Reposted by Jack ShaferPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Being emo is officially probable cause now 3934836
Reposted by Jack ShaferGlenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 23/08/2025The latest edition of my (free) comics history newsletter is out! buttondown.com/howcomics/ar...buttondown.comHow Comics Were Sold (to Newspapers)Hello from the next installment of newspaper comics history and lore! In this issue, I talk about the way in which cartoons were advertised to editors by... 04312
Reposted by Jack ShaferAndy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Exclusive: Ghislaine Maxwell was honored at a prestigious Clinton event years after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/p...cnn.comExclusive: Ghislaine Maxwell was honored at a prestigious Clinton event years after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced | CNN PoliticsYears after she was publicly accused in civil lawsuits and the press of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom and sexually abuse minors, Ghislaine Maxwell was an honored guest at the prestigious Clinton Globa... 117580107
Reposted by Jack ShaferJason Zinoman @jasonzinoman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Penn & Teller reinvented magic. And stayed together for 50 years. I spent a couple days with them to figure out the secret. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/a...nytimes.comPenn & Teller’s Greatest Trick: Making Us Think They’re Not Friends 56613
Reposted by Jack ShaferChris Daly @profdaly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Terrific piece by @jackshafer.bsky.social about the many flavors and shades of Trump's corruption. Well informed by US history. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Trump’s honest graftThe president has turned himself into the central dispenser — and recipient — of economic opportunity. 012
Reposted by Jack ShaferBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025An event in Buffalo to launch a "Protect Local Journalism" campaign was postponed because of death threats to a local journalist. The threats began after Pulitzer winner Adam Zyglis drew a cartoon that some people didn't like (you can see it in the next post) 1/2 www.instagram.com/p/DL8JF1nyLA... 64018
Reposted by Jack ShaferDan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 30/06/2025Holy cow. CNN used to hold the No. 1 position with the NYT and the WashPost battling it out for No. 2. Now the Times is first, CNN second, and the Post is ... 17th. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...pressgazette.co.ukTop 50 news websites in the US: Top sites see steep traffic falls in MayPress Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb. 4330868
Reposted by Jack ShaferWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Perhaps this signifies that after Trump departs he expects the country to revert from personalist rule to its previous status as a constitutional republic. 95729
Reposted by Jack ShaferBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025What's with this euphemistic language about Trump trying to "shift the ideological tilt of the higher education system" being repeated 2x by the NYT in 24 hours? And why call it a "bid" or "push"? Reality: He's using illegal tactics to try to *control* higher ed by dictating policies and personnel. 1120766
Reposted by Jack ShaferBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025cc: @brianstelter.bsky.social @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @jackshafer.bsky.social @erikwemple.bsky.social 0101
Reposted by Jack ShaferWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025If missed, from me: at some point Trump is likely to try his "choke off federal funding until they surrender" racket on one or more of the fifty state governments. Here's what might happen thenwalterolson.substack.comCalifornia has a date with Trump in courtThe Constitution limits his power to push states around 1559
Reposted by Jack ShaferDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/06/2025They say this and then in two years your AI girlfriend will keep steering the dinner conservation toward Squarespace discount codes 2155883
Reposted by Jack ShaferDarrow Montgomery @darrow-m.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Latest installment from my unpublished book 031
Reposted by Jack ShaferEdmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025hey @jackshafer.bsky.social, come back ... 👇 071
Reposted by Jack ShaferJon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The longstanding joke about xenotransplantation--it's the future and always will be--may soon lose all its punch. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgCan gene-edited pigs solve the organ transplant shortage?With clinical trials imminent, hopes are rising high for the long-struggling field of xenotransplantation 033
Reposted by Jack ShaferJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...nytimes.comWhite House Health Report Included Fake Citations 33756541977
Reposted by Jack ShaferAndy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 29/05/2025NEW: A far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about Barack Obama was fired from a senior leadership role at the Kennedy Center after CNN asked about his past comments. www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...cnn.comFar-right activist with history of anti-gay comments fired from leadership role at Kennedy Center after CNN investigation | CNN PoliticsFloyd Brown, a far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama, said he was fired from a senior leadership role h... 1117547
