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Because the @nytimes.com no longer has editors in the former sense of the word. The news/politics “editors” there couldn’t pass freshman Journalism 101.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Because the @nytimes.com no longer has editors in the former sense of the word. The news/politics “editors” there couldn’t pass freshman Journalism 101.
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Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.
Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Margaret Sullivan discusses the abysmal ethics of NYT's Epstein coverage, including the paper's radio silence following disclosure of the fact that its lead Epstein correspondent was seeking money from Epstein. The corruption goes far in explaining NYT's editorially deranged Epstein coverage.
And let’s not forget his hideous father, the LA Eyewitness News reporter who was so over-the-top anti-trans he’s featured in The Lady and the Dale. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. They’re both “oddly” obsessed with gay and trans lives….
Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
And let’s not forget his hideous father, the LA Eyewitness News reporter who was so over-the-top anti-trans he’s featured in The Lady and the Dale. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. They’re both “oddly” obsessed with gay and trans lives….
As a @medillschool.bsky.social grad and 25-year former journalist, I’d suggest Northwestern grads immediately unsubscribe from all emails from the university and cancel all giving. They can pay their ransom from somebody else. As a Law Dork paid sub, I’d say this is a great place to redirect some $.
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
As a @medillschool.bsky.social grad and 25-year former journalist, I’d suggest Northwestern grads immediately unsubscribe from all emails from the university and cancel all giving. They can pay their ransom from somebody else. As a Law Dork paid sub, I’d say this is a great place to redirect some $.
This…. And most political reporters are part of a very small club of insiders for whom engagement is #1 on their to-do lists every single day. Journalism is somewhere in the teens or twenties.
Reporters sticking with X because they get so much engagement from Nigerian America First MAGA accounts.
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This…. And most political reporters are part of a very small club of insiders for whom engagement is #1 on their to-do lists every single day. Journalism is somewhere in the teens or twenties.
Looks like Trump is smart enough to realize he’s met his match: a much younger version of him capable of whipping him at his own performative game. And it doesn’t help that, unlike Trump’s new Saudi BFF, this Muslim will wear a suit.
1. lol
2. today's White House meeting with Mamdani is currently scheduled as "closed press," which means it might not be much of a showdown
2. today's White House meeting with Mamdani is currently scheduled as "closed press," which means it might not be much of a showdown
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looks like Trump is smart enough to realize he’s met his match: a much younger version of him capable of whipping him at his own performative game. And it doesn’t help that, unlike Trump’s new Saudi BFF, this Muslim will wear a suit.
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It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
This is a man millions of people think is a genius…. Drug-addicted narcissist? Clearly.
Tax Space Caligula into oblivion.
lmao
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is a man millions of people think is a genius…. Drug-addicted narcissist? Clearly.
God she’s fragile…
Something you see with both the ACA subsidy fight and the SNAP disputes is that concrete safety net arguments are very unifying for Democrats.
No daylight between Bernie and Slotkin, I’m on the same side as all the Bluesky Yglesias haters.
No daylight between Bernie and Slotkin, I’m on the same side as all the Bluesky Yglesias haters.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
God she’s fragile…
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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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Is it possible Trump simply doesn't want the government open, period, and has no intention of trying to open it back up at all?
November 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Is it possible Trump simply doesn't want the government open, period, and has no intention of trying to open it back up at all?
It’s really more than that. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence from 2024 (i.e. POTUS vote vs. initative votes in multiple red states) that issues are NOT what drives a large plurality or even majority of voters in executive races. It is something else. 1/x
i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It’s really more than that. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence from 2024 (i.e. POTUS vote vs. initative votes in multiple red states) that issues are NOT what drives a large plurality or even majority of voters in executive races. It is something else. 1/x
Is there really movement in the polls? We shall see at midnight.
Coming at midnight...
Election Day is less than a week away and we have brand new numbers of the NYC race for Mayor. Has anything changed? Check in at midnight!
maristpoll.com/latest-polls
Election Day is less than a week away and we have brand new numbers of the NYC race for Mayor. Has anything changed? Check in at midnight!
maristpoll.com/latest-polls
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Is there really movement in the polls? We shall see at midnight.
One thing conservatives (and now some liberals) hate about @nytimes.com is how superior the publisher and editorial board believes themselves to be. Here’s a great example of their puffery around a long-held pre-conceived notion (moderation is key). 1/2
The New York Times is wrong about the electoral value of moderation | Weekly roundup for October 26, 2025
The paper's arguments hinge on several methodological flaws, and it dismisses valid empirical alternatives. Plus: Gerrymandering, and the Republicans' lost lead on economics
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
One thing conservatives (and now some liberals) hate about @nytimes.com is how superior the publisher and editorial board believes themselves to be. Here’s a great example of their puffery around a long-held pre-conceived notion (moderation is key). 1/2
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I am dead.
Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I am dead.
Which is admittedly a VERY low bar these days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Which is admittedly a VERY low bar these days.
So true. Commercial journalism is dead. Not all elite money’s fault. Info sources have fragmented into a million self-serve pieces. The only ones practicing the craft work for themselves or small reader-supported outlets. The @nytimes.com is irrevocably broken like the rest of trad media. Moving on.
There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!
But media elites find that boring.
But media elites find that boring.
It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So true. Commercial journalism is dead. Not all elite money’s fault. Info sources have fragmented into a million self-serve pieces. The only ones practicing the craft work for themselves or small reader-supported outlets. The @nytimes.com is irrevocably broken like the rest of trad media. Moving on.
Awesome! Solidarity. It’s not just for post-Soviet countries any more.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Awesome! Solidarity. It’s not just for post-Soviet countries any more.
Not that facts ever concern someone like Greg Abbott but they ought to be repeated as often as possible. Cults do eventually end and this is one way to chip away at them.
Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Not that facts ever concern someone like Greg Abbott but they ought to be repeated as often as possible. Cults do eventually end and this is one way to chip away at them.
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Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
Lying while data-ing…or, if you play with charts enough, you can make them say anything. You don’t need to have a math degree to see how terrible this chart is. But thanks for giving me a new example of horrible charts for my students.
Actual Democratic Party primary voters are mostly old, mostly don't have college degrees, and are not very online.
www.slowboring.com/p/tuesday-di...
www.slowboring.com/p/tuesday-di...
October 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Lying while data-ing…or, if you play with charts enough, you can make them say anything. You don’t need to have a math degree to see how terrible this chart is. But thanks for giving me a new example of horrible charts for my students.
I’m not a huge boycotter but really…f*ck ALL of these comedians. Never again for any of them. Dave NAILS this. officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...
My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival
I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...
officialdavidcross.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I’m not a huge boycotter but really…f*ck ALL of these comedians. Never again for any of them. Dave NAILS this. officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...