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DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
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This piece I wrote for @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary seems relevant
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/tradi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/tradi...
Traditional Media Never Took the Christian Right Seriously
Back in the early 2000s, when we were outraged by the excesses...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This piece I wrote for @talkingpointsmemo.com's 25th anniversary seems relevant
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/tradi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/tradi...
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Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something
Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says
Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit
You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em
Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says
Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit
You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Belatedly, this line from Weiss' memo is...something
Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says
Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit
You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em
Let's get someone who says banishing to CECOT was legit, she says
Here's the thing: There's a consensus among legal experts that *wasn't* legit
You can find someone who says moon is made outta Fluffernutter. Doesn't mean you should quote 'em
old enough to remember SCOTUS throwing out the ACA Medicaid expansion as too coercive to states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
old enough to remember SCOTUS throwing out the ACA Medicaid expansion as too coercive to states
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The Access Hollywood tape should have been a political career ender. We’re not really getting new information, just more evidence.
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Access Hollywood tape should have been a political career ender. We’re not really getting new information, just more evidence.
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The Party of National Security in 2 headlines
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Party of National Security in 2 headlines
looking glumly through the portal into the parallel universe where early reality TV made slightly different decisions and Donald Trump is best remembered as the meanest judge on a couple of poorly-received seasons of American Idol
“…I am hosting the event. Tell me what you think of my ‘Master of Ceremony’ abilities. If really good, would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make ‘hosting’ a full time job?”
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
looking glumly through the portal into the parallel universe where early reality TV made slightly different decisions and Donald Trump is best remembered as the meanest judge on a couple of poorly-received seasons of American Idol
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love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
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So, first, I must say: We're in the final push of our year-end drive at @boltsmag.org!
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
December 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
So, first, I must say: We're in the final push of our year-end drive at @boltsmag.org!
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
Consider supporting us: or become a monthly member even! Really, any level you choose helps us build the bedrock of support we can then rely on.
Easy: boltsmag.org/donate
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He's an absolute child who is just pissing away billions of dollars after he zeroed out foreign aid, cut cancer research, and ripped health care away from 12 million people.
December 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
He's an absolute child who is just pissing away billions of dollars after he zeroed out foreign aid, cut cancer research, and ripped health care away from 12 million people.
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ah i see trump has asked someone what "that huge island" is, again. just keep him away from maps for a couple days he'll forget about it
December 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
ah i see trump has asked someone what "that huge island" is, again. just keep him away from maps for a couple days he'll forget about it
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Spakovsky figured it out? Spakovsky?
a man and a woman standing next to each other with the words this is a real low point written below them
ALT: a man and a woman standing next to each other with the words this is a real low point written below them
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Spakovsky figured it out? Spakovsky?
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He's not resigning. All joking aside he's going to be like Jared, someone who operates outside formal legal lines of authority and is governed by personal loyalty to Trump.
December 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
He's not resigning. All joking aside he's going to be like Jared, someone who operates outside formal legal lines of authority and is governed by personal loyalty to Trump.
yikes
nominally holding a bunch of jobs at once is common across the admin, like Vought and Rubio
nominally holding a bunch of jobs at once is common across the admin, like Vought and Rubio
The latter
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
yikes
nominally holding a bunch of jobs at once is common across the admin, like Vought and Rubio
nominally holding a bunch of jobs at once is common across the admin, like Vought and Rubio
is Landry resigning? (or is he going to hold multiple jobs at once, like a Hapsburg princeling with a titular claim to some part of the Netherlands that he’s never visited?)
I like how he’s sending the governor of the US’s steamiest, lushest state to a barren ice rock. Have fun dipshit!
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
is Landry resigning? (or is he going to hold multiple jobs at once, like a Hapsburg princeling with a titular claim to some part of the Netherlands that he’s never visited?)
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They’re going to destroy one of the best museum systems in the world because they’re triggered by anything that isn’t trump worshipping propaganda
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
They’re going to destroy one of the best museum systems in the world because they’re triggered by anything that isn’t trump worshipping propaganda
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When you choose neutrality on bigotry... You have chosen bigotry.
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When you choose neutrality on bigotry... You have chosen bigotry.
terrific reporting on the most unambiguously corrupt administration in US history: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
terrific reporting on the most unambiguously corrupt administration in US history: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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It's not madness. Republicans have been paid to explicitly protect the fossil fuel industry from losing market share to climate action and the GOP is following through for their donors.
This is madness. Freezing offshore wind projects in progress will waste money, cost jobs, make electricity less reliable and more expensive, and will cause health harms given that fossil fuels will be used instead.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Interior pauses construction of all offshore wind projects, citing national security concerns
The halts of five projects is a major ramp up of the administration's hostility toward the industry in the United States.
www.politico.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's not madness. Republicans have been paid to explicitly protect the fossil fuel industry from losing market share to climate action and the GOP is following through for their donors.
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CBS justifies killing 60 Minutes story on CECOT is 'you have to get the principals on camera' is a layer cake of incompetence & censorship. The "principals" are the prisoners who told you what the government is doing, not the White House staffers who sent them to an illegal prison to be tortured!
Stephen Miller is not the principal of a story about torture at CECOT, he’s just a guy who orchestrated shipping people off to be tortured.
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CBS justifies killing 60 Minutes story on CECOT is 'you have to get the principals on camera' is a layer cake of incompetence & censorship. The "principals" are the prisoners who told you what the government is doing, not the White House staffers who sent them to an illegal prison to be tortured!
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this is such a critical connection to draw too, because Kennedy's working from the same playbook for his attacks on the trans community that he also uses to attack vaccines and disabled people.
Only one story, in the New Republic, made the direct connection between Kennedy’s repeated peddling of junk science and the effort to end healthcare for transgender minors.
Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise.
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this is such a critical connection to draw too, because Kennedy's working from the same playbook for his attacks on the trans community that he also uses to attack vaccines and disabled people.
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You can just say that to the White House, it’s easy
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You can just say that to the White House, it’s easy
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Bari Weiss, looking up briefly from her group chat with JD Vance and Stephen Miller: “Sorry, you need to get someone from the administration on the record. Wish I could help.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Bari Weiss, looking up briefly from her group chat with JD Vance and Stephen Miller: “Sorry, you need to get someone from the administration on the record. Wish I could help.”