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Great thread. So correct.
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Michael
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he has so much more juice than newsom and shapiro it's wild
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James Fallows
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Very good, and properly angry, piece by
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Interesting journalism opportunity in Kentucky.
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Kevin Carey
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The Post not only fired 300 talented hardworking journalists but they kept their dimwit libertarian columnist whose only real talent is dull but unerring instinct for being flagrantly wrong when it matters most
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Erin Grievances
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It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
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Dave Karpf
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The thing I keep circling back to is that, when Bezos originally bought the Post, it legit seemed like the least-bad option. The expectation was that billionaires would treat media outlets like they do sports franchises â something to boast about owning, as a form of expensive status.
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Nathaniel Rakich
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To anyone laid off from the Post today, we are hiring:
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She has been fairly anti-progressive in the past. But off to a great start as governor.
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Ida Bae Wells
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We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.
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Meredith Shiner
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he doesn't and he doesn't care about the newspaper! destroying it was a feature and not a bug. he does not want it to be restored! this is not hard!
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Spencer Cox has been feted by the Times, the Kennedy School and Josh Shapiro as a different kind of Republican. But in his actual job, he just signed a court-packing law. We have to stop inventing "good" Republican pols and accept this is where the party is now.
newrepublic.com/article/2061...
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Why Do Some Liberals Go Gaga Over So-Called Non-MAGA Republicans?
A certain breed of liberal is constantly in search of Republican politicians who seem to be anti-Trump. When will they ever learn?
https://newrepublic.com/article/206116/liberals-gaga-non-maga-republicans
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There was (and remains) a real journalistic opening for a super-robust news operation that isn't doing false equivalence. That's what's needed in the Trump era. That could have been the Post. Except its owner doesn't want that.
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The Washington Post Is in Freefallâand Thereâs One Person to Blame
Todayâs layoffs at this once-great newspaper were nowhere near inevitable. But Jeff Bezos was never committed to the paperâs best traditions.
https://newrepublic.com/article/206136/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-blame
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Yes. Well put.
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Leah Greenberg âđ
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I am pretty sure that is not in the Minority Leader job description
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Elizabeth Warren
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ICE agents act like they have no oversight because Republicans in Congress and Trump gave ICE $75 BILLION in the Big Ugly Bill (by cutting health care funding). But Congress has the power to claw back those funds to stop ICEâs violence.
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Kelsey Atherton
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trained, body-camera equipped agents are doing the murders? Maybe we should revise our asks so they match the reality of the problem, and would make meaningful difference in existing capacity for violence.
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Don Moynihan
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This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
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Hamilton Nolan
8 days ago
I am going to Springfield, Ohio this week to report. If you are involved in community action to support immigrants or prepare for ICE in Springfield, I would like to be in touch with you. Please DM me here or email
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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
refers to The Atlantic as the "bible of reactionary centrists" in a podcast that I assume was taped right before the magazine hired David Brooks. To prove the point, Hobbes compares the Atlantic's Zohran coverage (hostile) to its RFK coverage (credulous.)
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"This is the dominant ideology of intellectual elites in America. ....both sides are to blame for everything, we have to dedicate roughly 50/50 time to the excesses of the left as we do to the excesses of the right," says
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All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-reactionary-centrism
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Getting attention and jobs in elite media reward those with takes that seem surprising or counterintuitive. But that model fails when we're in a "one-dimensionally evil era," as
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puts it. "GOP extreme, Dems normal" is the reality of most political news these days.
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I wanted to shout "Yes" and "Amen" at virtually every line of this
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and
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discussion. I flagged one particularly important section, but the whole thing is essential.
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Prisonculture
9 days ago
So very grateful for and to everyone who keeps showing up right now. Thank you so much.
