The press knew it was an obvious lie, but I think they’ve become accustomed to treating Republican lies as a type of political strategy - and thus open to *description* but not questioning or investigation.

Like, I don’t feel that Johnson is legitimately a better mass communicator than Jeffries, it’s just that when Mike talks about how Trump was a White Hat pedophile it gets ignored by the entire media establishment rather than blowing up across social networks and front pages.

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world) archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

"don't you wish you could go to Walmart.... in two thousand and two???" what. do you have encephalitis

We're not partisan, why would you say that?? We'll praise Republicans for being right-wing, and we'll praise Democrats for being right-wing!

Post’s new opinions editor explains how they support Republicans and Democrats at different points … with interesting examples

I really wish a reporter would put someone on the spot and ask straight up when we're getting our medbed cards and how the technology was developed rather than nervous tut tutting about misinformation and Trump's competence

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

I really do think that he saw a reflection of himself in Charlie Kirk - being some guy who gets paid to share opinions - and the shooting scared him on a personal level.

Just got sent another Demo consultant's memo on how to win the shutdown. Spoiler alert: they want Democrats to focus on "costs" and "healthcare" and talk about how they're for smart budgets. Absolutely nothing about Trump being out of control. The consultant class should be shot out of a cannon.

Why do some people seem to genuinely think a war is just memes

Here are two of the most influential people in liberal media, David Remnick and Ezra Klein, telling each other outright lies about what the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said because years of exposure to conservative grievance media pounded the original facts of the case out of their skulls

I do think you could recruit a lot of Americans to a resistance movement based on the idea that “we’re the ones that will let you take Tylenol when your neck hurts to sleep or if your toddler has a fever”. With the alternative being a boot stomping on your face forever, for some reason.

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration. But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

Man I'm so glad 150 of our Leading Public Intellectuals signed a letter saying "Mean Tweets are a threat to Free Expression". They sure nailed that, huh?

I truly feel like I’ve been driven insane by the political press insisting for a decade that Donald Trump speaks in clear, complete, and coherent sentences.

not true

British politics was doomed from the day that Gordon Brown was forced by the media to apologize for calling a bigoted woman a bigot *in private*.

"No fats, no fems, no asians" serves a vital purpose in the dating app ecosystem. Like poison dart frogs, it serves as a form of protective coloration that lets you know that you absolutely should not match with anyone who puts that shit in their bio.

The thing about Hegseth’s “Battle of Wounded Knee” is that you have to go out of your way to do something like that. That is language from before a century’s worth of Native-led efforts to force a reckoning with mass slaughter. That movement is part of the history they want to wipe out.

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Greetings from Milwaukee 🌅🧀

Blaming the gays for losing the election because there were too many of them in the only online propaganda organ that actually worked

MLS is elite because where else could Lionel Messi have the best season in league history while also scrapping it out with Charlotte for a No. 4 seed

"Do you think your actions have consequences?" Is apparently a massively dividing question in American society.

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

I hate this sort of stupid fucking framing from political news media. Its not a "simmering feud" its Trump being a piece of shit & the people he's attacking stating clearly that he is what he is. This is the sort of headline you write when this is all just a big game that you think is fun to watch.

Des Moines has you all beat

These people have exactly one line Every single time there's the slightest whiff that the West might commit more tangible support to Ukraine there's crowing about how dangerous this is because the Russians have nukes

also he asks follow-up questions, which as I've noted many times seems bizarrely beyond many US interviewers, especially on TV.

God comparing our reaction to taking away our meds for headaches to taking away the medication of Africans for life on the scales of judgement like “Do we go with the lightning bolts or pillar of fire today?“

cc: every local journalist who uncritically writes about cops flopping on the ground like a trout when they think they’re in the same room as a microgram of fentanyl

"Democrats want transgender operations for everybody" is something the president says frequently and that no mainstream media source (to my knowledge) really highlights or presses him on even though it's batshit.

There’s this stubborn idea in legacy media and the broader political press that since a journalist can’t literally hear the thoughts in a subject’s head, it’s no use using their words or actions to ascertain their motives.

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

Trump's model for his emerging drug war has been imprisoned and awaits trial for war crimes.

Century of humiliation

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

have never found harris more relatable than her being tired of talking about the NYC mayoral race

great that the majority of the British media has decided that they want these people in power.

I mean, Taylor Swift exists

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

A big reason why we're in the mess we're in is bc for years we have been told that we need to treat Trump voters like innocent little children who dont mean it instead of adults who made an active choice w their vote to be shitty while telling themselves theyd never face any consequences from that

I think this is right but the other thing is that you should try not to hate whichever candidates aren’t the one you pick

The Watergate tapes were secret and the media knows it’s only a crime if the president is smart enough to keep it a secret.