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It has been amazing as a newsroom fan, watching @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's incredible, indefatigable reporting on DOGE and the Trump administration.
She shows what journalism can do in a crisis. Please read what she gave to her sources - and the country - this year
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She shows what journalism can do in a crisis. Please read what she gave to her sources - and the country - this year
wapo.st/3LjmYCV
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It has been amazing as a newsroom fan, watching @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's incredible, indefatigable reporting on DOGE and the Trump administration.
She shows what journalism can do in a crisis. Please read what she gave to her sources - and the country - this year
wapo.st/3LjmYCV
She shows what journalism can do in a crisis. Please read what she gave to her sources - and the country - this year
wapo.st/3LjmYCV
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Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
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So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
When Amy Schalet was interviewing experts for her book _Not Under My Roof_, a Dutch pediatrician told her that in the Netherlands, children are considered to be citizens, so of course they have their own rights.
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When Amy Schalet was interviewing experts for her book _Not Under My Roof_, a Dutch pediatrician told her that in the Netherlands, children are considered to be citizens, so of course they have their own rights.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Missed this from a few days ago
December 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Missed this from a few days ago
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How do we protect our city from cars?
#carsruincities
#carsruincities
How much more of this can we take, #STL? 💔😡💔
Carol House seeks help after car crashes into 3 cars, building belonging to the nonprofit veterinary clinic
A car crashed into a building and three cars on Saturday, all of which belonged to a veterinary non-profit. Now, the group is asking for help as they attempt to repair the damage and care for the anim...
www.firstalert4.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
How do we protect our city from cars?
#carsruincities
#carsruincities
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sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
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Alexander Rhodes, founder of NoFap, the much-maligned anti-masturbation group, has filed suit against researchers he claims are part of a vast conspiracy to defame him, along with Aylo, owner of Pornhub, and 150-year-old peer-reviewed scientific journal Taylor & Francis.
NoFap Founder Sues Aylo, UCLA, Scientists & Academic Publisher AVN
Aylo leads a class of defendants in a state-level defamation lawsuit brought by the founder of NoFap, a controversial anti-pornography group.
avn.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Alexander Rhodes, founder of NoFap, the much-maligned anti-masturbation group, has filed suit against researchers he claims are part of a vast conspiracy to defame him, along with Aylo, owner of Pornhub, and 150-year-old peer-reviewed scientific journal Taylor & Francis.
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Checked to see what Pandora thought counted as #Thanksgiving Music. It turned out to be soft rock, from about 50 years ago.
I feel like I should have guessed that, but I'm not entirely sure why. Can it be as simple as "Thanksgiving music has always been whatever the grandparents like?"
I feel like I should have guessed that, but I'm not entirely sure why. Can it be as simple as "Thanksgiving music has always been whatever the grandparents like?"
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Checked to see what Pandora thought counted as #Thanksgiving Music. It turned out to be soft rock, from about 50 years ago.
I feel like I should have guessed that, but I'm not entirely sure why. Can it be as simple as "Thanksgiving music has always been whatever the grandparents like?"
I feel like I should have guessed that, but I'm not entirely sure why. Can it be as simple as "Thanksgiving music has always been whatever the grandparents like?"
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Apple TV: your one-stop shop for prestige TV shows that are extended metaphors for working for Apple
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Apple TV: your one-stop shop for prestige TV shows that are extended metaphors for working for Apple
Thank you! I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it myself.
Now will somebody explain to me why we shouldn't be letting homeless people use the airport concourse during hours when nobody else is using it?
Now will somebody explain to me why we shouldn't be letting homeless people use the airport concourse during hours when nobody else is using it?
For the St. Louis airport, "sweeps" moving along homeless visitors are a nightly ritual -- and may have been a factor in last week's fatal shooting. @ryankrull.bsky.social has the story www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
For St. Louis airport, homeless “sweeps” are a nightly ritual
A fatal shooting last week at St. Louis Lambert International Airport has put a bright light on the persistent issue of homelessness at the airport, with a source familiar with its operations telling ...
www.stlmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thank you! I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it myself.
Now will somebody explain to me why we shouldn't be letting homeless people use the airport concourse during hours when nobody else is using it?
Now will somebody explain to me why we shouldn't be letting homeless people use the airport concourse during hours when nobody else is using it?
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I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
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Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
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Literally shaking. Absolute monsters. DHS's Secretary Noem reassigned agents away from saving a child rape victim and arresting the depraved rapists and traffickers because she's obsessed with Trump's effort to stop immigrants from "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Literally shaking. Absolute monsters. DHS's Secretary Noem reassigned agents away from saving a child rape victim and arresting the depraved rapists and traffickers because she's obsessed with Trump's effort to stop immigrants from "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
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Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it
I just discovered that Hot Damn goes really well with chai Soylent. This is my new favorite holiday drink. This may change my whole holiday season.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I just discovered that Hot Damn goes really well with chai Soylent. This is my new favorite holiday drink. This may change my whole holiday season.
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This is incredibly important:
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself
and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats
we must be relentless, we must not shut up
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Sustaining the ability to keep growing food outdoors is a kitchen-table issue.
I actually think the *core* of Democrats’ unwise leftward move was on climate because it creates direct tensions with a classic kitchen table pitch.
All the other stuff (crime, immigration, guns, gender) matters too but the post-2012 pivot off of “all of the above” energy is the most important.
All the other stuff (crime, immigration, guns, gender) matters too but the post-2012 pivot off of “all of the above” energy is the most important.
“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.
And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Sustaining the ability to keep growing food outdoors is a kitchen-table issue.
This was what sealed the "low-information voter" hypothesis for me: Republicans elected a "businessman" so dumb he actually managed to lose money on a pro sports franchise. But he wasn't dumb enough, so they then went on to elect someone who managed to lose money owning casinos.
Thinking about how, when George W. Bush Jr. ran for president, it came out that he was basically an alcoholic, irresponsible failson *into his 40s*, despite being given opportunity after opportunity (a whole f'ing baseball team!). Then, when he finally decided to cosplay adult ...
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This was what sealed the "low-information voter" hypothesis for me: Republicans elected a "businessman" so dumb he actually managed to lose money on a pro sports franchise. But he wasn't dumb enough, so they then went on to elect someone who managed to lose money owning casinos.
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The Epstein Ballroom it is
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The Epstein Ballroom it is
Not to go all Karl Popper on y'all, but as I've long said, I'm okay with most social and even moral rules having an "except for Nazis" exception. And, for that matter, "except for tankies."
for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Not to go all Karl Popper on y'all, but as I've long said, I'm okay with most social and even moral rules having an "except for Nazis" exception. And, for that matter, "except for tankies."
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Join me on my journey from "how am I a games guy who's intimidated to edit his own BIOS" to "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Join me on my journey from "how am I a games guy who's intimidated to edit his own BIOS" to "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....