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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 22/09/2026

It's amazing the kind of split-brained gymnastics these people must perform to oppose genocidal occupation in Palestine and, in the next breath, call for accepting it in Ukraine. Is genocidal occupation bad or not? Should it be resisted or not? Make up your mind. www.open.online/2026/09/20/f...

Snapshot of Albanese speaking to an audience. Headline: "Open 2026 Festival, Albanese: "I agree with those who think we should stop sending weapons to Kiev" – Video

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 18/09/2026

Just look at this passage. In one breath, Buttigieg says we need to ban gerrymandering. In the next, he observes that we *had* a ban on racial gerrymandering, which the Roberts court simply dismantled. It should give one pause about the power of words on parchment to solve our problems.

Buttigieg: Yeah. So we ought to ban gerrymandering nationally. We ought to ban gerrymandering.

(Applause)

And the last reason to have any hesitation about doing that fell when they gutted the Voting Rights Act in the Callais decision, because there was, up until then, an argument that, Look, because these states are badly gerrymandered anyway, the only way we’re getting minority representation is to protect minority districts. Now the Supreme Court has basically established a de facto right to partisan gerrymandering. We can have a law that changes that, right? The role of money in politics, obviously part of the problem here. These are not things that are completely beyond our power to deal with.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 10/09/2026

Taibbi's definition of "horrible" might be a tad different from that of an immigrant family hiding in their house to evade Trump's secret police, but let's not forget that things are tough for him, too.

On Escaping This Horrible Era
Some people love living in a binary. What about the rest of us?
Matt Taibbi
Sep 10, 2026

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 10/09/2026

BTW, immediately after this passage he proceeds to complain once again about liberal censorship.

For instance, we’ll soon come up on the ten-year anniversary of Peter Beinart’s 2017 “The Anti-anti Trump Right” column in The Atlantic, which defined most anything that isn’t explicit opposition to Trump as “evading the reality” and “opposing the people who oppose Trump.” Under that logic, just about anything could be dismissed as throat-clearing on the way to a refusal to Say The Required Things, about Trump. This half-clever formulation arrived in sync with a large chunk of American academia electing to purge the social sciences of “objective” pursuit of knowledge, or what one Literature professor derided as the act of “intentionally [dissociating] their work from the political and ideological exigencies of the time.”

The good professor’s essay was part of a “State of Scholarship” report formulated and promoted by the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University of St. Louis. Naturally, that report has already been denounced as a “diabolical” attack on academics who are “critical of configurations of power in the Trump years.” Call it anti-anti-Trump academia; even the simple observation that Anna Karenina will probably always be a great book offends someone’s current politics.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 10/09/2026

Taibbi laments how “boring” he finds Trump’s autocratic assault. This is a guy who spent the Biden years hyperventilating about phantom censorship by liberals. But actual, bona fide authoritarianism by the right? It’s just too dull to even think about. www.racket.news/p/on-escapin...

A writer’s most unforgivable sin is being boring, which makes saying anything in this time period tough. Whether you’re reporting or commenting, the game is up once audiences are able to classify according to current political taxonomy. You can publish 50 words or 5000, but what you’re producing for most audiences is a compass heading, showing where you reside on a map in relation to Donald Trump. Maybe you wanted to say something else, but the compass reading is the only thing most people care about, so that’s how the thing will be compressed, summarized, and circulated.

It’s fine if you find talking about Donald Trump interesting, or if it’s important to you that neighbors and family receive an unambiguous signal about where you’d like to place yourself on the TrumpScape. You can put out a strong “against” signal in legacy media – that’s allowed – while almost any other strong statement is interpreted in the other direction.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/09/2026

"Making Bestiality Okay Again." Seriously, if I hear one more pundit complain about the Democratic Party being "out of touch."

The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality.

Today, those acts, which are mostly illegal across the country, are no longer automatic deal breakers for applicants to the nation's top law enforcement agency.

In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel. According to multiple sources briefed on the matter, the FBI did so to facilitate hiring in some cases, even if candidates acknowledged they engaged in sexually deviant activities or stole from an employer.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 31/08/2026

To all you people fulminating over how racist this is, it's not. Here's another CBS News tweet that's totally gonna happen, and soon:

Fake tweet from CBS News: "As the nation prepares to mark 27 years since the Columbine massacre, Tommy Tuberville, the Republican US Senator, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 08/06/2026

"Go to Jurassic Park, they said. The fences are state-of-the-art, they said."

