Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

The American organ transplant system was built to be fair. But increasingly, officials are ignoring the rules and skipping over the patients most in need. Our investigation, with @cocteau.bsky.social and Jeremy White: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Two new — and really important! — jobs open at @cfr.org:

▪️Editor, News: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
▪️Editor, Special Projects: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Both roles must be based in our DC or NYC offices. Please share widely. There's, well, a lot going on in the world right now!

So sorry to hear this, Rachel. Sometimes these things help push forward whatever’s next on your path. Excited for whatever that is for you and cheering you on!

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Yikes 😬

This is deeply depressing to me

Here's my piece: www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/embr...

And here's Brian's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

For @niemanlab.org, I wrote about how it's time to abandon middling stories and go very short or go very long. I was thinking about posts and stories and all the ambient formats we're consuming all day, but what I didn't include is something Brian Morrissey has also been talking about: spectacle!

Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025 Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.

Today's @niemanlab.org Predictions just posted! Featuring:

@travelinganna.bsky.social
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
@jamditis.bsky.social
@millietran.com
@nataliaviana.bsky.social
@noahshachtman.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social

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www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...

This is def a DNS admin flex

The 10 Best Books of 2024 The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

Congratulations to @maxboot.bsky.social for his honest and straightforward "Reagan" - one of The Times best books of 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/b...

It took only ~2.5 hrs for the National Assembly to gather a majority of members (190 of 300) and generate a unanimous vote (190 of 190) to vote down the emergency martial law. The law says the president "shall comply" with parliament's vote, but doesn't specify a time frame.

What Syria’s Revived Civil War Means for the Region The surprise rebel offensive that has seized Aleppo and threatens other regime-held territories could mark a further weakening of Iran's regional sway but also spur a new cycle of violence and instab…

Read @stevenacook.bsky.social on what’s happening in Syria, who’s actually behind the rebellion, Russia’s involvement & the response of other outside actors involved in Syria, including Turkey, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

Being able to use your domain as username here definitely reignited my teenage-era ‘let’s make websites’ passion

Reporters Brace for the Frenzy of a Second Trump White House Journalists covering the hectic transition period speak of exhaustion and a sense of déjà vu—yet are resolved to tackle whatever comes their way. “If Trump kicks us out of the White House briefing roo...

“ @peterbakernyt.bsky.social says that after learning from 2016, news organizations have a responsibility to ‘recognize that we’re not going to jump on every single stray voltage that comes out of his phone.’” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Love to see this. I just looked at our data and while the last 30 days show pretty similar numbers from both Threads and Bluesky, looking at just this week, Bluesky is 2x that of Threads for us at @cfr.org

These Eight Charts Show Why Fentanyl Is a Huge Foreign Policy Problem Overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are the leading cause of death among young Americans and a threat to U.S. public health, the economy, and national security. Combating the epi…

Fentanyl has become a major U.S. foreign policy and national security challenge, as the drug’s supply chain largely runs through China and Mexico.

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You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

This is elite pie crust 📌

Agree with Max on this. Trump hates it when markets go down on his watch. The real test will be whether he carries through on his promised huge tariff increases — which markets will not like.

Who had Canada and Mexico first on the bingo card along with China?

What Are Tariffs? U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden have both turned to tariffs to support local industries amid economic confrontation with China. Here’s how these taxes work and how they’ve been used historically.

If you need a refresher on tariffs, @cfr.org's got you. What are tariffs, who uses them, who pays? www.cfr.org/backgrounder...

Andor Bluesky is what I was missing. THANK YOU

Pinned to home, obvi

The slow rebuild begins

I’m sorry this is just too precise!!!

No, though you might want to keep your Bluesky one too, so someone else doesn’t impersonate you. (So much for verification if you have to have both…)

Great, fast work with these