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@dalemaharidge.bsky.social
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Journalist/author. Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Signal = WillSpecter1.75

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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Was at the opening of Ask E. Jean last night at the International Film Center. This doc rocks. Highly recommend seeing this! Director Ivy Meeropol (pictured in a talk following the film, right) was present. www.askejeanfilm.com #askejean
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ruins, abandoned steel mill, Mahoning Valley. May 2026. #youngstown #redhenpress
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
YOUNGSTOWN-Back in the day this was a hangout for mobsters. Had fantastic wedding soup here on my recent visit to town. Also visited the spot where in 1983 Michael S. Williamson and I met Joey Naples, the capo for the Pittsburgh mob. That encounter involved two revolvers being aimed at us.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
YOUNGSTOWN - Some bit of steel is still processed there now. A fraction of what was before 50,000 jobs were lost. But the memory of the big full-scale steel mills remains in murals.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
LOCOMOTIVE GRAVEYARD, Mahoning Valley. Nature bats last. #trains #youngstown
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Steel mill ruins, Mahoning Valley. Working here this past week.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
MAY 2026--GHOST WORKER. Inside the ruins of a steel mill, Mahoning Valley.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Shitcoin. We need more good news like this these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/t...
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Crypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
But of course they refuse. They are Vichy Republicans. Lapdogs. Hitler would have loved them!
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Nobody except a few peeps see my Bluesky, but posting anyway. Fuck #boeing. Never fly on a Boeing plane again. Airborne coffins. NYT investigation shows the firm took shortcuts to duct tape old planes to compete with Airbus.⁨ They actually have cost-benefit tables Cheaper to have death payouts.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
NEVER THOUGHT I'D MAKE MERIAM-WEBSTER--Guessing this is AI generated, but the venerable dictionary cites me defining the word "insidious." "… a measureless land thick with pine forest and kudzu, that insidious vine author James Dickey once called a form of vegetable cancer. — Dale Maharidge"
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
wow--thank you for using my words as your epigraph! As I note in my posts on socials, I'm honored.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
EPIGRAPH--For the 2nd time to my knowledge, my words have been used as an epigraph. It appears a book publishing today--THE VIPER, by Brad Meltzer--has used this from Bringing Mulligan Home: “I don’t believe in closure. I don’t think we ever really get over anything.”
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
WE FOUND JESUS--Just came home from a 2,800-mile road trip through the South. Fun fact: In all those miles, we just saw two Trump signs/stickers. I drove a lot around the country in 2017 and 2018 and repeatedly witnessed uncountable numbers of Trump signs/stickers. Hmm. Maybe one can interpret.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Thanks! @bradmeltzer.com
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
SPRINGSTEEN'S GHOST OF TOM JOAD--It was released 30 years ago today. Some stories like this one are shouting out that #springsteen drew from Journey to Nowhere, the book I did with Michael S. Williamson. HARD.TO.BELIEVE that this much time has passed. Sigh. www.noise11.com/news/bruce-s...
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Bruce Springsteen Marks 30 Years Of The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Bruce Springsteen celebrates 30 years of The Ghost Of Tom Joad, the intimate 1995 acoustic album that defined a new chapter in his storytelling legacy.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Powerful essay from a hospital bed from Samuel Braslow, who was in my final class last spring at Columbia. "I can’t diet, detox or exercise my way out of cancer." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o... 3m
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Opinion | I Understand MAHA’s Appeal, but It Threatens My Life
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“Five life-changing things that shaped Bruce Springsteen”--Journey to Nowhere, the book I did with Michael S. Williamson, is included in the 5th thing in this BBC Radio podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/.../five-lif....
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
fuck nimbys www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Newsom signs historic housing bill to bring density to transit hubs
Newsom signed Senate Bill 79 into law on Friday. The historic bill, which looks to add density to transit hubs across California, is one of the most ambitious state-imposed housing efforts in recent m...
