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🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

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Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump

In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 09/09/2026

Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026

and also, isn't white supremacy such a profound intellectual error that you should immediately question the basic capacities of anyone who indulges it?

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady Pace

NYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

An elongated sitting bench with Colonel Sanders head in the middle of it, his arms and feet appearing at end end

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

A button that reads: TPUSA. Wives submit, husbands love, children obey, Colossians 3:18-19

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Okay Trav @oktrav.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Wearing a mask is bad the same way that using an electric stove inside your home to avoid breathing carcinogenic combustion byproducts is bad. It’s bad because it’s weak. And weakness is antithetical to their version of masculinity. Real men eat asbestos for dinner with their cigarettes

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Okay Trav @oktrav.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Scenario 1: wapo editorial board: nothing to see here, quiet down babies Scenario 2: wapo editorial board: how dare you plebeian scum question your masters!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/04/2026

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “The Texas gerrymander freak out. What’s happening in Texas is not a threat to democracy.”

Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.”

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/04/2026

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 17/03/2026

These courses are, in addition to being tedious, an assault on the study of history specifically They’re all warmed over 19th-century racism in course form

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 16, 2026:

On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said.

Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It helps to understand the military was the organ by which the wealthy stole our money and the resources from around the world and now it is controlled by criminals who don’t even bother hiding their crimes and are willing to rent it out to the highest bidder without hesitation.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/02/2026

This is what I keep saying: the right base *wants* this. Trump conformed himself to their desires and it turns out what they desire is violent thuggery & racism.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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The Jer Witch Project @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that. Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing.

@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don’t think federal officers should fire flashbang grenades and tear gas canisters into a car that has children in it, causing a baby to stop breathing and sending kids to the hospital. I think that’s bad, not good. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Yet another example of how the New York Times strives for the most neutral language possible--and in doing so presents a skewed picture of reality. "The Party was at odds with the rules of math when it suggested two plus two equals five."

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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota

A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

That he chooses the "me or your lying eyes?" approach, in the full knowledge that there are multiple videos out there, is a striking commentary on the nature of propaganda in the modern information environment.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The failure of our elites to hold Trump accountable for January 6th is as disgraceful as what happened on that awful day. Since 2010, 35 democratic leaders around the world have been criminally convicted. Only Trump went unpunished and unconstrained. Now he threatens democracy at home and abroad.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/01/2026

Keeping the social safety net as small and as punitive as possible helps to ensure that there will always be a steady stream of people for employers like Bezos to exploit--people in such a precarious position that have no choice but to take whatever underpaid, overworked job they can get.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 02/01/2026

I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

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Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

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