John Schwartz
UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him.
- “It’s beginning to feel like an occupation,” said Sarah Silva, a Democratic state representative. A federal magistrate rules against one more slapdash Trump administration immigration initiative to charge migrants with trespassing in a newly created military zone. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...
- “I’m almost certain,” Dr. Van Alstyne said, “this is going to lead to a vastly more polluted information environment.” Which is, of course, the point. This is the real cancel culture. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...
- “They don’t believe in public schooling,” she said. “What you’re seeing here is the fragmentation of American education.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
- Don't be shocked. "In the attorney general offices' rush to find and prosecute someone for violating the state's total abortion ban, it conducted a shoddy investigation and leapt to wild conclusions," the attorneys wrote. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
- “A strong and independent press is essential to self-rule, to personal liberty, to national greatness. That once radical insight, made law in the First Amendment, anchored a centuries-long, bipartisan tradition of supporting the rights of journalists.”
- More than three-quarters of pending investments were planned in Republican-held congressional districts. “It’s jobs, it’s tax revenue into local communities,” said Ben King, an associate director at the Rhodium Group. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/c...
- “Kennedy’s form of environmentalism is the equivalent of toasting all-natural marshmallows over a tire fire. It might make for a good photo, but it’s actually poison.” @emorwee.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
- Getting vaccinated against measles today, because somehow that became necessary again. I got tested, and my titer levels weren’t great because of the vaccine available when I was a kid. None of this should be necessary, but our healthcare system is being run destructive idiots.
- If you have no ethics, ethics seems stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
