"so what do you offer"
"shoeleather and also bootleather"
"shoeleather and also bootleather"
April 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"so what do you offer"
"shoeleather and also bootleather"
"shoeleather and also bootleather"
One reason it's so dispiriting to see national outlets cannibalizing local shoeleather reporting, as in this 🧵
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One reason it's so dispiriting to see national outlets cannibalizing local shoeleather reporting, as in this 🧵
bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Eagerly awaiting Lorenz’s shoeleather reporting from the J. Goebbels Memorial Potluck
April 26, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Eagerly awaiting Lorenz’s shoeleather reporting from the J. Goebbels Memorial Potluck
some real shoeleather stuff here
April 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM
some real shoeleather stuff here
Everybody I know who already doesn't follow her, follow @anniarbour.bsky.social for this good shoeleather reporting piece.
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WHERE ARE THE TEARS FOR AVA CORDERO?
You may have heard about the young trans woman who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein and then sued him.
But you don't know what happened to her afterward.
I do and her story appears in my latest column for Pride Source.
pridesource.com/article/ava-...
You may have heard about the young trans woman who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein and then sued him.
But you don't know what happened to her afterward.
I do and her story appears in my latest column for Pride Source.
pridesource.com/article/ava-...
Where Are the Tears for Ava Cordero?
Transgender people have never been treated well by the mainstream media. Usually, whenever one in our community makes it into the news cycle, it is in a
pridesource.com
May 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Everybody I know who already doesn't follow her, follow @anniarbour.bsky.social for this good shoeleather reporting piece.
bsky.app/profile/anni...
bsky.app/profile/anni...
Everyone has been commenting on the links between Ed Martin and this guy. But it was @dfriedman.bsky.social who broke the story and has continued to advance it. Shoeleather reporting is irrepleacable. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
April 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Everyone has been commenting on the links between Ed Martin and this guy. But it was @dfriedman.bsky.social who broke the story and has continued to advance it. Shoeleather reporting is irrepleacable. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This has carried over to Bsky as well.
Jay capitulating with bans was getting rightly called out as naked pandering over on Twitter even as she was in the middle of doing it.
Y'all are never getting your names off terminally online shitlists even if you lick the shoeleather clean off their boots.
Jay capitulating with bans was getting rightly called out as naked pandering over on Twitter even as she was in the middle of doing it.
Y'all are never getting your names off terminally online shitlists even if you lick the shoeleather clean off their boots.
None of that Twitter mob was gonna buy the game anyway, but this sniveling capitulating is sure gonna make the actual audience think twice.
Remind me, did anyone at Sony or Sucker Punch speak out to condemn threats and harassment Erika faced?
Remind me, did anyone at Sony or Sucker Punch speak out to condemn threats and harassment Erika faced?
September 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This has carried over to Bsky as well.
Jay capitulating with bans was getting rightly called out as naked pandering over on Twitter even as she was in the middle of doing it.
Y'all are never getting your names off terminally online shitlists even if you lick the shoeleather clean off their boots.
Jay capitulating with bans was getting rightly called out as naked pandering over on Twitter even as she was in the middle of doing it.
Y'all are never getting your names off terminally online shitlists even if you lick the shoeleather clean off their boots.
I refuse to believe that the same media that covered the Taylor Swift nuptials by doing shoeleather journalism around MSG for weeks leading up to the event cannot bring the same resources to bear around DC-area hospitals to tell us what is going on with Mitch McConnell.
July 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I refuse to believe that the same media that covered the Taylor Swift nuptials by doing shoeleather journalism around MSG for weeks leading up to the event cannot bring the same resources to bear around DC-area hospitals to tell us what is going on with Mitch McConnell.
Laura Jedeed is a very entertaining writer who enjoys shoeleather reporting. In another era she’d write for GQ or Rolling Stone.
Hi there, my Slate article about ICE is blowing up and I've been talking into a microphone nonstop all day
I'm going to make a thread of the interviews I've done already, and the ones I'm going to do in the next few days. Feel free to check them out if you would like to!
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I'm going to make a thread of the interviews I've done already, and the ones I'm going to do in the next few days. Feel free to check them out if you would like to!
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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Laura Jedeed is a very entertaining writer who enjoys shoeleather reporting. In another era she’d write for GQ or Rolling Stone.
Good Trouble: A Shoeleather History of Non-Violent Direct Action by Steve Thornton, is available from Hard Ball Press at the link in our bio.
#indiebook #history #civilrights #goodtrouble #shoeleather #americanhistory #solidarity
#indiebook #history #civilrights #goodtrouble #shoeleather #americanhistory #solidarity
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Good Trouble: A Shoeleather History of Non-Violent Direct Action by Steve Thornton, is available from Hard Ball Press at the link in our bio.
