@fordfess

Former graphics editor at New York Times. Florida Ballot Project director. 102 minutes in the WTC. 40 years of getting strangers and datasets to tell me stuff

Joined August 2011
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu22 May 2023
"The bosses are speaking out..." You should be aware of this. The speaker is @kylepope, editor of Columbia Journalism Review @CJR. cjr.org/the_media_today/aman…
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great graphic
Edward Luce
@EdwardGLuce26 May 2022
Should have added that 2004 was when assault weapon ban ended. This isn't rocket science.
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Unconvincing. nytimes.com/2021/12/11/opini…

Opinion | What the New Right Sees (Published 2021)

Why an alienated movement sees American life more clearly than its rivals.

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Acyn
@Acyn13 Jul 2021
“You have made a lot of money personally and you have enriched a lot of corporations with advertising by getting on here and spewing lies and conspiracy theories.. so what I’m asking you to do is to tell your voters that Donald Trump lost the election”
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One Met on the all-star team. Every other first place team has at least three. Fiasco.
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This is sublime. Daunte Wright and the Grammar of Kim Potter’s Resignation newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via @NewYorker

Daunte Wright and the Grammar of Kim Potter’s Resignation

Potter insists that she “has loved every minute of being a police officer,” even if some of her final minutes in the field were spent annihilating a man.

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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu13 Mar 2021
There are lines in this portrait of one family (struggling with a mom who got sucked in...) that are almost identical to what I have heard in my own family. It's almost eerie how similar are the situations and responses. washingtonpost.com/nation/in…

They’re worried their mom is becoming a conspiracy theorist. She thinks they’re the ones living in...

A family struggles with truth and trust in a country divided by disinformation.

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RJ Barrett is like the Knicks 6th or 7th best player.
It seems to me the critical question is how many sane people have left the party, whether this level of craziness fosters a backlash among non-insane former Republicans. Certainly, the last election saw evidence of this (along with other less hopeful signs).
Andrew Sullivan
@sullydish23 Feb 2021
Extinction level event. No democracy can survive this level of delegitimization by one major party.
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That sense of rupture? I'd say, dread, or fear. So critical to recover our articulation, though.
Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu23 Feb 2021
May I share a frustration? Thank you. One of my occupations is "writer." When I try to describe what it's like to watch Fox these days — that sense of rupture — my sentences fill with hopeless cliches, and I give up. For me its indescribable how bad it is. That's frustrating.
Fitbit stats: 1,266 steps in search of purpose; 3,366 streps trying to find my groove; 2,145 steps finding glasses; 256 steps to and from the laptop: total: 7,033 steps. Another day of wellness.
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Old CW: I should follow people like you to broaden my understanding of a range of legitimate viewpoints. New CW: You are a cynical purveyor of a big lie that has as its sole purpose the destruction of democratic government.
Sean Hannity 🇺🇸
@seanhannity28 Jan 2021
BIDEN CRIES FOUL: White House Blasts NY Times for Criticizing Flood of Executive Actions hann.it/2MgKguy
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Wow, I guess I don't qualify as a boomer, given that I'm not drug-addicted or divorced or sleeping with porn stars and my kids are college debt free and speak civilly to me. The Conservative Case Against the Boomers newyorker.com/news/our-colum… via @NewYorker

The Conservative Case Against the Boomers

For bleakness, scope, and entropic finality, the progressive critique of the generation has nothing on the social-conservative one.

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Begin America's healing: Remove Josh Hawley. Remove Kevin McCarthy.
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What a stupid story. Who is in charge over there?
FiveThirtyEight
@FiveThirtyEight22 Jan 2021
In the end, Trump’s use of the pardons was generally in line with other Republican presidents. 53eig.ht/2Y30sC8
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Haha. Pugilist.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC21 Jan 2021
Nice tweet Sen. Cruz! Quick question: do you also believe the Geneva Convention was about the views of the citizens of Geneva? Asking for everyone who believes US Senators should be competent and not undermine our elections to incite insurrection against the United States
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A must read. If you want to know what is responsible for the big lies powering the right, look no further than the insanely rich Murdochs. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/01/17/busin…

Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition. (Published 2021)

Why did the network insist an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?

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