task of caring about the millions of poor people around the world being killed or having their lives ruined; they can’t even manage to judge it as a political win/lose story

Everything equal. Knowing what we know. Using logic. People really think these large dating apps were built without bots and paid/fake accounts?

Ya gotta use skepticism sometimes. Do you know how hard it to build a thing from scratch?