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Janet Reitman

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Author & Contributing Writer @NYTmag covering extremism/nastsec/military/janet.reitman@nytimes.com My dog’s name is Moby


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Blown away by this George Packer piece on Arizona, which reads like a master class in narrative journalism. Just, wow. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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This fabulous @newyorkercom.bsky.social story on a teen gang in Arizona is the type of piece I haven't seen since the old days at @rollingstone - or #JoanDidion's awesome Spur Posse story from the 1990s... so good.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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It’s really hard to write about this topic with clarity, for a general audience and Sarah does it expertly … for anyone eager to understand our current political moment please give a read

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Loving this deeply informed yet utterly accessible newsletter by @sarahposner.bsky.social, a great reporter whose expertise on all things related to the Christian right & Christian nationalism is unparalleled. the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io

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I’m reposting this amazing thread from my friend @sarahposner.bsky.social, who shares my outrage over this awful situation w/r/t suicide and abysmal mental healthcare in the military

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My latest NYT Mag cover story, on the Army's ongoing suicide crisis & the tragic, preventable death of SPC Austin Valley. I spent a year working on this story, talking to dozens of sources who took big risks in telling their stories. Please read and share. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/m...

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Ah but they charge by the hour…

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My journalist friends: looking for an alternative to Otter for recording/ transcribing…. Any suggestions?

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“We Killed Herman Cain”… I mean… why this wasn’t the lede - not even a pull quote!! - baffles me…

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So, not sure why she was *ever* asked to host the National Book Awards, but - good call.

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Bill Maher announcing his show is returning, picket lines be damned. Here’s some fine erasure poetry from his announcement.

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“One day, Gruber was sitting in his office at the Radcliffe Institute, listening to a tape of sperm whales chatting”… ❤️❤️this New Yorker piece on talking to whales t.co/HgCaeq67Dt

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Somewhere a white moderate pundit who said “when they come after the ADL I’ll consider them fascist” has already unconsciously updated his mental red line to massive public book burnings and is ready to do it again whenever that happens.

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Jay Rosen's avatar Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social
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"Not the odds, but the stakes." That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in campaign coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy— given what's possible in 2024. Not the odds, but the stakes. Here is an example of stakes coverage.

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Yeah, while none of this is surprising, it’s dispiriting.

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If anything I think Texas Tribune doesn’t get just how significant this is. This is full on authoritarian state behavior.

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Bless you for saying that. I DM’d you on the other social media site we both don’t like, since - how do you DM here? Can you?

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It is finally in the hands of my editor…. Like, first draft (I know, took 5 years…)

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I veer between the “wtf happened to Matt?”camp and the “this is really his natural habitat” camp … I’m currently leaning more towards the latter

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In today's raving bananas anti-Semitic/racist freakshow, professional BS artist RFK Jr. suggests #COVID-19 was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

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"Not the odds, but the stakes." That's my shortand for the organizing principle we most need from journalists covering the 2024 election. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. If you see me use the phrase, that's what it means.

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“Despite the proven real world dangers, [Republicans have] escalated their use of the ‘invasion’ and ‘replacement’ conspiracies in the last four years, seemingly not caring that this rhetoric comes with a body count,” said Mario Carrillo from @americasvoice.bsky.social

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former Afghan interpreter who escaped to the US murdered in a random shooting in DC. this fuckin country man

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