Kash Patel, in a blue suit and silver tie, looking forward with a stunned yet dead-eyed expression on his face.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 06/03/2026

As of right now, oil is up 36% on the week. Trump doesn't have the balls to withstand this.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 09/02/2026

This is a myth. Like any powerholder, a dictator needs the support of other elites to prop up his regime. In this sense, his power is more akin to a temple than a fortress. The Pantheon would not remain upright without its pillars. Topple those pillars and watch it collapse.

Rome's Pantheon at night. The triangular roof is supported by eight massive columns, or pillars, that keep it upright. The structure is lit from the bottom and interior.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 03/08/2025

Get a load of the ADL's "antisemitism training" material that Northwestern University, at the Trump administration's behest, is forcing students to learn. Nice, huh? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The video states that Israel was founded in 1948 “on British land”, and refers to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”, the biblical name controversially used for the region by the Israeli government. The original Jewish homeland comprises parts of modern-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, the video states.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 26/07/2025

Today I learned that Charles Murray, the author of race pseudoscience treatise Mein Kampf (1925) – sorry, my bad, The Bell Curve (1994) – once burned a cross with his buddies. A bit on the nose, if you ask me. 1/2 web.archive.org/web/20190714...

While there is much to admire about the industry and inquisitiveness of Murray's teen-age years, there is at least one adventure that he understandably deletes from the story -- the night he helped his friends burn a cross. They had formed a kind of good guys' gang, "the Mallows," whose very name, from marshmallows, was a play on their own softness. In the fall of 1960, during their senior year, they nailed some scrap wood into a cross, adorned it with fireworks and set it ablaze on a hill beside the police station, with marshmallows scattered as a calling card

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 13/07/2025

“Last year, Ukraine turned a corner of Russia into a battlefield. It is now a place of desolation and death,” says the NYT after going on an official guided tour of Kursk. Lots of civilians killed, we’re told, and who knows who did it, but Russia sure thinks it was Ukr, and who are we to doubt it?

The New York Times previously documented two instances of indiscriminate use of lethal force against Kursk civilians early in the incursion, actions that may amount to war crimes. But reporters were unable to establish who was responsible for those deaths.
One of Russia’s top law enforcement bodies, the Investigative Committee, has accused Ukrainian forces of torturing and killing a civilian in a residential building in Martynovka, and of killing two other residents of the village.
Russian officials and outlets blame Ukraine for other deaths, including in the village where Ms. Lobodova’s mother died. State media has published reports describing harsh treatment of civilians, rarely providing evidence.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/07/2025

Here’s Spencer Ackerman with by far the best take I’ve read on the racist moral panic targeting Zohran Mamdami. zeteo.com/p/my-fellow-...

To put it bluntly, when you have a "feeling" that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you, and you are unable to articulate how that threat is supposed to plausibly manifest, and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – his words, his record, his associations – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 22/06/2025

My latest, on the bullshit war rationales of Israel and the US. open.substack.com/pub/thedetox...

In fact, Trump's military intervention makes it more, not less, likely that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 11/06/2025

As checks on the president go, the legislative and judicial branches are effectively finished. Only two actors will determine the fate of the coming power struggle: (1) Trump, and the brute force he commands, and (2) civil society, which decides his legitimacy. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-daily-...

Trump's authoritarianism will be only as repressive as civil society allows it to be—no more, no less.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 08/06/2025

Trump is similar to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Both combine undeserved self-confidence with myopic impulsivity and reflexively meet any challenge with gratuitous brutality. Thus, when Yanukovych responded to popular demonstrations with unchecked violence in 2013-14, it backfired.🧵

When leaders break the rules with abandon, they lose their legitimacy. This opens the door for other political actors to remove them by any available means, legal or not.

