Jack Mirkinson
jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Jack Mirkinson
@jackmirkinson.bsky.social
Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)

Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
almost like this is all just a game to these people
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
*to be clear* the bbc has many, many, many terrible editorial decisions to answer for. but those decisons have nothing to do with the right-wing propaganda at the center of the current hysteria novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
among the supposed sins committed by the BBC that were so bad its chief executive and head of news have resigned: talking to a trans woman who said she received good medical care.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
the "dossier" that got the BBC chiefs fired contains one critique of a minor error surrounded by acres of tedious and unhinged right-wing whining. the bbc spends all its time appeasing these people but it's never enough archive.ph/pBmPv
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November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
too many people are forgetting the crucial chapter from “the art of war” titled The Best Time to Cave to Your Opponents and Make Yourselves Look Like Shit Is Right After The Whole Country Loudly Told You It Wants You to Fight Them
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"Tuesday’s results only bolster an already-clear truth: transgender people’s inclusion in the Democratic tent is not the cause of the party’s woes. Nor will throwing us overboard alleviate them." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Can't Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures
Despite the attempts by so many in the party's establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
great point i forgot
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
yes fortunately for zohran they shared a religion also practiced by one billion other people and came from a nearby, but different, country from the one his parents, but not him, came from. in other words they are the same
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
no no it's been the top story every day for months, you must be looking in the wrong places
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM