Bill

Yes.

[Brady Evan Burns @evanburns]

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[Brady Evan Burns @evanburns]

More Americans believe we’ll colonize the moon before we fix K-12 education. This is a policy problem.

We have been building a solution that’s already trusted by many of the Fortune 500 as well as 1/3 of federal and state elected officials in the United States.

Organizations are more impacted by policy than by financial markets. Yet financial markets have been real-time for decades, and policy markets are still nearly impossible to follow.

@StateAffairsUS has raised over $70M from @rabois, @khoslaventures, @foundersfund and others to fix that.

We are creating the world’s first real-time knowledge graph for policy and regulatory markets. This platform is foundationally built on non-partisan journalism and the collection of on-the-ground data that isn’t digitally accessible.

In the future, we believe every executive will watch policy markets the way they watch financial markets. Instead of reacting to regulation, they’ll navigate it proactively.

Policy should iterate at the speed of our most innovative industries.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

I know many of you will roll your eyes at this, but that's OK; I wouldn't be in this field if I was afraid of being dunked on every now and then.

When I first came to The Washington Post in 2017, I was extremely wary it would be too establishment for me. Too corporate. Too deferential to power.

What I have instead found over the last seven years is that the paper has consistently given me a unique, awesome platform to fulfill the highest calling of journalism -- to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. 

The Post has spared no resource in allowing me to pursue this mission. It flew me to Puerto Rico to interview hurricane victims cut off from federal food stamp aid. To Maine to cover the long-term care crisis facing the nation's elderly. To Kentucky to document the closure of a steel plant. To Las Vegas to cover the housing crisis. To Wisconsin for farmers caught in the crosshairs of a trade war. To Detroit for a story on the nation's unraveling safety net. To the Bronx to chronicle appalling public housing conditions. (OK, I took the train there.) To Ukraine to cover a war. To Indonesia for meetings of the world's most powerful financial leaders. 

Since the beginning of the year, the Post has devoted thousands of manpower hours to a series -- six parts published thus far -- on the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions. This effort included paying me and a team to travel to northeast Guatemala to chronicle an economic calamity almost 2,000 miles away from my desk, in one of the poorest parts of the world. At least 20 people have worked on this series alone. The Post did not greenlight this series because it thought there would be huge pageviews in U.S. sanctions policy; it did so because it's important for the public to understand how the surging use of the tool is affecting the world and the nation's foreign policy. It did so because the story matters.

I fully understand the misgivings people have expressed about billionaire control over our journalism. (I published a story today -- pitched by an editor, put by editors on today's front page -- about billionaires threatened by Trump who are now hedging their bets.) But these are stories that require more than just substantial resources; they require a devotion to journalism that seeks to document how machinations in Washington affect the lives outside it.

I could try a Substack where I spout off whatever happens to be in my head that day. I could work for a publication that only caters to lobbyists and elite insiders. But there are precious few publications still doing the coverage -- however incomplete; however still in need of improvement -- aimed at serving the broader public at large. I believe The Washington Post is one of them.

I am not here to tell anyone what to do. We are imperfect. My work can suffer from negativity bias, recency bias, imperfect data, faulty assumptions, motivated sources. I get things wrong. My journalism can be flawed and you should yell at me on twitter when it is. I want to be more transparent about the decisions I make and the stories I publish.

But I promise you: I and many, many other journalists throughout this newsroom would quit The Washington Post if we ever felt our work was not in service of the public at large. That is the point of the job. That is why I hope we get to do it for as long as possible.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.More than a quarter million people have canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post, @davidfolkenflik reports. I understand their feelings of betrayal, and their frustration that Trump's threats, bullying and intimidation have succeeded in pushing democracy toward darkness. But I also see the WashPost as an important institution that has been part of the network holding Trump accountable, and if he is reelected the news and opinion staff of the Post will continue to be part of that effort -- for in many parts of the world, I've seen WashPost reporters risk their lives to get the story. They are dedicated and courageous journalists who I'm honored to compete against. An owner may flinch; they will not. Since I work for the NY Times, the Post is a rival, but I want the strongest and most robust rival possible to keep us on our toes and make us a better paper. Bottom line: I'm encouraged that so many Americans care deeply about journalistic integrity, but I don't think canceling subscriptions is going to enhance journalistic oversight. If you do insist on canceling the Post, I hope you'll double down and subscribe to two other news organizations (including a local one!).

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@AdamUnderstands @ArmandDoma AdamUnderstands is a misnomer

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@Whotfismick Heat

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@dsauce @TheRubberDuck79 The dumb in here is astounding.

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@TimOBrien Grade A piece of shit right there.

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

Put up a gun control bill.

Make them vote against it.

[darth™ @darth]

go fuck yourself @tedcruz

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@seanfeucht Shup up Sean.

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@mtgreenee YOU talking about lies is the height of irony.

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@mtgreenee Disgusting. Simply disgusting.

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@AoDespair See: https://t.co/iNyUjqsCCQ

[Eric @EricG1247]

I need 3K retweets in the next 24 hours: My name is Eric Garcia. I am running against Devin Nunes. I am a disabled Marine Corps veteran — and I'm going to win. Please retweet this & ask everyone you know to follow this campaign and join us. This is a critical mission. Let’s go!

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@davidglickstein Seriously.

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@AlanRMJones @RameshPonnuru Hey Alan! Go pound dirt !

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Sorry for your young friend. But given the last four years of dishonor and misrule, this entire thread has the tone of he-only-joined-The Party-to-advance-himself-he-didn’t-support-the-crimes-and-barbarity. I’m an employer. He can never work for me. No known Trumpist can.

[Bill @DCNewcleus]

@PreetBharara No thanks.