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Pete Croatto

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Accidental sportswriter (NYT, Andscape, GQ, Poynter, The Athletic, etc.) and intentional author (From Hang Time to Prime Time). Pardon the typos. He/him. Tips or inquiries: [email protected].

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 2h

This is the exact pose of every grandmother who insists it’s not too cold in the house. “Don’t worry about me. I’m fine, I’m fine,” she says in a living room that is as hot as the inside of a pottery kiln.

Vintage Jerseys & Hats @polyesterunis.bsky.social · 3h

Pedro Guerrero, 1987 #Dodgers

#Baseball

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 4h

Of course they could have donated the money anonymously. But that's not the point, is it.

Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 4h

The equivalent of a mother in a gangster movie. "I DON'T WANT YOUR BLOOD MONEY."

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Daniel J. Willis (That’s already a scary name.) @bayareadata.press · 14h

Wait, aren't you the network? Did you just "sources say" *yourselves*?

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

CNN will host a live town hall with progressive lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, October 15, the network announced Friday.

CNN to host town hall with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders | CNN Politics

CNN will host a live town hall with progressive lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, October 15, the network announced Friday.

www.cnn.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14h

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 14h

One of these days, I will make a current pop culture reference. When I do—take shelter, nerds.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 14h

"OK, I want to look like Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, but sporty. Can we do that? And let me put on my grandma's sunglasses!"

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 14h

"Also, 'exposure' and 'a boost to your portfolio' are not forms of payment. Go Sox!"

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 16h

“Also,” the pope added, “anything longer than net 30 is inhumane”

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 16h

There has to be a property for Mira Nair to direct.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 17h

If Cuomo were Pinocchio, his nose would poke his ass.

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 17h

Right! And it's not like that movie was part of the MCU.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 17h

And just so we're clear: MONSOON WEDDING rules.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 17h

Mamdani is just rolling in MONSOON WEDDING dough. I'm glad America's most oblivious and morally bankrupt politician pointed this out.

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 1d

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 17h

He's positively rolling in all that MONSOON WEDDING money!

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 19h

Good. No news outlet should trade the right to do real journalism for the right to get lied to at Pentagon press conferences.

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 19h

I'm going to end up like Mr. Gower in the alternate timeline in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, the only way to find freelance assignments is to reach out to people, because the job search engines clearly want to frame me for murder.

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 1d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we're actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

He might want to do that to endure watching this game.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 2d

I disagree. Allow me to retort. www.aarparrow.com/family-fathe...

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 2d

And her boyfriend, you know, for funsies!

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I will watch this. (Also, please read @greenwell.bsky.social’s excellent “Bad Company.”)

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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