Mark Jacob
@markjacob.bsky.social
Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 10 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe! It's free.
“90% of the public are happy to see us,“ says goon squad commander Greg Bovino, who thinks the public is getting teary-eyed from gratitude when it‘s actually from tear gas.
Bovino: "Something else here as far as what happened in that Target store is truly I felt sorry for the public, and the reason for that is by and large 90% of the public are happy to see us. They like to engage with us, talk with us and find out about our missions."
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 AM
“90% of the public are happy to see us,“ says goon squad commander Greg Bovino, who thinks the public is getting teary-eyed from gratitude when it‘s actually from tear gas.
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My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
Trump and his defense secretary — two lawless clowns — committed a war crime by disguising a warplane as a civilian aircraft in the first boat attack.
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Trump and his defense secretary — two lawless clowns — committed a war crime by disguising a warplane as a civilian aircraft in the first boat attack.
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Brilliant piece by @markjacob.bsky.social
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Brilliant piece by @markjacob.bsky.social
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Absolutely essential reading. As usual, @markjacob.bsky.social is spot on.
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Absolutely essential reading. As usual, @markjacob.bsky.social is spot on.
Minutes after Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-IA, claimed in a telephone town hall that "we delivered ... no tax on Social Security," a caller says she's wrong – the tax on Social Security remains. The Republican concedes the point. Too bad the caller didn't ask her why she lied in the first place.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks admits ‘no tax on Social Security’ rhetoric is false
During a telephone town hall held last month, U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) admitted to a constituent that the One Big Beautiful Bill does not fully remove taxes on Social Security.
heartlandsignal.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Minutes after Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-IA, claimed in a telephone town hall that "we delivered ... no tax on Social Security," a caller says she's wrong – the tax on Social Security remains. The Republican concedes the point. Too bad the caller didn't ask her why she lied in the first place.
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Border Patrol tear gassed eight neighborhoods in Chicago, including just before a children’s Halloween party. They’re tear gassing residential streets in Minneapolis now. Follow @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social and @startribune.com journalists for more
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Border Patrol tear gassed eight neighborhoods in Chicago, including just before a children’s Halloween party. They’re tear gassing residential streets in Minneapolis now. Follow @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social and @startribune.com journalists for more
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This is what happens when journalists decide their role is to police some imagined middle zone that exists halfway between the right's and left's arguments.
Katy Tur to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: "Why don't you trust the FBI to do this on their own?"
January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This is what happens when journalists decide their role is to police some imagined middle zone that exists halfway between the right's and left's arguments.
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If you are a worker at a place where ice is staying or patronizing, think of creative ways you can gum up the works:
Take forever to wait on them or bring them their check. Waste every second of their time you can! Make them repeat themselves again because you “didn’t catch that”
Take forever to wait on them or bring them their check. Waste every second of their time you can! Make them repeat themselves again because you “didn’t catch that”
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
If you are a worker at a place where ice is staying or patronizing, think of creative ways you can gum up the works:
Take forever to wait on them or bring them their check. Waste every second of their time you can! Make them repeat themselves again because you “didn’t catch that”
Take forever to wait on them or bring them their check. Waste every second of their time you can! Make them repeat themselves again because you “didn’t catch that”
Good point, Doug. Our wind turbines are vulnerable to foreign attack, and fossil fuels are 100% safe. Because in the whole history of warfare, no one has ever bombed oil facilities.
Burgum on the national security "risk" of offshore wind energy: "If you wanted to launch an attack on our population centers, the way you would do it is you'd come through one of these large offshore -- we could have an enemy swam drone attack into a place like the Northeast before we even knew it."
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Good point, Doug. Our wind turbines are vulnerable to foreign attack, and fossil fuels are 100% safe. Because in the whole history of warfare, no one has ever bombed oil facilities.
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In the age of Trump, journalists are failing to push back against disinformation. @markjacob.bsky.social highlights 10 ways news outlets can counteract the twisted reality being pushed by others and become radically truthful in this week's Stop the Presses.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
In the age of Trump, journalists are failing to push back against disinformation. @markjacob.bsky.social highlights 10 ways news outlets can counteract the twisted reality being pushed by others and become radically truthful in this week's Stop the Presses.
We need a War Powers Act that will prevent the Trump regime from making war on Minnesota.
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
We need a War Powers Act that will prevent the Trump regime from making war on Minnesota.
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It takes some real commitment to being a piece of shit to turn out like this. You have to stab your better angels like 12 different times to hold the line like this.
for the second time today, Leavitt calls Renee Good "a lunatic" and then she storms away from reporters
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It takes some real commitment to being a piece of shit to turn out like this. You have to stab your better angels like 12 different times to hold the line like this.
Looks like Trump isn't satisfied to peacefully celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and instead wants to re-create the conditions that led to it.
Minneapolis right now—
At 35th and Park, a crowd has gathered after a car crash involving the feds. Agents just launched tear gas and pepper balls at people.
At 35th and Park, a crowd has gathered after a car crash involving the feds. Agents just launched tear gas and pepper balls at people.
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Looks like Trump isn't satisfied to peacefully celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and instead wants to re-create the conditions that led to it.
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National public media has nothing to lose now by adopting this. Defunded, maligned, targeted - what if it took the pledge (no pun intended) to kick access journalism to the curb and serve the people loudly and honestly, in this unprecedented time of national crisis?
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
National public media has nothing to lose now by adopting this. Defunded, maligned, targeted - what if it took the pledge (no pun intended) to kick access journalism to the curb and serve the people loudly and honestly, in this unprecedented time of national crisis?
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Former DOJ attorney Liz Oyer explains the law clearly:
Federal officers are not above the law.
Civil rights violations fall under Section 242—and immunity is limited, fact-based, and decided by judges, not politicians.
Blocking investigations undermines justice.
#RuleOfLaw #Accountability
Federal officers are not above the law.
Civil rights violations fall under Section 242—and immunity is limited, fact-based, and decided by judges, not politicians.
Blocking investigations undermines justice.
#RuleOfLaw #Accountability
January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Former DOJ attorney Liz Oyer explains the law clearly:
Federal officers are not above the law.
Civil rights violations fall under Section 242—and immunity is limited, fact-based, and decided by judges, not politicians.
Blocking investigations undermines justice.
#RuleOfLaw #Accountability
Federal officers are not above the law.
Civil rights violations fall under Section 242—and immunity is limited, fact-based, and decided by judges, not politicians.
Blocking investigations undermines justice.
#RuleOfLaw #Accountability
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
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You can just say "a blatant abuse of power" rather than casting this as some abstract political game. It's really OK to speak plainly about what's happening, Paper of Record. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
The Justice Department’s decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight
The Justice Department’s decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 4:36 PM
You can just say "a blatant abuse of power" rather than casting this as some abstract political game. It's really OK to speak plainly about what's happening, Paper of Record. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
Tricia McLaughlin must think she's doing quite well in her career. So did Goebbels.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claims the officer who killed Renee Good "followed his training. He was in fear for his life. He was in fear for the law enforcement officers around his lives. And that's when he followed his training and this situation turned deadly."
January 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Tricia McLaughlin must think she's doing quite well in her career. So did Goebbels.
Republican Rep. Pete Sessions wants to ban people from honking their horns.
Rep. Pete Sessions: "This protesting that goes on -- honking of horns, obstructing federal law enforcement -- should not be tolerated ... I stand completely with the administration on this effort."
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Republican Rep. Pete Sessions wants to ban people from honking their horns.
For more than 3 weeks now, the Trump regime has been in violation of the law to release the Epstein files. Trump is covering up child rape.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
For more than 3 weeks now, the Trump regime has been in violation of the law to release the Epstein files. Trump is covering up child rape.
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Venezuela. Minneapolis. The J6 whitewash. And (after I wrote this) Jerome Powell
It's all the same story: Trump's now-public belief that nothing can stop him beyond his own 'mind' and 'morality'
But he can be stopped, by actual morality. Ours
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
It's all the same story: Trump's now-public belief that nothing can stop him beyond his own 'mind' and 'morality'
But he can be stopped, by actual morality. Ours
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch
After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.
www.inquirer.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Venezuela. Minneapolis. The J6 whitewash. And (after I wrote this) Jerome Powell
It's all the same story: Trump's now-public belief that nothing can stop him beyond his own 'mind' and 'morality'
But he can be stopped, by actual morality. Ours
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
It's all the same story: Trump's now-public belief that nothing can stop him beyond his own 'mind' and 'morality'
But he can be stopped, by actual morality. Ours
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
One of MAGA's most morally vacant behaviors is what I call the Rittenhouse Response. When one of their own is clearly reckless and even criminal, they rush to their defense and award hero status. It happened with Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha in 2020. It's happening again with ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
January 12, 2026 at 2:08 PM
One of MAGA's most morally vacant behaviors is what I call the Rittenhouse Response. When one of their own is clearly reckless and even criminal, they rush to their defense and award hero status. It happened with Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha in 2020. It's happening again with ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
One of the things I appreciate most about Margaret Sullivan's writing is that she highlights positive examples amid the over-all failure of the news media in this time of crisis. @sulliview.bsky.social
We need hard truths and tough reporting, not 'both-sides-equal' trash
The CBS anchor again embarrasses the network’s legacy. Plus: some examples of journalists who are doing it right
margaretsullivan.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
One of the things I appreciate most about Margaret Sullivan's writing is that she highlights positive examples amid the over-all failure of the news media in this time of crisis. @sulliview.bsky.social
With no self-awareness, Trump says of Iran's leaders: "They rule through violence."
January 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
With no self-awareness, Trump says of Iran's leaders: "They rule through violence."