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Jack Crosbie

@jscros.bsky.social
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senior writer at rolling stone

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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
this has all been very fun and juicy but at a certain point it makes the entire industry look bad. on journalism and olivia nuzzi: www.discourseblog.com/p/olivia-nuz...
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Olivia Nuzzi's Nine Lives
How many sins can one career survive?
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Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
READ @jscros.bsky.social: ‘A Lot of Us Have Made Wills’: Anti-Fascists Dig In as Trump Cracks Down www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com
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'A Lot of Us Have Made Wills': Anti-Fascists Dig In as Trump Cracks Down
Anti-fascists are recalibrating how they protest in response to Donald Trump's crackdown on dissent following the killing of Charlie Kirk.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
For Slate, I spent two days in New York's bizarre, dystopian immigration courts, getting a first hand look at the processes of Donald Trump's brutal new immigration system, and trying to focus on the human experience of being caught in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.
Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Back in January, I did leg day with Hasan Piker for the NYT, hoping to figure out what it means to be a left-wing man in a red-pilled world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...
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Hasan Piker: A Progressive Mind in a MAGA Body (Gift Article)
Hasan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears pearls. His brand of masculinity has won him many fans online — and has been a useful vehicle for his politics.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For the Times, I wrote about the consultant class's quest to make Democratic politics cool again -- and whether or not it's too little too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/s...
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What Is ‘Dark Woke’: How Some Democrats Push Back Against Trump
Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the line of not being too offensive.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
one of the biggest life changes that i've made in 2025 is that i have one of those little tech deck finger boards on my desk and after a lot of practice i can actually ollie over my cellphone about half the time
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Last month, for @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the Trump administration's coming war on the First Amendment -- a prediction based on the experiences of protesters in Georgia's Stop Cop City movement, which is looking more and more like a dire sign of things to come: newrepublic.com/article/1908...
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The Coming War on Dissent
As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
blogged about my alma mater and the price of an education www.discourseblog.com/p/columbia-u...
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Columbia University Sold its Soul for $400 Million
The integrity of one of the country's most famous institutions has a clear price tag.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Conor McGregor at the White House is kind of an odd choice, as he's been heavily out of favor both w/ the UFC and w/ UFC fans for years now. Dumbest possible denominator probably still thinks he's cool but general consensus about him is that he's a washed-up clown who likes coke more than fighting
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Matt Werner @werner1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What a paragraph by @jscros.bsky.social . “Empire of Blood” in @rollingstone.com
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
For @rollingstone.com, some scenes from the protest movement inside Columbia's campus this week, as the university administration sides wholeheartedly with both the Trump administration and Zionist groups on campus. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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At Columbia University, Protesters Risk Everything as Free Speech is Shut Down
After Trump’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, fear and defiance mix at Columbia University in New York
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Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Schlock and Awe returns with a new ep as @jscros.bsky.social and I are joined by @inthesedeserts.bsky.social to discuss Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee's weird and uncanny 2016 film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq for a propaganda tour schlockandawe.substack.com/p/billy-lynn...
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (3/8/25)
Podcaster, writer and veteran Nate Bethea joins the lads to discuss Ang Lee's weird, uncanny film about an Army unit sent back from Iraq to America for a propaganda tour.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Had a lot of fun trying to convince my buddy Max Fisher that getting hit in the face recreationally was good and also solve the masculinity crisis in America on Offline with @jonfavs.bsky.social. I'm in the second half but the first half is good too :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Elon Musk v. Dollar Store Jon Favreau and How the UFC Conquered America
Podcast Episode · Offline with Jon Favreau · 03/06/2025 · 1h 38m
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 28/02/2025
Washington Post rushed to cancel subscriptions after Jeff Bezos' directive for the opinion section to focus on "personal liberties and free markets." @jscros.bsky.social joins me to discuss what this means for the WaPo newsroom: www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-353-the...
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Ep 353: The Oligarch Post ft. Jack Crosbie
Jeff Bezos instructed the Washington Post's opinion section to only write about "personal liberties and free markets."
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
one thing that's refreshing about the second trump regime is that everything going on is pretty simple once you realize the general direction that things are going www.discourseblog.com/p/the-oligar...
