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NYTimes Communications @nytimespr.bsky.social · 1d

A statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s press pass policy:

“Journalists from The New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy, which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment. Since the policy was first announced, we have expressed concerns that it constrains how journalists can report on the U.S. military, which is funded by nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars annually. The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating. The Times is dedicated to pursuing the public interest through deep, fair reporting and an unwavering pursuit of the facts.”

Richard Stevenson, Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 2d

Oh. That's ... huh. Welp.

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I wonder ... if they raise 230 as a defense, would that make it more difficult for them to raise the First Amendment?

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 2d

It's potentially at issue in these cases about suicide and other user harm. The first one, Garcia v. Character Tech., is still in the lower court. But I'm not sure character.ai even raised it as a defense there. They went with the First Amendment & said the chatbot output was speech, not a product.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 3d

That name sounds super Latin. Seems sus.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 3d

Optimism!

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 3d

This is like a tweet thread from back when social media was good.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 9d

Easy to guarantee because they almost never are.

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Tracey Tully @traceytully.bsky.social · 9d

I hope you'll read this, all the way thru. A gift article on a really important thing that happened today in Newark. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

This City Was Forced to Overhaul Its Police Department. Crime Plummeted.

www.nytimes.com

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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 12d

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 15d

Literally every time I see someone talk about the University of Austin, I at first think they are talking about the University of Texas at Austin, a legitimate institution from which I graduated, and I freak out for almost an entire second.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 22d

Lawyers, tell me, is it bad when a federal judge describes having to "endure" your allegations and "florid," "enervating" prose? And then rejects your complaint as "decidedly improper and impermissible" without the defense even filing a word? (Trump v. NYT)

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 22d

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Shannon Bond @shannonbond.bsky.social · 23d

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 23d

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 23d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB6...

Andor | Kino Loy’s Monologue | Disney+

YouTube video by Star Wars

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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 23d

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 23d

This is by Karl Rove.

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 23d

WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it."

www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Opinion | ‘They’ Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk

It insults his memory to blame political opponents for one man’s heinous act.

www.wsj.com

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 23d

The United States is a country where comedians must take care not to offend the ruling party if they want to keep their jobs.

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Russ Buettner @russbuettner.bsky.social · 23d

And now, this…

Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · 24d

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success—the instant bestseller from Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters @russbuettner.bsky.social and @susannecraignyt.bsky.social—is available in paperback on September 23.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 23d

Weird how I keep thinking about this

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 23

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 24d

Holy shit, my own children are doing this, and I thought it was just them being weird! Relatedly: The 8-year-old is now removing caps from pens while saying "almonds" in a wry voice. I have googled "almonds brainrot" to no avail. Please advise.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25d

This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25d

Suspect the NYT lawsuit is very different to those brought against TV news networks. The NYT isn't part of a much larger corporate group, and it interacts much less with federal regulators. Their incentives to fight are much stronger (and it's *such* a flimsy lawsuit).

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 25d

In my inbox ...

An image of an email from AG Sulzberger describing a lawsuit from President Trump against the New York Times as frivolous and an attempt to stifle and punish independent reporting.

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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social · 25d

This is a good take! I like to tell people that investigative journalism is way more boring and tedious than they assume.

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 25d

I've said this take before, but All the President's Men is the most accurate journalism movie in large part because there are long stretches where no good source will talk to them and it's not clear they're going to get the story even if they stay really dogged at it and it's really boring to watch

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 26d

As I have said to friends many times, the crises of the 21st century (GWOT, financial crises, etc) simply don’t add up in a material sense to the level of crazy and authoritarianism we are seeing today.

Internet and social media are a much better root cause explanation.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26d

"It’s no longer tenable... to delineate between the digital world and 'real life.' The bile we swim in daily, sometimes for hours on end, is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable."

@aselrod.bsky.social is right. From shooters to voters, the internet is driving toxic anger.

Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.

Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jessica Silver-Greenberg @jsgatnyt.bsky.social · Sep 8

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation.

JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender.

Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

www.nytimes.com

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