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this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

Every video showing ICE agents is them acting without restraint. Pinning a pregnant woman to the ground, pointing weapons at bystanders unprovoked. Those who want you to not believe your lying eyes today also want you to not believe anything you've ever seen about ICE agents.

ICE is recruiting UFC fans to be deportation officers, further proof that MMA and the UFC are a vector for right-wing politics in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwpV...

It has never been more important in my lifetime to support independent media than right now.

RIP absolute legend deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

Maybe you good folks can help me. I’ve cancelled my subs to WaPo and NYT (Gaza coverage, oligarch takeover, etc). I subscribe to many Substacks and indie media outlets, but I don’t really have a place to go for what we would consider traditional news reporting. Is there a solution to this?

These mf'ers will say this and then without a shred of irony claim the left has gotten extreme and the right has stayed the same.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

This interview is now UNLOCKED and available to all: lthomas.substack.com/p/slavery-is...

So far I've heard of one prominent person telling this guy to fuck off, and shockingly it's an MMA guy

well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

It’s also really incredible we used to have guys like this and Jordan Breen in MMA media. We are in a very different position today.

NEW: @patrickwyman.bsky.social has a history podcast not on great leaders, but more common folk. The theme for this season? World slavery: “Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”

NEW: @patrickwyman.bsky.social has a history podcast not on great leaders, but more common folk. The theme for this season? World slavery: “Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”

Instructive to watch the "how could the political figure who has done more to coarsen political discourse in our lifetime do something like this, a thing he has done many times?" right-wing cope on the Other Place timeline today.

Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief. So more politics.

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Israel has killed 249 journalists in the last 2 years. That's more than were killed in WWII & the Vietnam War put together. A Vermonter, Dylan Collins, was wounded in one of these attacks, which killed another reporter. This war against journalists must be investigated & ended.

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

Not even rich people, necessarily! You can take out a loan to pay for this!

Caffeine consumption among humans can be traced back to the 15th century and across continents. From my cold dead hands you'll take it back.

The nerve to write that immigrants are eating pets and then bemoan the growth of a fact-free, disinformation machine is unfathomable hypocrisy. Total chutzpah.

Amazing what job opportunities are afforded to you in modern media when you're willing to dehumanize Palestinian life and denigrate writers (Ta-Nehisi Coates) who author works underscoring their needs.

$140m. Think of how many cancer drug trials or free school lunches this could have paid for www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Max Kellerman once called LeBron James a "sellout" because James criticized Daryl Morey after Morey tweeted in support of Hong Kong protestors in 2019. I don't know who the real Kellerman is, but the idea the guy tap dancing for theocratic monarchies is the same guy from 2019 seems wrong.

Land of the free.

"I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT." I can and did? AI evangelists play this game where they'll suggest a task is so impossible without AI except people do it all the time and no one considers AI the antidote to the problem.

Max Kellerman has become an avowed stooge for TKO's quest for boxing monopolization as well as Saudi Arabia's combat sports pursuits, which is being ignored everywhere as he returns to public prominence. Sports media never had it's Riyadh Comedy Festival reckoning and we're all worse off for it.

This is a positive development, but it's really quite insane it's taken so long to rein this madness in. We've unleashed forces on society without any consideration of what they'd do to us. Now we're know they're damaging both personally and even at the society-wide level. Much more is needed.

At some point it may occur to the extremely wealthy people on Netflix’s side that the best way to save their deal is to make sure everyone in America knows how corrupt Trump and Ellison are. Their opponents paid off the referees! Make some noise about it!

Wonder who's gonna win the UFC Peace Prize

Hearing that @lukethomas.bsky.social was the only media member at the TKO Ali Act hearing is both hilarious and sad and not surprising but revealing all at the same time. substack.com/@lukethomasn...

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

(Almost) every week, I create a list of interesting stories or articles I read on a variety of topics. This week it's forever chemicals, Buffalo Bills stadium financing, why Hollywood should remake *bad* movies & thoughts on the male loneliness epidemic: lthomas.substack.com/p/what-i-rea...

What the fuck does this even mean?

my guy is cooked

In sports media alone I’ve long said that whatever your quibbles with establishment media, you’re going to hate their influencer replacement so much more. Turns out this applies far beyond mere sports.

If crimes against humanity are not an impeachable offense, what’s the point? www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza. Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.

I still get value from social media in finding interesting things to read or understanding modern trends/discussions or as a way to observe for various purposes, generally. However, I use it more passively than ever. I am growing more inclined to participate in it less as time goes on.

From attending Kadyrov’s heir’s 18th birthday and testing rocket launchers to fake real estate deals, former UFC champ Jon Jones proved eager to play the sanctioned strongman’s stooge during his surprise visit to Chechnya www.sportspolitika.news/p/jon-jones-...

We’ve talked about how we in the media normalize (even incentivize) aberrant behavior by public figures who make it their brand. But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.