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The Oligarchs Aren't Being Particularly Subtle Anymore
Jeff Bezos's move to reshape the Washington Post's opinion pages makes his intentions clear.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
had a weird and crazy day today and decided to get in my feelings about the fact that google keeps making me sign up for linkedin against my will www.discourseblog.com/p/the-tyrann...
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The Tyranny of LinkedIn Must Be Stopped
I cannot get this website to leave me alone.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
this isn't true
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
people are very mad about this blog and after long reflection on how my words have caused harm i come to you hat in hand to say i am not sorry at all stay mad hoka-heads www.discourseblog.com/p/i-cant-bel...
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I Can't Believe These Demons Wear Hokas to Work
At least the financiers of old had the respect to wear Italian leather.
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Discourse Blog @handle.invalid · 12/02/2025
A timely dispatch from chief fashion correspondent @jscros.bsky.social www.discourseblog.com/p/i-cant-bel...
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I Can't Believe These Demons Wear Hokas to Work
At least the financiers of old had the respect to wear Italian leather.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
For the March issue of @newrepublic.com, I wrote about Atlanta's Stop Cop City movement, which is a test-case for repression in the second Trump administration. No-knock raids, brutal charges, and lengthy detentions: coming soon to a city near you. newrepublic.com/article/1908...
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The Coming War on Dissent
As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends. I hope you check it out
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Owned
A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media ...
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
we are reading the news and looking at it very closely -- many people have asked me "jack what does this all mean" and i say it's very simple. it's very simple and in fact it's very good, perhaps even better than it was before www.discourseblog.com/p/the-chaos-...
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The Chaos Is the Point
You are not supposed to understand what is going on right now.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
had a nice (relatively speaking) time with @kathkrueger.bsky.social @jackmirkinson.bsky.social @therafischwartz.bsky.social talking over the first days of the trump administration for @discourseblog.com. we're all in hell! www.discourseblog.com/p/seven-days...
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Seven Days of Hell
A Discourse Blog roundtable on Trump's first week.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Back in August, I asked Rolling Stone to let me write about one of my hobbies & the new American pastime: Mixed Martial Arts. In November, the story changed — & only got more relevant. If you want to know the new, bloody America, you gotta know the UFC. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Empire of Blood: How Dana White's UFC Conquered America
Inside Dana White's mixed martial arts empire, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and how it conquered America
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great @discourseblog.com piece from @jscros.bsky.social about how the LA fires are a catastrophic result of countless, systemic failures and crimes from the forces at the top of our society. This is what it looks like when everything starts collapsing. www.discourseblog.com/p/youre-not-...
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You're Not Going to Find Someone to Blame
The fires in LA are a bill come due after decades of misdeeds.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
i hope they paid this man $5 a word for this piece www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
every time i go home for holidays i assume that it will be a relaxing week in where i used the solitude of the mountains to catch up on writing, which is funny, because every single time i am reminded that there is no worse work environment than one containing either of the people who raised you
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
coming back to this site and realizing one of my last posts was this story, which is disturbingly prescient now seeing as tons of these guys are gleefully anticipating roles in the next administration
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
some reflections on politics and where we're at www.discourseblog.com/p/its-about-...
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It's About Power
The further we slide to the right, the simpler politics becomes.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Knights in armor, sink vomit, racist jokes, six-figure spend events, a guy who tried to lick my cheek, men with toy guns, Mormon missionaries. I don’t even know man read the story www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump’s Hometown Shock Troops Are Raring For a Fight
Gavin Wax, Vish Burra, Nathan Berger flipped an old GOP club on its head — and the brand of politics they’re espousing is dark, even by MAGA standards
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
at this point it honestly couldn't hurt for every magazine to start doing a swimsuit edition. new yorker cover that's just sally rooney in body paint. karl ove knausgaard in a big chunky cardigan open in the front with a speedo underneath. why not www.discourseblog.com/p/soon-will-...
