I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

The damage done by treating Trump's victory as some sweeping mandate in the first eight months of his term really was massive, but ending that collective delusion - i think with the help of last week's elections - really is having profound impacts.

This is a joke, but this is one reason car-dependent suburbs are actually terrible places to raise kids. You have to drive them everywhere. Kids resent the lack of autonomy. Parents resent the drain on their time.

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

I swear, some days it seems like the standard model of American education was purposefully designed to crush the spirits of neurodivergent kids.

some people opposed 'woke culture' because they thought they had better, fairer standards and others opposed it because they don't have any (and hope you don't either)

"hey guys notice that the same people complaining about having to deal with silly 'cancel culture' standards don't feel like they should be moored by literally any other set of standards either. curious thing going on there wouldn't you say?"

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Impunity and affordability seem pretty strong issues to campaign on, tbh.

The fundamental problem in society we keep dealing with is that powerful men never actually face accountability. This poor girl was homeless and in deep poverty while Gaetz is running around in the top circles of Washington.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Without any animosity, truly and genuinely: Bro, just resign

New Epstein revelations raise an obvious question: Why didn’t Democrats release these emails earlier? From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/USpomvn

So “it turns out Spanberger took positions that strongly challenged Trump on immigration in ways that some Democrats have been reluctant to do.” The @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis re VA’s gov race seems significant underscoring why Ds need to go on offense re Trump/Miller’s deportation regime.

New York Times delendum est.

Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.

Given the most obvious opportunity to model that they understand the concerns of their constituents, they adopt a needless policy that makes it harder for working families to work for the DNC, and the people who will no longer be able to work for them as a result are most likely to be women.

And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

If we were allowed to talk about "white supremacy" in the US, then it would be pretty obvious why what happened in Chicago is acceptable to large numbers of people while Ruby Ridge & Waco (and my imagined scenario) are evidence of gubmint tyranny. The state can't do that to people who look like me!

Ruby Ridge & Waco were not easy situations for the feds to resolve. But they were at least *situations* that merited some sort of response. A bunch of non-criming, undocumented people living in an apartment building which was also occupied by many legal residents and citizens was not * a situation*.

The feds under Trump are doing "Black Helicopter" shit at a rate that exceeds the wildest fever dreams of the paranoid right wingers of the Tea Party era. We've got dozens of Ruby Ridges every day, and the body count will likely soon approach Waco. And most of Trump's victims did no crimes.

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

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Wait until the Europeans find out about Linux

Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.

The level of denial required to look at the very obvious fact that very rich white men were doing horrific sex crimes fairly openly and then say "the pedos are actually in the basement of a pizza place and coded as expensive wayfare furniture" is unfathomable.

The problem with those people is that they were always pointing at the wrong cabal. Not the one where the convicted pedophile was a well known friend of their beloved president. Never that. Instead, well:

cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles

It makes you think!

Larry Summers is proof the meritocracy is fake. Larry Summers is a self-refuting proposition.

Don’t forget he also helped engineer the Asian financial crisis in the 90s! And notoriously thinks women are on average genetically inferior at science! Larry Summers is really one of the worst people. Constantly failing upwards to the commanding heights of American society.

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.

We’ve uncovered a secret cabal of global elites preying on children but because Alex Jones is a pathetic Trump fanboy suddenly he’s like “ehhhh…”

He’s a lame duck vegetable with a 36% approval rating who is crashing the economy and covering up a pedo ring! What is there to salvage, Rs?

Being on team democrat in this moment means demanding new leaders and firing collaborators. That’s how we live up to our values as democrats, which too many of our electeds aren’t living up to these days.

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...

I could swear there was a whole right-wing conspiracy movement / cult focused on unmasking the secret pedophiles in elite circles who run everything, anyone know what they’re up to these days?

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

A lot of people have said this already but I have gone from "Epstein probably just killed himself" to "Donald Trump personally performed Sub-Zero's Spine Ripper Fatality on Epstein right there in his cell."

Rereading my review of the Epstein Birthday Book and it only grows more striking by the minute how legacy media has consistently downplayed this horrorshow flaminghydra.com/book-review-...

Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.

in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Oh come the fuck on

Donald Trump was practicing child rape the right way. by Ezra Klein

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Media standards: 1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention. 2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing. Way too many think that’s journalism.