Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 15hThe Department of Homeland Security signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft at a substantial markup from a company owned by a political contributor of Kristi Noem on her last day as secretary, documents show. trib.al/a3d0s6B 36332145
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22hThere are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high. 81797481
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral. 361601403
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialNikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning 3633833740
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio: 106758101660
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22hVote against all Republicans to stop them from stealing from you.nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show. 7347127
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21hIf we lived in a functioning democracy, major newspapers would run Page 1 editorials pleading with people to vote out the Republicans to save us from a fascist dictatorship. But most of the mainstream media have run out of bravery, if they ever had any. 38433121
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21hThis is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.nytimes.comHow Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 49732248
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21hThe news media are way too accepting of racism in our politics. They should be peppering the Republicans' Senate candidates in TX, OH, MI, IA and ME with questions about why they welcome campaign help from white supremacist Elon Musk. 824490
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21hJoe Biden was too old to be president. Trump is the same age as Biden was when he was president. And it’s obvious that Trump is less mentally healthy than Biden was. So when will the media report that the president’s brain is broken? If the answer is “never,” that means the media are broken too. 31679169
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21hI respect the kind of journalist who may be jailed if the U.S. keeps moving toward a dictatorship, not the kind of journalist who will do just fine regardless. 929453
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19hDoes anyone tthink the smartest reporters in DC don't know Trump is building a dictatorship? Of course they know. The question is why they won't tell the public loudly and clearly. 941006309
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The only thing that spreads faster than measles is an outbreak of sidebars on the NYT homepage when an Ivy League school is under fire. 215824
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you've ever taken an art history class, you know that professors can spend an entire lecture deconstructing one famous painting. They'll do that someday with this photo. The smug look on Schmitt's face. Kennedy's helpful hand. And best of all, the aide -- face hidden, torso with red tie exposed. 5451272
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026We started our very own private school with @arktimes.bsky.social. All it took was $45, a few clicks on a state website and an American flag.propublica.orgAlmost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur... 21592229
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialLA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Raw Story: Chief Justice John Roberts has spent more than 20 summers at his home on a small island off the coast of Maine, but now many of his neighbors have backed away from him or even demonstrated against him. I just tested negative for sympathy. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed 25431223
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In case you’re wondering, no New York Times news story in the last 4 months has used the phrase “convicted felon” in association with Donald Trump. 32617205
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialAnarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Women are also more likely to be investigated, prosecuted, sentenced, and sentenced more harshly for defending themselves from a violent domestic abuser's attack than a domestic abuser is for raping and murdering her. 097
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialLea Leander @lealeander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...nytimes.com3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding. 5270118
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026OHIO — More 3x Trump voters burned by Trump now helping Dems get elected. Even canvassing for them. apnews.com/article/trum... 65713215
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty. 23919271
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026very grim but the reflexive way that fox news is defending rape this week is both nearly identical to the kavanaugh period (can't trust her because she doesn't remember/she changed her mind) and proof that victim-blaming is the north star of state media even when the case is separate from government 1120557
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/10/2026NYT: The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. 38279145
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This, on the #BrokenTimes, is very good. I'm more polemical because I see urgency. The Times, as the winner-takes-most survivor, has a near monopoly on newsroom resources and public-discourse attention. As @perrybaconjr.bsky.social says, we need radical leadership for post-Trump 🙏 Reconstruction. 24916
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialNatalieNM @secretagent39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“ It is unprecedented for a democracy to face a physical attack organized by wealthy seditionists and foreign operatives intended to nullify a legitimate election and then decide to do nothing to prevent it from happening again.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...sarahkendzior.substack.comA Public Flat EarthHow paywalls killed the public sphere. 25319
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialWhite Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 01/10/2026 0235
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialIdiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026October 6th, 2016 the Access Hollywood tapes emerge. Maggie Haberman would write TWO articles related to this episode. (She wrote FIFTY THREE on Hillary's emails). This piece portrayed Trump in a sympathetic light:nytimes.comInside Trump Tower, an Increasingly Upset and Alone Donald Trump (Published 2016) 132
