Reposted by Chris RichardsJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253582335
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Carolyn Forché in today's New York Times Book Reviewnytimes.comCarolyn Forché Once Got the O.E.D. for Valentine’s Day (Gift Article)“I haven’t finished it yet,” she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, “Otherwhere,” collects 50 years of her poetry. 000
Reposted by Chris RichardsAnne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For @foreignpolicy.com, I reviewed Sally Hayden’s new book This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter’s Search for Goodness in a Cruel World. For me, this work felt like a good reminder that, even in the midst of horrifying catastrophes, care and kindness are present. Gift link:foreignpolicy.comA War Reporter’s Antidote to NihilismIn a new book, Sally Hayden considers how journalists can puncture the detachment of the privileged. 210524
Reposted by Chris RichardsThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/09/2026Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world, and that should make us humbler—and wiser, Carlo Rovelli argues.bit.lyThe Myth of Perfect KnowledgeScience will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser. 2388
Reposted by Chris Richardsbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts! 129100051848
Reposted by Chris RichardsEric Lundgren @eplundgren.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If you're looking for a (paid) opportunity to start a career in book publishing, I couldn't think of a better place to begin: milkweed.org/the-milkweed...milkweed.orgThe Milkweed Fellowship | Milkweed EditionsThe Milkweed Fellowship 033
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 26/05/2026“How did America’s oligarchs grow so willing to openly rub their wealth power our faces? Well, a big part of it has to do with their success in neutering perhaps the greatest threat to their dominance: the ability of the government to tax them, and to hold those who cheat accountable.” 000
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Beautiful piece from Sally Hayden. "Strip away headlines, statistics, front pages and photo captions, and what you are left with is a majority of people just trying to get by as best they can, while taking care of those that mean something to them." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...irishtimes.comSally Hayden: I wrote a book about love to remind myself there is goodness in the worldIn more than a decade reporting on war, journalist Sally Hayden has witnessed unbearable cruelty and violence. But also, love – for partners, family and community 0157
Reposted by Chris Richardskat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit 5185751941
Reposted by Chris Richardsmichael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I think all the time about Jack Kerouac heckling Frank O’Hara that he was ruining American poetry & O’Hara responding without a beat, “That’s more than you ever did for it” 310826
Reposted by Chris RichardsEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media. 16755632461
Reposted by Chris RichardsLee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays) 703609970
Reposted by Chris RichardsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it. 208125654444
Reposted by Chris Richardsthe garbage store boy @screaming.party · 04/02/2026I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID 312481512
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Wishing him luck with the rest of his friends in the Christmas Adventures Club. 000
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Look at this crowd in Minneapolis marching against ICE, where the high was -9 F today. 000
Reposted by Chris RichardsKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that." 2197194819593
Reposted by Chris RichardsLaurie Hertzel @lhertzel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers. 38671742198
Reposted by Chris RichardsJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes. 15375929820100
Reposted by Chris Richardsthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/11/2025while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto. 238123512355
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Wondering what small thing you can do, today, to make a better world possible? Plant, Baby, Plant. And be a part of Robin Wall Kimmerer's new grassroots movement behind this call to action: plantbabyplant.complantbabyplant.comPlant, Baby, Plant - Robin Kimmerer - A Call to ActionJoin a new grassroots climate movement centering nature-based solutions and ecosystem restoration. Heal land, build community, grow power! 010
Reposted by Chris RichardsSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/07/2025remember this, kids, anytime a new David Brooks byline drops 722729
Reposted by Chris RichardsYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/05/2025NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 6443681086
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 17/04/2025“Just as nature finds a way, Robin has found her devoted readers. And during a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher.” --Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social on Robin Wall Kimmerer for Time's 100time.comRobin Wall Kimmerer: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025Find out why Robin Wall Kimmerer is on this year’s list 020
Chris Richards @crichards.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The first true American edition of Nan Shepherd's classic The Living Mountain is out next week, and Jenny Odell is blessing us with this beautiful new essay: www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comWhy “The Living Mountain” EnduresNan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman. 062