Thomas Friestad

Follow me at @KCBJ_Thomas for CRE news. Follow me here for assorted nostalgia, attempts at pithiness and hair-pulling over bothsidesism.

[Alanna Vagianos @AlannaVagianos]

BREAKING: Deep red Missouri votes to repeal near-total abortion ban and codify abortion until viability into the state constitution. https://t.co/lSZGBL0ifm

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

NEWS

The editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial page has resigned after the owner blocked the editorial board from moving forward with an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent. In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”

@sewellchan reports

Full Story: https://t.co/OpBu4bw28g

[Chris Moody @moody]

It's a big country. More newsrooms should let their reporters spread out.

In my first piece for @CJR, I profiled journalists who left big, coastal cities for the nation's interior. https://t.co/VKuoH5x3Jt

[Tyler Spence @tspencenews]

Print newspapers are back in Martinsville, Indiana. One editor took the fight to a local ghost newspaper - and used paper and ink to win. Read for @idsnews.

https://t.co/D2arjsSde4

[Josh Kaplan @js_kaplan]

I covered Jan 6 as an investigative reporter back in 2021. Ever since, I’d wondered: After the Capitol riot, where does the militia movement go from here?

So I spent the last few months getting inside the turbulent, secretive world of one of the largest militias in the US...

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

News outlets owe their consumers one of two things: A feeding frenzy over stolen Trump campaign emails, or a truly searching, lengthy mea culpa for 2016 and when and how they decided that was a mistake. Otherwise they’re just thumbing the scales for Trump. https://t.co/chYmqR9Xky

[Nooruddean @BeardedGenius]

Never check your work email on a day off

[Danny Miller @DanielMillerEsq]

In a world of @nytimes be a @PhillyInquirer.

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Shot:

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in the "Chevron" decision: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

Chaser:

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker faced backlash for telling women college graduates to become homemakers, but his mom, Elizabeth Keller Butker, is an accomplished physicist.

https://t.co/czmKg9sMcB

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Asking the press to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden. To equate the two makes everyone dumber.

@GregTSargent conducts this argument — with examples — better than anyone I have read so far. https://t.co/sFoWfplzDE

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The cops killed more people in 2023 than any year since we’ve been tracking. But white folks don’t care anymore and now they get to feel victimized because Claudine Gay incorrectly cited some sources.
My disgust in @thenation

https://t.co/idtU0Hu3f4

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Either Bud Light is no longer gay or I support Kid Rock in his journey of self-discovery.

[Jonathan Guyer @mideastXmidwest]

I crashed Henry Kissinger’s 100th-birthday party https://t.co/GN6rKnljjA

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This Sports Illustrated story is wild.

The TLDR is that they bought AI-generated headshots and created fake writer profiles so they could publish AI-generated content and make it look real.

They then deleted the content when asked about it.

Super sad. SI used to be the best.

[Ben Rosen @ben_rosen]

UNCLE: I say this every year but-

ME: not this again

MOM: we’re NOT talking politics this thanksgiving

UNCLE: without luigi there is no waluigi, therefore he is responsible for waluigi’s many sins

ME: ARE YOU SAYING WALUIGI HAS NO FREE WILL

UNCLE: I SAID WHAT I FUCKING SAID

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction could have a chilling effect on future Stanford law professors’ law children’s ability to set up multi-billion dollar offshore cryptocurrency scams.

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

“Wild pig-like animals are tearing up an Arizona golf course. The internet is delighted”

https://t.co/uCCiStF3MK

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

My latest.

The moment I knew powerful media insiders would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi’s murder was at a disturbing @TIME party almost five years ago.

https://t.co/WYraWRT2ai