Oliver Colander
@olivercolander.bsky.social
Critical to remember throughout that there are no heroes in this story.
Part of the trashy soap operatic quality to this whole <mugs for camera> affair is that Ryan Lizza resists sympathy and comes across as a journalistic suitcase pimp, which explains why he's mentioning this now instead of during the campaign or confirmation hearings.
Lizza also talks about Nuzzi going even deeper into ethics violations by doing catch-and-kill on stories about RFK and writing campaign strategy memos
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Critical to remember throughout that there are no heroes in this story.
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
The guy that hit his girlfriend would have to hope this, wouldn’t he?
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The guy that hit his girlfriend would have to hope this, wouldn’t he?
Good luck with this shit.
Reuters:
U.S. PROPOSALS TO END WAR INCLUDE UKRAINE GIVING UP TERRITORY AND SOME WEAPONS, REDUCING SIZE OF ARMED FORCES, AMONG MANY OTHER POINTS – TWO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER // U.S. HAS SIGNALLED TO ZELENSKIY THAT UKRAINE MUST ACCEPT FRAMEWORK AND ITS MAIN POINTS, THE SOURCES SAY
U.S. PROPOSALS TO END WAR INCLUDE UKRAINE GIVING UP TERRITORY AND SOME WEAPONS, REDUCING SIZE OF ARMED FORCES, AMONG MANY OTHER POINTS – TWO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER // U.S. HAS SIGNALLED TO ZELENSKIY THAT UKRAINE MUST ACCEPT FRAMEWORK AND ITS MAIN POINTS, THE SOURCES SAY
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Good luck with this shit.
“Sure, they released *some* of the files, but can anyone really trust Pam Bondi’s Justice Department?” can do a lot of heavy lifting in the absence of an adequate gotcha moment.
lot of people on this app seem really committed to the notion that nothing damaging will come out of the Epstein files.
let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“Sure, they released *some* of the files, but can anyone really trust Pam Bondi’s Justice Department?” can do a lot of heavy lifting in the absence of an adequate gotcha moment.
“When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say it’s wrecking the country. It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“When are we gonna stop indulging this? Without undue sanctimony, I think one can say it’s wrecking the country. It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap.”
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Every day I have to hear about some asshole
February 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Every day I have to hear about some asshole
There’s a whole Shyamalanian trail of breadcrumbs out there just waiting for us, huh?
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
There’s a whole Shyamalanian trail of breadcrumbs out there just waiting for us, huh?
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Volunteer to pilot this social project, please.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Volunteer to pilot this social project, please.
Looking vivacious as hell, Sir
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Looking vivacious as hell, Sir
Cranky after dark? Hm.
Trump: Will you let me finish? You are the worst. You’re with Bloomberg right? You are the worst. I don’t know why they even have you.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Cranky after dark? Hm.
That’s good shit right there.
I got banned once for saying Lord Byron, who is dead, should die again
I was okay with it. I hate that guy
I was okay with it. I hate that guy
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
That’s good shit right there.
Come on, man.
"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Come on, man.
77M people voted for a fascist last year. Who gives a shit about community?
I'm going to die on the hill that Utah's redistricting outcome is actually bad for democracy.
We don't have a single competitive congressional district which means parties can retreat to polarizing treatment of each other rather than build roots in communities in order to win close races.
We don't have a single competitive congressional district which means parties can retreat to polarizing treatment of each other rather than build roots in communities in order to win close races.
For decades, any Utah Democrat who wanted to go to Congress had to campaign as a moderate or conservative. Now that the state has a solidly blue congressional seat, though, running as a progressive is suddenly an effective strategy.
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
77M people voted for a fascist last year. Who gives a shit about community?
Medically unfit to be a sitting Senator. It’s not mean to say it, it’s irresponsible if you don’t.
John Fetterman was taken to the hospital after suffering from a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and falling near his home
John Fetterman Hospitalized After Fall
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Medically unfit to be a sitting Senator. It’s not mean to say it, it’s irresponsible if you don’t.
Today is a good day to cancel your subscription to the New York Times.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today is a good day to cancel your subscription to the New York Times.
He wasn’t polling at 36%, had a functional and comparably competent Congress at his disposal, and wasn’t actively fucking up people’s lives with Gestapo and tariffs on a daily basis. In short: things are different now than they were then.
What exactly are emails supposed to do that the 10+ years of other media documentation has not done? This guy planned, staged, and attempted a coup against the American republic and people reelected him. The Republicans had a known pedophile as Speaker when I was younger and it had no impact on them
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
He wasn’t polling at 36%, had a functional and comparably competent Congress at his disposal, and wasn’t actively fucking up people’s lives with Gestapo and tariffs on a daily basis. In short: things are different now than they were then.
The only logical follow up to “None of this matters, he’s already won” is to crawl into a hole and die. Otherwise, you’re just posting that for attention.
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The only logical follow up to “None of this matters, he’s already won” is to crawl into a hole and die. Otherwise, you’re just posting that for attention.
Self-censoring fact.
I think it’s so egregious to have a US president raping kids that they’re scared to touch it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Self-censoring fact.
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Washington and his generals during the American Revolution
Zero H-1Bs present
Zero H-1Bs present
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Washington and his generals during the American Revolution
Zero H-1Bs present
Zero H-1Bs present
We have an advantage in the U.S. inasmuch as our underminers are deadset on presenting themselves as unapologetic enemies of the public good in a way that should theoretically make their (very necessary) punishment more palatable to normal people. Nuremberg is the moderate approach.
The political forces that exploit lack of trust in institutions work to undermine institutions, further reducing trust in institutions, which they exploit for more power.
Much of the public blames the institutions, the govt, the elites in general, not the underminers specifically.
Tough problem.
Much of the public blames the institutions, the govt, the elites in general, not the underminers specifically.
Tough problem.
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We have an advantage in the U.S. inasmuch as our underminers are deadset on presenting themselves as unapologetic enemies of the public good in a way that should theoretically make their (very necessary) punishment more palatable to normal people. Nuremberg is the moderate approach.
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this specific schumer shit might not be remembered in detail but schumer will not stop being schumer, right up until midterms.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
this specific schumer shit might not be remembered in detail but schumer will not stop being schumer, right up until midterms.