Such brutish impulsivity is what sealed Yanukovych’s fate. After winning election in 2010, he packed the courts, ditched the constitution, and clamped down on the press. His disproportionate and violent attack on a Kyiv protest encampment in November 2013 turned what had been a limited series of demonstrations over his foreign policy into a nationwide revolt against his regime. By the time he fled to Russia in February 2014, a full 8.5 million Ukrainians, or 20 percent of the population, had taken part in the protests to oust him.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 08/06/2025

It’s starting. Trump is overreaching and trying to crush protests with force. It will backfire, making the protests bigger. He will fail. It won’t happen now, but this is the dynamic which could bring down his regime. From December: open.substack.com/pub/thedetox...

When faced with mass protests, Trump will undoubtedly respond with unchecked repression and brutal violence. This will only serve to undercut his legitimacy and mobilize opposition to his rule.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 06/06/2025

I wrote this in February: www.readthedetox.com/p/elon-musk-...

It is only a matter of time before these two imbecilic, impulsive narcissists come to blows. When that happens, Musk will receive a harsh lesson in the reality of competitive authoritarianism. His immense wealth matters little when up against the guy who can wield the Justice Department as his personal bludgeon. In all likelihood, he will become the subject of multiple criminal probes and be chased out of the country. It is a lesson that will not be lost on his fellow moguls.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 06/06/2025

I wrote this back in February. The fact that these two idiots would come to blows was inevitable. It was equally obvious how vulnerable Elon was and how dangerous it would become for him as soon as Trump decided he was done. www.readthedetox.com/p/elon-musk-...

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/06/2025

Just sayin’, but I wrote this in February when everyone was convinced that Elon was the new king of America: [Neil says, patting himself on the back] open.substack.com/pub/thedetox...

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/06/2025

Trump lacks something every leader needs: legitimacy. Without it, he can only maintain power by dispensing rewards and deploying coercion. This leaves him vulnerable, and his opponents can exploit that. My latest: www.readthedetox.com/p/the-daily-...

The emperor has no clothes, and his sagging, crenulated butt is flapping in the breeze. The sooner we recognize this, the sooner we can kick his ass to the curb.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 30/05/2025

Trump is trying to get Democratic lawmakers killed.

What all of this adds up to is a big flashing green light to commit violence against Democratic lawmakers.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 29/05/2025

I wrote the inversion of legality that is evident in Trump's regime. It is, in fact, a pattern inherent to all authoritarian regimes. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-daily-...

His case illustrates a dynamic that lies at the core of Trump's regime. Over and over again, people are being punished for not committing crimes.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 25/05/2025

Oh, I see you *write* for them. Explains a lot.

Headline and opening paragraph from New York Sun article: Why Trump Is Braving Critics To Welcome White South Africans to America

One opponent expresses concern that the administration ‘has chosen to fast-track the admission of Afrikaners, while actively fighting court orders to provide life-saving resettlement to other refugee populations.’
By HOLLIE McKAY | 15 hours ago |politics

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 22/05/2025

Look what you made him do, Will. In all seriousness, though, that is concerning.

Will Stancil
@whstancil quote-tweeting "I’m sorry what" to a tweet by @narrenhut
which states, "The DC Israeli embassy shooter had apparently been previously banned from Twitter for sending death threats to Will Stancil."

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 04/05/2025

My latest: Authoritarianism is here, but most Democrats remain oblivious to the fact. Until they wake up, they are putting the country—and themselves—at risk. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-de...

In the next few years, a mass movement against Trump’s regime is almost certain to emerge. One way or another, it will gain leaders. Whether or not current Democratic incumbents end up receiving those leadership roles is largely up to them.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 29/04/2025

Re: Bezos's cave-in: The entire edifice of Trump's rule depends on other people showing even greater cowardice than he does--because Trump himself, it turns out, evinces quite a lot of it. This carries important implications for how his regime might come to an end. My latest: shorturl.at/jtP4T

Trump’s tendency to fire off the most demented, unhinged opening salvos only to reverse course at the slightest pushback carries important implications. We should not be fooled by the shock and awe he tries to instill and should instead see him for what he is—your typical schoolyard bully who cowers the moment somebody punches back. In this way, the copious amounts of makeup he applies to conceal the pasty, ashen carcass underneath is a metaphor for how he rules—all appearance and no substance.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 25/04/2025

Emily Tamkin on how pro-Israel organizations like the ADL try to monopolize for themselves the right to define which views count as representing the Jewish “majority” and which ones don’t—opinion polls be damned. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The second is that, per this study, when Jewish leaders, like the head of the Anti-Defamation League or the leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, imply or say that these policies have the support of most American Jews, they are saying something that is not true. They may be speaking their own truth, but, if you are an American Jew, odds are better than average that they are not speaking yours.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 19/04/2025

Politicians who shit on trans people—who think that, despite the daily menu of outrages served up by the GOP and which can be used against it, Dems must somehow cheer on the persecution of America’s most vulnerable community to win votes—have no place in the Democratic Party.

And in general, I would say that a good rule of thumb is that if your television one-liners could also be coming out of the mouth of one of brutal white patriarchs masterminding a fascist takeover, you may not be the hero (or the intellect) you imagine yourself to be.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/04/2025

White House Rapid Response: Thousands of trans woke squirrels fraudulently voted in the last election. David Sacks: Seems legit; will retweet.

David Sacks reposted

Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
🚨 Valor CEO and DOGE volunteer Antonio Gracias says that they found 5 million+ non-citizens with Social Security numbers -- and that "thousands" of them were registered to vote and that "many of them had voted."

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/04/2025

Unbelievable douche now having his own “oh shit” moment as the candidate he supported does exactly as promised. (Although in his defense, the choice between "wokeness" vs. the destruction of the global order and American democracy was super tough to make.)

Tweet from @BillAckman, part 1 of 2: The country is 100% behind the president on fixing a global system of tariffs that has disadvantaged the country. But, business is a confidence game and confidence depends on trust.

President @realDonaldTrump
has elevated the tariff issue to the most important geopolitical issue in the world, and he has gotten everyone’s attention. So far, so good.

And yes, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. by protecting their home industries at the expense of millions of our jobs and economic growth in our country.

But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.

The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.

If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.

Tweet from @BillAckman, part 2 of 2: What CEO and what board of directors will be comfortable making large,
long-term, economic commitments in our country in the middle of an economic nuclear war?

I don’t know of one who will do so.

When markets crash, new investment stops, consumers stop spending money, and businesses have no choice but to curtail investment and fire workers.

And it is not just the big companies that will suffer. Small and medium size businesses and entrepreneurs will experience much greater pain. Almost no business can pass through an overnight massive increase in costs to their customers. And that’s true even if they have no debt, and, unfortunately, there is a massive amount of leverage in the system.

Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for.

The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system.

Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down.

May cooler heads prevail.
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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/04/2025

With a number of Jewish organizations suddenly having an “oh shit” moment in the face of Trump’s naked repression, they must reckon with how they, and many others in the Jewish community, helped enable it. This is a good piece. certainthoughts.substack.com/p/we-did-thi...

Those who helped create this monster are uniquely positioned to dismantle it. Those who breathed life into these dangerous falsehoods must now speak truth with equal fervor. What kind of community stands aside and laments the misuse of a weapon they themselves forged and handed over—while refusing to break it apart?

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 30/03/2025

My latest: The United States, for the first time in its history, is an authoritarian regime. This changes everything in terms of the methods and actors required to remove a president. www.readthedetox.com/p/authoritar....

In reality, Trump’s assault on democracy is proceeding far more rapidly than in other competitive authoritarian regimes. This makes it all the more important to align our conceptual frame with the evolving landscape.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 24/03/2025

Now expanded and in post form: www.readthedetox.com/p/grayzone-r...

The Grayzone News is notorious for its refusal to disclose its own major donors. But fear not; Reed, its editor, will not tolerate such behavior from other organizations.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/03/2025

Here’s the thing: Many Western outlets do receive public funding. But political interference in their content is extremely rare. Otherwise, we would hear about it. People would resign. Scandals would ensue. Kind of like what’s happening *right now* under Trump:

google search results:

The Independent
Washington Post staffers outraged at Jeff Bezos’ stunning plan for opinion pages that prompted top editor to quit
'I have a feeling this isn't gonna bring back the 250k subs,' one Post reporter wrote in the paper's Slack channel on Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago
NPR
A top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.
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2 weeks ago
Axios
WashPost opinion editor resigns after Jeff Bezos announces changes to Opinion section
The Washington Post's Opinion Section editor David Shipley resigned after owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section prioritize two topics, personal liberties...
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The New Yorker
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where Ruth Marcus worked for forty years. After the publisher killed her column...
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google search results:

