Recent posts by South Florida Journalists on Bluesky

The Breeders at The zoo tonight was damn near perfection

“I never met Jason Arday. He is still beloved; my people claim our dead. We do not wait to be introduced before we grieve them…. I will mourn him the way Black people have always mourned in public—telling the truth, correcting the record, and admonishing the sinner.” Exactly.

@colincarlson.bsky.social replies limited so I couldn’t say it in the thread but your cat will be fine! A little pizza crust is okay. (Credentials: Decades of working at/volunteering in animal shelters and vet clinics, also two cats who will eat anything that is not kept under lock and key.)

letterman space ghost or eric andre

Did you know you can just buy a ‘fuck the algorithm’ sticker? It’s legal, no one can stop you.

In this house we believe that Conan was the best late-night host of the 21st century

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Carolyn Leigh—the lyricist who wrote the words to this and many other standards—was born 100 years ago today. Also born in August 1926: Tony Bennett, here in a wonderful 1994 performance with his longtime accompanist Ralph Sharon. See you around.

"They're still talking about fucking spreadsheets?"

I know so many people doing really cool stuff with machine learning and I find it ~intriguing~ that a year ago they were leaning hard on ‘it’s AI!’ and now they’re backpedaling because genai has poisoned the well so thoroughly. People can be mad about the context collapse but it’s inescapable now.

FYI @theflytrapmedia.com is extremely hostile to AI so if you’re into hostility you should definitely become a subscriber so we can continue to find our profligate lifestyle (paying freelancers fair rates and trying to get our candle budget under control).

*Trump trying to decide if he can move a letter opener away from Natalie without her noticing*

I mentioned this in my BUFFERING newsletter this week, but @rosie.com has been crushing it all week guest hosting Kimmel, and tonight’s monologue was no exception. Great, great stuff. I really do hope this brings her back to TV on a more regular basis. youtu.be/59St41a2TRE?...

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social we haven’t had a musical interlude in a while

If I got a letter like this I would immediately get a restraining order

Here's a sublime three-minute video that may leave you awed and weepy: Apparently some chameleons flit through patterns of random colors as they die and the physiological mechanisms controlling their colors shut down. I can't find a name for this phenomenon of, let's call it, agonal metachrosis.

Gonna be wild when the Feds confiscate the Dodgers and Ohtani’s deferred pay becomes part of the national debt.

What animates postliberalism? "Something like disgust at the sight of men holding hands on the street." Read @mattpolprof.bsky.social👇

The postliberals don’t especially mind economic inequality. They mind liberalism. They’re fine with elites, too—provided the right elites are in charge. www.thebulwark.com/p/postlibera...

Republicans have discovered a problem with campaigning outside the Fox News studio: Mainstream reporters and actual voters keep asking about the Iran war and gas prices. From our @saletan.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/iran-war-i...

[spies a discourse from afar, like an ancient volcano smoking on the horizon] well that’s surely none of my business

What a stupid thing to say. Raman should tour the city in a taco truck

does she even go here

Ohhhhh no, oof, these are so much worse than I thought. For whatever reason, I imagined Natalie Harp's notes to Trump as short little Post-It Note messages. Not mash notes. www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harp...

From our new video series on crazy Republican candidates: "There's a lot of focus in the media on some of the kooky DSA-left candidates the Democrats are running, and I feel like the same focus is not being given to the Republican candidates running in very big races.… I don't like that asymmetry."

A friend gave Trike some chicken at dinner last night and has officially created a menace even more horrifying than the popcorn monster.

Keep the customer angry. Keep him excited. Keep him clicking. Keep him coming back for another hit. It's the business model of MAGA. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dollar...

For years, Trump benefited from an almost bottomless reservoir of trust among Republican voters. Whatever happened, they believed there was a plan. Not anymore: In @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social's recent focus groups, that reservoir of trust looks like it's starting to drain:

ICE is seeking to maximize fear, panic, and instability: "ICE arrested a well-known Christian pastor, Joubert Adrien. He was driving home when officers boxed in his vehicle at a gas station.... The arrest has sent chills through Adrien’s congregation and the larger Haitian community...."

