Sam Eifling
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I'm the national editor at Voice Media Group, which owns Phoenix New Times, Westword, the Dallas Observer, and Miami New Times
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The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
September 29, 2026 at 12:29 AM
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
Fun fact about me, the dumbass: I interviewed at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj having come directly from the airport after a cross-country redeye flight.
Landed the job!
And later got clowned by the executive producers for having shown up to that interview with a muffin that I ate as we talked.
Landed the job!
And later got clowned by the executive producers for having shown up to that interview with a muffin that I ate as we talked.
September 25, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Fun fact about me, the dumbass: I interviewed at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj having come directly from the airport after a cross-country redeye flight.
Landed the job!
And later got clowned by the executive producers for having shown up to that interview with a muffin that I ate as we talked.
Landed the job!
And later got clowned by the executive producers for having shown up to that interview with a muffin that I ate as we talked.
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The Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix 2026 issue is finally here. 🐦🔥
Pick up a copy on newsstands now or read it in full at https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-culture/best-of-phoenix-2026-hits-newsstands-around-the-valley-today-40701863/
Pick up a copy on newsstands now or read it in full at https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-culture/best-of-phoenix-2026-hits-newsstands-around-the-valley-today-40701863/
September 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix 2026 issue is finally here. 🐦🔥
Pick up a copy on newsstands now or read it in full at https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-culture/best-of-phoenix-2026-hits-newsstands-around-the-valley-today-40701863/
Pick up a copy on newsstands now or read it in full at https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-culture/best-of-phoenix-2026-hits-newsstands-around-the-valley-today-40701863/
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Really good stuff in this:
September 23, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Really good stuff in this:
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My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
September 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
after giving this a back-read, I chatted our news editor: "there but for the grace of God does any of us go" — mauled by a police dog for the crime of having a stroke behind the wheel
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"After Mr. Page suffered a stroke, officers failed to help him. Instead, officers used a canine to aggressively bite Mr. Page."
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/pinal-county-police-dog-attack-bodycam-footage-40699046/
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/pinal-county-police-dog-attack-bodycam-footage-40699046/
September 18, 2026 at 11:20 PM
after giving this a back-read, I chatted our news editor: "there but for the grace of God does any of us go" — mauled by a police dog for the crime of having a stroke behind the wheel
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buddy you just described an alt-weekly
I follow a handful of journalist for news updates, and an enormous number of mentally unwell people with arts degrees to put that news into proper context for me
September 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
buddy you just described an alt-weekly
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The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize."
This was fought out, 350 years ago.
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This was fought out, 350 years ago.
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September 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The king says "ah, but I'm creative and can extract revenue that isn't called a tax. And, neat trick, now I can spend it on creating my own personal army that Parliament didn't authorize."
This was fought out, 350 years ago.
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This was fought out, 350 years ago.
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Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11.
The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.
The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.
September 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11.
The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.
The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.
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New Kafka just dropped
September 10, 2026 at 3:54 PM
New Kafka just dropped
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They tried to warn us and we didn't listen.
Remember when New York wanted to kill all the computers
September 9, 2026 at 4:27 AM
They tried to warn us and we didn't listen.
Happy Labor Day, this is a pithy distillation of why we can't have nice things in America
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Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
September 7, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Happy Labor Day, this is a pithy distillation of why we can't have nice things in America
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Again I'm reminded that fiction is bound by what's plausible but reality is not.
September 7, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Again I'm reminded that fiction is bound by what's plausible but reality is not.
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There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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September 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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George Orwell is rolling in his grave right now.
Representative Jim
Himes
Representative Jim
Himes
September 2, 2026 at 11:48 PM
George Orwell is rolling in his grave right now.
Representative Jim
Himes
Representative Jim
Himes
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John Roberts issuing a fiery Sotomayor-style dissent in Toothpaste v Tube
BREAKING: #SCOTUS lets Trump finish his White House ballroom, but Chief Justice John Roberts joins the court's 3 liberals in dissent suggesting president lacks the legal authority to revamp the White House www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Supreme Court OKs Trump’s ballroom construction, but Roberts says project is ‘likely unlawful’
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal justices in dissent as the high court allows the president’s passion project to proceed.
www.politico.com
August 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
John Roberts issuing a fiery Sotomayor-style dissent in Toothpaste v Tube
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August 26, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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I might have to rewatch the Drunk History episode on Nashville tonight.
Drunk History - Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner (ft. Casey Wilson)
YouTube video by Comedy Central
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August 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I might have to rewatch the Drunk History episode on Nashville tonight.
it's so, so easy to forget that in this country many people dedicate their time to making life more dignified for the working poor
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I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money.
That's Dolly.
That's Dolly.
August 25, 2026 at 7:17 PM
it's so, so easy to forget that in this country many people dedicate their time to making life more dignified for the working poor
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Etsy about to have its biggest day ever
August 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Etsy about to have its biggest day ever
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You don't call a wildfire-devastated landscape "mainstream forest" just because a few trees are left standing.
August 22, 2026 at 1:20 PM
You don't call a wildfire-devastated landscape "mainstream forest" just because a few trees are left standing.
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UK transit nerds are next level.
August 21, 2026 at 5:36 AM
UK transit nerds are next level.