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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 10h

A “landmark trial” with 7 subjects and negligible 2 point improvement over placebo on the HAM-D ratings scale? Do better, KFF.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 12h

You get what you pay for, right.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks. You as well at SI. I was once one of the highest paid writers at Men’s Health. I still never made what a mechanic gets in a year. So they can save their proposition for people just excited to get a byline.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 13h

When Doug Tice ran it. I argued for it and got it or something close from the aughts through about 19 when I went on staff somewhere else. The last 2 I did recently I fought for $250. I pay my trombone player more than that.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 14h

PS i used to get a buck a word from that opinion page, sometimes 1200-1400 words, until this new push for average Joe essays, probably unpaid, that often resemble AI.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 14h

The column is great. I also thought the one they just ran from Mt. Olivet was embarrassing. I wrote a 6 word comment below it: “What gassy, pious nonsense. So sad.” They rejected it.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 14h

Seems clear the @startribune is a toxic workplace given her chiding posted here - they do not respect her right to describe what happened to her — but also just so foolish with talent (again). The column they spiked is great. It reminds of the truth bomb @espiers.bsky.social wrote in the Times.

Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 15h

I’m finally sharing the (unpublished) column that led directly to my firing as a columnist at the Minnesota @startribune.com.

Read it here:

angeladenker.substack.com/p/the-column...

The column that got me fired

A Special Edition of News with Nuance ...

angeladenker.substack.com

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 23h

Enraging on so many levels.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 23h

I tried. I really tried.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 23h

He’s a glib poseur.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 1d

If I look at them through my window they warn each other and split. Extremely shy.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump invoked the Insurrection Act in these circumstances, it would be an unmistakable declaration that he's canceling our democracy and intends to rule as a dictator.
Everyone needs to understand that this would give us a sad but crystal-clear choice between resistance and submission.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 1d

This is the result of health media having long ago ceded its duty to understand good and bad research practices and norms. The public was then trained to spit back “where’s your M.D.?” any time a reporter looked closely at a study and highlighted its context. We act as if a M.D. confers omniscience.

Blobert v3.0 @theblobert.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t have to be based on one’s political persuasion, but the media keep portraying health through a political lens and amplifying voices who want to enforce their medical point of view, despite what scientific evidence might say.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics. n.pr/3KF1CiO

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NoBoneSpurs @usg1863.bsky.social · 1d

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”
Kafka, The Trial

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 2d

I’d rather see my senator trolling for her minority leader’s resignation at this point.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 2d

I started writing a dystopian novel a couple years ago and reality has already outpaced it.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 3d

These are hardly the problems afflicting the system. The public chases treatments being marketed to them. Healthcare does that.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 3d

That absurd bill is from the health system. Vultures, non- medical.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3d

I believe socialized healthcare would be better but we haven’t even tried market healthcare

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 3d

At the Dakota, Brad Mehldau plays a pretty fuckin sad snippet of America the Beautiful. “I still love our troubled republic.” Then it’s on to Neil Young.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 3d

This. Nazi Germany based what it did on the Jim Crow South.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 3d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
SCOTUS doesn’t deserve to be covered as a credible functioning institution.

What Next | When You’re A Justice They Let You Do It

Podcast Episode · Slate News · 10/06/2025 · 31m

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 5d

Uggh. Looks like the airport. And they probably had a total do-over budget. People would slam that place if they had even tried.

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