"Thursday’s removal was among the largest that community leaders said they had seen.... DHS has placed ankle monitors on Haitians who have lost their protected status."👇

Natalie Harp stuff poking a series of hilarious holes in this sort of thing

Appalling: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

lively conversation happening in the replies here:

A Bluesky thriller about a serial killer that targets every prompt poster, called What’s Your Favorite, Dead Man

www.foreignexchanges.news/p/world-roun...

Karen Bass just keeps on winning, he wrote sarcastically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

“He won't fight for the little guy, even when the little guy is literally a puppy,” says James Talarico as Ken Paxton’s animal rights record comes under scrutiny.

Available soon in Letters to Trump 2 from Winning Team Publishing

"Whoever wrote the 'study' or ordered it up clearly had a predetermined conclusion they wanted to reach, and then reverse-engineered the data to produce their answer."👇

Watching a 4-year-old learn how to process emotions is wild. "When I'm very happy, then I start to feel sad. Because when I see something verrrrrrry happy, happier than I should be, then I start to cry." (This was regarding a song about bunnies.)

NEW: "There's clear evidence the Trump administration is cooking at least some of the books." From our @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

It's as easy to underestimate as to overestimate one's ideological enemies. Such an insightful and funny piece (as ever!) by @brianhioe.bsky.social

idk what's happening re:spreadsheets in the discourse today but I'm going to throw this one in the ring.

"I have to sign off, as the cars are leaving" is pretty good tho

I read some of Jason Arday's work over the last few days and studied the events leading up to his death a bit and wrote about it at @flaminghydra.com. I hope people will talk about this man and his career more and more, in years to come. r.i.p. flaminghydra.com/issue-632/

Data centers, bond growth, personal lending (mortgages et al), the Iran War This is quite the read www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/b...

WATCH: According to new reporting, a private GOP memo warns that data centers have become a “toxic brand” and a sleeper issue that could weigh down Republicans in key 2026 races.

After announcing a big clean energy deal earlier this week, Carney took a victory lap. “We're living through the consequences of a world that collectively hasn't taken climate change seriously enough,” he said. It's part of his latest effort to greenwash his climate record:

🎂 Little Phoebe turned 6 YEARS OLD today! She was a tiny baby puppy and now she’s my beautiful golden girl. 🎂

NEW: You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to Ossoff’s line about Trump’s close aide enraged the West Wing. But its efforts to silence the story inadvertently took it from the shadows to the mainstream Meet Natalie Harp: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962)

nerds of a feather edit together

It's me, relentless self-promotion is really exhausting BUT I also CONTINUALLY hear 'I didn't know you had a book out,' so here I am, telling you I have a book out. bookshop.org/a/118950/978...

Worth noting re:that last that being nice to some people and fucking awful to others is how abusive people thrive. They know who's vulnerable and they know how to perform for other people, who then go 'oh, she's not like that' or 'that's not the man I know.'

Idk what the spreadsheet discourse is but I took a class on spreadsheets during one semester of undergrad at The New School, and it was helpful with thinking through a spreadsheet with nine million lines I had to go through last week to fact-check something.

In which I try to grab your attention so you'll listen to me talk about a bunch of new court filings by filming in front of…trees. www.instagram.com/p/DcRmZXApPIn/

Barron Trump is 20 years old and worth an estimated $150 million.

Don't really get why there would be any uncertainty here. They are private citizens with a lot of money who can pay for their own security if they need it.

spreadsheet people got no reason spreadsheet people got no reason spreadsheet people got no reason to live they got little numbers in little rows they strut around, holdin' up their nose

We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

$6 million down the drain on a 2-time loser (now 3-time) candidate in head-to-heads with Wahab. Maybe AIPAC can waste more money on the 4th time in November.

remember when henry kissinger died that's when bluesky became a real online community

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have dracula on your side, pound the table so it looks like he's making it float and the jury gets scared of you.

starting to wonder just how quickly this from @brianbeutler.bsky.social is going to seem prescient

I see a columnist is taking what he thinks is a courageous stand by spouting a boilerplate, bigoted argument that’s currently espoused by the most powerful people in the country. So brave.

(Oldsters will recognize the nod here👇 to Nick Carr's 2008 article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"—which The New Atlantis turned around in a reply essay, "Is Stupid Making Us Google?")

Did something deeply freeing and satisfying this afternoon and I will treasure this feeling so I can pull it out on a hard day and smile.

