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For the first time in our 9-year history:

WE ARE HIRING!

We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!

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The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

There's a war on for your mind.

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I didn't write about the AI plot bc I'm not done w season 2, but it made me wonder: do you all let your doctors use AI note-takers? I never want to say "no" when they bring it up, but usually I ask so many suspicious questions that they say "it seems like you want to say no" and don't use it

I binged way too much of The Pitt this weekend, a show with the dual aspirations of a competent workplace and the ability to receive adequate medical care

All your chatter has convinced me to start watching The Pitt (as long as I close my eyes for the gory stuff), but why does it take until 6 episodes into season 1 for them to acknowledge the hottest nurse on the show

i get one of these all the time for a guy who's walking around the world but i can never tell how far he's walked because they never show up in order (i suppose i could just find this out myself lol but i like yelling "arg!" whenever it shows in my feed)

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Pledge: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is A Union Paper for A Union Town We NEED to make sure the new Post-Gazette owners understand that the PG is a union paper in a union town with readers who expect robust staffing and local news coverage. The new owners are clearly inv...

We joined many of you in welcoming the PG’s new owners. Then celebrations got cut short. Folks in Baltimore were told our staff is getting halved. The CEO was dodgy on the record re: unions.

Will you sign our pledge marking the need for robust staff & a union PG?

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I do basically all of Aftermath's customer service and obviously that's a lower volume than student loans/Stripe, but like... I just try to do a good job? I read people's questions and assume they have visited the requisite information already and that's why they're asking me? It's not HARD to do!

Tried to ask the customer service at student loans about why my payment is randomly lower, and I am simply so sick of shitty customer support that just points you to the thing you can see with your eyes

The Approval Matrix Revolutions News, notes, and all the scuttlebutt pertaining to Jim Bankoff’s admirable, atom-splitting attempt to sell off Vox Media in parts: ‘New York,’ its various digital assets, and the podcast network that ...

The Vox unbundling started with Polygon last year. Tons of great outlets led by completely adrift ownership. puck.news/inside-jim-b...

this was my second guess! they TALKED like a bot-- "i understand why that would concern you"--but had a person name like actual people have in the system??

99% sure the human Stripe just claimed to connect me with is also a bot

We all use phones on the toilet. Just don’t sit more than 10 minutes. Phones and devices like the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck have turned porcelain thrones into fortresses of solitude. But there are risks to sitting too long.

i would direct you to one of Launcher's most successful stories during my tenure lol www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/...

You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.

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Whew, I sold my overpriced data centers and bought this cheap shoe brand

‘This Is The Last Straw’: More Americans Aren’t Paying Federal Taxes This Year To Resist Trump. Here’s What Could Happen. Under Trump’s leadership, frustrated Americans are reaching new breaking points.

It's Tax Day, and many Americans are refusing to pay their taxes under Trump's administration.

“I can take a sternly worded [IRS] letter. That does not scare me,” one tax protester told me. “What scares me is my neighbors being taken out of their homes.” www.huffpost.com/entry/federa...

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No publication gives me more hope that we (people!) can make the world better and fairer and kinder than Hamilton's newsletter.

BAM Due to changes in global shipping routes, the sets for Hamlet have been delayed in their arrival to New York. As a result, we have had to cancel performances from April 19—25 and previews will now begin April 26.

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Baltimore Banner’s nonprofit publisher buys the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The 240-year-old newspaper was set to close next month after a long battle between its parent company and its union.

Big news in local news!

The Baltimore Banner’s nonprofit publisher is buying the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, keeping the paper running.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

An ominous shadow darts across my bathroom floor--with the arrival of spring, it is once again the season when giant carpenter bees find their way inside through my badly-hung windows

Media outlets have infrastructure to support such investigations — experienced reporters and editors, newsroom lawyers, resources to fend off lawsuits. The content creators had none of that. Both women said they independently took out umbrella insurance policies to protect their houses and other assets in case they got sued. At one point Fodor, feeling increasingly overwhelmed, sent a message to Hunt: “I think we have bitten off more than we can chew here.” The influencers agreed that specific allegations needed to be broken in a news story. While reporters dug into the allegations, they kept up a public drumbeat, insisting that Swalwell was a shady character and promising the details would come out soon. The tease infuriated many on social media, who accused the influencers of being irresponsible by lobbing accusations without backing them up. But the threat of a soon-to-drop news story was enough to dry up Swalwell’s fundraising and unnerve supporters. Political operatives of all stripes were disconcerted watching the influencers play by their own set of rules, different from the norms of media outlets, and wondered if this would become a new normal in campaigns — a prospect that even unsettled the influencers. “I have a lot of fears about the blurred lines between content creators and journalists,” Hunt said. She knew her personal familiarity with Swalwell’s reputation would never have been sufficient basis for a reporter to write a story. “It was enough for me to feel confident in not getting sued, and to want to let other women know that they weren’t alone, and only from that place would we be able to break his story in a traditional news media outlet,” she said. “I don’t want this to be a green light to creators who think that they should be breaking sensitive news.”

The series of events that resulted in Swalwell's downfall bring up a really interesting (and depressing) conversation about traditional media vs. independent and how money in journalism controls who has the safety to tell the truth

www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

If there's a show about weird religions I am going to watch it, despite every ounce of my better judgement

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff.

It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this.

Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

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