Too many people praise Mehdi Hasan as an unbiased icon of journalism when he's always been an agenda driven propagandist. Here, he allows Jennifer Welch to spread debunked lies. Biden could not release the Epstein Files because they were still tied up in court because of Ghislaine Maxwell's appeals.

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

Ok but this is not “partisanship”. No Democratic President could get their voters to hate the EU because they demanded Greenland to be handed over. The fact that the very idea of a Democratic President doing this is ridiculous tells us that it is a GOP-specific phenomenon

man I’m sorry, for whatever else you can critique about American liberals from the left, “they love having meetings” isn’t one you really have room to make

Checking in to see if Sen Britt is still "thinking" about Liam Ramos now that the Trump admin is trying to expedite attempts to deport the 5 yr old and his family even though they are here following legal asylum procedures. I trust the NYT will get right on that...

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social In dueling narratives, Republicans, Democrats disagrees about whether the Obamas are gorillas

Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C

My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.

i'm still mind-boggled about that NYT headline about Katie Britt today, what is happening.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

As insane as it seems now, what this line of thought actually reveals is just how much of the political world fundamentally thought of 2016 as primarily an election about your view of Hillary Clinton, with Donald Trump mainly an instrument of passing judgement on her, not important in himself

“I hate when people use this to show Chris Hayes is a moron because I, too, was a moron, so who can judge?”

as a practical matter if Biden had tried this, literally anyone he'd put in charge of the DoJ- not just Garland, but anyone at all he'd have even considered- would have triggered a Saturday Night Massacre and poisoned the administration permanently

Like man, I’m sorry, yeah I wish this stuff had been out earlier (also very much doubt it would have done a thing), but the idea that DoJ doesn’t just trawl through files and release them for political advantage is more than just a norm.

Man, for the most part I like the Josh Marshall podcast, but sometimes Kate just says something that’s so online lefty brained that I almost unsubscribe. Today’s was the conviction that the Epstein Files, released pursuant to a 2025 statute, should simply have been leaked by Biden’s DoJ.

IMO it's hard to find any part of the broader left as utterly discredited by the events of the last two decades as the anti-trade, anti-globalisation set. Just fundamentally wrong about absolutely everything, and in a way that opened the door wide for the far right to come charging through.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

past is prologue (which is fucking creepy, please tell ken white to find a new podcast good lord)

These truly are some of the four worst four people on Earth.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

Trump take coin

(guy who quit his job as the deputy director of the FBI after a year to podcast) THE MAGA MOVEMENT IS OVERRUN WITH BUMS AND GRIFTERS

if you are pissed these are the *minority's* formal demands you're just a wrecker dipshit bsky.app/profile/sahi...

I canceled my Washington Post subscription after Bezos axed the Kamala Harris endorsement. Not because of Harris, but because it was a watershed moment that showed us the WaPo had gone from being a public trust to Bezos' personal instrument. Everything since then has confirmed as much.

"Democrats need to do more to take credit for their wins" says guy who spent 2022 sending death threats to Will Stancil for saying Biden was helping manufacturing workers.

They like him and want to help him

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

"None of us figured out how to avoid being here." IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."

The difference between anarchism and liberalism on this front is that anarchism has never been successful at anything. Anarchists have barely mastered "running an off-putting bookstore"

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

He looks like the 5th Golden Girl now.

Dueling narratives about the US media as Bezos says cuts are essential, journalists say not so much

Suddenly the press is very uninterested in the sexual proclivities of a President.

One ring to rule them all Forged in the valorous fires of a dumpster

I was blocked after this. Anti-electoralists don't actually have beliefs. The second you press them on what they propose to do, and what actions they take against fascism outside the ballot box, they run away. Because they're lazy cowards, every single last one. They are not serious people.

The audacity it takes to say, in the year of our lord 2026, that absolutely NO ONE had any idea how to stop Donald Trump is enough to blot out the sun.

Oh this is what he said, that tracks. Actually Rob, a lot of us figured out how to avoid being here, the problem is not enough other people listened.

Democrats didn’t cut billions in HHS money here’s why it’s actually bad lib cucks

People on bluesky will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, setting a dumpster on fire

thank god the normie libs are showing up to take over from losers like this because otherwise there would truly be no hope

Damn J-Mart if only you were a journalist who could pursue the story and not just treat it as a matter of fact :/

May I humbly suggest you read this instead www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Jake is more excited than a 12yo boy seeing porn for the first time at the prospect of losing the VRA

Trump always backs down to those who stand up to him. Which makes every person and institution who capitulated even more pathetic.

In the least surprising news of the decade

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

When the libs said this a decade ago David French called them hysterical

They could start by trying

These people are really beyond parody