This quote rings true for almost anything.

It’s when times are hard, whether financially, or more crucially, when truth speaks to malicious power, that it becomes essential for the owner to be in the game first and foremost for the mission of journalism itself.

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news publications need to be owned by people who are devoted to the core pursuit of journalism.

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But we already have blogrolls and OPML.

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A small wooden shelf in the sidewalk with mementos on it. A kind of neighborhood shrine.

If you think you are the chicken and not the pig, you are wrong.

Sunset, looking out from Emeryville at the San Francisco Bay.
Colorful stairs in Medellín.

Must read on populism’s playbook from someone who lived through it.

Orbán’s power grab program runs on two components that you can think of as hardware and software. The populist hardware consists of hijacked institutions. The software is made up of populist discourses and narratives that are used to create and enlist the consent of the ruled.

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I am so pleased about this hometown news.

Better happens incrementally. The first steps aren’t dramatic, and in fact, might even be less effective than what came before. But small steps repeated again and again transform our culture when no one is looking.

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