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Michael Calderone
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Editor, ’s The Hive. Covered media/politics at , ; taught journalism at , . (Also @mlcalderone@journa.host)
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Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange
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The bans of journalists raise a number of questions about the future of the free press on Twitter. For one: Will news orgs remain on the platform, while Musk bans and smears their reporters? More in : cnn.it/3WjATZA
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For Sunday Styles, my story about the Luddite Club. A New York tale about a band of Brooklyn teens and their quest to walk away from technology 🙏📚
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This year, as the January 6th hearings played out, many podcasts examined extremism in the rearview.
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Time is running out for Congress to reform the law Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit to overturn the 2020 elections.
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Donald Trump offered his supporters the deal of a lifetime on Thursday.
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Mitch McConnell once again expressed disappointment with the cast of Trump loyalists his party put forth this cycle.
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Part of the Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory was that police were refusing to release the body cam footage.
Well, they did show it, in court. Guessing the people who were "just asking questions" about what happened are not all that interested in the answer? nytimes.com/2022/12/14/us/
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Yes, Ron and Perry are among the best in political journalism today in that they grasp the moment we're in and are clear-eyed in how they cover it
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I love this @perrybaconjr on the brilliant @RonBrownstein washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/
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Sharp look back at how podcasts tuned into America's legacy of rage and radicalism this past year, as the Jan 6 hearings grabbed headlines
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In the final minutes of today's town hall, WaPo publisher Fred Ryan announced there'd be layoffs coming and then fled the room. As one staffer put it to me: “Could you get worse internal PR than this?”
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i wrote a column saying newsrooms should hire black people, and not use desire to appear objective to white ppl to excuse using euphemisms and parroting government accounts unquestioned.
For that Bret Stephens literally likens me to Putin, Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green
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The Florida governor announced on Tuesday that he will convene a grand jury to investigate “crimes and wrongdoing” related to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Now that Marjorie Taylor Greene says her coup would have been "armed" and obtained new GOP texts about 1/6, it's even more crucial that ECA reform will be part of the omnibus, to safeguard against the insurrectionist spirit in the GOP House next year:
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What's even more stunning than the number of Republicans who wanted Trump to declare martial law to prevent Biden from becoming president? The number of them who think it’s called “Marshall Law.”
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The idea that somehow both parties are toxic is the falsest of false equivalencies. Sinema has the kind of bothsidesing brain worms that are rarely seen outside of the worst hot takes of the pundit class.
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Do not shrug this off. A member of the Congress of the United States wanted the outgoing president to invoke martial law, and use the arms of the United States military to prevent the new president from taking office. Sedition.
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TPM EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) in a text to Mark Meadows, 3 days before Biden's inauguration:
"Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!"
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-m via @TPM
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Trump’s attempt to jam up the DOJ’s criminal investigation into his classified documents hoarding was officially killed on Monday.
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This exposé of Mark Meadows' election texts are a perfect counterpoint to the / stenographic exercise.
& team reached out to the main players. They put the stuff in context.
You know, they did what real journalists do.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-m
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NEW from me: Just Like Elon Musk, the New York Times Can’t Stop Trolling the Libs
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Exclusive: TPM obtains new trove of Mark Meadows texts which provide the first definitive, real-time record of the plot to overturn the 2020 election.
2319 texts, most made public here for the first time. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/a-plot via
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Alexandra Pelosi has filmed her mom at work as the Democratic leader and House Speaker for three decades.
“I didn’t make this movie for Washington,” she tells VF.
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Rising MAGA star Kari Lake is doubling down on her failed “stolen election” strategy.
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Alexandra Pelosi talks to about her documentary on her mother, Nancy Pelosi, airing tomorrow night on HBO
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My first media job was fact-checking for Bookforum, where I was lucky to be exposed to such great writers and editors, and more recently, enjoyed the magazine as a subscriber. Sad to see it go.
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The NYYRC gala in Manhattan featured a global gang of extremists in black tie, including American white nationalists. Some speakers called for “war.”
Our coverage:
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Would be healthy for our society to see how many of these people have pending business before the Supreme Court — including student debt loan cancellation and other big-ticket items.
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Why is a SCOTUS Justice hanging out Gorka, Prince, and Spicer?
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Elon is a bit like Steve Bannon who once mused that his strategy was “flooding the zone with 💩 “
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Maybe, with better editing and evidence, a news analysis trying to complicate Elon Musk’s politics would have worked. But this piece ain’t it. I started laughing at this graf. nyti.ms/3iWE23i
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Soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies in Qatar while covering his 8th Men's World Cup
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Agreed. Which is why these documents should be made public to be studied by a wide intellectual and ideological range of journalists & scholars rather than being cherry-picked by polemicists in league with an interested party.
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The beauty of this piece is that the facts all paint Elon Musk as a standard whiny right-wing crank but Jeremy Peters is so in the tank for right-wing whining he thinks it looks nonpartisan
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The latest installment, dropped by journalist Bari Weiss, accuses the platform of putting certain far-right accounts on “blacklists.” But upon close inspection, it’s missing a whole lot of context.
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Shocked by the tragic news about Grant Wahl, who recently spoke to about the reporting he was doing in Qatar around the World Cup, including on the conditions for migrant workers
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ChatGPT, a new AI platform, is an "astonishing, terrifying" new technology, writes .
But will the next iteration of AI have better ideas than humans, or will it just become another tool?
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“Hey Gray Lady, time to pay me”—here’s a look at today’s walkout at the New York Times
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Three mindnumbingly long hours of Moore v. Harper arguments, summarized in a few words: Make Bush v. Gore Great Again.
Me in :
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