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The Present Age Weekly Recap: December 9, 2022
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The Present Age Weekly Recap: December 9, 2022

Onward, onward, onward!

Parker Molloy
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Welcome to the weekly recap. In this post, I’ll be linking to my work from the week, sharing some stories from others I thought were interesting, and providing a few casual thoughts on [gestures at everything]. If you’d like to receive this weekly email ONLY, please go to your account page and under “Email notifications” uncheck every box except “TPA Weekly Recap.” If you don’t want to receive the weekly recap, leave all boxes except “TPA Weekly Recap” checked.

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New from me this week:

The first edition of Matt Taibbi/Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” was a dud, but right-wing media outlets are chugging along as though they just uncovered a new Watergate. Will their desperation play end up working? Maybe!

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Taibbi's "Twitter Files" Flop, But Will It Matter?
Hello, dear readers. Welcome to another edition of The Present Age. I’m your host Parker Molloy. Today, I’ll be writing a bit about the first installment in Matt Taibbi’s “The Twitter Files,” which is, ostensibly, a work of journalism…
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2 months ago · 77 likes · 7 comments · Parker Molloy

In a quick post for paid subscribers, I wrote a bit about some of the challenges facing the media industry as it enters what some are calling “a dark winter.”

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Hold On To Your Butts, News Media Industry
Hello, and welcome to The Present Age. I’m your host Parker Molloy. Before we get into the subject of today’s newsletter, let’s enjoy a little mood music: Johnny Cash’s fantastic cover of Bonnie “Prince” Billy/Will Oldham’s gorgeous “I See A Darkness…
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2 months ago · 26 likes · 8 comments · Parker Molloy

And finally, the good people over at Some More News let me send out the transcript from one of their latest videos out in a newsletter. It’s a majorly detailed breakdown of the way mainstream media outlets can (often unwittingly) spread dangerous panics. It’s well worth a watch if you’ve got about an hour. You can find both the video and the transcript at the link:

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Moral Panics and How to Spot Them
Hello, and welcome to The Present Age. I’m your host Parker Molloy, and I am very excited about today’s edition: a guest post from my pals over at Some More News (Specifically Cody Johnston, Katy Stoll, Will Gordh, Jonathan Harris, and David Christopher Bell…
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2 months ago · 9 likes · 4 comments

Occasional plug:

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Contact Collective Speakers


Links from others:

Behold! A mix of stuff I really enjoyed and some recently-launched newsletters. Check some of these links out.

  • The Laramie Reporter
    - Anti-LGBTQ activist publicly targets specific UW student

  • Garbage Day
    - A.I. just makes the old problems worse

  • Drezner’s World
    - Back to Old School Blogging?

  • Men Yell at Me
    - RIP Iowa Caucuses

  • Popular Information
    - CVS' diabetes scheme

  • Jill Filipovic
    - Russia Bans Expressions of LGBTQ Identity. The American Right is Watching and Learning

  • Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
    - Sam Bankman-Fried Is A Criminal, And Cryptocurrency Made His Crimes Possible

  • What Is Jill Even Doing With Herself
    - I Will Always Be Me

  • shipwrecked sailor
    - The Language of Music, The Charts of Poetry

  • Lucid
    - What is Fascism?

  • The Future, Now and Then
    - ...I guess we should talk about the #TwitterFiles

  • The Third Degree
    - Kanye West: American Nazi

  • Micro Travels with Mary
    - Hill Forts in the Fog

  • The Wealth Letters
    - The Wealth Letters Manifesto

  • The Abandoned Dreams Collective
    - The falling of Rome

  • Redefining Work
    - Introducing the Amplify Talent Collective

  • Study & Sport
    - Getting it right

  • Zappagram
    - Zappagram #34

  • The Daily Braves
    - Where Jiménez Fits

  • Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara
    - December Readings


That’s it for this week! With the holidays just around the corner, here’s a casual reminder that you can purchase gift subscriptions to The Present Age for friends/family/enemies/acquaintances/etc.

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Anne
Dec 10, 2022

Your AI generated Yglesias is hilarious. Far prettier than the real thing!

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