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senior editor, smithsonian mag. preorder 'jolt' now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/Ted-Scheinman/9781668075593
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mikemadden.bsky.social
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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johnlingan.bsky.social
Hard to neatly summarize the career and impact of Miles Davis but @scheinman.bsky.social gets there. Restraint as a creative force, growth as a personal ethos, exploration as a life philosophy.
Miles Davis Emerged From Middle America to Become the ‘Picasso of Jazz’ and Taught Us All How to Be Cool
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the birth of a jazz legend, look back on the staggering impact of his work and its continued relevance
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
if you need a break today, you can read my little tribute to Miles Davis, which opens this month's issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
"At the 1949 sessions later released as Birth of the Cool, the Miles Davis sound emerged: forthright, eloquent and plaintive, as if lamenting that this was the closest you could get, on trumpet, to the human voice. It was urbane, perceptive, always ready but never hurried—in short (to use a word whose full meaning we owe to Davis), it was cool." "Davis took the wartime sound of bebop and turned down the volume and heat without sacrificing intensity. He’d made a new and beautiful kind of Cold War art, bringing acoustic jazz to such a point of perfection that when he introduced electric guitars, a decade later, many critics—especially Crouch—treated it as the vilest heresy, ever. (They were wrong; Davis’ fusion bands were often brilliant. But so what?)"
January 13, 2026 at 9:11 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
the only MCU that matters is the munch cinematic universe
ewacat.bsky.social Neon Genesis Ewangelion @ewacat.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely delighted to actually be paying enough attention this X-Files rewatch to realise that Law & Order and The X-Files are same universe lol
Appallingly blurry shot of Detective Munch from Homicide: Life on the Streets and Law & Order: SVU appearing in an episode of the X-Files. A thin rangy older gent with big ears, glasses, coming into an interrogation room introducing himself as the person being interrogated asks "did they find her?"
January 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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reedfrich.bsky.social
This is some real, Severance-level dystopian corporate behavior…
Screenshot of The News Guild article on the purely out-of-spite shutdown of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via a faceless, humanness, pre-recorded video on an emergency staff Zoom call.
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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index.themorningnews.org.ap.brid.gy
The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We asked some of our favorite journalists, writers, and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
themorningnews.org
December 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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sallymcsurly.bsky.social
Merry Christmas, friends
Tom Wilkinson as Arthur Edens in MICHAEL CLAYTON. He is smiling and wearing a Santa hat, and holding a bunch of baguettes, which are also wearing Santa hats.
December 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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rusty.todayintabs.com
WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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alexnpress.bsky.social
I wrote about things going from bad to worse for the people who actually make movies. alt headline: The Dream Factory Turns Nightmare
The Warner Brothers-Netflix merger could doom Hollywood film workers
For media moguls, maximizing shareholder value is the only metric that counts
www.fastcompany.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
merry christmas! 'camp austen' makes a delightful stocking-stuffer for any of your loved ones who delight in books, dancing, frivolity, and (literal) gallows humor. do your friends + family a service and buy some copies 🎩📚😇
Camp Austen
A Paris Review Staff Pick and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of MarchA raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, a...
us.macmillan.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
really enjoyed this piece by ellen wexler, which quotes some of my favorite folks around. on the letters of jane austen: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/jane...
Jane Austen's Letters Are the Closest We Can Get to Her. What Do They Reveal About the 'Pride and Prejudice' Author?
This year marks the English novelist's 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer valuable insights into her imaginative wit and enduring appeal
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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sarahweinman.com
Rachel Aviv on Oliver Sacks, WHEW.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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markarms.bsky.social
For @niemanstoryboard.org: Tell me your favorite stories, #longreads, podcasts, nonfiction books, and documentaries of 2025!

And because every journalist loves a deadline... Submit your picks by Friday, Dec. 5.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#podcasts #booksky #documentary
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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johnsemley3000.bsky.social
have a piece in the new issue of the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI, how its director melded American and Japanese storytelling sensibilities, and the long cultural legacy of that melding. www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Even If You’ve Never Seen 'Seven Samurai,' You’ve Certainly Seen Movies Influenced by It
Director Akira Kurosawa broke all the rules—and budgets—of Japanese filmmaking with his 1954 classic. But the final product influenced a generation of directors
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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nickhunebrown.bsky.social
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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leahfeiger.bsky.social
we're hiring a senior politics writer at @wired.com -- come work with me!
Senior Writer, Politics
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
"Sexism has two pillars: the insistence that female biology is moral destiny, and the insistence that female moral destiny is inferior. Andrews accepts both pillars. Sargeant challenges the second but accepts the first. True flourishing lies in rejection of both."
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
this beautiful book is out today. bravo to @johnlingan.bsky.social.

wise readers will purchase two copies — that way you can form a Louie Bellson-style double bass drum! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Backbe...
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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johnlingan.bsky.social
BACKBEATS is out tomorrow! And you can read an excerpt of the Charlie Watts chapter at @rollingstone.com, including one of my fav interviews, Steve Albini.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

As always, preorder at johnlingan.com
'HE MARCHES RIGHT THROUGH THE SONG': STEVE ALBINION HOW CHARLIE WATTS'S SNARE DEFINED THE ROLLING STONES In his new book 'Backbeats,' John Lingan explores what made drummers like Watts so extraordinary By JOHN LINGAN NOVEMBER 8, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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whetmoser.com
nostalgia for mass death is really fucked up
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
latest jessica winter is great: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
"The squishier centrist side has no such certainties. Galloway, in both his podcasts and “Notes on Being a Man,” presents masculinity not as one side of a fixed binary but as a state of mind and a life style, one equally available to men and women, and therefore impossible to define. (It’s a feeling, and we know how Trump supporters feel about those.) Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before. This belief may be misguided or unconscious, but it is nonetheless insuperable, and it must be accommodated, for the good of us all." "The deeper one sinks into our nation’s alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents’ house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it is gender-affirming but because life is full of tasks that need doing, and you are the person who does them. At least then you know who you are. Reading Galloway, one gets the sense that men last knew who they were about seventy-five years ago. Much as the Trump Administration does when it vows to revive the coal industry, or when it shares fascist-lite iconography that would be at home in a Paul Verhoeven film, Galloway appeals to the reader’s nostalgia for mid-century “Peak Male.” It was young men, he reminds us, who stormed the beaches at Normandy and who won the Battle of the Bulge: “When Germans or Russians are streaming over the border or firing from the beach, big-dick energy isn’t just a nice idea; it’s fucking mandatory.” Of course, the German soldiers were young men, too. And it isn’t clear which border Galloway thinks the Russians were crossing, or if he realizes which side they were fighting for."
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling

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“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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dwdavison.bsky.social
Come check this out if you're in the neighborhood!
scheinman.bsky.social d.e.i., claudius @scheinman.bsky.social · Oct 26
d.c. friends, come hear @lukeoneil47.bsky.social discuss his new collection with @patrickreis.bsky.social at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in brookland on nov. 5! rsvp below.

additional inducements: readings by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social and @dwdavison.bsky.social and me 📚
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM