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Decades in journalism, disgusted with MSM coverage of the destruction of America and American democracy (and especially NYT)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h
The 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
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22h
There 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.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
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.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’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.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "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:
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22h
Vote against all Republicans to stop them from stealing from you.
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Kristi 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h
If 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h
This 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.com
How 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h
The 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h
Joe 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h
I 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h
Does 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.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The only thing that spreads faster than measles is an outbreak of sidebars on the NYT homepage when an Ivy League school is under fire.
CheNew Work Cimes
Hochul Names Letitia
James as Special
Prosecutor in Cornell
Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate a former student's allegation of rape.
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Cornell Students Call for Change at Fiery Public
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Through tears, some students shared stories of assaults they experienced. Others criticized administrators and demanded improved consent training.
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Men Accused in Suit Give Varying Accounts of the Night
Document Trove
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N.Y. Lawmakers and Victims Push to Change Rape Law in Intoxication Cases
Parents Are Talking About Consent After Cornell Rape Allegations
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If 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.
February 3, 2024

J.P. Cooney: Hey man. Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? J.P. Cooney: Damn. Thank you for saving- but we are good. Ask Harbach. Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.

February 2, 2024

Fani Willis acknowledges personal AILA RENA
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
We 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.
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Almost 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...
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Raw 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
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 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.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Women 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.
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Lea Leander @lealeander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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3 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.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OHIO — More 3x Trump voters burned by Trump now helping Dems get elected. Even canvassing for them. apnews.com/article/trum...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We 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.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
very 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
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/10/2026
NYT: 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.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This, 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.
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NatalieNM @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...
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A Public Flat Earth
How paywalls killed the public sphere.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 01/10/2026
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Idiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
October 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:
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Inside Trump Tower, an Increasingly Upset and Alone Donald Trump (Published 2016)
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See also what I wrote for CJR on liberal anger at The Times. It rises unabated. www.cjr.org/analysis/lib...
cjr.org
Why 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.
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Jeff (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...
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Opinion | We Are Clueless About What’s Coming (Gift Article)
Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump 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.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New 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...
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Ruth 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.
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last 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.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
Breaking News: The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage made its biggest weekly jump in four years, rising to 7.28%.
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As Mortgage Rates Hit Highest Level Since 2023, Buyers Look at ARMs
The 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.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tennessee'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/4j02JJ6
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Christa Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution, lawyers say
A lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.
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Bill 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...
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‘I feel hoodwinked’: In red states, some of Trump’s former supporters turn on the president
A month before the midterms, frustration over high prices and the war in Iran has Republicans on defense in states Trump won easily in 2024.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville 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.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’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.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 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.com
Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken 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.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something 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...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks 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.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 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.com
US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Q @gameovermike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 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...
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ASU hockey players dispute school review of teammate's collapse
Seven 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.
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So IL Connected @soilconnected.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mayich family calls for ASU hockey coaches’ removal amid investigation
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Mayich family calls for ASU hockey coaches’ removal amid investigation
The 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.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Susan 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.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump agrees to end court fight against $5 million verdict in E Jean Carroll case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll case
The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And, in "It never gets old" territory, this from tenured pundit:
Headline from March 2026: 'The War Is Going Better Than You Think'
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