With the recently released details of Steve Bannon's chummy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, I'm re-upping this newsletter from last month about how major media give their version of a "pardon" when they fail to mention the criminal pasts of people like Bannon.

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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Maybe it’s a good thing that MAGA fascists are also narcissists. They’re so obsessed with promoting themselves that they expose their own ugliness. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

When has this not been true? www.inquirer.com/education/ph... @appsphilly.bsky.social

@willbunch.bsky.social: www.inquirer.com/opinion/brow...

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American democracy and journalism need more heroes. Our “Hero of the Month” for October was @willbunch.bsky.social of the @inquirer.com He is not afraid to call out the Trump regime’s fascism. Bunch exemplifies the power of opinion journalism to tell the truth and defend democratic principles. A🧵

Here's a big way Philly subsidizes the wealthy, with consumer reporter Lance Haver:

I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...

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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

NH: Less Transparency for Vouchers open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

So I guess no one is actually going to hold her accountable for sending innocent people to a concentration camp?

All decent Americans must resist the criminal regime in the White House. Do it for patriotism, or do it because it's getting worse and everyone you love will suffer. You can try to avoid politics, but politics will not avoid you.

Trump is taking us into a war so he can steal Venezuela's oil. The U.S. doesn't have a presidency. It has a Mafia-style criminal gang occupying the White House.

Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate

While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.

Giving thanks that Philly has @willbunch.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Thou shalt not shame people for not being dressed up and super nice on commercial flights when you use tax dollars to buy private jets for yourselves.

American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate. -The Editorial Board

Read ever word of this from @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump | Margaret Sullivan

Never forget who MTG really is. courtesy of @mindcite.bsky.social

. @willbunch.bsky.social: The MBS banquet was such a depraved and decadent ritual that it wouldn’t have been surprising if the Fortune 500 executives had broken out in Satanic chants as if they were characters in a wretched Dan Brown sequel to The Da Vinci Code. www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...

Can anyone link to any article in MSM about president calling for execution of members of Congress? Have only seen it online.

Nothing on front page of online @nytimes.com about the president of the United States calling for the execution of his political enemies. @froomkin.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Education correspondent and activist @lisamhaver.bsky.social has regularly attended Philadelphia School Board meetings for years. She says City Council's concerns don't reflect those from parents, teachers, or students:

Sources close to Jared and Ivanka say that, privately, the couple disapproves of executing the president's political opponents.

Philly is a union town …? whyy.org/articles/phi...

The real question about AI is not: “Why can’t people shake their worries?” The real question is: Why can’t AI promoters convince us that their product won’t destroy all we hold dear?

The White House Gold Rush Is On www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

Both the news media and GOP politicians are telling themselves they’ll get serious about MAGA fascism if it gets bad enough. But apparently, a criminal president calling for the hanging of his opponents isn’t bad enough. Truth is, it will never get bad enough for their consciences to show up.

The great @michaelcoard.bsky.social at Block ICE rally in Philadelphia #FuckICE

Block ICE rally in Philly

Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

No, Donald Trump did not "close" the U.S. Department of Education www.chadaldeman.com/p/no-donald-...

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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway. My newsletter.

The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind. The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.

Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape

The Epstein emails didn't expose a nostalgic "lost New York" so much as the utter moral rot of a U.S. ruling patriarchy that could never get enough money...or teenaged girls My new column on the midnight of elites, how #MeToo didn't go far enough...and pitchforks www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...