John Schwartz
@jswatz.bsky.social
UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
I would like to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner because I have always wondered what it would be like to witness my own death.
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I would like to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner because I have always wondered what it would be like to witness my own death.
“This is a basic human right, the ability for you to stop and drink water and be in the shade.," said Ana Gonzalez, organizing and advocacy director at the Texas AFL-CIO. "It’s just insane to me that this is a debate.” A sobering story from @psskow.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“This is a basic human right, the ability for you to stop and drink water and be in the shade.," said Ana Gonzalez, organizing and advocacy director at the Texas AFL-CIO. "It’s just insane to me that this is a debate.” A sobering story from @psskow.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
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Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors.
Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
Hands off higher ed, you rich yahoos.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Hands off higher ed, you rich yahoos.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”
Hands off higher ed, you rich yahoos.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Hands off higher ed, you rich yahoos.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
My wife and I have been canvassing for the Pflugerville mayoral run-off, and at one house the homeowner is a professional cookie decorator and she gave us a couple of incredible soft sugar cookies with frosting and it’s been a couple of days but I’m all still DEMOCRACY, Y’ALL!
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My wife and I have been canvassing for the Pflugerville mayoral run-off, and at one house the homeowner is a professional cookie decorator and she gave us a couple of incredible soft sugar cookies with frosting and it’s been a couple of days but I’m all still DEMOCRACY, Y’ALL!
When your plane falls out of the sky or collides with another plane because we’ve let everything go to hell, you’ll leave a natty corpse. And that’s what everyone wants, right?
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
When your plane falls out of the sky or collides with another plane because we’ve let everything go to hell, you’ll leave a natty corpse. And that’s what everyone wants, right?
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A statement today from @nationalacademies.org "affirmed that childhood vaccines are safe for the general population (and have) long-established benefits of preventing illness and averting death." This is in response to misinformation published on the CDC website under orders of RFK Jr.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A statement today from @nationalacademies.org "affirmed that childhood vaccines are safe for the general population (and have) long-established benefits of preventing illness and averting death." This is in response to misinformation published on the CDC website under orders of RFK Jr.
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A president is not a king. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Judge Dismisses Cases Against Comey and James, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A president is not a king. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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Having often given NYT headline-writers a hard time, let me be sure to congratulate whoever decided on "Tosses" for this breaking news.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Having often given NYT headline-writers a hard time, let me be sure to congratulate whoever decided on "Tosses" for this breaking news.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
Oh come ON, guys.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Oh come ON, guys.
I love my students. Full of surprises. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...
Can you reheat a Thanksgiving turkey in the dishwasher? This Texas smokehouse says yes
This Texas smokehouse claims the dishwasher produces a moist, tender Thanksgiving turkey. Here’s the surprising method and why some families swear by it.
www.statesman.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I love my students. Full of surprises. www.statesman.com/entertainmen...
"For now, let me just reiterate that Bitcoin has become a Trump trade, and Bitcoin’s declining price is an indicator of Trump’s declining dominance over the G.O.P."
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The Trump Trade is Unraveling
Tells from the crypto crash
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November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"For now, let me just reiterate that Bitcoin has become a Trump trade, and Bitcoin’s declining price is an indicator of Trump’s declining dominance over the G.O.P."
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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@pkrugman.bsky.social
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For those of us who teach journalism students about ethics, we've had some astonishingly clear lessons recently, including one from a former NYT reporter. Great stuff from @sulliview.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
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Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
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November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
For those of us who teach journalism students about ethics, we've had some astonishingly clear lessons recently, including one from a former NYT reporter. Great stuff from @sulliview.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Pflugerville has 80,000 people, but it's a small town. My wife and I are canvassing for a mayoral runoff and picked up voter info cards. We mentioned a voter who had been reading attacks on our candidate, Doug Weiss. Doug said: next time you're with someone like that, call me. I'll talk to them.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Pflugerville has 80,000 people, but it's a small town. My wife and I are canvassing for a mayoral runoff and picked up voter info cards. We mentioned a voter who had been reading attacks on our candidate, Doug Weiss. Doug said: next time you're with someone like that, call me. I'll talk to them.
A brilliant essay by @anandwrites.bsky.social about the insular elite he calls "the Epstein class": "On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away."
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A brilliant essay by @anandwrites.bsky.social about the insular elite he calls "the Epstein class": "On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away."
I love everything about my electric Mini, especially passing up gas stations. But Texas makes me pay an extra $200 to renew my registration.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I love everything about my electric Mini, especially passing up gas stations. But Texas makes me pay an extra $200 to renew my registration.
"They say everybody has two lives and the second life starts when you realize you have one," Glover said. abc7ny.com/post/donald-...
Donald Glover says he had a stroke
Glover, who performs under the moniker Childish Gambino, shared the information on stage at Tyler, the Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"They say everybody has two lives and the second life starts when you realize you have one," Glover said. abc7ny.com/post/donald-...
Still life with menudo. Life is good, y’all, and even better if you can meet a friend at Joe’s Bakery for breakfast.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Still life with menudo. Life is good, y’all, and even better if you can meet a friend at Joe’s Bakery for breakfast.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the U.S. “authored” a 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, after a Republican senator asserted that Rubio had distanced himself from the proposal and called it a Russian initiative.
Rubio Insists U.S. Authored the Ukraine Peace Plan
The comment from Secretary of State Marco Rubio came after a group of U.S. lawmakers claimed that he said the plan was a Russian initiative, not a U.S. proposal.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the U.S. “authored” a 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, after a Republican senator asserted that Rubio had distanced himself from the proposal and called it a Russian initiative.
Dude rode rockets into space. Do you think he’s gonna be afraid of you?
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Dude rode rockets into space. Do you think he’s gonna be afraid of you?
way too many metaphors out there right now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
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November 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
way too many metaphors out there right now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
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November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”
I'd rather get dating advice from Jeffrey Epstein than this guy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
Trouble Dating? Bill Ackman Is Here to Help.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'd rather get dating advice from Jeffrey Epstein than this guy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
“The lack of concrete commitments in the final text of COP30 shows us who is still benefiting from the delay: the fossil fuel industry and the ultrarich, not those living the climate crisis every day,” said Ilan Zugman, Latin American and Caribbean director for 350.org, an environmental group.
Climate Talks End With Dire Warnings, but Little Action to Slow Warming
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November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“The lack of concrete commitments in the final text of COP30 shows us who is still benefiting from the delay: the fossil fuel industry and the ultrarich, not those living the climate crisis every day,” said Ilan Zugman, Latin American and Caribbean director for 350.org, an environmental group.