Reposted by Jack ShaferJosh Levin @joshuablevin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025After 20-plus years, I’m leaving my staff job at Slate. In an industry where steady employment is … unusual … I’m so grateful to have had a long tenure at a great place with great people 1/4 71158
Reposted by Jack ShaferMegan Cassella @megancnbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025In a long monologue in the Oval Office beside Canadian PM Mark Carney this afternoon, the President appears to say the trade "deals" his team are working on are not deals in the traditional sense, as they will not have to be signed. This is really significant! More in thread. 3762087538
Reposted by Jack ShaferInthemountains @excannabiz.bsky.social · 04/05/2025we can save money on the flyover by telling him they are only using 'stealth planes'! 031
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I'm fine with Trump's June military parade if he follows his two dolls and five pencils logic and downsizes it to one tank, one soldier, and one aircraft flyover. 46712
Reposted by Jack Shafer(((Steve Chapman))) @stevechapman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Actually, it's First Amendment behavior. 0111
Reposted by Jack ShaferJesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025A senile king surrounded by rival factions of eunuchswsj.comExclusive | Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro’s Absence to Push for Tariff PauseThe alliance between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick illustrates how fast things can change inside the White House. 1207
Reposted by Jack ShaferJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 12/04/2025In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country. 803305488
Reposted by Jack ShaferBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?" 201087246
Reposted by Jack ShaferCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Real trade wars have never been tried wapo.st/42oniEYwapo.stOpinion | Why are Democrats pulling their punches on Trump’s disastrous trade war?The party is blowing its chance to mount an offensive against protectionism. 1632650
Reposted by Jack Shaferjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slaveryrollingstone.comTeam Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El SalvadorDonald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador. 19094112982
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025"Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, has this great line, which is like, 'How absurd it is that 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for help dealing with 140 million Russians who can’t even handle 50 million Ukrainians?'” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/n...vanityfair.comNick Denton on Betting Against Elon Musk, Aligning With Peter Thiel, and Selling That SoHo LoftThe former Gawker publisher has had it with America under Trump. As he prepares to move to Budapest, Denton talks Cybertrucks, Curtis Yarvin, and growing out of enfant terribleness. 1103
Reposted by Jack ShaferOliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025GULF OF FEAR: This past week, when NASA astronauts returned to Earth, TV news networks avoided calling the body of water they splashed down in as the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, they performed linguistic gymnastics to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs. More in Status: www.status.news/p/gulf-of-me...status.newsGulf of FearWhen news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it’s not just semantics—it’s a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure. 58550139
Reposted by Jack ShaferCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025This reminds me of a rule that Austan Goolsbee (now Chicago Fed president, then an econ professor) once taught me. He called it the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say. www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t...axios.comTesla shares fall after Lutnick goes on TV and recommends stockHis comments are the latest in what has effectively become an administration campaign to defend Musk's company. 30976213
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Tuesday, join @steveoneywriter to discuss ON AIR - the dramatic history of NPR, tracing the comings and goings of legendary on-air talents, & the rises and falls of brilliant and sometimes venal executives - w/ @jackshafer - 7PM @ CONN AVE - bit.ly/3DEzngPbit.lySteve Oney — On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR - with Jack Shafer — at Conn Ave 062
Reposted by Jack Shafernoreenmalone.bsky.social @noreenmalone.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I’ve returned to this @jackshafer.bsky.social story many times over the years but the phases of billionaire ownership may need an update for this era. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comThe new vanity press moguls.We in the journalism racket would like to welcome Colorado billionaire Philip Anschutz to our inner sanctum of power and influence. Anschutz, the... 0112
Reposted by Jack Shafersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025AP’s lawsuit names Taylor Budowich, Karoline Leavitt, and Susie Wiles as defendants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1262599