California politics, brought to you by the National Invertebrates Society

Really enjoyed this @conversationalist.org read on K-Pop's long-overdue reckoning with anti-Blackness.

Jeff Rusnak couldn’t get the picture out of his mind. The image, stuck in his brain, was horrific: a lynched Black man named Rubin Stacy, hanging from a tree on July 19, 1935, in Fort Lauderdale. It led Jeff to write a play. Warning: disturbing images in link.

A genuinely fun part of being a journalist is having conversations with experts who add stuff to how you're going to approach a topic. Bonus brain materials.

this is not poodle weather

Hi everyone! Really proud of our coverage of #WPBL at The IX Sports. Wanted to share a couple of updates. First, come see our newsroom for all the coverage in one place. Columns, features, the works. www.theixsports.com/the-ix-baseb...

Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT— “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973

being a cavs fan must be rough

The Naked Chicken Chalupa sends us back in time to 2016 www.theomnicosm.com/snackology-r...

It’s called editing. The editors edited and said no thanks not ready for prime time

Melania unhinges her jaw and swallows Natalie whole

The millennial furniture designer behind Ukraine's drones hitting Russia: "'I'm one of those women who doesn't know how to fight,' she wrote…in March 2022. 'But I'm sure of one thing: I'll do absolutely everything in my power to make sure nothing of this sort ever happens in my country again.'"

At least for now, Peacock is the most expensive major subscription streaming service in America. Is it worth it? I had some thoughts: www.vulture.com/article/peac...

Beyond excited to have @lesleyryder.bsky.social writing here @theixsports.bsky.social. #NWSL

I think corporate entities should be barred from supporting candidates and all that excess cash sloshing around should be given to employees, or taxed and used by the government to pay for things that benefit everyone, like heath care or infrastructure or both, even

Just got so frustrated with music streaming that I went and found that Big Box of Old Tech and Wires we all have stashed somewhere to find an old iPod that I was positive was in there. But it wasn't, and the depth of my disappointment is jarring.

Our current political landscape is so odd that when we talk about a controversial reality series starring a sitting White House Cabinet secretary, it’s now necessary to ask, “Which one?” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Essential read on how farmworkers are being affected by the cyclospora outbreak, with implications for agricultural workers in general.

For over two years now, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas has had facilities to accommodate the Muslim wudu ritual of washing hands, feet and face ahead of daily prayers. But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is, just now, very concerned about it.

Just tried to figure out why folks are talking about "spreadsheet people" and got so confused by what I think is the original comment that I gave up in 30 seconds.

💚🐈‍⬛ Get your hands on a copy here! Or anywhere books, ebooks, and audiobooks are sold or loaned.

nuke from orbit www.adweek.com/media/arena-...

america 250 baby we’re sharing listicles of various politically motivated buttsicknesses on a niche microblogging site

New Orleans to fund ‘right to counsel’ program with recovered Habitat for Humanity funds The decision came after Habitat sold dozens of apartments, including some in Musicians Village, to a slum lord last year www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

"JD Vance is a cat's paw for finance and tech.... The shamelessness of this guy is breathtaking." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dollar...

Is Claude Code making us stupid? www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

if this is true -- which it obviously is -- then 41 is basically a small child.

Something is changing inside the Republican electorate. Trump's voters aren’t suddenly becoming Democrats. But more of them are giving him C's and D's—and their complaints are getting remarkably specific.👇

Trump "wants to take over the world." "There's just like no rhyme or reason" in what Trump does. When Trump talks, "nothing is ever based on fact." Those aren't Dems talking about Trump. Those are three-time Trump voters. NEW from @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-f...

"burrito taxi" - youre hearing it more and more. the contempt. the disdain. but what the woke mob doesnt want to admit, even though our politics and our free market system have revealed it with a kind of blinding clarity, is that having someone bring you a burrito is cool as hell. my latest:

oh for sure, definitely why this brave iconoclast got fired

NEW: Religious plaintiff's lawyers claim DHS insisted agent's actions did not qualify as “immigration enforcement actions." But plaintiff's lawyers rejected that, and said DHS couldn't explain how ICE could investigate anything unrelated to immigration laws. religionnews.com/2026/08/20/1...

DHS exempted its operation to spy on Minneapolis protesters from standard protections against law enforcement abuses