This is fantastic news.

Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.* The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

I just think Trump understands Mamdani is not someone he wants to tangle with. Too smart, too charismatic, too New York, too straightforward, too young. Easier targets elsewhere, like everyone who works for him and most of Congress. (1/2)

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life. That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.

Trump’s affection for Mamdani has nothing to do with his political ideology, of which he has almost none; it’s entirely a function of his narcissistic personality disorder, which perfectly explains every single decision he makes, but is somehow left out of “serious” political discussions

Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!

Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy. Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment. Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for. bsky.app/profile/sent...

Exactly right. And depressing. But that’s where we are as a country.

There have to be consequences for how Bovino’s brutal raiders keep ginning up charges against innocent people that are quickly dropped as soon as the spotlight moves on.

Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Shocking, not surprising. That is disgusting and pathetic.

Something that the both-sides brigade ought to note. (I won’t wait.)

100%

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

Exactly. Dems should say: Are you really sure you want to stake your future liberty on this serial criminal's promises to protect you?

New in PN: The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now "Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."

Yes. This. So stupid.

This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...

I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc

Media policy changes on a case by case basis in such a way that every stance benefits Trump and harms Democrats

“Evidence matters” is basically the antithesis of what the current GOP stands for.

I’m fine conceding that a bunch of nebulously incriminating Epstein statements do not a story make, but in that case neither does the Biden Parkinson’s nonsense, or literally any component of the various Clinton/Wikileaks pseudo-scandals, or tons of other right-wing stuff the paper has laundered

It’s clear when the paper’s Politics Knowers think something is important, journalistic standards are no obstacle. They find a way to get that thing on the front page nonstop, whether it’s “reporting the controversy,” repeating right-wing info dumps, or meta-coverage of how it’s affecting politics

Yep, cause it virtually always, always happens. Smart move when one side has no shame and the other has no (collective) spine.

Centrist Democratic strategists have probably done more to prime voters to think of the Party as a vehicle for wokeism than anyone other than Trump or Fox News. And on very thin data that's not causal or predictive out of sample. The extent of the self-own is remarkable substack.com/@gelliottmor...

The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.

Why not, indeed. Please proceed, governor.

Coverage of the 2016 elections is a massively consequential scandal www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/emails

Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

Not only was the Times obsessed with Hillary Clinton's emails while ignoring emails about Donald Trump sent to its own reporter, but since then it has constantly attacked anyone who dared look into questions of Trump's character. All with sanctimony. Now we know it was all a big lie.

Opinion | It's time for eight brave House Democrats to step up and block the release of the Epstein files. by John Fetterman and Tim Kaine

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

JFC.

There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.

"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)." Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!) margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...

This is absolutely essential from Josh. Points one and two, and three only slightly less so, are musts, vital, whatever word you want to use. DC Dem electeds and staffs, READ THIS.

“The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Really hope this lives in infamy. How pathetic.

With all due respect, you're not going to get past "internal recriminations" unless and until the current congressional leadership steps aside.

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.