Jay Schiavone
@jaytingle.bsky.social
CWA member, old guy who lives in a state forest. "Love me, I'm a liberal."
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It’s been clear for many hours now that Trump isn’t and won’t be “running” Venezuela. But because he said it, the elite media headlines it anyway.
How long before Trump aides start walking this back?
Don’t print lies in the newspaper
January 4, 2026 at 3:34 AM
It’s been clear for many hours now that Trump isn’t and won’t be “running” Venezuela. But because he said it, the elite media headlines it anyway.
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the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
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What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
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If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
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I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
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Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
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Trump in 2017: “we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands, or try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days are now over.” trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
Remarks by President Trump on the Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia – The White House
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Trump in 2017: “we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands, or try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days are now over.” trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-st...
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Trump openly says the US is now running Venezuela and we will be sending the US oil companies in to take the oil. Not even a hint of subtlety. Trump just ordered regime change to steal the oil for his oil oligarchs. Period!
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Trump openly says the US is now running Venezuela and we will be sending the US oil companies in to take the oil. Not even a hint of subtlety. Trump just ordered regime change to steal the oil for his oil oligarchs. Period!
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
January 02,1953
January 02,1953
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
January 02,1953
January 02,1953
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Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?
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A former NYT editor explains at length their former paper's devolution into a publisher of anti-trans nonsense. Those of us paranoid back in 2023? We were right. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/o...
On the NYT’s anti-trans bias
Not until early 2023 did I notice a trend in the Paper of Record’s coverage of trans rights. I commented on that January story, replete with passages like the following:
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
A former NYT editor explains at length their former paper's devolution into a publisher of anti-trans nonsense. Those of us paranoid back in 2023? We were right. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/o...
Special New Year’s treat! Time to listen to top journalist @willbunch.bsky.social in discussion with @msignorile.bsky.social RIGHT NOW on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Special New Year’s treat! Time to listen to top journalist @willbunch.bsky.social in discussion with @msignorile.bsky.social RIGHT NOW on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social
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Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
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One of my furthest beliefs is that the next democratic administration needs to hire half a million IRS agents. 70,000 was far too few.
Income tax is corruption is so cool, I hope all the right wingers with clearance just refuse to pay it.
very apolitical military
December 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
One of my furthest beliefs is that the next democratic administration needs to hire half a million IRS agents. 70,000 was far too few.
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
![You've talked about the paper's treatment of the pretty infamous Cass report, especially from your spot at the international desk. What happened in that case?
It wasn't on my radar as much as it ought to have been. I was starting to wind down my time. I left the Times at the end of May of that year. There was an awareness that [Hilary] Cass was coming out with a report. The day before it officially came out, there was a lot of coverage in the BBC and UK media. Cass was already talking about it before its official release.
The day editor's counterparts are in Seoul and London. My counterpart in London — who was actually filling in that day, but did so on a regular basis — assigned a UK reporter to do a story.
That was standard practice, to be clear.
[Chuckling] There’s so many examples of how standard it was. She assigned it to a UK correspondent, who wrote it in the context of UK politics, talked about it being very contentious, talked about the criticisms of its findings. Cass was talking about them herself, this isn't jumping to any conclusions at that point. It really put it in the context of being this very contentious, very political sort of document.
When I saw it, because we're a few hours behind, there were 600, 700 words written. I had a pretty good sense of how the story was going to turn out. But within a few hours the story was to the top New York editors, and I don't know who exactly it was who did that. I assume it was Carolyn or her intermediary. They said ‘oh no, we want the science desk to do that,’ specifically that was Azeen [Ghorayshi], who had been a key reporter in a lot of the other anti-trans coverage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gm2gj4v7isgrlsww3ya7hpy2/bafkreiauimpnoaneahu2xoujps44cnvpgrbuuweyq764hwvswkize3jr7a@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
The New York Times: "Remember when we published unremarkable details from one of Zohran Mamdani's college applications?"
January 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
The New York Times: "Remember when we published unremarkable details from one of Zohran Mamdani's college applications?"
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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The guys trying to “expose” day cares are absolute fuckheads but I’ve seen a lot of “day cares have security because of pedos” comments and yes kind of, but primarily they have security because if 1) parents/relatives without custody trying to kidnap kids and 2) active shooters.
January 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The guys trying to “expose” day cares are absolute fuckheads but I’ve seen a lot of “day cares have security because of pedos” comments and yes kind of, but primarily they have security because if 1) parents/relatives without custody trying to kidnap kids and 2) active shooters.
Right. The majority of citizens should be grateful that he's working against them.
Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution. https://cnn.it/3LsloyF
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Right. The majority of citizens should be grateful that he's working against them.
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January 1, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
January 1, 2026 at 1:28 AM
A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City