Shannon Fears
@shannonfears.bsky.social
Retired journalist, PNW native. West Coast, best coast. Sports: #Canucks, #RipCity, #UOregon, #LCFC, #Mariners, #WNBA, #track (athletics). #Myeloma survivor, 13 years ⭐️ Call me Mr.
I have many regrets about my 45 years in journalism, but now I have a new one: I wish I’d had a manifesto like this to guide me.
A weird ending note for a weird year: I wrote a manifesto for journalists in 2026.
leahsottile.substack.com/p/66-clarity
leahsottile.substack.com/p/66-clarity
66. Clarity
A Living Manifesto on Journalism for 2026 and Beyond
leahsottile.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have many regrets about my 45 years in journalism, but now I have a new one: I wish I’d had a manifesto like this to guide me.
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I understand that kitchen table issues are big factors in voters' perceptions. And the Epstein files are significant, as they should be. But - I have to tell you - IMO - listening to Trump speak to and paraphrase Putin - there's nothing else that shouts his unfitness as loudly.
December 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I understand that kitchen table issues are big factors in voters' perceptions. And the Epstein files are significant, as they should be. But - I have to tell you - IMO - listening to Trump speak to and paraphrase Putin - there's nothing else that shouts his unfitness as loudly.
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you guys are all missing the point with avatar. the real “way of water” is buying a bidet for your home.
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
you guys are all missing the point with avatar. the real “way of water” is buying a bidet for your home.
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Overhead at a house party: “Libertarian men are just Republicans who want to get laid.”
December 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Overhead at a house party: “Libertarian men are just Republicans who want to get laid.”
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In other news, expecting Trump will distance himself, Greenland has changed its name.
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
In other news, expecting Trump will distance himself, Greenland has changed its name.
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is
December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.
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NEW: I was just on a call with @rokhanna.bsky.social — who says just 2.5 gigabytes out of a total of 300 gigabytes of the Epstein Files — have been released by the DOJ.
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
NEW: I was just on a call with @rokhanna.bsky.social — who says just 2.5 gigabytes out of a total of 300 gigabytes of the Epstein Files — have been released by the DOJ.
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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Contempt of Congress, contempt for the law, contempt for Epstein's victims, contempt for basic human morality, contempt for their own supporters, contempt for the American people.
Not merely covering up Trump and associates' awful actions, but being really obvious, throwing it in everyone's faces.
Not merely covering up Trump and associates' awful actions, but being really obvious, throwing it in everyone's faces.
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Contempt of Congress, contempt for the law, contempt for Epstein's victims, contempt for basic human morality, contempt for their own supporters, contempt for the American people.
Not merely covering up Trump and associates' awful actions, but being really obvious, throwing it in everyone's faces.
Not merely covering up Trump and associates' awful actions, but being really obvious, throwing it in everyone's faces.
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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💯 The WORST of the worst ever!
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
💯 The WORST of the worst ever!
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What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
There is no such thing as a quiet news day anymore
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
There is no such thing as a quiet news day anymore
The paper where I got my start now thinks it’s appropriate to end this headline by using a verb as a noun. Hopefully corrected by the time you see this.
www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
Lake Oswego principal’s sudden resignation prompts questions amid other staff leaves
Desiree Fisher had led Lakeridge High School for a decade.
www.oregonlive.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The paper where I got my start now thinks it’s appropriate to end this headline by using a verb as a noun. Hopefully corrected by the time you see this.
www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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My friend and colleague @repgrijalva and her staff were just pepper-sprayed by Trump’s ICE agents. This is how democracies die – we cannot continue to allow masked agents to terrorize, attack, and villainize ANY community without oversight or accountability.
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My friend and colleague @repgrijalva and her staff were just pepper-sprayed by Trump’s ICE agents. This is how democracies die – we cannot continue to allow masked agents to terrorize, attack, and villainize ANY community without oversight or accountability.
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Double-tap is very misleading here, it implies strikes in quick succession. They scratched their loathsome chins about it for 41 minutes, watching these two guys struggle to overturn their wrecked boat, before deciding nah, hit 'em again
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Double-tap is very misleading here, it implies strikes in quick succession. They scratched their loathsome chins about it for 41 minutes, watching these two guys struggle to overturn their wrecked boat, before deciding nah, hit 'em again