Nothing to be alarmed about folks, just the Pentagon strong-arming some AI company into helping the military engage in "mass domestic surveillance." Totally normal stuff in a functioning democracy 🙃

Trump's casual misogyny toward the US Women's Hockey team is dismissed as "social media noise"

Tech companies are helping DHS infringe on your First Amendment rights 🙃

In 2000 and 2016, a small, but dispositive group of voters who claimed to care about the environment tipped those elections by voting third party b/c they firmly believed there was no difference between Democrats and Republicans 🤡

The entire 2016 campaign was defined by the media's outrage over Hillary's use of a private email server. In 2026, a high ranking government official's use of an encrypted app to avoid scrutiny as he sends ICE goons around the nation is a one day story. YOUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA 🙃

If he talks like a Nazi and he dresses like a Nazi ...

Absolutely INSANE framing by Bloomberg. Disgraceful stuff. Like, a goon squad has been sent into multiple cities in the country, terrorized and killed *our own citizens* but the real problem is all this Gestapo-like behavior is taking away from Trump's economic messaging.

There are A LOT of reporters lining up to help Trump wash his hands of Pretti's murder by pinning all this on Bovino, Noem, etc. Shameless stuff considering this was not an isolated incident but rather just another in a long list of illegal acts that have taken place under Trump

Literally white washing history. Americans can't be trusted to know that their founding fathers were also slave holders, especially when they visit the city where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were drafted. Distinct lack of media outrage over this 🙄

Steady pattern of the Trump DOJ accusing people of being high ranking gang members only to backtrack when they have to actually provide evidence in court. Like going from saying someone is a Mob boss to saying that same person really really likes The Godfather🙃

Not ONE armchair doctor in the media who diagnosed Biden with everything from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's has anything to say about this. Not one.

More than 10 years into this dystopian nightmare and the Paper of Record is still using limp euphemisms like "falsehoods"🙃

We're becoming a global pariah with a nuclear arsenal.

Things going well at the other place ... 🙃

Why are they so bad at this?

What's that old saying, "history doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme" 🙃

Maggie Haberman: LOOK AT ME, I'M IN THE OVAL OFFICE WITH THE PRESIDENT! Bari Weiss: HOLD MY BEER!

The Republican Congress spent almost two years and issued a nearly 3,000 page report on Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. What Trump is doing is orders or magnitude sketchier and not one of these pardons lasts longer than a day in the news cycle & Congress is silent🙃

Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃

remember folks, the smart people in the media think doing stuff like this is the sign of a *good* press secretary

Pretty much where anyone w/three working brain cells saw this was going, not necessarily in Minneapolis, but it's clear Trump has been road testing martial law in a variety of other states & cities and now that a woman is dead and protests are in full force, he's itching to do it

It's absolutely INFURIATING to see the same people in the press who did their armchair neurology routine diagnosing Joe Biden with dementia and questioning his basic motor functions b/c he wore orthopedic shoes have absolutely NOTHING to say about this.

A Trump controlled slush fund of money based in Qatar collected from the oil we stole from Venezuela. Very normal stuff in a functioning democracy. Won't even be a news story by this weekend 🙃

The timing on this stock purchase is purely coincidental, I am sure 🙄

That thing you never heard the end of while Joe Biden was in office is a thing you literally never hear about now that Donald Trump is back in office. Draw your own conclusions.

This is just the reductio ad absurdum of modern journalism. Reporters are no longer in the background, they think they are now the product. They cultivate sources for scoops that grow their social media, get them booked on cable TV, and those sweet sweet book deals. It's all they care about.

Instead of reporters just doing stenography when Trump claims he had no idea that DOJ had opened an investigation into Jerome Powell, perhaps they should look at what he's doing and not what he's saying and then allow readers to draw their own conclusions.

Just a reminder that reporters like Dave Weigel think this kind of shameless lying is the mark of a good press secretary 🙃

"I know you are but what am I" is basically what's going on here.

Got this t-shirt at the Deer Creek shows in 1993. Bob was so much a part of my formative years and once Jerry passed, mostly through the band's archive. He was droll, quick witted, and, I think in some ways the most anti-authoritarian of the band's members. He will be missed.

Literally erasing history if it displeases Dear Leader

Wedding photographers take fewer pictures 🙃

Media bias in action: 235,000 new jobs under Biden = "disappointing" 50,000 new jobs under Trump = "solid"

It doesn't matter what he says or does, no matter how lawless or dictatorial, the important thing is he granted them this interview 🙃

The dumber version (and that's saying something) of the Bush 43 Admin's WMD claims. 🤡

Bush's WMD pretense looks rock solid compared to Trump's tissue thin justification for toppling Venezuela's government but he's far more open about his real intentions than W ever was - the end result of 10 years of literally getting away with everything.

To people in the media like Jake Sherman the idea of toppling another country's government and openly admitting it's to pillage their oil fields while we're being condemned by the world for violating international law means absolutely nothing. The *real* issue is how you message that action 🤡

Good thing deregulating Wall Street and handing bank CEOs nine figure salaries never has any adverse consequences for the economy. I'm sure there is nothing to worry about here. 🙄

If you left the other place, here's a flavor for how "journalists" are treating violations of international law + the Constitution 🙃

Really making W look like a model of rectitude and discretion in comparison 🙄

Would not hold my breath expecting the same industry (journalism) that acted as W's cheerleaders in the run up to the second Iraq War to do much hard hitting reportage or question Trump's unilateral decision to impose regime change in Venezuela🙄

No media bias here 🙄

Media outrage would blot out the sun if Joe Biden was MC'ing an auction at his private golf club on NYE and blithely dismissing a $2 million bid for a painting as "peanuts" while Americans struggle to pay the bills and ACA health insurance premiums go up - today - by 100% or more

Quietly admitting he knows jack fucking shit about macroeconomics but doing it at a time when no one is paying attention b/c of the holidays.

My annual re-up of a long ago blog post for those who want to make better health and fitness a goal for the new year as I did on Jan. 1, 2000. No fad diets, no quackery, just sensible eating and lots of exercise. Enjoy! scarylawyerguy.blogspot.com/2011/12/atta...

There are some headlines that you never get out of your head b/c the stupidity of them had such catastrophic consequences for the country while simultaneously having NO CONSEQUENCES for the writer that you're compelled to remind everyone of them almost 10 years later.🙄

Helped torch democracy in 2024 then peaces out to France b/c he has the means to do so. I fucking hate this prick.

The kind of stuff that should be getting wall-to-wall media coverage but won't even crack a single news cycle. The media's complete and utter capitulation to Trump in his second term is a national disgrace.

If they move the goal posts any further, we'll be into the next president's first term in office b/4 things pick up 🙃

Especially since Rule 6(e) expressly forbids government attorneys from commenting on GJ matters