This kind of journalism is reinforcing the same flattening logic that treats the world as content that is interchangeable, aesthetic, consumable. The cost of that is empathy that never lands where it should.

I’m seeing a lot of “wow, look at all these Gen Z protests”-articles that lump all of these very legitimate protests in very different countries together. Just because young people lead them, and most use the One Piece logo. This is lazy journalism.

If you read today’s issue, you now hopefully have a good amount of skepticism, maybe even EWWW towards Takaichi, or “potentially Japan’s first female prime minister”, as other media call her.

You’ve entered a designated Ezra Klein–analysis exclusion zone.

Roses are red, and the skies are blue. I am finally here, and so are you.