Unreal: WaPo reporter claimed “severe PTSD” from Internet criticism — and then doxxed an anonymous Twitter user; UPDATE: LibsofTikTok responds  —  Remember this MSNBC segment on online harassment?  MSNBC aired it less than two weeks ago.  Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz claimed to have …

Doubling down at the Times  —  Dean Baquet's departure as executive editor of the New York Times has been one of the worst-kept secrets in media.  Baquet turned sixty-five in September—"the traditional age when executive editors at the Times step down," the paper notes in its own coverage …

The Inside Man  —  Joe Kahn is the new, old-school editor of the Times.  But who is he?  —  Abe Rosenthal, the totemic New York Times editor who published the Pentagon Papers, used to say that there was one path to the executive editor's office — over the dead, burned, and maimed bodies of the ten other people who wanted the job.

The Peter Thiel D.C. Gateway Drug  —  With two weeks until the Ohio G.O.P. primary, Thiel is on a hot streak and doubling down on J.D. Vance.  A win could invigorate the billionaire's national ambitions.  A loss could relegate him to Miami—and send thirsty Republicans reeling.