Chip Bayers

Something I think about a lot is how the shrinking pool of journalism jobs has swamped editors: there are fewer reporters but also *more writers per editor.* I love my editors but they don't have the same bandwidth to refine and brainstorm or be patient with drafts.

"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s." Incredible reporting here from @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

🤨 #doge

"how did the likely serial rapist become president" is going to be a challenging question for future historians but so is "how did the likely serial rapist with obvious dementia remain president"

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

I would like to report the owner of Mar-a-Lago who signed an oath under penalty of felony perjury that the White House was his *Florida* voter registration residence Oh wait, he has to be arrested and convicted. darn

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Since I’ve engaged in a few exchanges about this. Let me say a few things about this. First of all this genuinely happens a lot. And it goes back decades. Another commenter reminded of a case back in 2004. I think there’s a key dynamic involved.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!

University of Pennsylvania professor Zeke Hernandez studied one particular aspect of the “ICE tax” — the price paid by local businesses and communities in the aftermath of ICE activity and arrests, events that are often sudden, public, and violent.

Fitting for any Republican candidate. Donald Trump, their leader, is an adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster

The "you're prompting it wrong" folks seem to be blind to the fact that this is evidence of a fundamental problem with using the models in the way they insist they should be used. If I have to do back flips to get my calculator to give maybe-accurate output, that's a bad calculator.

And when you directly use primary sources in the first place... You don't have to do the basic ground work twice, argue with a machine for a day, scrap everything to start over because despite your best efforts it fucking hallucinated a basic search and can't say no to you.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

luddites will say AI is useless but they overlook the massive productivity gains that can come from offloading the task of remembering anything at all about your children

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

And let’s include the entirety of the joke: you particularly don’t want the White House to look like one DESIGNED BY SADDAM HUSSEIN.

Yeah, this man should not be allowed to practice law, and any failure to take away his ability to practice law after all of this would be a part of the end of the rule of law in America.

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

The plain fact of it is thus: the Trump administration wants to re-segregate higher education. It is a racist project straight-up-no-chaser. Accommodating any of this puts you on the wrong side of history, makes you a collaborator in this project. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Jake Tapper, perhaps, summed it up best: “Trump’s closing argument is akin to, ‘we stand by those who stand by child rapists’.” Indeed, how much more on-brand could it be for the aging Epstein associate to side with the abuser and smear his victim. charliesykes.substack.com/p/we-stand-w...

The New York Times describes this as a “Republican rift over Ramaswamy’s attack ad.” But this does not fully grasp what is actually happening, because we are not witnessing a “rift,” but an abyss; A vast, yawning, gaping moral abyss in our politics. charliesykes.substack.com/p/we-stand-w...

This is the man Republicans who are on the ballot worship, praise and revere. Vote them out. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This was like his 3rd glitch during the speech where he just randomly stops mid-sentence and makes a weird noise or, in this case, just opens his mouth and freezes for 3 seconds while saying nothing, then continues. Pretty sad that TV networks refuse to cover this situation.

I remember when media did a whole bunch of stories about Joe Biden’s shoes to emphasize that he was old. But Trump can randomly blurt out random noises, fall asleep constantly in meetings, and walk like a drunk failing a sobriety test, and we get almost nothing.

There is literally Supreme Court precedent that says that this not just illegal but also unconstitutional. ⚖️

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Dear reporters: Please stop asking if they're going to do things that are illegal. It's not helping at all.

The president of the united states comes out in favor of a mother helping their husband indicted for child sex abuse abscond from justice and then trash their daughter as a liar after the fact bsky.app/profile/atru...

Two years later, DOJ still fighting over whether Trump's blanket pardon for Jan. 6 defendants inadvertently swept in other egregious crimes committed by Jan. 6 defendants. Kelley was convicted by a jury of conspiring to murder his investigators. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Who's in charge of this country because it sure isn't us and it doesn't even appear to be the government anymore A bunch of paunchy moon-faced degenerate dead-eyed parasites forming a human centipede of investment in each others' vanity conglomerates, not a scintilla of civic virtue among them

It isn't just the OB-GYNs fleeing in the face of the strict abortion ban that threatens their ability to deliver evidence-based care without a threat to their licenses and livelihood. Idaho is suffering from a general physician shortage and ranks last in the country in physicians per capita.

Trump opened a hotline to report people who defraud the government. Meanwhile, he's pardoned 70+ fraudsters — including a nursing home owner who stole $1.3B+ from Medicare and Medicaid. Many pardons only came after their family members gave to Trump's Super PAC. Hello?

Rising healthcare costs are a huge blind spot for our pundit class and elites because it's one of those things that's more noticeable the further down the income scale you are. Having your premiums rise $500/month year to year doesn't really rate if you're making $250k but kills you if you make $50k

Waymo really seems to have a deadheading problem. In California: "Between January 2025 and June 2026, Waymo's deadhead share [of VMT] fell from 53% to 41.9%, yet still exceeds human-driven ride-hailing by more than 50%." More deadheading --> More traffic Preprint: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

"So who gives a shit about a golf course? Trump does — enough to lie to a federal judge about it, then call her insane when she noticed. The rest of us should care at least that much." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The Plot to Enslave America. Trump and Musk are the most powerful enemies of our free speech rights in our country's history

Not nearly as important, but also, why does no one in this administration understand how capitalization works?

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

When we said women needed to vote like their lives depended on it, we werent joking www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/m...