Peter Bailey-Wells
@pbaileywells
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Newsperson @BostonGlobe + originals editor @SundayLongRead once @UofIllinois. We’re all struggling with the world on fire and the fear we’re taught. He/him
Cambridge/Massachusett Land
Joined October 2011
When you die, would you rather have an open-casket funeral for anyone to look at your body or an open-access funeral for anyone to look at your data -- Google searches, Reddit history, text messages, and beyond? If that question gives you pause, read this. https://t.co/qUDH2fZwYW
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When you die, would you rather have an open-casket funeral for anyone to look at your body or an open-access funeral for anyone to look at your data -- Google searches, Reddit history, text messages, and beyond? If that question gives you pause, read this. https://t.co/qUDH2fZwYW
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A fifth grader who survived the Minneapolis shooting.
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Globe journalism was never meant to be a permanent obstacle to someone’s success, with the worst decisions and moments in regular people’s lives accessible by a few keystrokes for the rest of time. Fresh Start aims to empower all people who want to start over.
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CPJ documented its second-highest number of journalists behind bars with a global total of at least 361 journalists incarcerated on December 1, 2024, in a year that saw more than 100 new jailings. Read CPJ’s #2024PrisonCensus: https://t.co/zCH2HNdBts
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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @JeffreyGoldberg.
theatlantic.com
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story.
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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or...
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"Amputations. Disfiguration. Brain damage. Their injuries are life-changing. ... They are alive — even if some are not sure they still want to be.'
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We photographed badly wounded Gazans who made it out for treatment. Many can think of little but the dead they left behind. “We wanted to go with them, too,” one child told us.
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Happy 10th birthday to the @sundaylongread -- one of the best places on the internet
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Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman reflect on the state of longform journalism after a decade of curating the best stories, and discuss the future of the Sunday Long Read.
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On 25th Transgender Day of Remembrance, a community mourns, but also celebrates trans joy
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The annual Transgender Day of Remembrance turns 25 this year amid an onslaught of attacks against trans Americans.
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Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF
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Brig Gen Itzik Cohen said in a briefing that few people now remain in the north of the Gaza Strip
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We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.
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In retrospect they shoulda let the guy who interfered with Mookie in to see this
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Okay, I’ll bite. We cannot talk about our decline in local subscriber penetration in the DC region without talking about the company’s failure to invest in local news business strategy — and local news journalism — under Jeff Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post.
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Editorial board member David Hoffman is also resigning, I'm told. Hoffman accepted the Pulitzer last week for his series on "new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought."
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this is what happens when you defund the arts
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