The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

At 1115.50/5000 goal for my 42 year of life, the universe, and everything Help me continue asking the questions

Stoked for Caelan Conrad's next feature, "Jesus Told Me To Kill Myself"

This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.

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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.

Sorry but it's extra funny the NYT is running a glamour profile on RFKs mistress/reporter the day after people were going to the mattresses defending their ethics surrounding the Epstein cover up

"beit din"? oh you mean yidterms

take a moment, close your eyes, inhale deeply, exhale, and then imagine hearing "livvy" in RFK jr's voice

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Happy November 14th

throwing acid is wrong, in some people's eyes

Can't believe I never posted my top tier writing advice here 🧚

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

i have a lot of trouble with self-promotion, but i lost my insurance and SNAP benefits a few months ago due to federal level hijinx, and am really struggling with the day to day right now. i could really use your help! i'm trying to get back up to $1000. www.patreon.com/vacuumflowers

it should be flatly illegal to not provide appropriate seating for cashiers, and it should be even more illegal to say one fucking negative word about them using it

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon. The rest of us will live in a society.

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

Absolute stupidity on a scale that is incomprehensible. www.404media.co/power-compan...

like, folks on the far right/GOP rallied against democrats over PIZZAGATE because they SUSPECTED IT WAS A CHILD TRAFFICKING RING AND THIS IS AN ACTUAL. FACTUAL. CHILD TRAFFICKING RING AND YET IT PUTS YOUR FEARLESS LEADER IN THE SPOTLIGHT, SO IT'S OK NOW?????? HELLO??????????????????????????????????

i don't care what belief system you subscribe to, if your moral compass allows you to defend, or look away, from child endangerment, you are a terrible human in my eyes. People who cover up, defend, or don't think it's as heinous as it is, should not be listened to in any capacity. at all. period.>

I saw the woodchipper skeet but lmao I didn't realize it was Patton Oswalt

If say, like, just a thousand people bought just one of my games... That would be great. #SelfPromoSaturday #TTRPGS #IndieGames

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

recent stuff

Pete behaving as illustrated in Dan Ianskin's "The Democrat Playbook" episode "Always Play Defense"

In 2025, media often misuse the term ‘blood libel’ to describe e.g. accusing the IDF of war crimes, but it turns out the lecturer was literally teaching the Damascus Affair, when Syrian Jews were tortured into falsely confessing to murdering a priest to use his blood in matzah for Passover, as fact.

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that” I think about that often.

Lots going on here but can I just add that it's not super thrilling that Palantir has surveillance tech this precise and it's in the hands of corporate oligarchs. Not great!

‘no longer content with taking your money, donald trump is intent on killing your brothers and sons’ would be a nice, measured place to start

baudrillard crumpling up a piece of paper and walking into the sea

i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.

a heinous news cycle in every sense of the word

It's interesting because I've seen some of the conclusion of REFFOID (Reviewing Every Final Fantasy Or I Die) and it's seriously good stuff well outside my current skillset but watching the beginning is a whole lot of "wow I could do this way better"

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

They will try to censor porn. They will use those rules to then censor anything and everything else 1 inch at a time. You need to support porn and you need to do it vocally. The Internet (and all other media types) you save will be your own.

Any time I visit a national park, I make sure to email the hotel I stayed at afterward to ask them to invest in dark sky lighting. Light pollution is easily fixable.

sorry for all my horrific reskeets it's grim on here

I'm reminded, truly, of people who argue vociferously against the word "genocide" re Gaza: So you're saying Israel has just *killed* 70-100,000 people, a third of them children, since Oct 7 2025. So Megyn Kelly is saying that Epstein, Trump, et al just raped *teenagers*. Do you hear yourselves?

I went to college for criminology and I remember a professor shutting this shit down so fast when someone tried it by saying "Nope, there are only two types of people who ever need to care about this distinction: the people committing the crimes and the lawyers involved in those cases, THAT'S IT"

The human digestive tract is a scam.

where's the guide for bussy professionals

barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity." just the same idea over and over.

what the ever loving shit is this wording? tbh, more of your writers need to get dragged into a crashout, @nytimes.com because wtf. she was also homeless as a minor. dental/orthodontic shit isn’t a want so much as it’s a need (bad teeth can fuck up someone’s heart!). this was sex trafficking.

I have the urge to bite through my phone but that's unhealthy I should bite through his phone, he's the one who sucks

This strikes me, quite honestly, as eminently reasonable in an idealized world where journalism functions But we live in the world where things with half this evidence or less get constant press time *IFF* they make Democrats or trans health care look bad