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@samgavin.com
writer/DJ/dad (he/him) 📍 Highland Park, Los Angeles live on the radio: 🪩 OPEN BORDERS at MOCA Geffen (next: 11/19 1-3p PT) 📡 kchungradio.org 🎧 mixcloud.com/sam3k
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Replying to @tinavasquez.bsky.social
Second, $30K is more than most reporters at tiny newsrooms get when they are laid off, let alone fired! And honestly, so much of his post sounds sort of standard for a small, overwhelmed newsroom trying to figure out how and what to cover with limited staff and resources.
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This is actually quite a big deal. The “appropriate journalistic practice” is not to date a source, period. But if you date a source, you should no longer cover that source. But if, for some wildly inappropriate reason, you still cover that source, you disclose in the reporting that you are dating!
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I think one of the more important skills you can have in 2026 is knowing when someone is performatively using progressive coded language to argue for something that is fundementally not progressive because they can claim a perceived moral high ground.
my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite
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Opening up the pit at the Gilla Band show and flawlessly executing the "Shoulderblades" choreo
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Did a romantic relationship with a politician end Memo Torres’ time at L.A. Taco? Sources close to the outlet allege that the departure came amid management concerns over ethical standards. Torres denies ethical breaches, according to someone with knowledge of his thinking: buff.ly/jTU4Hco
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I am so stoked that Now, Now is just doing full-on synthpop bangers now
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Unemployment has run out, and we have yet to get another TV job (though we've come close!). We have savings, but if my work means anything to you, I would really, really, really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. And now you can make me watch your favorite crap!
Not an Episodes subscriber yet? No time like the present — especially since new subscribers, from now until November 1, can force our editor-in-chief @emilystjams.bsky.social to watch, quote, "some bullshit." Details here!
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Let this be the year Chy Cartier finally becomes a superstar
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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.