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Soon Will Come a Day That None of This Exists
Media-wide layoffs at legacy publications are the most visible sign that our industry is being replaced by something worse.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
it's frustrating how slowly the tides of public opinion can change, but i'm hopeful that we're seeing that shift now as the atrocities in gaza get harder to ignore. it's a shame it took this long www.discourseblog.com/p/the-us-pub...
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The U.S. Public Won't Put Up With This Forever
Recent polls show support for Israel is waning. It only took 11,000 deaths to get there.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
ICYMI @discourseblog.com has a new podcast, OPPO RESEARCH. We're taking on politician per episode and uh... really going into it. For season one, @jackmirkinson.bsky.social and I went deep on CA Governor GAVIN NEWSOM, one of the biggest freaks in the game www.discourseblog.com/p/oppo-resea...
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Oppo Research, S01 E02: Gavin Newsom (w/Jack Crosbie) [PAID]
Listen now (54 mins) | The more you learn about the California governor, the weirder it gets.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Wrote about the rules, and what we can do when people break them. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-rules-...
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The Rules of War
They are being broken profoundly and openly right now. But they still offer a reminder that, despite being capable of horrific violence, human beings are not helpless in its path.
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Discourse Blog @handle.invalid · 25/07/2023
It's cute that they keep acting like Trump might not be the www.discourseblog.com/p/its-cute-ho…
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It's Cute How They Keep Acting Like Trump Might Not Be the Nominee
There's always money in taking a bananas stand.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
when i moved to new york like 8-9 years ago in my early 20s i stopped wearing flip flops. made the switch to, i dunno, birkenstocks? just wearing sneakers? felt that it wasn't cool to wear flip flops in the city. well. recently i bought another pair and let me tell you those 8 years were wasted
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 20/07/2023
I agree with @jscros.bsky.social that Bluesky is "a flop" and that "we’re in a transitory period between the universally public, hyper-online world of minute-by-minute text feeds and something else." www.discourseblog.com/p/bluesky-is-…
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
wrote a blog about this website (sorry) www.discourseblog.com/p/bluesky-is-…
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Bluesky is a Flop and So is Everything Else
We're at the end of an era of social media, and I don't know what happens next.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
the united states is not yet a place where bosses fear for their lives after making callous or brutal labor decisions; in some ways, i hope we never get there. it is something that the bosses should think about more though!
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If Hollywood Bosses Want War, Maybe They Should Get It
Studio execs want to break the WGA strike by forcing writers from their homes. It's worth remembering both sides can play that game.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
honestly i’m going to default to whatever platform gives me the best engagement when i post a link to my little stories and blogs because that is really the only thing i enjoy from these apps anymore
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
would personally like to thank bill de blasio for giving us an incredibly easy blog topic right out of a holiday weekend, thank you for your service mr. mayor www.discourseblog.com/p/nycs-bigges…
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NYC's Biggest Freak is Back On the Market
There's been a seismic shift in the 60+ pansexual dating scene: Bill de Blasio is available.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
couple weeks ago my dad’s dress shoes broke at a wedding so i gave him my stan smiths, which i think he really pulled off in a kendall roy kinda way
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
eat at da greek place, gotta feed da greek place’s dumpster cat
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
just offered my wife a bluesky code and she instantly said no which really felt like an own somehow
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Discourse Blog @handle.invalid · 30/06/2023
feeling this from @jscros.bsky.social yesterday www.discourseblog.com/p/john-robert…
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 10/06/2023
sorry im still new here is the jake tapper account that posts like 100x a day actually jake tapper
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 08/06/2023
for some actually worthwhile thoughts about all the smoke please read @jscros.bsky.social on @discourseblog.bsky.social today www.discourseblog.com/p/were-all-ca…
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We're All California Now
The apocalyptic smoke over New York City will get real familiar pretty soon.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 07/06/2023
blue sky? never heard of her www.discourseblog.com/p/were-all-ca…
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We're All California Now
The apocalyptic smoke over New York City will get real familiar pretty soon.
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 01/06/2023
i have a new conspiracy theory that fancy boutique fitness classes keep their gym temps higher than needed on purpose so you sweat more and feel like you got more of a workout
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Jack Crosbie @jscros.bsky.social · 31/05/2023
one hell of a night that’s for sure
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