James Gleick @around.com · 22/09/2026More NYT strangeness. The correct phrasing would be: "Ms. Collins, who positions herself as a moderate, has long attempted to create the appearance of distance from Mr. Trump, while always doing his bidding when it matters." 092
James Gleick @around.com · 22/09/2026The NY Times is matching a superb story from @propublica.org. This paragraph—strangely unattributed—is a lie: the investigation was shut down because Trump has ended all investigations into public corruption by Republicans and their donors. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u... 3169
James Gleick @around.com · 18/09/2026In the government of the United States as now constituted, all officials and functionaries are routinely required to pose standing behind the seated tyrant to show obeisance and make him look important. Newspapers publish these photos without comment, as if it were normal. 3189
James Gleick @around.com · 08/09/2026Another case (@nytimes.com) of carelessly implying that the AI models have agency. Humans are using them to do stuff, and stuff happens. 2173
James Gleick @around.com · 25/07/2026Just say it. Stop pretending you don't know. Say it each time. 23013
James Gleick @around.com · 01/07/2026Clearer headline: Trump Used Crypto Scam To Fleece His Investors (This is an example of the Opaque Passive voice. “Crypto” didn't do anything. Trump did.) 2113
James Gleick @around.com · 14/06/2026This is (as the law mandates) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. But there's a coverup: a petty little man is using tarps to block the name. He can't handle the truth. 1215
James Gleick @around.com · 19/05/2026This author—caught using AI to make up quotes for his book about the dangers of AI—has the gall to say it proves him right. You can't trust him, so you can't trust anyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b... 0105
James Gleick @around.com · 22/04/2026No need to attribute this to Abbas Araghchi. A blockade is, in point of fact, an act of war. If its aim is to cause civilian suffering, it is also a war crime. (Cf. Cuba.) 074
James Gleick @around.com · 12/04/2026Paid agents of the US government arrested this woman and this girl, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar and her daughter, Milena. Their crimes? None. Dr. Bolivar, born in Venezuela, in an emergency-care physician in McAllen, Texas, an impoverished place desperate for doctors. 1206
James Gleick @around.com · 05/04/2026When even Marjorie Taylor Greene can see the truth, who does Trump have left? 0147
James Gleick @around.com · 04/04/2026The NY Times has a blockbuster story here: Epstein got valuable inside information from the first Trump administration and fed it to a wealthy foreign customer of his sex-trafficking racket. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w... 11910
James Gleick @around.com · 12/03/2026The word is "cover up." The Times has found email proof that Kash Patel's FBI combed the Epstein files to protect Trump and 14 others. 23721
James Gleick @around.com · 09/03/2026Launched an unprovoked war that is murdering civilians, throwing the world economy into chaos, wreaking destruction with no limits and no known purpose, and ... he's at his private golf course. 073
James Gleick @around.com · 19/02/2026Grift, self-aggrandizement, and self-dealing. Democrats must rise up and make clear that they will never approve this daylight robbery of taxpayer money. 0167
James Gleick @around.com · 31/01/2026U.S. District Judge Fred Biery finds that Trump and his apparachiks are demonstrating “the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty”; that they “know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.” And adds, “the rule of law be damned.” He attaches a photograph to his ruling. 1187
James Gleick @around.com · 26/12/2025Readers of the New York Times might think this is a picture of Trump announcing an attack in Nigeria. Actually, Trump didn't bother to get out of bed. His “announcement” was an incoherent social media post. This is a file picture (Trump announcing an imaginary warship that will never be built). 066
James Gleick @around.com · 23/12/2025Today crazy gramps says “I want to play admiral!” So all the other inmates dress up and make pictures and put on a little party. What will crazy gramps want to play tomorrow? 1106
James Gleick @around.com · 21/12/2025Epstein-Trump photos "disappear." It's a mystery! Whatever could have happened? Or: Justice Department Flouts Law, Suppresses Evidence Of Trump-Epstein Collusion 1103
James Gleick @around.com · 19/12/2025These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember. 1345
James Gleick @around.com · 10/12/2025Today in the Kleptocracy: the "Trump" gold and platinum cards. Can someone explain how Trump claims the authority to waive US taxes for the benefit of foreign oligarchs and money launderers? They will happily pay a "gift" of $5 million to avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes. 2158
James Gleick @around.com · 07/12/2025It's December 2025, the Trump regime is engaged in a vicious and lawless pogrom, destroying the lives of immigrants and children of immigrants, creating a reign of terror and cruelty, and the New York Times assails ... Biden. For not being tough enough on immigrants. I won't link to it. 4117
James Gleick @around.com · 05/12/2025I imagine Judge Currie gnashing her teeth at this framing in the NY Times. She ruled with utter clarity that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed as US Attorney and “has been unlawfully serving in that role since September 22, 2025.” 382
James Gleick @around.com · 27/10/2025Words matter. When the NY Times says Trump is "float[ing] the possibility of finding a way to circumvent the 22nd Amendment," they are saying it's just a small matter. No biggie. In fact, he is threatening to FLOUT, VIOLATE, or DEFY the 22nd Amendment. It's an emergency. 095
James Gleick @around.com · 23/10/2025Two headlines. One is news (WaPo). The other is shameful (NY Times). 0174
James Gleick @around.com · 06/10/2025Here, for instance, you know very well that there are no protesters in Portland engaging in insurrection. And you know equally well that federal forces are attacking protesters without provocation. So don't be lazy. Tell your readers what you know. 0145
James Gleick @around.com · 27/09/2025Imagine if some lunatic hacked into the official account of the President of the United States and used it to broadcast false and dangerous medical advice. That would be a big story. 1110
James Gleick @around.com · 24/09/2025No. Trump and his press secretary set off the conspiracy theories. Trump's own videographer triggered the safety mechanism. 051
James Gleick @around.com · 15/09/2025This is what we've come to. Inciting hatred of Blacks, Jews, and gays is, according to the New York Times, merely “brash right-wing spin.” Did they think about this at all? Is it a considered policy choice? 1167
James Gleick @around.com · 07/09/2025But at the NY Times, everything has two side. “Tensions escalated." As if Illinois leaders share the blame. 074
James Gleick @around.com · 11/08/2025Consider this weaselly framing by the New York Times. The reality: Trump is telling a blatant lie about violent crime in DC in order to militarize its streets. He is inventing a nonexistent crime wave. So what’s this extra clause? Some “youth crime” still exists? It hasn’t been totally eradicated? 283
James Gleick @around.com · 07/08/2025The Vice President, the White House chief of staff, the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, and the FBI Director convene for a dramatic evening meeting at the Vice President's residence. What urgent matter of national security can it be, to require such top-level attention? 042
James Gleick @around.com · 27/07/2025Breaking: The president of the United States demands the prosecution of four individuals: •Beyoncé •Oprah Winfrey •Al Sharpton •Kamala Harris “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” 141
James Gleick @around.com · 25/07/2025Official U.S. Government email from Medicare. gov promotes quack cure TV huckster. The grifters are in charge now. 144
James Gleick @around.com · 23/07/2025Look at this one astounding sentence in the NY Times. It says so much about their failure to rise to the current moment. 1. Todd Blanche is of course a Trump crony and fixer, but the Times can't say that. Let's just say he was Trump's personal lawyer. 16373128