Liam Pierce
@liampierce.bsky.social
Oakland native, journalist. EIC of Rockridge News. Formerly: EIC/ED of JRNOLA (journalism program for BIPOC/LGBTQ+ high schoolers), VICE, Times-Pic. Written: NYT, Glamour, etc
The one time I want NYT to do a story reporting from the “South Carolina’s confederate flag diner” — getting reactions to the Epstein files — they’re completely silent. Smdh.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The one time I want NYT to do a story reporting from the “South Carolina’s confederate flag diner” — getting reactions to the Epstein files — they’re completely silent. Smdh.
I know the sort of Spotlight, file-digging journalist in me wants to pore through the *released Epstein files.
But imma just sit these 20,000 of them out and let the other journos do this for a while before I parse out the particulate.
But imma just sit these 20,000 of them out and let the other journos do this for a while before I parse out the particulate.
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I know the sort of Spotlight, file-digging journalist in me wants to pore through the *released Epstein files.
But imma just sit these 20,000 of them out and let the other journos do this for a while before I parse out the particulate.
But imma just sit these 20,000 of them out and let the other journos do this for a while before I parse out the particulate.
So i’m curious which of the Trump decisions triggered this for the republican oversight committee. Probably nothing to do with SNAP.
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So i’m curious which of the Trump decisions triggered this for the republican oversight committee. Probably nothing to do with SNAP.
Newspapers need to stop giving you text that pastes along with the image/headline in their link.
Like, don’t make me look like I said your dumb ass headline a second time.
Like, don’t make me look like I said your dumb ass headline a second time.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Newspapers need to stop giving you text that pastes along with the image/headline in their link.
Like, don’t make me look like I said your dumb ass headline a second time.
Like, don’t make me look like I said your dumb ass headline a second time.
I showed a source a line of text from my article and they asked if I used ChatGPT — simply because they saw an em-dash.
Clearly they’re unfamiliar with my Game.
Clearly they’re unfamiliar with my Game.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I showed a source a line of text from my article and they asked if I used ChatGPT — simply because they saw an em-dash.
Clearly they’re unfamiliar with my Game.
Clearly they’re unfamiliar with my Game.
If you think about it, non-Christian Americans are pretty chill about being beaten over the head with cultural references/imperialism for two months out of the year.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you think about it, non-Christian Americans are pretty chill about being beaten over the head with cultural references/imperialism for two months out of the year.
Reposted by Liam Pierce
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
This is the answer.
Abolish the Senate. just have the House.
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is the answer.
Sneak peek for the next issue: The Rockridge Improvement Club (an excellently named karaoke dive bar) just might be haunted:
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Sneak peek for the next issue: The Rockridge Improvement Club (an excellently named karaoke dive bar) just might be haunted:
Extremely proud of my debut as editor-in-chief of The Rockridge News, a 16-page print newspaper about goings on in a tiny little hamlet of Oakland.
I had a lot of help, but ran a lot of the show — design, editing, writing, reporting, illustration, the whole shebang. rockridge.org/wp-content/u...
I had a lot of help, but ran a lot of the show — design, editing, writing, reporting, illustration, the whole shebang. rockridge.org/wp-content/u...
rockridge.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Extremely proud of my debut as editor-in-chief of The Rockridge News, a 16-page print newspaper about goings on in a tiny little hamlet of Oakland.
I had a lot of help, but ran a lot of the show — design, editing, writing, reporting, illustration, the whole shebang. rockridge.org/wp-content/u...
I had a lot of help, but ran a lot of the show — design, editing, writing, reporting, illustration, the whole shebang. rockridge.org/wp-content/u...
Compare to and Mamdani headline from the last six months…
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Compare to and Mamdani headline from the last six months…
Here’s the thing: checks and balances have always been an absolute farce
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Here’s the thing: checks and balances have always been an absolute farce
Gutting Teen Vogue is heinous. I was lucky enough to work with them to get my BIPOC/LGBTQ+ journalism students paid for their work.
Air tight on fact checking, understanding of teen writers and their feelings and a razor sharp moral compass. Tragic shit #teenvogue
www.teenvogue.com/story/cancer...
Air tight on fact checking, understanding of teen writers and their feelings and a razor sharp moral compass. Tragic shit #teenvogue
www.teenvogue.com/story/cancer...
The Shocking Experience of Going to Cancer Alley
Cancer Alley is a stretch of Louisiana that is home to nearly 150 petrochemical plants.
www.teenvogue.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Gutting Teen Vogue is heinous. I was lucky enough to work with them to get my BIPOC/LGBTQ+ journalism students paid for their work.
