Josh Cain
@joshcain.bsky.social
Recovering reporter. Now I organize. IATSE Local 871. Former Newsguild-CWA. Forever SCNG Guild.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
You know what I think Isaac Chotiner is right to be suspicious of the Semafor article credulously arguing that it's fine for the Saudis to be real life Bene Gesserit
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
You know what I think Isaac Chotiner is right to be suspicious of the Semafor article credulously arguing that it's fine for the Saudis to be real life Bene Gesserit
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i don't really wonder why isaac chotiner is like this. i wonder why our journalists in general aren't like this.
begins here, over this article: www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
i don't really wonder why isaac chotiner is like this. i wonder why our journalists in general aren't like this.
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Not really familiar with this new Chotiner fight but I will be using this treasure in the replies from time to time
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Not really familiar with this new Chotiner fight but I will be using this treasure in the replies from time to time
Oh yes of course, "Semafor Gulf," sure
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Oh yes of course, "Semafor Gulf," sure
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
Give the monkey guy a cigar to chomp on and some space Jimi Hendrix to listen to while laying down covering fire with his laser M60 machine gun, and Rogue One would be a masterpiece
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Give the monkey guy a cigar to chomp on and some space Jimi Hendrix to listen to while laying down covering fire with his laser M60 machine gun, and Rogue One would be a masterpiece
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
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From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech
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The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
www.thecity.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
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for the nyt defense squad who spent yesterday crying that people were mean to the nyt, you don’t have to rush to their defense. you can just Not Post
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
for the nyt defense squad who spent yesterday crying that people were mean to the nyt, you don’t have to rush to their defense. you can just Not Post
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In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer.
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer.
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
Good things are possible and all, but we're talking about law enforcement types here -- a serious and hard nosed insider who the rank and file dislike for being a hard ass is probably the best you're gonna get
I think it's fine if Tisch is in there when he takes office on January 1.
She seems to have some genuine sense of propriety and takes orders. She can't be bought. She's happy to get rid of corruption/nepotism. Let her keep going on that path.
It will be v. hard to replace her w/o mutiny in ranks.
She seems to have some genuine sense of propriety and takes orders. She can't be bought. She's happy to get rid of corruption/nepotism. Let her keep going on that path.
It will be v. hard to replace her w/o mutiny in ranks.
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Good things are possible and all, but we're talking about law enforcement types here -- a serious and hard nosed insider who the rank and file dislike for being a hard ass is probably the best you're gonna get
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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WHAT
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
WHAT
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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as a current new york times employee or former one who was supposed to be covering all of this, let me just say some of you should absolutely trust me when I say there’s no funny business going on with the epstein documents. what reason would I have to say otherwise
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
as a current new york times employee or former one who was supposed to be covering all of this, let me just say some of you should absolutely trust me when I say there’s no funny business going on with the epstein documents. what reason would I have to say otherwise
Journalists who make a big point of defending their institutions: That is theater kid energy. It's not going to work, because it's inherently lame.
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Journalists who make a big point of defending their institutions: That is theater kid energy. It's not going to work, because it's inherently lame.
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
Sure, the posters are wrong probably! But they're not trying to be right! They justifiably dislike NYT!
I am sorry, but while these conspiracies are incorrect on the facts, they are directionally correct: You have super powerful bosses whose daily work is to set the nation's news agenda, and they do so in a way that often pisses everybody here off. Of course they're going to come out guns blazing!
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I am sorry, but while these conspiracies are incorrect on the facts, they are directionally correct: You have super powerful bosses whose daily work is to set the nation's news agenda, and they do so in a way that often pisses everybody here off. Of course they're going to come out guns blazing!
"no tool to stop it" except oh I dunno DOING POLITICS
Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"no tool to stop it" except oh I dunno DOING POLITICS
I don't think this former NYT reporter is wrong at all about their Epstein coverage in 2018-19; they wrote dozens of stories about him and his connections to Trump.
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I don't think this former NYT reporter is wrong at all about their Epstein coverage in 2018-19; they wrote dozens of stories about him and his connections to Trump.
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!
But you can't rely on coverage alone to maintain trust with readers! Perhaps don't sweep your reporter's bad behavior under the rug!