#indiebook #history #civilrights #goodtrouble #shoeleather #americanhistory #solidarity
#indiebook #history #civilrights #goodtrouble #shoeleather #americanhistory #solidarity
yuck
cook any of that until it's shoeleather if you have to
cook any of that until it's shoeleather if you have to
September 25, 2026 at 6:24 AM
yuck
cook any of that until it's shoeleather if you have to
cook any of that until it's shoeleather if you have to
Cuomo appears to have pursued a more shoeleather approach to his skincare routine.
July 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Cuomo appears to have pursued a more shoeleather approach to his skincare routine.
this is mostly not a public facing role either, i think he should be more engage with mass activism to a great extent (go give a speech at a no kings rally) but that not actually where i think he's got the most value for shoeleather
January 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
this is mostly not a public facing role either, i think he should be more engage with mass activism to a great extent (go give a speech at a no kings rally) but that not actually where i think he's got the most value for shoeleather
Heroically spent this week at The Crucible. Please reward my shoeleather reporting with a click. The strange success of snooker: immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
The strange success of snooker
Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going
economist.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Heroically spent this week at The Crucible. Please reward my shoeleather reporting with a click. The strange success of snooker: immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
god that fuckin Washington Post story is so good for like 80 percent of it, just real, honest, shoeleather reporting, rooting through documents, calling people, getting statements, cross-checking everything... and then mf shits the bed by "asking Claude" anything
June 23, 2026 at 7:01 AM
god that fuckin Washington Post story is so good for like 80 percent of it, just real, honest, shoeleather reporting, rooting through documents, calling people, getting statements, cross-checking everything... and then mf shits the bed by "asking Claude" anything
I think a lot of the problem with the press is that the public has really bought into the self-mythologizing bullshit that big-time reporters are constantly flogging in their books about the noble but unglamorous work of shoeleather reporting that get made into movies like The Insider and Spotlight.
October 28, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I think a lot of the problem with the press is that the public has really bought into the self-mythologizing bullshit that big-time reporters are constantly flogging in their books about the noble but unglamorous work of shoeleather reporting that get made into movies like The Insider and Spotlight.
And resign and never show his shoeleather face in public again.
August 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
And resign and never show his shoeleather face in public again.
Clark's can't keep up with all the shoeleather he's stuffing in that stupid gob.
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Clark's can't keep up with all the shoeleather he's stuffing in that stupid gob.
"400,000 strong membership, which was active in over 110 cities across the country" lol, it cost 25 million bones a year to run this intensely dedicated shoeleather activist org and they just pissed it away because "idk, some brand synergist who speaks Instagram will get us those votes back"
December 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
"400,000 strong membership, which was active in over 110 cities across the country" lol, it cost 25 million bones a year to run this intensely dedicated shoeleather activist org and they just pissed it away because "idk, some brand synergist who speaks Instagram will get us those votes back"
Organizers with a ground game. Shoeleather campaigning and going door to door. Funny how not phoning it in might work.
I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?
August 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Organizers with a ground game. Shoeleather campaigning and going door to door. Funny how not phoning it in might work.
And they say internet culture is dead
Haven’t seen good honest shoeleather trolling like this in a while
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Haven’t seen good honest shoeleather trolling like this in a while
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November 28, 2024 at 3:14 PM
And they say internet culture is dead
Haven’t seen good honest shoeleather trolling like this in a while
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Haven’t seen good honest shoeleather trolling like this in a while
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Marie Newman was my representative in Congress. A tireless champion for Progressive ideas, and not just to liberals in her shoeleather outreach. Best explainer ever. Wish Marie Newman was my US Senator.
The folks to stop donating to today and begin primarying tomorrow
March 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Marie Newman was my representative in Congress. A tireless champion for Progressive ideas, and not just to liberals in her shoeleather outreach. Best explainer ever. Wish Marie Newman was my US Senator.
The David Simon HOMICIDE is interesting on this because you’ve got these pre-Drug War detectives who are all awful people but can actually do shoeleather police work and clear cases, but that is already starting to fade
As police increasingly rely on forensics and other technological advances, they've gotten worse at their jobs. www.newsday.com/long-island/...
Nancy Guthrie disappearance highlights limitations of police technology to solve crimes, experts say
Many of the tried-and-true methods of modern crime-solving — surveillance cameras, cellphone tracking, license plate readers — have not led to any arrests.
www.newsday.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The David Simon HOMICIDE is interesting on this because you’ve got these pre-Drug War detectives who are all awful people but can actually do shoeleather police work and clear cases, but that is already starting to fade
