Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Notes Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Original, unedited caption: Jun 15, 1976 - Plains, Georgia, U.S....
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Jun 15, 1976 - Plains, Georgia, U.S. President JIMMY CARTER takes a forceful swing during a softball game at his alma mater - Plains High School in Plains, Georgia. Catching is James Wooten of The New York Times and the ump is Ralph Nader dressed in a heavy wool…
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This is not a rendering. It is a launching pad in the New Mexico desert for rocket planes that will send you into space for $200,000. It opens later this year. (via The Era of Private Space Travel Is Just Beginning, in New York magazine.)
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Amazing caption on a photo in this Yahoo! Sports article. Published on May 6, still live as of 4:00 p.m. EST May 8.
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Notes"The idea enjoys some bipartisan and business support, but is likely to encounter strong resistance from Congressional Republicans, who will portray it as a tax on energy producers. The White House says the money will come from growth in drilling revenue from leases on public lands and waters over the next decade and is not a new tax."Witness the laziest he-said-she-said paragraph you’ll read all week. Surely whether this is a new tax or not is something that a journalist can and should find out. But instead we get “Partisan A says X and Partisan B says Z—who’s to say who’s right?” FFS. Plus I would actually like to know who is right! What use is this article if it can’t tell me what the policy proposal actually is?
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Notes Reporting for rookiesAnn Friedman tells it like it is.
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Obama’s Inaugural Luncheon tops 3000 calories
I just love Fox News.
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NotesThis is wonderful: An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak (Drawings by Christoph Niemann) (by TheNewYorkTimes)
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Notes"What we have here is a delicious slice of pie — i.e., Hannity and Fox being part of a conspiracy alleged by Hannity and Fox."
