Nick Baumann
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View full threadIt's not actually a good note because it doesn't explain what's wrong and how to make it better, but it's a very good bit.
- Useful when you have the kind of rapport with a writer where they actually know the sentence is bad and know how to fix it.
- This was, IIRC, a note that @andykroll.bsky.social's old editor put on his copy.
- "In an interview with The Washington Post, Walz noted areas in which the [Harris-Walz] campaign had fallen short, such as a failure to reach Latino voters and unacknowledged anger over the war in Gaza. 'No s---' it’s a different vibe, said Walz." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Trump border czar’s town stood up for 3 kids detained by ICE — and won www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... Teachers, man!
- "Julio Zambrano has no criminal record, and there’s no evidence he was a gang member. So why did the Trump administration send him to a brutal prison in El Salvador?" www.theassemblync.com/politics/tru...
- Why Lesotho? Martine Powers asked the Lesotho embassy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Read @ddiamond.bsky.social on how Trump's cuts to health and safety agencies are shifting risk from the feds to states and cities -- and individuals: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- "He has not just the taste and sensibilities of a boy, but the temperament of one," is an absolutely savage line. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Curious how much the list of people who said he'd never do the tariffs overlaps with the list of people who said the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court would never overturn Roe.
- "The former international head of Doctors Without Borders says... New York University canceled her presentation because some of her slides discussing cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) could be viewed as 'anti-governmental'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- “The one thing saving his job is that Trump doesn’t want to give Jeff Goldberg a scalp,” said a second administration official. “Despite all of Trump’s attacks on the ‘fake news,’ he still reads the papers, and he doesn’t like seeing this stuff.”
- @washingtonpost.com exclusive: Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say ---> www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- @washingtonpost.com exclusive: Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say ---> www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Both of Alaska’s Republican senators have pushed to rescind cuts they argue would hurt the state. But they have split over how to persuade Trump to change his mind, newly minted @washingtonpost.com ost Senate reporter @theodoricmeyer.bsky.social reports: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- "There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. Addressing a government lawyer, Brinkema said, “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
- "Since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, NIH funding has dropped by more than $3 billion compared with grants issued during the same period last year, according to a review of publicly available grant data." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Seems like a big deal! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Never occurred to me that a NYC private high school would make an Ivy League campus seem humble and egalitarian but of course... that makes a ton of sense.
- "One thing people seem to forget about ['The Boy Who Cried Wolf'] is that at the end, the wolf actually comes," writes @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev: www.noahpinion.blog/p/if-and-whe...
- After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers www.understandingai.org/p/human-driv...
- Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
- The ‘Iconic’ Stare That Conquered the Internet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/s...
- Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
- It IS funny that Sean Duffy was one of the people who stopped being polite and started getting real: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- Really smart post on the national security risks of unceremonious firings: open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p...
- Some news: I'm starting a new job at @thebulwark.bsky.social, where I'll be writing a newsletter twice a week on right-wing media and conspiracy theories. It's exciting! Here's the announcement in today's Reliable Sources newsletter:
- Congrats!
- 🤔https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/white-house-inflation-trump-approval/
- "In 2023, Alito dismissed the view that courts could not push back against the President in such cases as a 'radical theory.' In 2025, apparently, it’s correct. I wonder what changed?" www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...
- Sorry bud can't hang out today thinking about the basilisk: www.wired.com/story/deliri...
- These experts were stunned by OpenAI Deep Research www.understandingai.org/p/these-expe...
- "Even cutting 1 in every 4 government workers would only reduce federal spending by about 1 percent." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
- Trump’s DEI purge targets federal workers who did not work in DEI www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
- Got a tip on what's going on in the federal government? Signal me: nickbaumann.97
- "As Trump returns to power, Democrats lack a clear leader or discernible path forward for their party." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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- Good times.
