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Millie Tran

@millietran.com
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Journalist. Chief Digital Content Officer at the Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org. Mostly thinking about the world and how people get news. There must be a better way.

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Brian M. Rosenthal @brianmrosenthal.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The American organ transplant system was built to be fair. But increasingly, officials are ignoring the rules and skipping over the patients most in need. Our investigation, with @cocteau.bsky.social and Jeremy White: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored
The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 06/02/2025
Two new — and really important! — jobs open at @cfr.org: ▪️Editor, News: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... ▪️Editor, Special Projects: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... Both roles must be based in our DC or NYC offices. Please share widely. There's, well, a lot going on in the world right now!
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 26/01/2025
So sorry to hear this, Rachel. Sometimes these things help push forward whatever’s next on your path. Excited for whatever that is for you and cheering you on!
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 18/12/2024
🙏🏼
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 18/12/2024
Yikes 😬
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 18/12/2024
This is deeply depressing to me
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/12/2024
Here's my piece: www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/embr... And here's Brian's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/12/2024
For @niemanlab.org, I wrote about how it's time to abandon middling stories and go very short or go very long. I was thinking about posts and stories and all the ambient formats we're consuming all day, but what I didn't include is something Brian Morrissey has also been talking about: spectacle!
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 16/12/2024
Today's @niemanlab.org Predictions just posted! Featuring: @travelinganna.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @jamditis.bsky.social @millietran.com @nataliaviana.bsky.social @noahshachtman.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com @rasmuskleis.bsky.social (1/2) www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...
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Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 03/12/2024
This is def a DNS admin flex
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Congratulations to @maxboot.bsky.social for his honest and straightforward "Reagan" - one of The Times best books of 2024. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...
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The 10 Best Books of 2024
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It took only ~2.5 hrs for the National Assembly to gather a majority of members (190 of 300) and generate a unanimous vote (190 of 190) to vote down the emergency martial law. The law says the president "shall comply" with parliament's vote, but doesn't specify a time frame.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 01/12/2024
Read @stevenacook.bsky.social on what’s happening in Syria, who’s actually behind the rebellion, Russia’s involvement & the response of other outside actors involved in Syria, including Turkey, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. www.cfr.org/expert-brief...
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What Syria’s Revived Civil War Means for the Region
The surprise rebel offensive that has seized Aleppo and threatens other regime-held territories could mark a further weakening of Iran's regional sway but also spur a new cycle of violence and instab…
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 27/11/2024
Being able to use your domain as username here definitely reignited my teenage-era ‘let’s make websites’ passion
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 27/11/2024
“ @peterbakernyt.bsky.social says that after learning from 2016, news organizations have a responsibility to ‘recognize that we’re not going to jump on every single stray voltage that comes out of his phone.’” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
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Reporters Brace for the Frenzy of a Second Trump White House
Journalists covering the hectic transition period speak of exhaustion and a sense of déjà vu—yet are resolved to tackle whatever comes their way. “If Trump kicks us out of the White House briefing roo...
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 27/11/2024
Love to see this. I just looked at our data and while the last 30 days show pretty similar numbers from both Threads and Bluesky, looking at just this week, Bluesky is 2x that of Threads for us at @cfr.org
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Council on Foreign Relations @cfr.org · 26/11/2024
Fentanyl has become a major U.S. foreign policy and national security challenge, as the drug’s supply chain largely runs through China and Mexico. Find out more from our explainer:
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These Eight Charts Show Why Fentanyl Is a Huge Foreign Policy Problem
Overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are the leading cause of death among young Americans and a threat to U.S. public health, the economy, and national security. Combating the epi…
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 26/11/2024
You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 26/11/2024
This is elite pie crust 📌
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Edward Alden @edwardalden.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Agree with Max on this. Trump hates it when markets go down on his watch. The real test will be whether he carries through on his promised huge tariff increases — which markets will not like.
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Inu Manak @inumanak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Who had Canada and Mexico first on the bingo card along with China?
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 26/11/2024
If you need a refresher on tariffs, @cfr.org's got you. What are tariffs, who uses them, who pays? www.cfr.org/backgrounder...
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What Are Tariffs?
U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden have both turned to tariffs to support local industries amid economic confrontation with China. Here’s how these taxes work and how they’ve been used historically.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 23/11/2024
Andor Bluesky is what I was missing. THANK YOU
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 22/11/2024
Pinned to home, obvi
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 22/11/2024
The slow rebuild begins
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 22/11/2024
I’m sorry this is just too precise!!!
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 22/11/2024
No, though you might want to keep your Bluesky one too, so someone else doesn’t impersonate you. (So much for verification if you have to have both…)
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 20/11/2024
Great, fast work with these
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 20/11/2024
“The American election is far from the determining factor in the global fight against climate change. Neither is what happens at this COP… What matters is how fast clean energy and climate technologies can get cheaper and better.” www.cfr.org/expert-brief...
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Climate Diplomacy: Watch What Countries Do, Not What They Say
World governments should focus on rapidly driving down the costs of clean energy, particularly in the power, transportation, and industrial sectors, to move the needle on climate change.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
“2024 was the 6th consecutive change election in a row, and 9th out of the past 10 in which the party controlling the House, Senate and/or White House got ousted. 6-in-a-row is a new record. 9-out-of-10 only happened once before: the Gilded Age’s 1878-1896.” brucemehlman.substack.com/p/six-chart-...
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Six-Chart Sunday (#43) – The New Gilded Age Revisited
6 Infographics from the week + 1 Video (Senator-Elect Dave McCormick)
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
“There are two ways to have faith in your own good taste: You can assume that it marks you as special and separates you from others, or you can regard it as an opportunity to share.” (Martha was the latter, of course.) By @amandamull.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Martha Stewart’s Empire Monetized More Than Just Domesticity
A new documentary reminds us that the lifestyle guru was also selling the pleasure of mastery.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
You are quickly becoming mayor of Bluesky
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
Learning to ski as an adult has been humbling! Wish it were more accessible because it’s so fun
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I can stop whenever I want
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
“The patterns we perceive now rise less from information gathered in our close communities and more from what crosses our awareness along national paths.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
An excerpt from a New Yorker article, titled "Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information": 

