Tori Hoover
@torihoover.bsky.social
baltimore-based academic who’s just trying to get that rate my professor chili pepper
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i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
cavs just ruined my whole fuckin night dude
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 AM
cavs just ruined my whole fuckin night dude
worth scanning the whole 50-page document here, but even this topline is stunning. imagine if, say, the fbi had a crime rate like this.
February 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
worth scanning the whole 50-page document here, but even this topline is stunning. imagine if, say, the fbi had a crime rate like this.
i think about this all the time as though it would ever happen to me
January 23, 2026 at 2:01 AM
i think about this all the time as though it would ever happen to me
this reads like the first paragraph of a terrible 10th grade social studies reading response
President Trump’s actions today with Venezuela raise more questions than answers. Is America going to be involved in running and stabilizing Venezuela? Today's actions raise many questions about the stability of the region and our policy towards South America.
January 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM
this reads like the first paragraph of a terrible 10th grade social studies reading response
Meanwhile in the actual historical documents…
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Meanwhile in the actual historical documents…
Shrek 2 okay cmon baby this is gonna be my freaking renaissance
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Yikes
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Yikes
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Yo.
Yo.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Shrek 2 okay cmon baby this is gonna be my freaking renaissance
apropos of nothing: they should sell bound versions of nora ephron’s screenplays, i want to be able to reference that dialogue in a paper version
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
apropos of nothing: they should sell bound versions of nora ephron’s screenplays, i want to be able to reference that dialogue in a paper version
cloud dancer: brought to you by corporate downsizing
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
cloud dancer: brought to you by corporate downsizing
Too bad my dissertation has already been submitted because this list truly deserves some critical analysis.
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Too bad my dissertation has already been submitted because this list truly deserves some critical analysis.
take it from someone on the job market: they’re bad!
October jobs data may never be released, White House says
October jobs data may never be released, White House says
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been unable to collect price data and employment information during the record-breaking government shutdown.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
take it from someone on the job market: they’re bad!
Mixed feelings on this. I hate seeing these numbers — but as someone on the academic job market right now, it’s also hard to justify cohort sizes when the jobs we’re training PhDs for just do not exist.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Mixed feelings on this. I hate seeing these numbers — but as someone on the academic job market right now, it’s also hard to justify cohort sizes when the jobs we’re training PhDs for just do not exist.
wow this explains so much about the manosphere
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
wow this explains so much about the manosphere
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
free idea: a satirically pro-tory drag queen named lauren order
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
free idea: a satirically pro-tory drag queen named lauren order
chick fil a better be catering ALL the cbs events from here on out
crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it
Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …
nypost.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
chick fil a better be catering ALL the cbs events from here on out
ngl, continually getting rejected from jobs paying like $60k despite my phd is uhhhhh devastating
September 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
ngl, continually getting rejected from jobs paying like $60k despite my phd is uhhhhh devastating
I’ll never forgive Netflix for what they did to Teenage Bounty Hunters
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I’ll never forgive Netflix for what they did to Teenage Bounty Hunters
The people elected to serve DO have input! They nominate the Fed Board! Trump appointees already control the Fed!
Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.
Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.
August 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The people elected to serve DO have input! They nominate the Fed Board! Trump appointees already control the Fed!
Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.
Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.
me every time baltimore gets mentioned these days
August 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
me every time baltimore gets mentioned these days
in college there were guys who would meanly say a kenyon 10 was an ohio state 6 as though every girl on campus didn’t know THIS was the true male kenyon 10
Must repost every now and then, and I certainly need it tonight before I go to sleep:
Paul Newman in his Navy uniform during WWII (1944-45?)
Paul Newman in his Navy uniform during WWII (1944-45?)
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
in college there were guys who would meanly say a kenyon 10 was an ohio state 6 as though every girl on campus didn’t know THIS was the true male kenyon 10
imagine having so few problems in life that you write a letter to the editor of the washington post arguing that the city where the anthem was written should stop doing its anthem-specific ballgame tradition
May 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
imagine having so few problems in life that you write a letter to the editor of the washington post arguing that the city where the anthem was written should stop doing its anthem-specific ballgame tradition