alex sammon
@alexsammon.bsky.social
features writer @ slate
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Great @alexsammon.bsky.social article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all slate.com/business/202...
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Great @alexsammon.bsky.social article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all slate.com/business/202...
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(Story by the great @alexsammon.bsky.social) slate.com/life/2025/09...
Beer Is Officially on the Decline in America. No One Saw the Real Culprit Coming.
The war on suds has multiple fronts—but they all come from the same place.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
(Story by the great @alexsammon.bsky.social) slate.com/life/2025/09...
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I'd be curious how US trends compare to global/ROW trends. Is this really an American only phenomena?
@alexsammon.bsky.social
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America has lost its taste for beer—and no one saw the real culprit coming. slate.trib.al/6A80waL
Beer Is Officially on the Decline in America. No One Saw the Real Culprit Coming.
The war on suds has multiple fronts—but they all come from the same place.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'd be curious how US trends compare to global/ROW trends. Is this really an American only phenomena?
@alexsammon.bsky.social
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@alexsammon.bsky.social
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participated in my first People Magazine exclusive, in which I am "man." people.com/what-happene...
Man Got an Unexpected Text Offering a Dream Job, So He Said Yes — and Discovered a Strange Scam Ring
In 2024, Americans reported $470 million in losses to text scams, more than fivefold the amount reported in 2020, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The digital landscape continues to evolve, ...
people.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
participated in my first People Magazine exclusive, in which I am "man." people.com/what-happene...
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Today in “One-liners That Absolutely Destroyed Me”: “Someone should invent a currency that’s just the amount that it is.” - @alexsammon.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today in “One-liners That Absolutely Destroyed Me”: “Someone should invent a currency that’s just the amount that it is.” - @alexsammon.bsky.social
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This shameful episode👇 set the stage for what Trump is doing today. Cynical Democrats and pundits claimed that D.C. couldn't be trusted to write our own criminal laws, legitimizing Republicans' insistence that we don't deserve home rule. A straight line from there to here. slate.com/news-and-pol...
August 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This shameful episode👇 set the stage for what Trump is doing today. Cynical Democrats and pundits claimed that D.C. couldn't be trusted to write our own criminal laws, legitimizing Republicans' insistence that we don't deserve home rule. A straight line from there to here. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Congratulations to @alexsammon.bsky.social! He won this week's audience award for "My Scammer" at @slate.com
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I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Congratulations to @alexsammon.bsky.social! He won this week's audience award for "My Scammer" at @slate.com
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widespread adoption of crypto
+ proliferation of AI
+ softening of the labor market
+ enforcement “replaced by crypto industry toadies”
= “It is a great time to be a scammer.”
+ proliferation of AI
+ softening of the labor market
+ enforcement “replaced by crypto industry toadies”
= “It is a great time to be a scammer.”
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
widespread adoption of crypto
+ proliferation of AI
+ softening of the labor market
+ enforcement “replaced by crypto industry toadies”
= “It is a great time to be a scammer.”
+ proliferation of AI
+ softening of the labor market
+ enforcement “replaced by crypto industry toadies”
= “It is a great time to be a scammer.”
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This is incredible.
August 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is incredible.
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'This whole march of human cultural production—incalculable progress—and the one constant that has survived and adapted and thrived? The scam. ... In the end, I arrived at a simple truth. Over the course of two months, “Cathy” had run me for $96.'
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
'This whole march of human cultural production—incalculable progress—and the one constant that has survived and adapted and thrived? The scam. ... In the end, I arrived at a simple truth. Over the course of two months, “Cathy” had run me for $96.'
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Crypto is the scam enabler. It's where crooks hide money.
It also does important cultural work by lubricating transactions with a magical get-rich-quick aura. It says you don't fully understand what's happening with your "earnings" because the rules are different in the cryptosphere. Duh.
It also does important cultural work by lubricating transactions with a magical get-rich-quick aura. It says you don't fully understand what's happening with your "earnings" because the rules are different in the cryptosphere. Duh.
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Crypto is the scam enabler. It's where crooks hide money.
It also does important cultural work by lubricating transactions with a magical get-rich-quick aura. It says you don't fully understand what's happening with your "earnings" because the rules are different in the cryptosphere. Duh.
It also does important cultural work by lubricating transactions with a magical get-rich-quick aura. It says you don't fully understand what's happening with your "earnings" because the rules are different in the cryptosphere. Duh.
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Scam job offers requiring you to initially pay fees in crypto, "pay" you in crypto that you can't withdraw or access so you get nothing in the end, and use your labor to generate bogus click traffic and "clicks ... captured to beat captchas or overcome security measures that target bots."
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Scam job offers requiring you to initially pay fees in crypto, "pay" you in crypto that you can't withdraw or access so you get nothing in the end, and use your labor to generate bogus click traffic and "clicks ... captured to beat captchas or overcome security measures that target bots."
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You know those spam text messages you get, saying it's a recruiter with a job for you?
what ... how does the scam work?
@alexsammon.bsky.social took one of the jobs, and the story is *fascinating*
Go check it out: slate.com/technology/2...
what ... how does the scam work?
