EquallyConfused
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HS sci teacher in CA Bay Area.
politics, mostly replies,
attempts at humor.
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Every time you share a bad take from an overpaid legacy media buffoon you must then share a link from your favorite independent news outlet. As penance
How do I pin this.
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It’s like the idea that prisons exist primarily to enrich rich people, when you know America would find a way to keep those jails full even if running at a loss
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It’s like the idea that prisons exist primarily to enrich rich people, when you know America would find a way to keep those jails full even if running at a loss
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I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort
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NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
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NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
(While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12)
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans!
Be right back building a “real Oreos” “fake Oreos” vs “with real Oreo bits” “with fake Oreo bits” matrix
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Be right back building a “real Oreos” “fake Oreos” vs “with real Oreo bits” “with fake Oreo bits” matrix
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the key problem here is that the threshold for "publishable info" is a moving target and it moves to Trump's benefit
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
the key problem here is that the threshold for "publishable info" is a moving target and it moves to Trump's benefit
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What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.
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People who are non-white and non-male must be subject to particular scrutiny because their rise questions, implicitly, the legitimacy of the dominance of white men in the first place. Mistakes that would be treated as minor for white men must be amplified into proof of their illegitimacy.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
People who are non-white and non-male must be subject to particular scrutiny because their rise questions, implicitly, the legitimacy of the dominance of white men in the first place. Mistakes that would be treated as minor for white men must be amplified into proof of their illegitimacy.
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Procedural violations (her emails) or personal flaws (Biden’s aging) are understandable in this framework and need to be punished to reassert the legitimacy of the system. “The president is a rapist who participated in a child trafficking network” breaks the whole premise of legitimacy.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Procedural violations (her emails) or personal flaws (Biden’s aging) are understandable in this framework and need to be punished to reassert the legitimacy of the system. “The president is a rapist who participated in a child trafficking network” breaks the whole premise of legitimacy.
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If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
Exactly.
If you want to apply ethics to your decisions of what to saturate coverage with, you don’t create phony criteria like “a partisan-controlled govt body cued us”
And if you don’t wanna apply ethics to choices of depth & breadth, then you are engaged in an unethical enterprise.
If you want to apply ethics to your decisions of what to saturate coverage with, you don’t create phony criteria like “a partisan-controlled govt body cued us”
And if you don’t wanna apply ethics to choices of depth & breadth, then you are engaged in an unethical enterprise.
I actually think this is a fair point and it’s hard to know precisely what you’d publish out of these emails. It’s just maddening in comparison to the NYT’s willingness to absolutely obsess over scurrilous rumors about Biden dementia, Clinton email non-scandals, etc.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Exactly.
If you want to apply ethics to your decisions of what to saturate coverage with, you don’t create phony criteria like “a partisan-controlled govt body cued us”
And if you don’t wanna apply ethics to choices of depth & breadth, then you are engaged in an unethical enterprise.
If you want to apply ethics to your decisions of what to saturate coverage with, you don’t create phony criteria like “a partisan-controlled govt body cued us”
And if you don’t wanna apply ethics to choices of depth & breadth, then you are engaged in an unethical enterprise.
Man. “Forced” is such a cop-out.
Not only do news agencies have 1A guaranteed discretion to choose what to prioritize on “page 1” and follow through with for days-on-end,
they have an ethical obligation to exercise that discretion in the public interest.
Not only do news agencies have 1A guaranteed discretion to choose what to prioritize on “page 1” and follow through with for days-on-end,
they have an ethical obligation to exercise that discretion in the public interest.
Imagine if Biden was the one with deep ties to Epstein. How would the GOP respond? RW social media would start a viral "Pedo Joe" chant trend, it would lead RW media every day and Congressional Republicans wouldn't let it go. Now, legacy media is forced to cover it because there's a new hook daily.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Man. “Forced” is such a cop-out.
Not only do news agencies have 1A guaranteed discretion to choose what to prioritize on “page 1” and follow through with for days-on-end,
they have an ethical obligation to exercise that discretion in the public interest.
Not only do news agencies have 1A guaranteed discretion to choose what to prioritize on “page 1” and follow through with for days-on-end,
they have an ethical obligation to exercise that discretion in the public interest.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
A suspicion of Hillary’s misuse of emails (etc…) drove coverage.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
The Times had a corrupt reporter that it benched and then fired, when it found out he was soliciting Epstein for a donation and otherwise behaving inappropriately with a source.
That seems to be it? Unless more comes out there is a lot of hyperventilating on here that is misplaced.
That seems to be it? Unless more comes out there is a lot of hyperventilating on here that is misplaced.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A suspicion of Hillary’s misuse of emails (etc…) drove coverage.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
A suspicion of Hillary’s misuse of emails (etc…) drove coverage.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
Yeah, see, this is why I'm against progressives getting so far in front of their skis on this. A lot of it could be over-reading the evidence, and we come off sounding like the wild-eyed right-wing QAnon types who were pumping conspiracy theories all of last year.
Amid it's summary of what is known from the new Epstein doc dump so far is the Times on the role of it's former reporter: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A suspicion of Hillary’s misuse of emails (etc…) drove coverage.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
A suspicion of “contagion theory” being gender-affirming care drove coverage.
The NYTimes had more than just suspicion of Epstein-connected pedophilia and de-prioritized it.
*That*’s the corruption. Please don’t straw-man it.
I know that my (too frequent) moments of bitter frustration and numb aloofness in response to the moral depravity of powerful & privileged people is self-wounding.
The, for one, I can contemplate that they are paying and will pay a cost: their greed ignorance & delusion *is* suffering.
The, for one, I can contemplate that they are paying and will pay a cost: their greed ignorance & delusion *is* suffering.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I know that my (too frequent) moments of bitter frustration and numb aloofness in response to the moral depravity of powerful & privileged people is self-wounding.
The, for one, I can contemplate that they are paying and will pay a cost: their greed ignorance & delusion *is* suffering.
The, for one, I can contemplate that they are paying and will pay a cost: their greed ignorance & delusion *is* suffering.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity
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This is the last thing email needs
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is the last thing email needs
maybe the Egyptians just had a very refined fabric culture
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
maybe the Egyptians just had a very refined fabric culture
power is disempowering
no one is more a slave than those who make a pretense of ruling
a divine comedy, the world
no one is more a slave than those who make a pretense of ruling
a divine comedy, the world
If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
power is disempowering
no one is more a slave than those who make a pretense of ruling
a divine comedy, the world
no one is more a slave than those who make a pretense of ruling
a divine comedy, the world
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this is. unforgivable. this is worse than judith miller. bsky.app/profile/data...
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
this is. unforgivable. this is worse than judith miller. bsky.app/profile/data...
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The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
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I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed