Danielle Kurtzleben

He won. He got the money for his family.

Hey I was rooting for Jesse

Ooh ooh but also Braveheart. Jesus and John Wayne has a whole section on Braveheart and its status as a modern sort of sacred text among certain white evangelicals.

Oh SHIT right! Good pull.

Oh FUCK yes ryan

Increasingly a challenge in later seasons. He shaves his head, becomes a mythic figure, his wife is this hectoring wet blanket … and then he WINS. Dies but WINS.

Anyway I know every journalist here has pounced on this today but let me just articulate: if the piece needs to be long, you make it long for the people who do want to finish it. Not in the hopes that everyone does.

Tbh I think this works the way podcasts do. How many people finish a Rogan 3 hour slog? I’d bet not a majority. Doesn’t mean he’s cutting it short. He’s gathered a lot of listeners with that crazy length!

If we all thought this way every damn pod you love would be 15 minutes long. It would suck.

There's been lots made of a story involving "Armageddon briefings" in the US military. There's also lotsa skepticism around it, mainly bc it seems none of the first-hand sources spoke to reporters.

If you're a member of the military who HAS experienced these briefings, my Signal is: jackmjenkins.60

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord

a graph of employment at newspapers, which continually goes down

It's remarkable how low this number can get and still keep going down

This is your finest work

Really hung up on the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, a supposed journalist, having no shame about telling the president, "nobody questions the success of the military operation."

Uh, yeah, there are questions. You're a journalist. Question it, man.

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

You never told us you’re Maureen Dowd.

Just posting until I get fired/sternly reprimanded

I mean rough men always help ME sleep better amiright THERE it was an EASY JOKE

How I Got Into Journalism, Part 1 The first in a thrilling two-part saga aimed at telling you that you are not washed-up and you should probably just go follow your dreams or you will die wretched and bitter.

A read for your evening commute: Part 1 of how I got into journalism (part 2, I promise, will be more about how you can too)

Anyway, go follow your dreams, because the world is terrifying and you deserve to live with as little regret as possible.

daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

There is a lewd joke I’m not making uggggggh being a professional is the worst

ROUGH MEN. [bangs on the masculinity sign] People. You NEED ROUGH MEN SO YOU CAN SLEEP.

Dude one of the first things I said was “I really don’t think he said that.” And it seems he didn’t.

How I Got Into Journalism, Part 1 The first in a thrilling two-part saga aimed at telling you that you are not washed-up and you should probably just go follow your dreams or you will die wretched and bitter.

A read for your evening commute: Part 1 of how I got into journalism (part 2, I promise, will be more about how you can too)

Anyway, go follow your dreams, because the world is terrifying and you deserve to live with as little regret as possible.

daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

but he drives a pickup

It was a friendly email so i'd say good. (Also he thanked me for being kind to him, which hahahahahaha i have SO MUCH POWER)

This is, I have been told, a good thing about my writing. :)

Update: this post prompted a many-years-ago ex-boyfriend to email me, which is proof of the power of my lore. You should definitely read and share.

Oh.......oh my God.

OK look. I only became a full-time journalist at 27. Still young, but in DC baby journalist years ANCIENT.

Preach

How I Got Into Journalism, Part 1 The first in a thrilling two-part saga aimed at telling you that you are not washed-up and you should probably just go follow your dreams or you will die wretched and bitter.

Today: I get annoyingly inspirational and tell you to follow your dreams and go be a journalist (or whatever else you want).

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