NPR
https://www.npr.org › 2024/10/24 › la-times-editor-resi...
Oct 24, 2024 — The editorials editor of the LA Times resigned after the newspaper's owner blocked the editorial board's plans to endorse Vice President ...
Two more LA Times editorial board members resign after ...
AP News
https://apnews.com › article › los-angeles-times-editors-...
Oct 25, 2024 — Veteran journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein announced their resignations Thursday, a day after the editorial page editor Mariel Garza left in protest.
Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner ...
Columbia Journalism Review
https://www.cjr.org › business_of_news › los-angeles-ti...
Oct 23, 2024 — On October 11, Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the newspaper for $500 million in 2018, informed the paper's editorial board that the Times would ...
LA Times Editor Resigns After Leadership Dismisses HR ...
TheWrap
https://www.thewrap.com › la-times-de-los-editor-palo...
Feb 28, 2025 — L.A. Times editor Paloma Esquivel resigned Friday, citing leadership's failure to address HR complaints against its managing editor.
Two more Los Angeles Times editorial board members ...
CNN
https://www.cnn.com › 2024/10/25 › media › los-angel...
Oct 25, 2024 — Two more members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board resigned Thursday after the newspaper's owner blocked an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

google search results: France 24
Trump mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence
US President Donald Trump last week cut funding for international public radio stations Voice of America and Radio Free Europe,...
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ
Trump cuts threaten reporters with return to repressive regimes
Reporters for Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America grapple with the threat of returning to repressive...
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ABC News
Trump silencing VOA threatens free media in repressive countries, advocates say
Trump's order to cut funding to Voice of America and several other pro-democracy media outlets has drawn widespread criticism from press...
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The Moscow Times
‘Today We Celebrate’: Kremlin and Russian Propaganda Rejoice as Trump Guts RFE/RL, VOA
Moscow is elated by President Donald Trump's moves to gut U.S.-funded media outlets Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America,...
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TheFix Media
Trump’s onslaught on VOA and RFE/RL leaves Eastern European media fearing a freefall

‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say
By Brian Stelter, CNN
4 minute read
Published 8:43 AM EST, Tue November 19, 2024

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/03/2025

What’s more, Maté’s employer, The Grayzone News, notoriously refuses to disclose its major donors.

Quote tweet of me by Grayzone editor Wyatt Reed: Love the new tough-guy persona Neil. So fierce! Thanks for acknowledging you lied and that I never worked for any state-backed outlet while at Grayzone

To answer: We don’t name our individual donors as they generally don’t want unemployed neocon freaks like you stalking them too
1:51 PM · Mar 23, 2025

Reply to Reed by me: Yeah, which should disqualify them as donors. But not to you guys, I guess.
3:03 PM · Mar 23, 2025

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/03/2025

This isn’t particularly surprising given that other Grayzone contributors such as @KitKlarenberg and @MElmaazi used to work for Sputnik, a Kremlin-run propaganda rag—as did Reed himself.

screenshot of Sputnik website listing Kit Klarenberg as a “Sputnik correspondent” and referencing 100 articles he wrote for the publication.

screenshot of Sputnik website listing Mohamed Elmaazi as a as a Sputnik journalist and referencing 308 articles he wrote for the publication.

screenshot of Sputnik website listing Wyatt Reed as a as a Sputnik journalist and referencing 410 articles he wrote for the publication.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/03/2025

Hacked emails show that @wyattreed13, “managing editor” of The Grayzone News (whatever the hell that means), accepted monthly payments from PressTV, an Iranian state-run outlet known for hosting forced-confessions of dissidents right before their executions. www.opendemocracy.net/en/opensecur...

Other victims of forced confessions broadcasted on Press TV have not been as privileged. The pictures and forced confessions of Hashem Shabani, a poet and high school teacher, and Hadi Rashedi, a school headmaster, were broadcast in December 2011 prior to their trial, before they were executed and buried secretly in January 2014.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 23/03/2025

Aaron Maté wants you to know he’s *very* concerned about journalists who work for state-funded outlets… Unless, of course, that someone is his own editor, who gets paid by Iran. In fact, Maté and his ilk are far more compromised than those they attack. Let’s take a look 🧵 x.com/aaronjmate/s...

