ryan fae

woof. best of luck lol

illinois has an undue burden clause so we can get like Tops 600-700 pages unfortunately. but one day the fed foias will come back lol

foia? :P

genuinely i'm all for it. being subjective can make many articles better, more graspable and applicable pieces to readers. and clearly being silly and wonderful is one of those things that kinda sticks thru (cc @crimew.gay)

opinion writers get a lot of flack in-industry, and while i am a staunch defender of the artform, it's kinda hard to argue with perhaps the worst axios-but-twitter-vibes roundup graf i have ever read in my life

i really appreciate defector's fifth estate-esque pieces like this. because lord. she genuinely might be the worst opinion writer in the world. just depressing shit

much love 💜💜

very good read!

An article titled "The Rise of the Techno-Pastoral" by Lisa Peralta. The image that accompanies it depicts a gameboy whose screen shows a pixelated green field and trees, and its lead reads "When criticizing the present, we keep dreaming of the technology of the past. Is this logic sound?"

I made a blog!

been thinking a lot about our relationship to technology and what I find unsettling about "tech detox" culture

go read it: noreturn.blog/p/the-rise-o...

hearing the same from sources, and also that stephen miller will sub in at the 89th minute and score a bicycle kick to bring the US back within the tie margin

terrific reporting!

Airstrike Hit Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20 Open-source evidence and satellite imagery show that the March 5 strike destroyed a first responders’ outpost in Zibashahr Park, leaving an identified military site 200 meters away untouched

A review by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself of post-strike videos, images, satellite imagery and mapping data shows that a civilian park hosting an EMS base in Shiraz was directly hit, killing at least 20 and raising questions about mistaken targeting.

as someone paramedic-trained in the US: you'd be surprised how bullshittable parts of these certifications are, and how incompetent that leaves many medics, esp. when gov't-employed/in a power position

the only thing the 'paramedic' label is worth when adjacent to police dep'ts is being a pig

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

VERY GOOD NEWS

u know ur doing well when you report on campaign wrongdoings and a single campaign comes up so much that it feels like ur beating a dead horse

it's unfortunately an instagram word

i see! digging a little into it, i know they leak a hell of a lot of info. would be very nice to have more precise stuff like they give for posts

oooof

i mean, in that same vein, impartiality simply does not exist in reporting

my goal as a reporter is, in short, to get as many perspectives as possible and gauge how to best represent the most enlightening ones in an article. my judgment is partial, so the reporting is partial

fucking behemoth of an investigation, wow

literally

why did i write that thread like im chatgpt holy shit i must have been fuming LMAO

rapidly learning a blog to give a bunch of thoughts on the media would actually be very nice. but fuck substack. what free things are all the cool kids using these days?

i might be the #1 analysis-intertwined journalism fan in the world lmao. opinion writers and essayists get shit on all the time in-industry and then the folks at POLITICO Playbook get their props for violating the same cardinal sins

put some color in your reporting, people. cmon. live a little

like, the modern analysis you get from specialty outlets — POLITICO, Semafor, etc. — is a modern, post-newjourno (and post-gonzo) thing when placed outside the opinion column. the opinionization of experts on TV news channels is the same.

and hell, i *love* that shit

definitely. i'm not the biggest gonzo fan in the world but its derivatives, the new journalism and especially the immersion movements, fundamentally shaped and continue to shape my own reporting and my favorite journalistic pieces

it's genuinely a brainless task that i could not and could never bear. and if that's not journalism to you then, shit, you got me there! :P

i generally agree. but having written for local publications for ages, the amount of people who genuinely make a living off barely rewriting every single community press release they receive — as 'journalists' — give me a strong enough counterexample to where i'll put some space for doubt LOL

good writeup!