d.e.i., claudius
@scheinman.bsky.social
senior editor, smithsonian mag.
preorders now open for JOLT (Scribner, Aug. 2026): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/Ted-Scheinman/9781668075593
preorders now open for JOLT (Scribner, Aug. 2026): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/Ted-Scheinman/9781668075593
"Despite the three disasters, dedicated queer and trans Ugandans — many who could flee to exile to secure their own personal safety — refuse to give up trying to protect the health of their community, even as they’re being crushed."
For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share.
theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...
theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...
By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda
Reporting from Uganda, The Intercept saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.
theintercept.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
"Despite the three disasters, dedicated queer and trans Ugandans — many who could flee to exile to secure their own personal safety — refuse to give up trying to protect the health of their community, even as they’re being crushed."
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Former WaPo staff: I’m sorry for the bloodbath. Question Everything is taking pitches for stories about the state of journalism, attacks on the press, our information ecosystem, and accountability for big tech. Pitch us/send tips: [email protected] Signal: brihreed.45
February 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Former WaPo staff: I’m sorry for the bloodbath. Question Everything is taking pitches for stories about the state of journalism, attacks on the press, our information ecosystem, and accountability for big tech. Pitch us/send tips: [email protected] Signal: brihreed.45
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using multiple screens in the 15th century
February 6, 2026 at 7:47 PM
using multiple screens in the 15th century
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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
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“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
February 5, 2026 at 3:56 PM
“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
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Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit
"Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity." || via @thepointmag.bsky.social
Listless Liberalism | The Point Magazine
Where is liberalism’s “Fascinating Fascism”? Who is its Riefenstahl?
thepointmag.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM
"Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity." || via @thepointmag.bsky.social
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Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage.
If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]
If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]
February 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage.
If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]
If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]
bezos' vandalism of wapo + bari weiss' defilement of cbs + trump's desecration of everything from civic architecture to the constitution are fundamentally the same political project. america's most enterprising billionaires are working night and day to make this country a stupider, uglier place.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
bezos' vandalism of wapo + bari weiss' defilement of cbs + trump's desecration of everything from civic architecture to the constitution are fundamentally the same political project. america's most enterprising billionaires are working night and day to make this country a stupider, uglier place.
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The problem with @attackerman.bsky.social being cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy is that we keep having to add things he’s predicted to his pieces as I edit them
I Guess We're All Just Supposed To Be OK With Bombing Iran Again
Watching the buildup for regime change in Iran happily echo the buildup for regime change in Iraq. PLUS: The ghost of NSEERS returns to DHS
www.forever-wars.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The problem with @attackerman.bsky.social being cursed by Apollo with the power of prophecy is that we keep having to add things he’s predicted to his pieces as I edit them
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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
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Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White House’s enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, they’re cheering the real thing.
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.
theintercept.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White House’s enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, they’re cheering the real thing.
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
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As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways.
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...
February 1, 2026 at 12:17 AM
As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways.
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...
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MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com
This is America.
This is America.
What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
www.propublica.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:05 PM
MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com
This is America.
This is America.
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I wrote about Bari Weiss and CBS’s pivot to “scoops of ideas” newrepublic.com/article/2059...
What Bari Weiss Doesn’t Get About CBS News
Her plan to focus on “scoops of ideas” will only make the news network’s offerings more like (pretty much) everything else in media.
newrepublic.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I wrote about Bari Weiss and CBS’s pivot to “scoops of ideas” newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:21 PM
new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone
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If you're a health provider or health worker in Minneapolis, especially at a hospital, I'd love to talk for a story! [email protected] or Signal in bio
January 26, 2026 at 6:06 PM
If you're a health provider or health worker in Minneapolis, especially at a hospital, I'd love to talk for a story! [email protected] or Signal in bio
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Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?
Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…
lithub.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 24, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
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When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
thebaffler.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
"Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse?" @lukeoneil47.bsky.social:
We must love one another or die
A Hell World reader in Minneapolis sent me the drawing above.
"Here's a drawing by an unknown artist at my kid's school. Among many other sweet gestures going in all directions, kids at the school ha...
www.welcometohellworld.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
"Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse?" @lukeoneil47.bsky.social:
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There's a similar thread here to the whole "everyone must return to office full time or else there will be a commercial real estate crisis" meltdown circa 2022, where major companies seem to have decided they should get to invest billions of dollars risk free
Unreal that tech execs are acting like “thing might fail if people continue to not like or want it” is our problem and not theirs.
January 20, 2026 at 5:13 PM
There's a similar thread here to the whole "everyone must return to office full time or else there will be a commercial real estate crisis" meltdown circa 2022, where major companies seem to have decided they should get to invest billions of dollars risk free
student journalists continue to step up. from yesterday's daily tar heel:
Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg
"Regardless, we need to establish a few fundamental values: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror and no illusions that compromise will beget accountability."
www.dailytarheel.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:03 PM
student journalists continue to step up. from yesterday's daily tar heel: