“I’m a very strong person for free speech,” Trump said from the Oval Office, before claiming “the newscasts are against me... They’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally.” Here’s the 3-min clip www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

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Say it ain’t so “Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Great stuff, @rbreich.bsky.social The Commanders deal puts DC taxpayers on the hook for over $6.5 billion, making it “the biggest public sports subsidy in U.S. history by a mile." petetucker.substack.com/p/why-are-dc...

It's official: D.C. taxpayers are on the hook for over $1 billion to build a new stadium for the Washington Commanders. The team's owner is a private equity mogul worth nearly $10 billion. Here's what you should know about the billionaires' public subsidy stadium scam.

As I wrote back in July petetucker.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

In a speech on press freedoms, NYT publisher AG Sulzberger once again omits mention of Israel’s systematic (and US backed) killing of Palestinian journalists www.nytco.com/press/ag-sul...

“In a matter of weeks, the Ellisons could own a movie studio, multiple television streamers, two news networks, and have a significant stake in the world’s fastest-growing social-media platform, all while hosting the data of millions of users...” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Fabulous read on what it's like to be the "house Arab" at The New Yorker. And written in the classic New Yorker voice. Brilliant stuff. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

“The arms would be paid for by U.S.-provided foreign military financing... Israel buys most of its American-made weapons using U.S. taxpayer money that comes via billions of dollars in annual military aid.“ www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative. fair.org/home/as-elli...

To his credit, Bezos has always been remarkably upfront about his crazy worldview. To our detriment, we haven't listened.

Notwithstanding a couple of Post editorials against the deal, it's really felt like the paper's goal has been to get the ball in the end zone and get this deal done. At all the key moments, the Post has helped grease the wheels of this thing. Thanks for your work, @fieldofschemes.bsky.social

$6 billion in tax and land breaks is indeed "more than $1 billion," very good, WaPo! Next time, try to remember that the goal of the game is to come as close as possible without going over.

“The land rent break is so egregious in magnitude that if I didn't know it was proposed by a mayor for a stadium, I would have assumed the sublessee had incriminating evidence on the lessor and was using it for a shakedown” - economist @gpropheter.bsky.social petetucker.substack.com/p/why-are-dc...

By my math: "more than $1 billion" + "more than $1 billion" = more than $2 billion in taxpayer largesse Where has the Post reported this is the true cost? (It's actually a lot more.) To do so only in the hours before the deal is sealed is extraordinary.

“The younger Ellison, 42, has been a movie producer… He has also acted a bit, and launched a men’s clothing line that seems to have gone out of business eight years ago. He has never worked a day in the news business.” dicktofel.substack.com/p/cbs-news-a...

In fact the Commanders stadium deal is “the biggest public sports subsidy in U.S. history by a mile,” at over $6.5 billion, says sports journalist Neil deMause of @fieldofschemes.bsky.social petetucker.substack.com/p/why-are-dc...

Wow, just wow Only hours before the DC Council’s final vote on the Commanders stadium deal, the Post finally (begins to) come clean to readers about its true cost, which just magically doubled with no explanation. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

After all, if Bezos can dispose of the Amazon workers who made him rich, why should we expect him to treat D.C. residents and Post readers any better?

DC is preparing to hand billions of taxpayer dollars to a Trump-aligned billionaire (for a stadium). Poor Democrats can’t help themselves, they love billionaires too much. My latest petetucker.substack.com/p/why-are-dc...

If you're going to hand out $6.6B in stadium subsidies, yes, it's better if residents get good jobs and a say in how it affects their neighborhoods. But focusing just on side benefits can become an invitation for sports billionaires to buy off opposition. www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/09/16/2...

An interesting development for the must-read Drop Site News www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

A sobering report from Wired www.wired.com/story/extrem...

To experience Bezos’ fuck you in physical form, pick up a paper copy of the Post and try to find the Metro section, now buried in the back of Sports or Style www.truthdig.com/articles/bez...

“Many people disappear for a while when they leave top government jobs. They settle into the private sector or retreat into family life. Not Lina Khan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/t...

This is literally what happened. It was an FBI sting washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7706...

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Backed by daddy’s 2nd largest fortune on earth, David Ellison, having just acquired Paramount, is making a move on Warner Bros. Discovery, which includes CNN. This is not good, reports @status.news www.status.news/p/david-elli...

“If a single massive protest could get rid of this man, it would have happened already, right? And so we have to think of different things.” — Alex Dodds, co-founder of @freedcproject.bsky.social fair.org/home/when-tr...

"Where the New York Times saw 'a charismatic right-wing activist' who 'showed a genius for using social media and campus organizing,' those who found themselves targets of Kirk’s 'genius' saw something entirely different," writes @ariaripaulpaul.bsky.social

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, it was taboo to point out that his politics, and those of the MAGA movement he embraced, contributed to a culture of hatred and demonization. fair.org/home/kirk-co...

“The ADL is, at its core, a shakedown operation for the Israeli government and its violent policies towards Palestinians.” www.columnblog.com/p/the-adl-ig...

“Patel’s handling of the early stages of the Kirk investigation is a reminder that the skill set required to succeed as an influencer is not the same as what is required to effectively run the FBI. It’s not just amateur hour at the FBI, but influencer hour.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

quite an excellent read www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“What do a physicians' conference in Portugal, a music festival, an arms fair, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, a Dutch university, research foundations and a few sports federations have in common?” www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

DC has seen an explosion of actions in response to Trump’s takeover. Dismissing the vibrant grassroots resistance to Trump's occupation as “only a few scattered protests" is a distortion that only serves to normalize authoritarianism. fair.org/home/when-tr...

At 87, John Hanrahan has been out protesting Trump's DC takeover. And the former Post reporter tells @fairmediawatch.bsky.social he's concerned about the media coverage the protests have received. My latest fair.org/home/when-tr...

If Bezos can readily dispose of the Amazon workers who made him rich, I guess we shouldn't have expected him to treat DC residents and Post readers any differently. Excited to have my latest published at @truthdig.com

How the billionaire's bizarre worldview and cosmic fantasies explain the Washington Post's abandonment of its hometown. By @petetucker.bsky.social

In the 8th graf of this story: Mamdani leads among Jewish voters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

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That might explain why Trump’s offer was so short and scant on details. The whole point was to gather people together to discuss the peace offer to kill then. Israel is taking credit for the attack, citing 10/7, though most or all in Doha didnt even know about 10/7 until it happened.

Here’s what just happened: Trump sent a peace deal to Hamas, Hamas met to discuss it in Doha, where the U.S. is mediating talks and has a base,and Israel bombed them, presumably with US support.

Long, worthy read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

“For people who buy health insurance on government exchanges, the median increase for 2026 is 18 percent — more than double last year’s 7 percent rise...” www.ft.com/content/9af0...

Terrific reporting- and sickening: How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Coming to an open mic near you… poet Pete Hegseth spitting verses www.wired.com/story/depart...