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Tom Zeller Jr.
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Tom Zeller Jr.
@tomzellerjr
Journalist; @NYTimes & @KSJatMIT alum; EIC @undarkmag; Scion of #CLE; author of "The Headache" (Mariner, 2025, amzn.to/4hMM48u); Formidable lyric vault.
- Please teach this in schools. Acreage does not vote. People do. This is how election results should be displayed.
- It's been 30 years since I left Ohio and began mixing with upper-income elites. I still haven't met one who gets this. (via @girlziplocked)
- Did you ever imagine you'd live to see a headline like this splashed across American TV screens?
- As a former NYT staffer, I'm embarrassed by a post like this — and that @nytimes management would tolerate it. The press owes no fealty to protesters (or anyone). But it's also true that no one — including protesters — owes fealty, or courtesy, or attention to the press. smhWhen protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen. @Peggynoonannyc describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.
- "There were never adults in the room. There were only accomplices.""You may remember the delusional mantra 'the generals will save us' and the praise for Mattis, McMaster and Kelly as 'the adults in the room'. But there were never adults in the room. There were only accomplices." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/good-ger…
- It is my honor to be among the first to share the beginning of this week-long effort at scientific truth-telling — a year in the making — from @undarkmag, and under the sharp editorial direction of @ashleythesmart and Angela Saini.
- Replying to @BridgetPhetasyYour principles should be based on weighing the most likely outcomes in the real world, not on how you wish things were. The former considers the well-being of the masses. The latter considers only ... you.
- Replying to @powellAtlantic and @nytimesI don't disagree, though a journalist complaining that sources won't open up is weirder to me than young protesters displaying caution around the media. Overcoming the former is literally your job. The latter is probably a healthy reflex in anyone.
- Trump supporter saying the not-so-quiet part very much out loud: "They’re supposed to shoot BLM," she said, "but they’re shooting the patriots.” thenation.com/article/politi…
- The folks calling for Senate to block any Obama replacement for #Scalia are also chastising the Twitterverse for politicizing his death. Huh
- Definitely my favorite #berniesmittens meme of the day. Tagging you @nycjim in case you haven't seen. #GratefulDead