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025"He wants to be the mayor of the District of Columbia, the editor of The Associated Press Stylebook and the H.R. director for Corporate America." @peterbakernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...nytimes.com‘The Boss of Everyone and Everything’: Trump Seeks to Influence Many SpheresNo paper straws or local bike lanes. President Trump is increasingly trying to enforce his will on areas like the arts, sports, news, private companies and college campuses. 163
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025"How Elon Musk and the Right Are Trying to Recast Reporting as ‘Doxxing’" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...nytimes.comElon Musk and the Right Are Recasting Reporting as ‘Doxxing’Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees. 1249
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This is the best thing to happen to the AP since UPI was sold to convicted felon Rev. Sun Myung Moon. 1211
Reposted by Jack ShaferChris Suellentrop @suellentrop.bsky.social · 06/02/2025If selling journalism to governments becomes perceived as unethical because Trump says it is, the business is even more doomed than it already was www.politico.com/news/2025/02...politico.comNote to Our ReadersPOLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight. 082
Reposted by Jack ShaferPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I’m used to this as a criminal defense attorney - constitutional rights get called technicalities all the time. I can no longer say I expect better from the NYT. This is pathetic. 371668302
Reposted by Jack ShaferPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025[waking up to see thousands of people quoting the Rule of Goats] ok guessing this is not good 3876939
Reposted by Jack ShaferJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 20/01/2025Executive orders aren't *necessarily* more than memos to the executive branch. If the president has discretion under the law, the order is specific, and the bureaucracy carries it out, an order can have huge consequences. But sometimes, it can have little to no effect. Or anywhere in between. 25317
Reposted by Jack ShaferLisa Margonelli @lisamargonelli.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Innovation is overrated. 151
Reposted by Jack ShaferEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Trump says he won’t hire “people who worked with, or are endorsed by” a list of 11 people. 6 of the 11 are people he hired. 3042282496
Reposted by Jack ShaferBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025“One debacle after another…” Those are the first 4 words that @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social uses to describe Will Lewis’s first year as CEO of the Washington Post. www.npr.org/2025/01/15/n...npr.orgWill Lewis's first year at 'Washington Post': Cancellations, red ink and an exodusSubscribers and star journalists have fled the Post in its first year under CEO and Publisher Will Lewis. Now staff have signed a petition asking owner Jeff Bezos to intervene. 55815
Jack Shafer @jackshafer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025“We beg our reporters to never go to a White House press briefing…. That’s a good chunk of your day lost.” --@JimVandeHei www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...vanityfair.com“We’re Not Hyperventilating”: Behind Axios’s Clinical Approach to Covering Donald Trump’s Second TermVanity Fair caught up with cofounders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen about the state of political media, including a postelection newsroom talent churn, and why “this might be the most electric moment in... 16610
Reposted by Jack ShaferDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/01/2025Our story on how Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech execs are giving millions to Trump after years of insults and threats is on the front page of the Sunday @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4gTuFui 3649197
Reposted by Jack ShaferKliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social · 30/12/20241971-72. The Prototype for Weekend Update. 1639
Reposted by Jack ShaferCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Breaking News: The Pentagon has repatriated a Tunisian prisoner who had been held at Guantanamo Bay from the day the prison opened, but never charged with a crime. His is a somewhat mysterious story. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u...nytimes.comPentagon Releases Detainee Held at Guantánamo Since Day 1The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison. 916136
![In an email to the AP on February 18, 2025, White House Chief of Staff Susan
Wiles explained "why we arrived in this point." Wiles wrote that the White House was targeting the AP because its Stylebook "is used by many as a standard for writing and editing," and that it
"advises journalists, scholars and classrooms around our country." Wiles finished her email by noting, "we remain hopeful that the name of the [Gulf] will be appropriately reflected in the Stylebook where American audiences are concerned," implying that the AP could change its
guidance as to American audiences to resolve the issue and restore its access.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreih5bkyll65mibekbqjzv52rctcizrh6yphe3n5wpvivohlvbs6x6e)