Air tight on fact checking, understanding of teen writers and their feelings and a razor sharp moral compass. Tragic shit #teenvogue
www.teenvogue.com/story/cancer...
Air tight on fact checking, understanding of teen writers and their feelings and a razor sharp moral compass. Tragic shit #teenvogue
www.teenvogue.com/story/cancer...
Reposted by Liam Pierce
please listen to the union’s calls to action when a company does something illegal and retaliatory to its employees instead of just blindly canceling or boycotting the company because someone craving engagement told you to do so
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
please listen to the union’s calls to action when a company does something illegal and retaliatory to its employees instead of just blindly canceling or boycotting the company because someone craving engagement told you to do so
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.”
- SCOTUS is so unbelievably cooked
- SCOTUS is so unbelievably cooked
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.”
- SCOTUS is so unbelievably cooked
- SCOTUS is so unbelievably cooked
If Bluesky thinks I want a feed of politics ‘comedy’ just because I was following the election last night, it is sorely mistaken.
Stale-ass small hands, covfefe jokes and whatnot. Next election we should primary the current leaders and instate NBA BlueSky to do politics comedy.
Stale-ass small hands, covfefe jokes and whatnot. Next election we should primary the current leaders and instate NBA BlueSky to do politics comedy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If Bluesky thinks I want a feed of politics ‘comedy’ just because I was following the election last night, it is sorely mistaken.
Stale-ass small hands, covfefe jokes and whatnot. Next election we should primary the current leaders and instate NBA BlueSky to do politics comedy.
Stale-ass small hands, covfefe jokes and whatnot. Next election we should primary the current leaders and instate NBA BlueSky to do politics comedy.
I like how Mamdani’s hand winks at me when he waves.
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I like how Mamdani’s hand winks at me when he waves.
Van Jones talking about how Jewish people are afraid right now because he talked to one woman who was is just… cmon man
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Van Jones talking about how Jewish people are afraid right now because he talked to one woman who was is just… cmon man
If you're under deadline for a whole-ass newspaper that you're basically solely in charge of — and a bunch of its readership is mad that you replaced the person before you — I highly recommend playing this on loop:
open.spotify.com/track/1UmmSK...
open.spotify.com/track/1UmmSK...
Fast As You Can
open.spotify.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you're under deadline for a whole-ass newspaper that you're basically solely in charge of — and a bunch of its readership is mad that you replaced the person before you — I highly recommend playing this on loop:
open.spotify.com/track/1UmmSK...
open.spotify.com/track/1UmmSK...
Now THIS is how you write a headline.
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Now THIS is how you write a headline.
And people thought he’d have a Fog of War moment…
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
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VP served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush
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Cheney will be remembered for key role after 9/11
The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84.
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
And people thought he’d have a Fog of War moment…
Can’t quite express how much of a bummer it is to see people dressed as something in particular here in Oakland.
When in New Orleans, everyone’s just digging in their costume closets to throw together some sort of ramshackle, beautiful whatever.
When in New Orleans, everyone’s just digging in their costume closets to throw together some sort of ramshackle, beautiful whatever.
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Can’t quite express how much of a bummer it is to see people dressed as something in particular here in Oakland.
When in New Orleans, everyone’s just digging in their costume closets to throw together some sort of ramshackle, beautiful whatever.
When in New Orleans, everyone’s just digging in their costume closets to throw together some sort of ramshackle, beautiful whatever.
Yeah, yeah, penicillin or whatever — the greatest invention is copying something on your phone and having it paste into your computer.
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Yeah, yeah, penicillin or whatever — the greatest invention is copying something on your phone and having it paste into your computer.
Despite being a recovering Catholic — and how terrible this sounds — I have a feeling that hot priests just might save us.
They stake out territory in the Venn diagram overlap that just might bring us adjacent to the fascists, win them over to our cause.
They stake out territory in the Venn diagram overlap that just might bring us adjacent to the fascists, win them over to our cause.
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Despite being a recovering Catholic — and how terrible this sounds — I have a feeling that hot priests just might save us.
They stake out territory in the Venn diagram overlap that just might bring us adjacent to the fascists, win them over to our cause.
They stake out territory in the Venn diagram overlap that just might bring us adjacent to the fascists, win them over to our cause.
Never thought I’d say this, but the English monarchy is more ethical than ours.
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Never thought I’d say this, but the English monarchy is more ethical than ours.