Sam Eifling
@sameifling.bsky.social
I'm the editor-in-chief of Phoenix New Times
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Lot of days I miss my colleagues at Patriot Act. Today especially. Would've been an incredible Wednesday to walk into that office.
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Lot of days I miss my colleagues at Patriot Act. Today especially. Would've been an incredible Wednesday to walk into that office.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
I'd hate to have the name Bieber in Ontario after tonight
November 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I'd hate to have the name Bieber in Ontario after tonight
Nine innings now feels like an amuse-bouche. Bring on the insomniac doubleheader.
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Nine innings now feels like an amuse-bouche. Bring on the insomniac doubleheader.
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More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...
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you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds
* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTING COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES FOR NON-U.S. CITIZENS, USDOT SAYS
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds
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An important message from the president of Antifa 😂 🤭
September 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
An important message from the president of Antifa 😂 🤭
Wrote about the real people who spent money and time and hope coming to Arizona for the Charlie Kirk memorial. Decent people simply inhabit a different reality from what Trump and Steven Miller pedaled
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kirk-fu...
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kirk-fu...
Trump turned an outpouring of respect for Kirk into a coliseum of hate
The throngs who braved heat, darkness and expense to mourn Charlie Kirk were rewarded with grotesque MAGA saber-rattling.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Wrote about the real people who spent money and time and hope coming to Arizona for the Charlie Kirk memorial. Decent people simply inhabit a different reality from what Trump and Steven Miller pedaled
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kirk-fu...
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kirk-fu...
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Chicago keeping art alive:
August 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Chicago keeping art alive:
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The US capital is being flooded with military troops at the direct order of the president and media is barely talking about, because the president didn't say "I am doing authoritarianism" but "the military is here to fight crime"
August 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The US capital is being flooded with military troops at the direct order of the president and media is barely talking about, because the president didn't say "I am doing authoritarianism" but "the military is here to fight crime"
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I am not an economist but at a guess, I think this comes from the interplay between “massive tax on imported produce” and “randomly grab the people who pick crops in the US and put them in concentration camps” 🤔
ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices.
It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com
www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com
www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
Veggie-flation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices
No matter what the official data shows, consumers "feel" inflation when grocery prices rise.
www.axios.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I am not an economist but at a guess, I think this comes from the interplay between “massive tax on imported produce” and “randomly grab the people who pick crops in the US and put them in concentration camps” 🤔
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This is a crucial alarm bell and don’t forget all the alt weeklies that still do irreplaceable work
If there's an infectious disease spreading at the facility, the state refuses to say so.
Florida Officials Won't Say If COVID Is Spreading at Alligator Alcatraz
If there's an infectious disease spreading at the facility, the state refuses to say so.
www.miaminewtimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is a crucial alarm bell and don’t forget all the alt weeklies that still do irreplaceable work
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An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
cpj.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
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anyways, love to live in a city of 3 million people from around the world where I take transit and walk and explore, and be told by a guy whose main interaction with the world is driving from his gated suburban community to his gated golf course that I am the one "living in a bubble"
August 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
anyways, love to live in a city of 3 million people from around the world where I take transit and walk and explore, and be told by a guy whose main interaction with the world is driving from his gated suburban community to his gated golf course that I am the one "living in a bubble"
we need a word that means "a constituent component of burnout."
it should be separate from work at large. some work is fulfilling, invigorating.
other days are full of [thing that accumulates to burn you out]. best I got is "sludgework." suggestions welcome.
it should be separate from work at large. some work is fulfilling, invigorating.
other days are full of [thing that accumulates to burn you out]. best I got is "sludgework." suggestions welcome.
August 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
we need a word that means "a constituent component of burnout."
it should be separate from work at large. some work is fulfilling, invigorating.
other days are full of [thing that accumulates to burn you out]. best I got is "sludgework." suggestions welcome.
it should be separate from work at large. some work is fulfilling, invigorating.
other days are full of [thing that accumulates to burn you out]. best I got is "sludgework." suggestions welcome.
love to share a venomously droll @zhbuchanan.bsky.social hed. shout-out @phoenixnewtimes.com as always
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
love to share a venomously droll @zhbuchanan.bsky.social hed. shout-out @phoenixnewtimes.com as always
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for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't
build
more
houses
build
more
houses
frequent theme of today's episode: there are 2 housing americas now
if you live in the northeast or midwest, prices are rising, everywhere around you.
if you live in the south or west, prices are falling, everywhere around you.
if you live in the northeast or midwest, prices are rising, everywhere around you.
if you live in the south or west, prices are falling, everywhere around you.
July 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't
build
more
houses
build
more
houses
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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With all due respect to the AM social media team, I don’t think they understand what they’re dealing with here.
July 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
With all due respect to the AM social media team, I don’t think they understand what they’re dealing with here.
they're driving the country into abysmal debt to build exorbitant detention centers where they will imprison you once you are too broke to afford a home
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the executive order that allows the homeless and mentally ill to be incarcerated signed right as they started opening concentration camps
Oh my God. This is happening. It’s happening NOW. “the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the TERMINATION of CONSENT decrees that impede the United States’ policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness” COMMITED TO ASYLUMS AGAINST YOUR WILL
July 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
they're driving the country into abysmal debt to build exorbitant detention centers where they will imprison you once you are too broke to afford a home
bsky.app/profile/nico...
bsky.app/profile/nico...
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God bless the Scots
July 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
God bless the Scots
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historians are shining right now
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
July 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
historians are shining right now