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Marisa Kabas
about 1 month ago
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizza-rfk-jr-trump
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John Pfaff
2 months ago
Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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Doghouse Reilly
2 months ago
“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.
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NY Times Pitchbot
3 months ago
Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
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Tax. The. Rich.
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Bill Corbett
4 months ago
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
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Steve M.
4 months ago
"Tax the rich" is three one-syllable words.
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Greg Pak
5 months ago
Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.
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David Dayen
5 months ago
From me: We've been getting all Gilded Age-y for a while in America, but the writers are getting too lazy with the references now. A transcontinental railroad merger? Rotten borough-style gerrymandering? Tariffs? A Lochnerian court? The 1800s are back.
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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The Second Gilded Age Is Resembling the First
It’s the return of rotten boroughs, railroad barons, and constant graft.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-07-31-second-gilded-age-resembling-first/
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Taka Hanazawa 🎄🎁
5 months ago
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Denny Carter
5 months ago
I watched the
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debate video and came away with the sense that these people are having a good time being callous and malicious, and that they have no real politics.
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It's One Long Joke
"[Fascists] are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words."
https://badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long-joke/
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Saikat for Congress
5 months ago
People have lost trust in government ever holding the powerful accountable. This is how Trump wins by saying “drain the swamp.” If we want government to do good things, we MUST restore trust in government. Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
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Better Things Are Possible
5 months ago
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
6 months ago
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party
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The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/donald-trump-news-democrats-elections-strategist-brain.html
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Prem Thakker ツ
5 months ago
It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
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Excellent piece.
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Eric Blair
6 months ago
But congestion pricing polled terribly. The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad. But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it. Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
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Anil Dash
6 months ago
“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.
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Thomas Zimmer
6 months ago
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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Amanda Litman
6 months ago
The GOP is not a good faith partner in governing. They are not on the level. Their stated goals are irrelevant and disconnected to their behavior. Any Democrat who pretends otherwise is misunderstanding our opposition and not up to what this moment demands.
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NY Times Pitchbot
6 months ago
Whether it's Republicans like Donald Trump opposing birthright citizenship in 2025 or Democrats like Jefferson Davis opposing it in 1860, both parties have shown opposition to birthright citizenship.
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Senate Gabe
6 months ago
I do not understand why lawmakers twist themselves into these absurd knots. Trump sucks right? He should be removed from office? Try to remove him from office.
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Micah
6 months ago
she should resign straightforwardly, she did not "misspeak", she went on a racist rant about how a Muslim mayoral candidate is a terrorist, under an administration that is floating words like "denaturalization" and she's a Democrat? absolute dereliction of duty resign
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Daniel Radosh
6 months ago
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source:
podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
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David Roberts
6 months ago
The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
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Adria
6 months ago
Mamdani: And this is why New Yorkers deserve access to fresh tomatoes Adams: I once bit into a tomato and it started talking to me and said "Eric, please don't hurt me. Eric, visit Turkey" Silwa: Tomatos? I've seen illegals turn American citizens' heads into Tomatos
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Prisonculture
6 months ago
tough times for vote blue no matter who.
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Marisa Kabas
6 months ago
i shan't be listening to the takes of centrists who believe in nothing
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Mr Targeted Harassment
6 months ago
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Get BENT, Andy.
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Tim Onion
6 months ago
Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.
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Prisonculture
6 months ago
This is what gives the game away...
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Eric Blair
6 months ago
Exceptional piece from
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on Cuomo. Covers his terrible governance, his selfishness, his lying, his harassment. There is nothing in this man that anyone should want near power. 1/2
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This Fucking Guy
I lived in New York City for twenty-five years and I don’t live there anymore.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/165881403
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Jared Yates Sexton
6 months ago
There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps
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Rude Law Dog
6 months ago
being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
6 months ago
I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
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Kevin M. Kruse
7 months ago
(taps sign)
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Claire Willett
7 months ago
once again I must tap my own sign
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An excellent, if utterly infuriating, piece.
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Micah
7 months ago
funny how you never see "I'm a popularist who doesn't agree with Medicare for All but man, it polls so well, we should run more candidates on that platform"
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Joe Katz
7 months ago
This wouldn't bother me so much if they actually meant broadly effective and popular as opposed to just moderate. It’s always "stop letting The Groups bully you into defending trans kids," never "let's run on a $20 minimum wage, health care for all and jailing criminal CEOs"
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Gillian Branstetter
7 months ago
Trans people have not "weaponized" our rights--we are defending our rights against an effort to eradicate us from public life.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
7 months ago
“Who believes that Donald Trump—fixated on imaginary graves and Photoshopped tattoos—is going to be able to process new and alarming information in the middle of the night, with the fate of the world at stake?”
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Philip Bump
7 months ago
The two obvious flaws here are that 1) it makes policy choices reactive instead of proactive and 2) it ignores the problem being addressed by the (probably misguided) original idea: that there is a robust narrative universe that excludes Democratic ideas.
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jamelle
7 months ago
if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
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Katelyn Burns
7 months ago
THREE patreon posts in THREE days??? what has come over me? Turns out I have a lot to say this week. Another one's coming tomorrow as well. For Patreon, I wrote about why a little Nebraska mayoral race proves the centrist pundits wrong on trans rights.
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This is how you win over moderate voters | Katelyn Burns
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Amen
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