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
BUZZARD SWARM--Today a cloud of turkey vultures suddenly swirled overhead. There are 41 birds in the frame of this picture. Another 30 or so are out of frame. Never seen anything like this. One could interpret this as a sign of something, but I’m not sure I want to think too much about that.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Sweet! Choke #paulweiss and other #lawfirms such as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom #caving to #Trump. Hope you suffer millions/billions in losses. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
The Fallout Is Growing on Trump’s Deals With Law Firms
The deals are looking worse and worse — for Trump and the law firms.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Fuck my #AI copilot. Die pilot. Leave me alone. Analog baby.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
TOTALLY OFFGRID-Power profile for June. ZERO grid electric because of the batteries at night. Exported power every day. Total of 355KW. C02 reduction: 1,400 pounds. we live in a bleak era, who knows what the fools who are now running things will do. Here at this casa, we will never be without power.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
ST. LOUIS, 1983--We hopped on a freight train that March with Don, who we documented as he headed west seeking work. I took the pic of Michael S. Williamson either moments before or after he made the image of Don, which appears in our 1985 book Journey To Nowhere.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#FLORIDAMAN! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Florida man bitten by alligator then fatally shot by deputies after ‘rampage’, sheriff says
Man believed to be high on methamphetamine swam in alligator-infested waters before charging at officers
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
GRADUATION DAY Columbia Journalism--The final graduation ceremony after 34 years of teaching. Next to me is Sam Freedman. It's fitting we "retire" at the same time. We both started at Columbia in 1991. Dean Jelani Cobb gave us a shout out at the end of the ceremony. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
NEW YORK CITY--May 16, 2025. #trump #fascism
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
THE LAST DAY--Waiting for students on Thursday at the Columbia Journalism School. My final class after 34 years.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NEW YORK CITY, May 6, 2025--Amsterdam Avenue in the low 100s. This sheaf of plastic was in the gutter, these words written upon it. I asked myself this: WWMSWD? (What would Michael S. Williamson do?) And that is how I shot it.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
CLOSE TO THE END-The final reading packet for my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social class, the last in my 34 years of teaching. We're going to talk about demons, how to avoid them and have a good career. Being aware as you go along is critical.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is our future--even more stupid. A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
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A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
MAY 4, 1970--Fifty-five years ago today, the National Guard executed students at Kent State University. They were killing us then. And I fear that kind of thing is not over, not in this current climate. I will always remember Kent State Day. #kentstate
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
‪ I sound like Joyce Carol Oats in this #writerland post by my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social colleague Michael Shapiro. I wish I were as productive. ‪ thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-18...
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Chapter 180: Limbo, or Between Stories
And so you have written.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Congrats to my former @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (1992)@robinmcdowell.bsky.social and to a writer I've long admired, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social, for winning Hillman prizes! This award honors journalism about the struggles of real people. www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...
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2025 Hillman Prizes
The Sidney Hillman Foundation honors journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Two wars, riding the rails, six collaborated books, several hundred stories, and a doc film with Ron Wyman coming-we had a lot to catch up on. Michael S. Williamson was in town for The Association of International Photography Art Dealers. On display: two of Michael’s photos of Sally Mann.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Unlike @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @harvard.edu has a spine. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social I'm a J-school prof coming to the rally Monday. I'd like to talk with someone from CUIMC. If you could DM me on BSky directly that would be most appreciated! Or Signal: WillSpecter1.75 Thanks!
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Glad we're not one of those theocracies in the Middle East. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
politico.com
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
FEELING BLUE--like everyone else I know. But getting out of the city a few days ago, I experienced a different kind of blue. Nature. Regeneration. A reminder that one must remain strong, stay healthy. Otherwise, they will win. Being strong means one can continue the work to affect change.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Yay to my former @thenation.com editor @msifry.bsky.social! Great story. A Different Kind of Anti-Trump Resistance Is Brewing www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump and Musk Have Created a New Kind of Opposition in Federal Workers
Federal workers can become the standard bearers of the Democratic opposition.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
FASCISM-Wikipedia cites me predicting Donald Trump & fascism, via Prof. John Russo. In 1996. Again in 2012, in Someplace Like America, my @ucpress.bsky.social with @mswontheroad.bsky.social. Again: 2021, @unnamedpress.bsky.social Fucked at Birth. Some thought this extreme. I wish I was wrong.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
GREAT LEAD @heatherknightsf.bsky.social "Plastic straws are banned in San Francisco, at least if you want to drink a soda or lemonade. Those smoking fentanyl, however, have been able to get them for free, at taxpayers’ expense." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
nytimes.com
San Francisco Rethinks Its Free Handouts of Drug Paraphernalia
Daniel Lurie, the city’s new mayor, is scaling back a program that gives away clean foil, pipes and plastic straws for fentanyl consumption. Nonprofits will have to direct people toward treatment.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
LAST MAN STANDING-RIP Joe Lanciotti, who was in #WWII with my father. He was 99. Joe was in my book Bringing Mulligan Home. Joe was part of an 18-year quest to find my father’s friend, whose body was missing. Too much to fit here-check my FB page for more. www.facebook.com/share/p/15yj...
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Michael S. Williamson @mswontheroad.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I was under a lot of deadline pressure to make this photo in Selma, Alabama, but I managed to get it in on time.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The trustees of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, where I work, could learn a lesson from this op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
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dalemaharidge.bsky.social @dalemaharidge.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Different way to look at this: Difficult times prove who is brave. You know who your friends are when the shit hits the fan.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Umm…. Other journalists are finding things too….
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