The problem isn’t just that Trump canceled a shutdown meeting with Dems the day after agreeing to it. He also presented the public with a delusional list of Democratic demands that was quite bonkers, even for him, making a shutdown far more likely. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The real test will be if Times reporters start being as blunt about Trump ruling as a dictator as they have been lately about him lying and hating. presswatchers.org/2025/09/is-t...

A master class from the Washington Post in how to normalize the bonkers. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A good ad on the DC Metro

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

NEW! HOT! Is the New York Times finally getting real about Trump? presswatchers.org/2025/09/is-t...

Looks like the meeting with Zelenskyy was a good one. Trump now backs Ukraine’s 1991 borders instead of offering up Crimea to Putin.

Don’t be fooled. They invented “Bothsidesism “ and the next time he says something coherent that a 12 year old would say, the banner will read “ President appears to have found his voice and many are applauding his newfound confidence “ This will be next to an op-ed title “Ice: A bold new strategy “

Reminds me of the kind of article the Times once trotteds out occassionally and might again: “Is this a sign that Trump is finally growing into the job of President?“ Answer is always no.

"A few weeks ago, I was complaining bitterly about how the New York Times routinely resorts to weasel words, euphemisms and third-party critiques to avoid speaking the truth about Donald Trump. But in the last 10 days..." Froomkin senses a shift, led by Peter Baker presswatchers.org/2025/09/is-t...

I'm probably going to look like an idiot tomorrow, or even later this afternoon. But for now, I'm going with this:

NEW! HOT! Is the New York Times finally getting real about Trump? presswatchers.org/2025/09/is-t...

I wrote this on January 28: "You simply cannot cover Trump’s second term accurately and responsibly if you are not willing to situate his acts as part of a terrifying descent into authoritarianism, racism, and cruelty." presswatchers.org/2025/01/why-...

Trump’s UN speech in 22 seconds: “I’ve been right about everything… I’m really good at this stuff… your countries are going to hell… I have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had (not true)…”

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

NYT headline so much better than WaPo and AP.

On the National Mall this morning, a new satirical statue is up celebrating Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's "friendship" in honor of National Friendship Month.

Watching Trump give this UN speech, the world thinks America has lost its mind. I do too.

Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.

The few parts of Trump's speech to the UN that aren't lies are confessions.

TRUMP: Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the US, you're going to jail or you're going back to where you came from or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means. UN: *uncomfortable murmuring*

"I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell," Trump says.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Donald Trump wants to send troops into America cities is because he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections."

I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.

US media are under siege, being attacked, censored, sued ($15b v NYT), and taken over. The #BrokenTimes in its finite wisdom, decides to write an anodyne profile of Trump's agent of right-wing media control. Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul Like No Other www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/t...

Another surprisingly strong article from the NYT. Is something up over there? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u... gift link

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

These are war crimes. Everyone on these Navy ships is complicit.

It's impossible to overstate how problematic it is for the White House to demand payouts or company stakes in the course of approving deals, hand-selecting acquirers, demanding corporate compliance or anything else.

I think it's fine to report on the president's ideas about public health as long as you note he touted the potential of injected bleach as a treatment for Covid-19.

for the first time in history the woke mob has un-cancelled somebody

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

This is currently at the top of the New York Times app when I open it up. It is very good to see such a clear headline that this ignores scientific evidence. But to have this level of misinformation streaming out of the highest office of the land is a public health threat that is hard to overstate.

I’m only now watching longer clips of Trump’s autism disinfo presser and… it’s crazier than I realized? He was unable even to say “acetaminophen” or come up with the word “rubella”; cited his feelings as the basis for changes; and said pregs women should “tough it out,” which is actually dangerous

A tiny fraction of the TV-watching audience was aware of who Sinclair Broadcasting is and I think Sinclair Broadcasting was, in the medium and long terms, much better suited by this arrangement. But Sinclair wants to change that in the least favorable possible context for them

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Why would you look at what happened to Hungary and conclude ‘I want to do that too’?

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

I’ve been on his show. I’ve had conversations with him. He’s simply drifted towards apologia for the fascists, like so many, through constant and repeated exposure. Things he used to know were obviously repugnant now seem normal, even acceptable. Many such cases. Still on Twitter, never on here.

It's fascinating that Tom Homan doesn't deny taking a CAVA bag with $50,000 in it to throw a federal contract. He merely states a legal conclusion that there was nothing the matter with taking this bribe. And that's because Trump approves, apparently. Maybe he even got a cut.

That is not a denial.

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

I am very glad to see health reporters, rather than political reporters, leading most of the coverage of this announcement. They are not so easily deceived.

This is a huge win for free speech and a massive credit to the millions of people who expressed their outrage and sent a clear signal with their voices and their wallets. And it's a credit to Bob Iger and Disney as well that in the end they did the right thing. ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel...

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

NYT: "This is the moment public health experts have feared." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

THIS is how you cover it.