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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 19h

Healey. The guy who forced out Krugman.

Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In newspaper writing, more concise is usally better. So "a comment criticized as homophobic" should be "a homophobic comment". Fecking cowardly NYT.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And I believe jurisdiction stripping can be done and undone?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Agreed. There are 13 circuits; the argument for expansion can also rest on the need for more representation for a much larger country. Also, who thinks that pressure will moderate Alito (maybe gone) and Thomas, really Gorsuch and Kavanagh?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is a masterpiece. Also heartening to see how many Dan references erupted in the replies.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I love the Dan and I like the Doobies' good stuff too but there's a *lot* of difference between them.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ah, let's trash and create a rival, rather than improve Wikipedia. Which is easier? (rhetorical question). Splitters!

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How it even a question of whether they are Nazis? I mean, this is ridiculously straightforward, even for Bobo. And isn't he Jewish?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's long past time for Bobo to just shut up.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They (and we, unfortunately) have been responsible for a long time now.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The common clay of the New West.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He's using "callous" language to describe mass annihilation? That's not very nice of him.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is straight reporting, dude.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see you have some newbies here who are unfamiliar with your oeuvre.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait, that wasn't Foghorn Leghorn holding up that panel?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"devolves"? what the actual f*ck???

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm guessing the answer is "no".

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, it's true that the ideas are running into resistance, it's just that the resistance comes from reality.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's another difference, I think, which is that McArgleBargle is stupid.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NYT keeps people like Bretbug and pushes out folks like Krugman. Seriously, do the decision-makers not think that the columnists never have to "mark to market" their writing? Are they that stupid or uncaring? It's all the view from nowhere, played out on average on the oped page?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a very special kind of fraud, the type that costs the fraudster money.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At first I thought that the NYT editors, reporters, and headline writers should be forced to read several Pitchbot pieces every day. Then I realized that would only give them new ideas.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

JFC. NYT has a big article on the evolution of Zuckerberg's fashion style. To quote Pitchbot, "we're all doomed".

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an A++ insight for me: how much stupidity is *chosen*.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump has no idea what this means.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my experience, the ideology of administrators is "get money, save money".

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For he might have been a roosian, a french or turk or proosian, or perhaps an italian... but in spite of all temptations, to belong to other nations, he remains an englishman.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Inquiring minds want to know: Why is Yglesias?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hopefully you are outside the event horizon to hear...

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Go nuts, James. This is beyond appalling.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My dad went to college for one year and then dropped out. But I never felt I didn’t belong in grad school, probably because I didn’t go to an ivy, but mostly because I was completely clueless.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Maybe he can whistle a few bars of "Jazz Odyssey" to entertain the "crowd".

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He taught a course on "Humility" at Yale.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Damn you, I clicked the link... of course I should have known better.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Part 1000 of Jeffries and Schumer not up to - actually not the moment, the emergency...

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That's not why he was canceled...

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You left off Kristen Welker etc.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The answer to this is "yes". JFC.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

true but ick. why? contrast with the orange menace? Desperate search for someone that is easier to sanewash? Secret Rs?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remember that. Breathtaking. And a sharp contrast to the testimony of other Administration officials, to say the least.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also too, even watching MSNOW, I'm gobsmacked with the avoidance of saying the obvious: that Trump is sinking into dementia, he is an even greater danger to the country for that reason, and we are all stuck in a slow-motion disaster than is foreseeable but somehow we cannot prevent.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Can we get you to volunteer as a supereditor of headlines for the NYT? I'm sure they would appreciate your input /s but we would sure as hell would.

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now Trump and his minions have driven out the distinguished secretary of the Smithsonian. Is there anything, anything, that they touch that isn't trashed or destroyed?

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Lee Hartmann @lwhartmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh good. Rudy G, the guy who placed the NYC emergency command center in the World Trade Center, is saying Mamdani should not attend 9/11 memorials in the midst of an anti-muslim screed. And the NYT feels compelled to cover this...

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