Corey Pein's Avatar

Corey Pein

@coreypein

author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley writer, @thebaffler.com, @majorityreport.bsky.social's daily amquickie.com newsletter

4,604
Followers
1,619
Following
167
Posts
02.06.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Corey Pein @coreypein

Preview
Axel Springer buys Telegraph in £575m deal German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

Axel Springer buys Telegraph in £575m deal

06.03.2026 12:24 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Preview
Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war.

06.03.2026 12:30 👍 676 🔁 346 💬 97 📌 133
Kristi Noe-More at DHS

Kristi Noe-More at DHS

Was I the only journalist in the world to run with this headline? I must be either genius or stupid or both. am-quickie.ghost.io/r/2e8b93ad?m...

06.03.2026 14:24 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Quite an opening paragraph.

06.03.2026 09:27 👍 1052 🔁 424 💬 42 📌 90
Preview
This hip L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE raids Community activists are installing sirens across Highland Park in hopes of providing warnings on mobile devices to residents about possible ICE raids.

This hip L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE raids

06.03.2026 07:15 👍 90 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 2
Preview
Anchorage Daily News staff becomes the first newsroom in Alaska to unionize and win a union contract | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Unionized Journalists at the Anchorage Daily news have ratified a 2 year first contract, marking the first union contract at an Alaska news publication.

NEW: Anchorage Daily News staff becomes the first newsroom in Alaska to unionize and win a union contract!

Congratulations to the @pacnwguild.bsky.social for this historic win ✊

newsguild.org/anchorage-da...

05.03.2026 14:09 👍 63 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
Post image

GREAT new resource from us:

You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials.

See what they own --and how much they're worth.

See who's worked where-- and how much they banked.

Want the folks connected to Palintir? Please enjoy.

projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

05.03.2026 13:47 👍 438 🔁 200 💬 8 📌 14

🙄

05.03.2026 14:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.

So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...

05.03.2026 10:51 👍 324 🔁 127 💬 17 📌 26
Guardian advice column titled, "Why do my potatoes go black after cooking?"

Guardian advice column titled, "Why do my potatoes go black after cooking?"

British cooking problems. Maybe I'm just lucky but I don't think this has ever happened to me.

04.03.2026 07:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Preview
U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’ The U.S. Southern Command said that the joint activity with Ecuador was an effort to “combat the scourge of narco-terrorism,” but did not provide other details about the operation.

Breaking News: The U.S. conducted joint military operations with Ecuador against “designated terrorist organizations,” the Pentagon said. The U.S. Southern Command called it an effort to “combat the scourge of narco-terrorism,” but did not provide other details. nyti.ms/4cld7aV

04.03.2026 03:17 👍 110 🔁 67 💬 28 📌 47

Race to the bottom

04.03.2026 03:41 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

It's a special military operation.

03.03.2026 11:20 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Clinton says Trump told him of 'some great times' with Jeffrey Epstein Former President Bill Clinton told lawmakers that President Donald Trump told him he had "some great ​times" with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein before their relationship soured, according to a video released on Monday.

Clinton says Trump told him of 'some great times' with Jeffrey Epstein reut.rs/4aYNB94

03.03.2026 03:50 👍 131 🔁 57 💬 5 📌 2
Preview
Iran Attack: U.S. Jet Fighters Mistakenly Downed by Kuwait - Live Updates Israel launches dozens of strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, widening the conflict, while U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continue. Follow along for live updates, news and analysis as the conflict in the Middle East unfolds.

Three U.S. jet fighters were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, the U.S. military said .

02.03.2026 11:23 👍 274 🔁 122 💬 60 📌 144
Preview
In unsolved murder cases, families go years without updates WBUR found district attorneys deny requests for case files and updates by saying investigations are still open — even in cases where years have passed with no new suspects or evidence. It's a more com...

Nearly 400 homicides have gone unsolved in Massachusetts over the past decade. Families often get no updates or records, despite being told the investigations are still open.

02.03.2026 12:06 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

02.03.2026 03:14 👍 3438 🔁 813 💬 55 📌 13

Trump regime not that organized

01.03.2026 10:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven't been watching TV, but at least online most images I've seen so far have been of Iran's retaliatory strikes and the strike on the school inside Iran.

01.03.2026 03:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of my gift links, please read.
share.inquirer.com/2TaYnP

28.02.2026 23:13 👍 123 🔁 47 💬 3 📌 2
28.02.2026 22:23 👍 626 🔁 129 💬 5 📌 3

😐

28.02.2026 11:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image

1 hour ago: Qatar officials say all's well
4 minutes ago: multiple explosions

28.02.2026 09:44 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Get ready to die for some cause we can't really explain. That often happens.

28.02.2026 08:11 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
CNN Braces for Ellison's Control With David Ellison poised to take control of Warner Bros. Discovery, a chill has settled over CNN as staffers fear for the future. "The panic at CNN right now is off the charts," an insider tells Stat...

Suffice to say, the mood inside CNN is not good tonight.

“We are doomed," one staffer texted me.

“The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” an insider added.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

27.02.2026 03:49 👍 1343 🔁 528 💬 158 📌 94

Even if people simply tune out from nü-CBS, nü-CNN, the MAGA takeovers further reduce the number of jobs available to real journalists, expand the space for regime propaganda, and corrupt the information environment. It's bad!

27.02.2026 06:47 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

A senior CBS News staffer expressed sympathy for employees at CNN who are frustrated and upset over the Paramount news. "I need to keep reminding myself it can - and will - always get worse," the staffer told me, adding that CNN staffers "should" be freaking out since "it's hell over here."

27.02.2026 01:12 👍 2794 🔁 861 💬 95 📌 62

I don't know Ana Kasparian... and I don't want to know Ana Kasparian.

27.02.2026 06:23 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Imagine yourself in the position of these CNN journalists who see bad things coming with a change of ownership. What would you make of a colleague who said they're keeping an open mind about the new regime? bsky.app/profile/just...

27.02.2026 02:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0