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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.
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Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
Tax. The. Rich.
Speech trainer John Bowe writes, "As a public speaking expert, I use one phrase that gets audiences to instantly perk up and pay attention."
'Highly engaging' people use this 3-word phrase to get people to listen, says public speaking expert
Given people's short attention spans, it's never been harder to get people engaged in what we have to say. Public speaking expert John Bowe shares the 3-word phrase that will instantly make people listen.
cnb.cx
September 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Tax. The. Rich.
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Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city?
Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
August 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city?
Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
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"Tax the rich" is three one-syllable words.
It's funny whenever centrist Democrats complain that progressive politicians sound like they are "at a college campus" or whatever.
The left says things like "Everyone should have free health care," while centrists put forth means-tested kludges that you need a postgrad degree to understand.
The left says things like "Everyone should have free health care," while centrists put forth means-tested kludges that you need a postgrad degree to understand.
August 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Tax the rich" is three one-syllable words.
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Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.
$170 billion could end homelessness. It could fund Head Start or pay for nutritious school meals for our kids for well over a decade. But it’s instead going to Stephen Miller so he can build his mass deportation army to target our immigrant neighbors: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...
Stephen Miller Is Getting $170 Billion To Build His Own Army To Target Our Immigrant Neighbors. Here’s What That Funding Could Do Instead
This unprecedented allocation of taxpayer money could go to helping working families all across America, on everything from education, hunger, housing, healthcare, and the environment.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.
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From me: We've been getting all Gilded Age-y for a while in America, but the writers are getting too lazy with the references now. A transcontinental railroad merger? Rotten borough-style gerrymandering? Tariffs? A Lochnerian court? The 1800s are back.
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
The Second Gilded Age Is Resembling the First
It’s the return of rotten boroughs, railroad barons, and constant graft.
prospect.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
From me: We've been getting all Gilded Age-y for a while in America, but the writers are getting too lazy with the references now. A transcontinental railroad merger? Rotten borough-style gerrymandering? Tariffs? A Lochnerian court? The 1800s are back.
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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![A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets
My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3vj3sznbplg35cnfx4dtvss/bafkreig2ukd3sswlxg2g3py5t23jjs6dzdizqk67wuw7ddrdv6wgrgbjpi@jpeg)
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I watched the @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debate video and came away with the sense that these people are having a good time being callous and malicious, and that they have no real politics.
badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
It's One Long Joke
"[Fascists] are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words."
badfaithtimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I watched the @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debate video and came away with the sense that these people are having a good time being callous and malicious, and that they have no real politics.
badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
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People have lost trust in government ever holding the powerful accountable. This is how Trump wins by saying “drain the swamp.” If we want government to do good things, we MUST restore trust in government.
Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
Nancy Pelosi characterizes the Epstein scandal and seeming coverup as "a distraction" from kitchen table issues
July 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
People have lost trust in government ever holding the powerful accountable. This is how Trump wins by saying “drain the swamp.” If we want government to do good things, we MUST restore trust in government.
Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
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Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
https://trib.al/ayccoO7
https://trib.al/ayccoO7
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
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How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
slate.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...
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It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
Wow — New Gallup poll:
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
July 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
Excellent piece.
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
www.thebulwark.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Excellent piece.
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But congestion pricing polled terribly.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
But congestion pricing polled terribly.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad.
But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it.
Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
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“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.
Our assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, Patrick Healy, posted on X today in response to feedback on our recent reporting on Zohran Mamdani.
July 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.
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If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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The GOP is not a good faith partner in governing. They are not on the level. Their stated goals are irrelevant and disconnected to their behavior.
Any Democrat who pretends otherwise is misunderstanding our opposition and not up to what this moment demands.
Any Democrat who pretends otherwise is misunderstanding our opposition and not up to what this moment demands.
July 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The GOP is not a good faith partner in governing. They are not on the level. Their stated goals are irrelevant and disconnected to their behavior.
Any Democrat who pretends otherwise is misunderstanding our opposition and not up to what this moment demands.
Any Democrat who pretends otherwise is misunderstanding our opposition and not up to what this moment demands.
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Whether it's Republicans like Donald Trump opposing birthright citizenship in 2025 or Democrats like Jefferson Davis opposing it in 1860, both parties have shown opposition to birthright citizenship.
June 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Whether it's Republicans like Donald Trump opposing birthright citizenship in 2025 or Democrats like Jefferson Davis opposing it in 1860, both parties have shown opposition to birthright citizenship.
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I do not understand why lawmakers twist themselves into these absurd knots.
Trump sucks right? He should be removed from office? Try to remove him from office.
Trump sucks right? He should be removed from office? Try to remove him from office.
June 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I do not understand why lawmakers twist themselves into these absurd knots.
Trump sucks right? He should be removed from office? Try to remove him from office.
Trump sucks right? He should be removed from office? Try to remove him from office.