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So here we are. Again
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December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This👇🏼 Every damn day.
Any journalist who has not at least once committed reckless disregard of leadership is not to be trusted.
It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.
December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Proud of this collab between @laist.com and the USC Open-Source Intelligence Reporting Lab
Just how much have street takeovers spun out of control in LA?
What began as an underground car scene has exploded into a violent public spectacle fueled by social media. A USC Annenberg investigation maps the toll.
laist.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
What were they supposed to do? There just aren't many photos of Los Angeles sunsets out there
Just when you thought this campaign couldn’t get worse.

This is a photo of Bali
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There is a certain kind of person who takes pride in not being good with tech, as if that makes them better at other things, when it's also possible they just suck at a lot of things
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Seems like there's at least one student every semester www.youtube.com/shorts/iAUh7...
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
YouTube video by Classified History
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Me at McDonald's: I would like a Big Mac.
McDonald's: That'll be $5.75
Me: *sigh* paywalled
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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It’s wild that earlier this year Trump said kids only get two dolls now and they’ll cost more and nobody else seems to remember it or think it should he part of this affordability stuff.
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
All hail @tessastuart.bsky.social for writing this magazine story, and I don't use that phrase lightly. Not longform. Not a feature. A magnificent magazine story.
The Radicalization of Ziz Lasota: How an AI Doomer Became an Accused Cult Leader

Lasota’s friends, colleagues, and family talk about how a NASA intern and Google employee wound up at the center of a bizarre string of murders across the country.

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
USC is hosting a conference on the Philosophy of Breakups. Seems like a missed opportunity to not incorporate the Fight On slogan somehow. philevents.org/event/show/1...
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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LA needs to buy Memo Torres at @lataco.bsky.social all the beers. That man is TIRELESS. 🫡
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This game. This series. This game.
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The crazy thing about the “Kavanaugh stops” decision is he didn’t have to attach his name to it at all. Nobody else in the majority wrote anything. Nobody had to write anything. But he was all like, “Hold my beer.”
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
MFA programs really killed the style of writing that basically went “Let me tell you my theory of friendship. [10,000 words that include references to Plato, Charlemagne and Ulysses S Grant] Paul was that kind of friend.”

Now it’s all “Paul handed me a beer. He knew I needed it.”
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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History department fulfilling its noble role as a place for football tailgating urinals
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.

The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.

Everyone’s’ “must read” today.
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
instantly recognizable as that refinery in Carson off the 405
September 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM