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knanji.bsky.social
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social going international
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
knanji.bsky.social
It’s amazing that the paper which won the case which defines our defamation laws ran with this headline.
evansutton.bsky.social Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · Sep 18
Pour one out for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Satire is dead in a world where the real "reporting" looks like this
Screenshot from the cowardly clowns at the nyt. Headline and sub read Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show illuminates the administration’s efficacy so far.
September 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
knanji.bsky.social
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social I think this one was done up just for you.
September 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
knanji.bsky.social
The number of old guard dems who threw their weight behind a serial sexual harasser is amazing. Pro tip, if Laura Loomer is endorsing the same candidate you are, you need to examine your life choices.
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
knanji.bsky.social
It’s going to be really outstanding to watch the kids of the parents who fell for “there are WMDS!!!” the first time, fall for it themselves this time.
June 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
knanji.bsky.social
Throwback Thursday
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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sethdmichaels.bsky.social
this is fucking appalling, Kennedy is verifiably a crackpot whose beliefs are deadly and whose only interest in science is screaming about the legit science that doesn’t flatter his beliefs and touting pseudoscience that does
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 28
I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise Citing evidence, ignoring appeals to authority, reserving judgment, demanding more research—these are potentially exhausting traits in a conversational partner, but they’re also marks of a scientific mind. Rather than being “anti-science,” Kennedy seems enchanted by it. His accusatory book “The Real Anthony Fauci” (2021) is packed with discussions of clinical studies, and it bears a blurb from a Nobel-winning virologist. (Anyone worried about the lack of public appetite for complex writing should contemplate the fact that this nearly five-hundred-page, data-drenched work of nonfiction has sold more than a million copies.) Kennedy has published two books with the subtitle “Let the Science Speak.”
May 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era
May 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
knanji.bsky.social
@wajali.bsky.social where you at?
March 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
knanji.bsky.social
Meet the new Jim Crow, same as the old Jim Crow

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.”

My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts.

Sorry, but it has to be said:
What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
knanji.bsky.social
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/her...

As ever, McSweeney’s nails it.
Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit.

The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.
February 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
knanji.bsky.social
Meet the new Jim Crow, same as the old Jim Crow.
February 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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fpwellman.bsky.social
These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.
February 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM