Nobody likes to accept how extremely malleable and suggestible your memories really are. Stage acts and con men have been making hay with that from time immemorial.

Establishment media cries and bleats when elected officials turn to independent media outlets to get their message out. Cry more.

I'd rather be playing with kittens, but there's news to discuss. Another attempted take-down of Dump at the nerd prom? A global blockade? ugh. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social returns to the show today to help me get through it! 3ET/12PT youtu.be/5f5IlFJC7MA, nicolesandler.com, nicolesandler.substack.com

Shooting Exposes Lax Security around Nation Investigators believe 400 million guns made it through security due to legal loopholes More outstanding, grimly hilarious work from @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social. Particularly glad he got 'Ballroom Blitz' in there ... open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...

I suspect a lot of people are living beyond their means on the assumption, conscious or otherwise, that this isn't sustainable so we might as well party like it's 1999 until we get democratic socialism like it's 1999 in Scandinavia.

Basically, Allen couldn’t take it anymore. Which isn’t surprising. It’s not just that Trump’s atrocities continue to mount. It’s that the dominant language of opposition today is impotence." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

My brilliant AI-infected computer wants to replace "pre-eminent" with "pee-eminent."

Folks claim it was staged but unless you were there, or involved in the investigation, you cannot “confirm” that something was staged. Tom is right. Stop grasping at the straws that confirm what you want to believe. Confirmation bias isn’t a good look and I’m seeing some smart people fall victim.

Something weird is happening. I keep seeing reports of Cole Allen allegedly writing anti-Christian messages. Trump said it about Allen's letter...

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@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social has been working the Christianity in Politics beat a long time so if you want to know what no legacy media is telling you about Cole Allen, you need to read The Fucking News. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Anyway, it's always funny to me when the response to a social media post proves its points, especially about how social media flattens out thinking, causes people to believe that someone is only bad or good, and discourages thoughtfulness or nuance.

Utterly irresponsible to report this without noting that there's no known evidence to support it and Pirro shared none.

There seems to be some uncertainty about this. Trump saying this proves he needs a ballroom doesn't have to be news. Like, corporate media can focus instead on true things that matter.

One of the worst things to happen to America was journalism ceasing to be a middle income career like teaching or accounting and transforming into a bullshit job for precocious rich kids because parental subsidies are required for your first decade in the business.

Can’t find this CBS story anywhere…

Old-school print journos will appreciate that the age of the alleged shooter at a press event was… 30

The days when you would turn on your TV for good info on a breaking news event have never felt more quaint.

Basically this. We can’t turn into MAGA and just assume everything is rigged, staged, stolen, etc. Let the investigation play out.

Weird. Speaker Johnson tonight apparently felt the appropriate response to an active shooter was running, rather than thoughts or prayers.

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

After damar hamlin’s heart stopped during a bills game in 2022 the NFL was under pressure from the sports betting guys to resume play and Roger goodelll was like “are you fucking insane” and cancelled it Like, the bar is in the floor and yet the press manages to keep digging

It's shocking and terrifying to me how many people I've chosen to follow are saying it's staged. We know nothing. We have no evidence. Show some self-discipline.

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More than 500 current and former journalists signed this open letter sent to the White House Correspondents Association about tonight's WHCA dinner. The focus was on former journalists who are free to speak openly. I signed it as a current journalist whose independence means I am, too.

Scammers are stealing homes from New Yorkers. We’re launching the Mayor’s Office of Deed Theft Prevention to defend vulnerable homeowners, and we are pausing the tax lien sale for the next six months as we review and fix a broken system.

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. (Pub. Dec. 2025 w/ @theassemblync.bsky.social)

Who thought of this…

In some cities internationally, local governments are trying to find a solution to lighting the night can better serve critical wildlife ecosystems and humans alike. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Tonight on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social it’s the return of Elliot Page, along with director Drew Denny,, to discuss their documentary “Second Nature” which I am telling you is one of the best and most important films you’ll see this year.

I'm continually impressed at how motornormativity causes people to create a revisionist history of American cities where they sprouted up fully formed and filled with cars and parking spots. Motornormativity also causes these people to ignore the many places that have reversed car dependency.

it’s this easy

Instagrams will be scraped. You’ll be living this down in comments for the rest of your career. Not. Worth. It.

Media companies—out of nostalgia or toadyism—may feel they have to participate in the WHC event. But you, individual journalist in those companies, should skip. It’s like going to a party when Putin and a magician are the main events.

Public pension funds in over half of U.S. states hold billions of dollars in Palantir stock, according to @Sludge. Public workers in several of these states, like Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon, are protesting the fact that their pension funds are being funnel to this dangerous company.

Trump is expanding the Afrikaaner refugee program, which is based on the "white genocide" conspiracy that Black South Africans are trying to take land from Whites You can't understand this story if you don't know 1 of the greatest stories in all of history A thread www.reuters.com/world/africa...

New USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.

“Unlikely” is how objective corporate media describe two political figures whose policies are much closer to each other’s than to most American politicians’.

This is the way.

Nailed it.

In multiple released documents, the DOJ illegally redacted stuff that was legally required not to be redacted, like names of prosecutors and Epstein buddies like █████." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

It almost feels like someone didn’t think through what happens if everyone’s standing their ground.

Trying to think of which files this reminds me of.

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Democrats could stop or at least possibly stop this right now by promising prosecutions. This stuff is happening because no one has reason to think there will be consequences.

600% terrifying

Finally Trump can legit claim he won something.