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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Or how one reporter/writer slaves away producing original, interesting stories, has 7500 subscribers, and grosses maybe $13 an hour. Sounds like none of it really works.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This is somewhat misleading. Perhaps not in its overall data, but in certain places - the northeast of the USA for instance - there is 100 percent observer coverage on every dragger and all bycatch is recorded.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hmm. Would seem they’d have to start the license procedure again from scratch, though, right?

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Crazy. I hope they fold but I also hope something better goes in and not worse. Which is always a possibility.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And where is that August weed dispensary? Still hasn’t opened.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Can’t wait. Loved You Dreamed of Empires.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/02/2026

Earlier this month, The Washington Post scuttled its Books section amid mass layoffs. Its former editor, @johnwilliams.bsky.social, on why he thinks the paper’s leaders are wrong about subscriber loyalty:

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The Washington Post’s Books Section Worked

Why the editor of the scuttled review pages believes that the paper’s subscribers know better than its leaders

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Didn’t love it actually but I did love Sea People.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 08/02/2026

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak

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The New Fabio Is Claude

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2026

Breaking News: Will Lewis stepped down as the chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post days after it laid off hundreds of journalists.

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Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D’Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b... Gifted

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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Thank YOU. A pleasure, always, to work for you.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It’s remarkable to me what rich people chose to do with their money. Imagine you’re one of the richest people in the world. Imagine the responsibility. The gift. Imagine what you could do, especially at this time in this country, with The Washington Post. Instead you give $70 million to Melania.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My condolences to all who’ve lost their jobs and particularly the smart and supportive editors @johnwilliams.bsky.social and Jacob Brogan.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

If you haven’t been to the marathon reading in New Bedford you’re not much.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Wrote about this way back in my 2020 book Liar’s Circus. Actually Elias Canetti wrote about Trump without probably having ever heard of him in Crowds and Power.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Everybody knew. One of the main characters in my book Liar’s Circus told me he wasn’t coming to DC for the rally because there was going to be trouble. Days before January 6th. This was just a foot soldier.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Looking forward to this. DC peeps, do come!

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

DC folks - please come here @lancerichardson.bsky.social and I talk about True Nature, his wonderful new biography of Peter Matthiessen at @politicsprose.bsky.social Ct Ave. this Saturday, 3 pm. politics-prose.com/lance-richar...

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Lance Richardson — True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen - With Carl Hoffman — At Conn Ave

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Absurd as everything this admin does. And per usual just complete ignorance. Anyone interested in Amelia should read @lauriestories.bsky.social new book The Aviator and The Showman.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

These people are nuts. They sound more and more like the Taliban or the right wing Israelis. They hate America.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“...you will live in exile, because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and if you have broken the law, to take away your freedom.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Congrats. I love True Nature and couldn’t agree more.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If safety was the real issue, billions and billions of dollars saved by just installing a roll cage and five point harness. More cars is a scourge. We don’t need them. All that money should be spent on trains and public transportation.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

All five of my books, plus several translations.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

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America Tips Into Fascism

Today is different than before.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Freedom, in the American context, has always meant the freedom to make bank at pretty much anyone’s expense.... My review of Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West for The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com @bookcritics.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Review | The bloody, muddy true story of the real Deadwood

In his history of the legendary South Dakota gold rush town, Peter Cozzens explains how miners, outlaws, gamblers and other reprobates helped shape America.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Can anyone really imagine him willingly walking away from that in 2028?

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Spread your wings a bit. Watch the Fito Paez series on Netflix. Argentine music scene was and is still incredibly rich.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My favorites are the people who gave my book one star on Amazon because the pages were all uneven, as in deckled edged.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The whole point of throwing out all these good people who’ve come to this country was supposed to be because they’re taking all the jobs from needy Americans. Total Incompetence.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

One hundred and eight five years after Melville shipped out of New Bedford, Ma., then the largest whaling port in the world, the city remains the highest grossing fishing port in the USA. Spending the next year reporting on it; heading out for ten days on the Debra C in pursuit of wild fish.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Well, I’m still here and still working! Not dead yet!

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Assault on knowledge and information.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In this lawless landscape of frail masculine egos clinging to cockeyed, and often booze-fueled, notions of honor, the bullets fly, the bodies pile up, the pages turn fast and easy...." My review of Bryan Burrough's The Gunfighters for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Review | The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West

In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Town and Country weighs in on the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller wing at the Met; alone of the other pieces so far the reporter delved into the complexities of his collecting and the uneven, colonial power relationships of it. www.townandcountrymag.com/society/trad...

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The Mysterious Disappearance and Lingering Legacy of Michael Rockefeller

The late scion of an American dynasty died under bizarre circumstances 64 years ago. Now, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum named for him is reopening and putting him back in the spotlight.

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Carl Hoffman @carlhoffman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I should also say that the objects ARE fantastic, beautiful and some of them haunting, especially if you know the story of Michael's death, and I can only assume the new room will be as wondrous as the old. One of my favorite places in NYC.

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