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Peter Birkenhead

@pbirk.bsky.social

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Bylines in The Daily Beast, The Week, McSweeney’s, The NY Daily News, Salon, LA Review of Books, US News, the Washington Post, The Awl, The Morning News, Marie Claire, MORE, Chicago Tribune, others. substack.com/@peterbirkenhead

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Turns out the Weiss-washing has been even more hands on than we thought. tinyurl.com/3ye626er

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A fine day to say no to kings and yes to democracy!

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A million times this.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New from me on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/peterbir...

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We have appended an Editor’s Note to our story about President Kennedy, who was declared dead from bullet wounds in Dallas, Texas. After publication, the Times learned that he also had a preexisting back condition.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hillary’s “deplorable” statement was made in the context of an argument that most Trump voters were good people deserving of empathy. Yet it ignited a firestorm of negative coverage by the NYT, which pounded on the issue for weeks, permanently branding Clinton as a hater of the white working class.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Bean is screaming.

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And it’s wild how SO much of this piece contradicts its premise. Passage after passage adds up to : “yeah boys are still way ahead in every area that counts but I don’t know, things feel icky.”