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David Dayen
9 days ago
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
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"Immigration detention, quite frankly, just shouldnât be a thing. We donât need to detain people because we think they may be deportable. Thatâs perfectly ridiculous," says
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newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Transcript: The Problem Is Bigger Than ICE
Criminal justice expert Jessica Pishko says ICEâs abuses in Minneapolis are rooted in an over-criminalization of immigration policy and that Customs and Border Protection is even more radical than ICE...
https://newrepublic.com/article/205727/transcript-problem-bigger-ice
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"An embrace of policing and the kind of authoritarian politics behind them is an element of convergence between the center-left and the far right. They just both believe in handing money to the people with guns," says
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Transcript: Trump Is Losing a Lot. We Must Celebrate Our Victories
Georgetown philosophy professor OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ explains why itâs vital for those resisting Trump to acknowledge and share their successes, both large and small.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205918/transcript-trump-losing-lot-must-celebrate-victories
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I talked to the brilliant
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about the sentence he has been repeating for months, "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win." We discussed anti-Trump organizing and the important of sharing resistance successes.
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"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know wonât work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trumpâs ICE and CBP."
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Senate Democratsâ ICE Proposals Are a Huge and Inexcusable Whiff
Their opening bid should have been eight or 10 bold proposals. But as usual, the Democrats start by negotiating with themselves.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205946/senate-democrats-ice-proposals-whiff
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Senate Democratsâ ICE Proposals Are a Huge and Inexcusable Whiff
Their opening bid should have been eight or 10 bold proposals. But as usual, the Democrats start by negotiating with themselves.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205946/senate-democrats-ice-proposals-whiff
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Yes. I remember this.
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Worth watching.
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Just say no to Shapiro ... I've never liked him due to his treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters. Now he is trying to exploit this ... he's just awful. We have much better potential candidates for 2028.
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Good question. This is the true joy of social media.
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Has anyone seen Bari Weiss and Kyrsten Sinema in the same place at the same time?
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daniel sieradski
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reihan salam is the president of the manhattan institute, the right-wing think tank employing chris rufo also the only two black people on this list are both outspoken minimizers of police brutality against black people
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The tension isn't about antisemitism (as Axios hints) but policy. I don't think Pritzker will run these issues. Shapiro demanding UPenn officials break up encampments on campus and taking a very pro-Israel stance for much of 24 are stances that a lot of likely Dem primary voters don't agree with.
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There are many places to get news beyond CBS. But the undermining of outlets with really strong journalism infrastructures is a real loss for the public. You can't stand up a new 60 Minutes tomorrow. Same for the Washington Post foreign desk (if it get cuts as rumored.)
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Yes. You are correct. "We are making CBS more conservative" would be too obvious. "I am blocking the endorsement of Harris" (Bezos) cost the Post about 10 percent of its audience immediately (and more in the long term.) And yes, authoritarians rely on allied media to be circumspect.
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Well put.
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Free Press has one idea----"the left has gone too far." It is repeated over and over and over again.
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It is of course hard to trust a news organization whose boss is misleading you about their intentions. So this unfortunate for the CBS journalists and the public.
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Bari Weiss isn't going to teach the people at 60 Minutes how to break news, the people at the Evening News how to do better broadcasts, or anyone there how to reach a broad audience. (Free Press does not have a broad audience). Her job is to make CBS more conservative. That's it.
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Having lived through this at the Post, these people refuse to say, "I want to make this news outlet more conservative." So we get lots of lip service about new ideas, innovation and reporting. But Bari Weiss runs a website! It breaks very little news, and all of that is anti-left.
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Yes, attacking Coates was a two-fer. Weiss is very, very hostile to his writings on both racism and Israel-Palestine. Dokoupil couldn't have proven his loyalties to her vision any better (even though he had no way of knowing she would eventually be running CBS.)
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She also seems deeply hostile to any systemic analyses of racial inequality/racism and the racial justice movements of the 2010s.
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The people of color on this list are (of course) well-known for having leaned into "BLM went too far," "wokeness ran amok" style arguments.
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"Economics explains why nonviolent resistance is an effective strategy and todayâs immigration demonstrations are failing," Roland Fryer wrote about 10 days ago. This is the wisdom Weiss is bringing to CBS.
www.wsj.com/opinion/mart...
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Democrats Have Much to Gainâand Nothing to FearâFrom Attacking ICE
Some will still shy away from saying âabolishâ for now. Thatâs OKâbut what they mustnât do is foreclose the possibility of future abolition.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205710/democrats-abolish-ice-trump-campaign
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Pundits with the same sentiments and resentments as Rahm!
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