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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog

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“I’m a write-ter,” he said. “I love write-ting. I give it to them straight. No split affinitives, you know, or other Oxfer stooff. Oh, of coorse I split an affinitive now and then, to show I know how, but I don’t believe in it.” Social Justice Worrier

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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 15h
Such is #ProfessionalJournalism™ at the #FNYT
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's hard to believe that this can be solely the result of ignorance. I'm guessing that it's deliberately wrong -- a conscious lie -- underpinned by simple malice.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
That's just #ProfessionalJournalism™ practice at the #FNYT. It's probably one of their stylebook rules by now.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"There are portraits of a priest, of an SFPD officer, of a surfer in a wet suit in the back of his van. What’s perhaps most striking about these pictures of trans people is just how mundane they are."
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Mimi @mimibaltimore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nice callback to If Google was a Guy, Shammai! 😀
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
>> Calling it a protest site is White House framing. << The #FNYT is fond of Trump and frequently sends him these little gifts. Just another service offered by their #ProfessionalJournalists™.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More fine #ProfessionalJournalism™ from the professionally "Even The Liberal" #FNYT. I'm not sure how early they start their day drinking over there, but what was meant was crystal ultrafucking clear to pretty much everyone else.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 06/10/2026
A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Long ago, I studied art with a woman called Dorothy Cannon. I was a kid and she was Very Old; I suppose 60 or 70. I was never any use as an artist, so what I remember mostly now is her kindness. Searching for her today, I found this lovely thing. www.dorothycannon.com/JustBearly/J...
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Just Bearly: the story, with sketches
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ya THINK?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It decimated the federal workforce - not overhauled it. The elimination of expertise. The destruction of capacity. It also did NOT slash government spending. Spending is UP. It has been reallocated to the secret police and military. Stop publishing falsehoods.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You voted for him three fucking times, the most recent after you listened to him pick made-up stories about your city as a favorite slander against your neighbors as savage invaders whom he promised ethnic cleansing against, and you want me to feel sad about you losing your job at the factory?
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe it's time to start distinguishing between actual journalism and #ProfessionalJournalism™. The #FNYT is full of the latter (wait - what did you think I was starting to say there?) so there's no shortage of examples.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™ as practiced by the #FNYT. Long ago, I saw subscribing to the Times as almost a rite of passage: Now I have become a grown-up. To see them sink to this is painful - as is so much else about their work. No longer a subscriber; probably never will be again.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“These aren‘t real people. They’re illegal aliens!” Pretty much the Trump regime worldview. “We can dish out as much brutality and suffering as we want because immigrants aren’t human.”
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, "Ms. Collins" is the truth, I imagine. #ProfessionalJournalism™ as it is interpreted by the #FNYT.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™ as practised at the Post.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"How do you do, fellow normies?"
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Nate Cohn is the Times's chief political analyst." #ProfessionalJournalism™ #FNYT - for shame.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I urge everyone to listen to the episode with @margaret.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social for an overview of how the Trumpist attack on autistici/inventati is destroying one of the few remnants of the free internet pca.st/episode/e482...
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Sanctions, Terror, and the Internet
Margaret joins James to discuss a new round of sanctions against, among others, Autistici/Inventati and the internet infrastructure services they…
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Artist - Shou Xin
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For certain very specific values of "frown." #ProfessionalJournalism™ as practiced at the #FNYT.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Questionable." Of course it's the #FNYT. #ProfessionalJournalism™ as practised at Our Great Nation's Paper of Record.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"…and the Bureau of Economic Analysis that's known for tracking the country's gross domestic product." And PCEPI ... which I'd thought of as less susceptible to chicanery than CPI. Not so much any more, I guess.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
LAST SIGHTED WALKING DOWN HIGHWAY 1 IN MARIN, SHOUTING "BOBBY, JERRY -- GUYS?"
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Show us on the doll where the surgery budget came from.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23/08/2026
And this is what all the effort has been for: a print made from vintage metal foundry type hand-set and hand printed in two colours (but five impressions) on new-old-stock Adana 5”x8” ivory card stock. One of what will be a limited signed and numbered edition of hopefully about 20.
A red and black print combining Guthrie’s “This machine kills fascists” horizontally and Beer’s “The purpose of a system is what it does” counter-set vertically, laid out with vertical and horizontal rules.
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's something nice: a boat team in a race spotted a barn owl lost out at sea, and saved the owl even though it cost them the race www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Barn Owl rescued off the Norfolk coast after collapsing onto boat
"It's very unusual... barn owls shouldn't be 70 miles off Newcastle," a wildlife rescuer says.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And please, for the sake of all that is holy -- WHAT IS THE DENOMINATOR?!?
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A little voice inside my head sayin' What the fuck? What the actual fuck?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“.. You are on a bus called the 30-year bond and there is a cliff coming, but you don’t know if it is 100 meters away or 100 miles away,” he said. “You are hoping you can get off the bus before it crashes.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/b...
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Rage 🧵: A few years ago, our neighbors complained to the city about the plant growth on a steep slope in our backyard. It’s so steep that lawn care companies told me they won’t mow it. The city didn’t care. They threatened us with thousands of dollars in fines. I ended up writing about it:
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Code Snitching: Nashvillians Are Weaponizing Metro Codes Against ‘Undesirable’ Neighbors
Taking a deep dive on a trend that disproportionately affects Black and low-income Nashvillians
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There has been lots of talk in recent months about the ways in which the Department of Justice has lost the “presumption of regularity” it usually receives. Tonight, I ask what happens — and how do you deal with matters — if the reality shifts even further, toward a presumption of irregularity?
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The presumption of irregularity
It's a new DOJ, and that's no good. This week alone, DOJ's actions regarding executive privilege, the IRS case sanctions order, the Epstein files, and DHS investigations are at issue.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xkl... Ringer never became widely known - not sure why; at his best (and he was at his best for a few years) he was a pure pleasure to hear. "Killed by his best friend" - Jack Daniel's - many years ago.
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Rachel
YouTube video by Jim Ringer - Topic
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!
Sarah Kendzior making obvious points about authoritarian kleptocracy in the US under Trump on MSNBC in Nov 2016
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Remembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Whether or not the topic is one of your interests, this is a hell of a piece of writing, by a very, very skillful writer, and you might ought to read it just for that reason.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/07/2026
I'm not watching, I'm just looking at posts here, but it breaks my heart that a hero like Anthony Fauci is being treated like this.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh lord... Well, CBS's loss is the #FNYT 's gain, I guess.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🧵🧵🧵
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you see this, quote with a pic of you in glasses. Okay, it's "this elderly man in his 4̶0̶s̶ 5̶0̶s̶ 6̶0̶s̶ 70s…" wondering how THAT happened.
A headshot of an old man in glasses, looking blankly into the camera.
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The Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog @joesdog.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#ProfessionalJournalism™ The Public Editor (ombudsman) at the #FNYT said editors didn't fact-check Brooks and weren't allowed to correct his errors, as best I recall (this was probably 25 years ago, ±. 'Course, they don't even HAVE one anymore. More efficient, I suppose…)
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