"Detail, even when it’s available, doesn’t travel widely after all. Big, sloppy notions do.


Planting ideas this way isn’t argument, and it’s not emotional persuasion. It’s about seeding the ambience of information, throwing facts and fake facts alike into an environment of low attention, with the confidence that, like minnows released individually into a pond, they will eventually school and spawn. Notions must add up to a unified vision but also be able to travel on their own, because that’s how information moves in a viral age."
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
You know I'm here for that! Lmk if you need more beta testers
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
SAMEEE 💓
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
Of course!!
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
And a super duper list of starter packs: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
A little obsessed with @atproto.com and the ability to make custom communities like swifties.social. Using your own domain for your handle was so easy — directions here: bsky.social/about/blog/4...
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How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Starter packs are great but worth considering making hyper-specific packs into Feeds! That way people can, for example, follow regular updates specifically from everyone that works at your publication. I’m less likely to follow a gazillion starter pack people then I am to simply follow one feed!
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
And here’s a feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 17/11/2024
I remember Twitter when we’d do whole live chats via hashtags (#wjchat!). Fun to see the evolution of that to these automated/custom feeds. We’re so back
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 16/11/2024
I made a lil starter pack of @cfr.org fellows on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/4ThRsBu
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/11/2024
As someone who grew up online, it does depress me to see how many people genuinely can’t fathom why someone would want to be on social media beyond reasons linked to building clout so you can make money. It’s fun to talk to interesting people from around the world. That’s always been my reason.
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 15/11/2024
Is the love-bullying working 🫶🏼
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Millie Tran @millietran.com · 14/11/2024
Thank you. Now what if we brought back the Santa hats 📌
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