Aaron Maté quote-tweeting journalist Idrees Ahmad of New Lines Magazine of being "Pentagon-tied" for accepting public funding. March 22, 2025.

Email dated February 21st, 2021 from Wyatt Reed to pressTV: “I’m writing to request that you please direct my payment through Gamal Hassenein. Please let me know if I need to pass along further information. Thanks, Wyatt Reed.”

Email dated April 10th, 2021 from pressTV to wyatt reed with subject line: “Re: Wyatt Reed pay.” “Dear Wyatt…would you possibly confirm that you’re fine with receiving your salary through Gamal? Please keep me and my manager copied in your reconfirmation letter.” Email also discusses how they are going to work around U.S. sanctions on the Iranian regime and references Reed’s “February and March invoices.”

Email dated June 9th 2021 from Wyatt Reed to pressTV listing his bank account number and routine number and asking to “not send the payment for others to my account.”

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 12/03/2025

One of many examples underscoring how much of America’s system of rights and protections rests on the expectation that power-holders will refrain from abusing their authority. The thing about norms is that they fly out the window as soon as you get a president who doesn’t give a shit.

As of Tuesday, Khalil had not been charged with any crime. However, two people with knowledge of the matter told the New York Times that the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, was relying on a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 that gives him broad power to expel foreigners if they give him “reasonable ground to believe” their presence in the US has “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences”. Zeteo also reported that Rubio himself “personally signed off on the arrest”.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 09/03/2025

The ideology of the tech-douchebros running the U.S. govt is Leninist at its core: “Transformative change is inevitable, but we, the revolutionary vanguard, must speed it up.” This imperative—of speeding it up—justified Stalinism’s bloodiest excesses. The tech douchebros would do the same.

This deterministic framing also explains why so many libertarians found themselves drifting toward reactionary politics. If democracy is doomed, then why bother defending it? If technology is going to replace governance, then why not accelerate the process?

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/03/2025

For instance, here’s a daily chart of Solana, one of the coins to be included in the “reserve.” You can see the green spike (about a 25% increase) the day of the announcement. The day after, it sold off heavily (red bar). Douchebros were already out by then.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 22/02/2025

This was over on Substack but, yeah, you might be onto something.

My initial comment: Trans rights—to free expression, citizenship, and basic dignity—are a bellwether for the rights of us all. What Jews were to the Nazis and “kulaks” were under Stalinism, trans people are under Trump. Once they start getting rounded up and put into camps, it won’t be long for the rest of us.

The reply: At least you offered to defend them to keep that from happening and to keep all minorities and peoples from falling… or did you come here to State a fact without it affecting you at fucking all???

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 17/02/2025

Uh, no, it is not. In fact, it is entirely unaffected without that premise. Whether the opposition is forced underground (full authoritarianism) or elections, however rigged, still take place (competitive authoritarianism), ousting Trump will still require mass mobilization by civil society.

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Your entire argument falls apart without that premise, and the facts already stand heavily against it.

Watch the Vigilante Inc. Documentary as well as Greg Palast's follow up work since the elections.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 11/02/2025

Parker Molloy on the NYT editorial condemning Trump’s attacks on trans people—attacks enabled by the NYT’s own efforts to manufacture “debate” on the topic. shorturl.at/7vovK

The editorial board writes that what "shouldn't be debated is whether the government should target a group of Americans to be stripped of their freedom and dignity." But that's exactly what the Times has been doing: treating trans people's right to exist as a topic for debate rather than a fundamental human right.

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/02/2025

To the single-issue Palestine voters who refused to vote for Biden because they thought things couldn’t possibly get worse with Trump—lo and behold, it is now, predictably, about to get worse: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Israel Drafts Plans to Allow Gazans Passage Via Ports, Borders

Airport and seaport are options in military’s draft proposal
It’s unclear if Trump’s idea will get backing to proceed

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 05/02/2025

"And another thing: I'm definitely not gay either, notwithstanding my weirdly specific comment about Jews turning Germans into gays."

UFC fighter says he’s ‘definitely not a Nazi’ after comments spark criticism
by Filip Timotija - 02/04/25 10:52 AM ET

“I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I’d go fishing with. He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays,” Mitchell said during the podcast.

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