@alexsammon.bsky.social took one of the jobs, and the story is *fascinating*
Go check it out: slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You know those spam text messages you get, saying it's a recruiter with a job for you?
what ... how does the scam work?
@alexsammon.bsky.social took one of the jobs, and the story is *fascinating*
Go check it out: slate.com/technology/2...
what ... how does the scam work?
@alexsammon.bsky.social took one of the jobs, and the story is *fascinating*
Go check it out: slate.com/technology/2...
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
In just over two years, 155,000 migrants passed through the aging Roosevelt Hotel. Eric Adams conspired to kick them out; Dr. Phil choreographed an aborted ICE raid of the facility, conservative media claimed it was Tren de Aragua HQ.
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In just over two years, 155,000 migrants passed through the aging Roosevelt Hotel. Eric Adams conspired to kick them out; Dr. Phil choreographed an aborted ICE raid of the facility, conservative media claimed it was Tren de Aragua HQ.
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"The front end, which was also a trunk, came up right to my rib cage, a contact point that would have chagrined any high school football coach as bad tackling form: too high."
I wrote about the return of the war on terror, and its favorite mascot, recently rebooted just in time for us to lose another great conflict, our war with climate change. slate.com/business/202...
It’s the Car That Explains Everything About America Right Now. Elon Musk Only Wishes He Made It.
In Florida, on the country’s most dangerous roads, I had a 9,500-pound revelation.
slate.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"The front end, which was also a trunk, came up right to my rib cage, a contact point that would have chagrined any high school football coach as bad tackling form: too high."
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This by @alexsammon.bsky.social is a very good and funny piece on that tank: slate.com/business/202...
It’s the Car That Explains Everything About America Right Now. Elon Musk Only Wishes He Made It.
In Florida, on the country’s most dangerous roads, I had a 9,500-pound revelation.
slate.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This by @alexsammon.bsky.social is a very good and funny piece on that tank: slate.com/business/202...
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great piece
I wrote about the return of the war on terror, and its favorite mascot, recently rebooted just in time for us to lose another great conflict, our war with climate change. slate.com/business/202...
It’s the Car That Explains Everything About America Right Now. Elon Musk Only Wishes He Made It.
In Florida, on the country’s most dangerous roads, I had a 9,500-pound revelation.
slate.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
great piece
I wrote about the return of the war on terror, and its favorite mascot, recently rebooted just in time for us to lose another great conflict, our war with climate change. slate.com/business/202...
It’s the Car That Explains Everything About America Right Now. Elon Musk Only Wishes He Made It.
In Florida, on the country’s most dangerous roads, I had a 9,500-pound revelation.
slate.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I wrote about the return of the war on terror, and its favorite mascot, recently rebooted just in time for us to lose another great conflict, our war with climate change. slate.com/business/202...
Disappearance has become a feature of the Trump’s ICE raids, a process that often finds people in a prison network in central Louisiana. I got a behind-the-curtain look at the operations of American Siberia—the newfangled ICE detention towns where people are sent to disappear. 1/
June 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Disappearance has become a feature of the Trump’s ICE raids, a process that often finds people in a prison network in central Louisiana. I got a behind-the-curtain look at the operations of American Siberia—the newfangled ICE detention towns where people are sent to disappear. 1/
Hey *YOU*, Bluesky user! Would it shock you to know that the big money, corporate-backed centrist organs have decided that YOU are the greatest threat to the Democratic Party, and the reason it loses elections? They convened a gathering to make sure of it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Went to the Biggest Party for the Most-Hated Democrats in America. One Moment Said It All.
There was one clear idea for how to beat Trump.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hey *YOU*, Bluesky user! Would it shock you to know that the big money, corporate-backed centrist organs have decided that YOU are the greatest threat to the Democratic Party, and the reason it loses elections? They convened a gathering to make sure of it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Read @alexsammon.bsky.social on a visit to Mahmoud Khalil, America's most famous political prisoner slate.com/news-and-pol...
What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Read @alexsammon.bsky.social on a visit to Mahmoud Khalil, America's most famous political prisoner slate.com/news-and-pol...
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My colleague @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside Louisiana's immigrant detention: slate.com/news-and-pol...
It’s Easy to Forget the Reality of What We’re Doing to People Like Mahmoud Khalil. One Hour in His Facility Shows That.
A heartbreaking afternoon in ICE custody in Louisiana.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My colleague @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside Louisiana's immigrant detention: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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exclusive reporting by @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com on what life is like for Mahmoud Khalil inside the remote ICE detention center he's being held, including the moment he saw his newborn son for the first time (via pictures that a friend snuck into the center)
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Trump Is Sending People Like Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana for a Reason. See It for Yourself.
A heartbreaking afternoon in ICE custody in Louisiana.
slate.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
exclusive reporting by @alexsammon.bsky.social in @slate.com on what life is like for Mahmoud Khalil inside the remote ICE detention center he's being held, including the moment he saw his newborn son for the first time (via pictures that a friend snuck into the center)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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