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026See also what I wrote for CJR on liberal anger at The Times. It rises unabated. www.cjr.org/analysis/lib...cjr.orgWhy Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?From sanewashing to false equivalence, many readers have had it with their favorite news publications. Editors would do well to listen. 31410
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#BrokenTimes hands an hour to Nick Bostrom, philosopher prince of doomster cultists, without mentioning he was ousted from Oxford for racist emails or the eugenicist roots of #TESCREAL philosophies. The Times has lost the ability to call bullshit. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Are Clueless About What’s Coming (Gift Article)Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia. 46523
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump and Hegseth have killed 230+ people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific with no proof they did anything wrong, no congressional approval, no nothing. Just 2 unhinged fascists ordering our military to commit murder. Vote against all Republicans for the sake of all that is decent. 23776254
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New AP poll: Trump’s job approval rating falls to 31%, while 69% disapprove. • His approval rating on the economy: 26% • On the cost of living: 17% • On Iran: 28% • Trade negotiations: 38% • AI: 31% • Immigration: 39% • Border security: 48% apnorc.org/wp-content/u... 34379163
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialRuth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.latimes.comHis mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicideSamuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear. 6400184
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel. 210860
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026Breaking News: The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage made its biggest weekly jump in four years, rising to 7.28%.nyti.msAs Mortgage Rates Hit Highest Level Since 2023, Buyers Look at ARMsThe average 30-year, fixed-rate home loan rose to 7.28 percent, up from 6.34 percent a year ago. More buyers are now turning to adjustable-rate mortgages. 26338127
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tennessee's bumbling executioners, as they tried in vain to kill Christa Pike last night, stuck "at least 7 needles into her left arm. "One of them appeared bent when it was withdrawn." Now, Pike is in critical condition and is - yes - "receiving lifesaving medical care" Gift link wapo.st/4j02JJ6wapo.stChrista Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution, lawyers sayA lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed. 97027
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"In Clewiston, Florida, Penny Lee, a 55-year-old who voted for Trump in 2024, was blunt about her past support for the president: "'I was a dumbass.'" www.ms.now/news/republi...ms.now‘I feel hoodwinked’: In red states, some of Trump’s former supporters turn on the presidentA month before the midterms, frustration over high prices and the war in Iran has Republicans on defense in states Trump won easily in 2024. 1410821
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.” 691714606
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s indeed possible to write a headline that says “Trump lies again.” It doesn’t violate any rule of journalism or shatter the laws of nature. it just tells the truth. 15484133
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 196112442145
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In audio obtained by the NY Times, Ken Paxton says Trump’s big event in Texas hurt Republicans: “When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.”nytimes.comKen Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt HimKen Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times. 1011838
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comIn Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s FaultThanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state. 983863980
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Supreme Court endorses extreme cruelty toward helpless immigrants. The 6 Republican justices must think the Dred Scott decision is their precedent. Win the midterms and unpack the court.theguardian.comUS supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countriesConservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling 18303108
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialQ @gameovermike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A faux military asshole "told them "he did not get water in combat" and after their teammate was hospitalized (and is not expected to recover) they were told by their coach not to visit so they didn't draw attention to the incident. www.espn.com/college-spor...espn.comASU hockey players dispute school review of teammate's collapseSeven Arizona State hockey players disputed the university's review of a teammate's collapse and called for the school to put athletic staff on leave pending an independent investigation, according to a letter sent to the university president Monday. 021
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialSo IL Connected @soilconnected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mayich family calls for ASU hockey coaches’ removal amid investigationfirstalert4.comMayich family calls for ASU hockey coaches’ removal amid investigationThe parents of ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich are demanding that coaches be removed as investigators examine the outdoor workout where he collapsed and remains hospitalized. 101
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialAdam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute 121769294
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Susan Collins is the Chair of Appropriations and she’s not willing to use that power to help the people in the state of Maine. I’m 100% dug in on getting shit done. 829582
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialYonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump agrees to end court fight against $5 million verdict in E Jean Carroll case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll caseThe verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump 0145
Reposted by @furtherexchange.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And, in "It never gets old" territory, this from tenured pundit: 3132935