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Dear the media,
When the US president claims he brokered a peace deal in a place with active combat—eg Rwanda and Congo—the story is (1) fighting rages on, and (2) US president lies.
The story is not “president touts historic peace deal.” A peace deal involves peace.
Sincerely,
Factual reality
When the US president claims he brokered a peace deal in a place with active combat—eg Rwanda and Congo—the story is (1) fighting rages on, and (2) US president lies.
The story is not “president touts historic peace deal.” A peace deal involves peace.
Sincerely,
Factual reality
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Dear the media,
When the US president claims he brokered a peace deal in a place with active combat—eg Rwanda and Congo—the story is (1) fighting rages on, and (2) US president lies.
The story is not “president touts historic peace deal.” A peace deal involves peace.
Sincerely,
Factual reality
When the US president claims he brokered a peace deal in a place with active combat—eg Rwanda and Congo—the story is (1) fighting rages on, and (2) US president lies.
The story is not “president touts historic peace deal.” A peace deal involves peace.
Sincerely,
Factual reality
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hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The thing is, we can disagree about all kinds of policies, and still fundamentally agree on some basic principles of government. I think many of us have rediscovered that, which is one good thing that comes out of all this.
What's wild is that I'm not only just as solidly progressive and left leaning as ever, I'm in fact more left leaning and progressive as I've ever been *at the same time as* I haven't disagreed with anything that David Frum and Tom Nichols have said or written in the last decade. Thanks, Atlantic.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The thing is, we can disagree about all kinds of policies, and still fundamentally agree on some basic principles of government. I think many of us have rediscovered that, which is one good thing that comes out of all this.
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Man, if we can come out of this scandal with both Larry Summers and Jaime Dimon getting ostracized from polite society, that would be amazing.
Top JPMC execs were in constant contact with Epstein and were aware of his shady financials. Top staff at JPMC, reporting directly to CEO Jamie Dimon, closely supervised Epstein’s accounts. One even coached Epstein on how to sanitize his suspiciously large cash withdrawals.
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Man, if we can come out of this scandal with both Larry Summers and Jaime Dimon getting ostracized from polite society, that would be amazing.
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You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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How the Japanese really feel: carterjmrn.com/blog/sentime...
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How the Japanese really feel: carterjmrn.com/blog/sentime...
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This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
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Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
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When most reporting outside of sycophantic propagandists makes you look bad, it could be because:
1) The heads of The Media held a secret meeting to conspire to distort because, uh, reasons, and executed it smoothly, leaving behind no evidence.
or
2) You're screwing up a lot. The facts look bad.
1) The heads of The Media held a secret meeting to conspire to distort because, uh, reasons, and executed it smoothly, leaving behind no evidence.
or
2) You're screwing up a lot. The facts look bad.
CNN plays a clip of Trump saying that when "97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech. ... That's just cheating."
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, while claiming to support free speech, agrees with Trump: "When 97% of the news stories are negative about him ... it is cheating."
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, while claiming to support free speech, agrees with Trump: "When 97% of the news stories are negative about him ... it is cheating."
Sen. Mullin responds to Trump calling on the DOJ to target his political foes: ‘It’s time to look into them’ | CNN Politics
Senator Markwayne Mullin responds to Trump pressuring his attorney general to go after his political enemies, plus responds to Trump’s claim that 97% of news stories are negative against him.
www.cnn.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When most reporting outside of sycophantic propagandists makes you look bad, it could be because:
1) The heads of The Media held a secret meeting to conspire to distort because, uh, reasons, and executed it smoothly, leaving behind no evidence.
or
2) You're screwing up a lot. The facts look bad.
1) The heads of The Media held a secret meeting to conspire to distort because, uh, reasons, and executed it smoothly, leaving behind no evidence.
or
2) You're screwing up a lot. The facts look bad.
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Twitter and Facebook are not the federal government.
They had long been biased in Trump’s favor, not against him, letting many previous TOS violations slide.
And Trump was president at the time, not Biden.
But it’s still the “look what you made me do” for this wave of state-driven censorship.
They had long been biased in Trump’s favor, not against him, letting many previous TOS violations slide.
And Trump was president at the time, not Biden.
But it’s still the “look what you made me do” for this wave of state-driven censorship.
Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.
It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Twitter and Facebook are not the federal government.
They had long been biased in Trump’s favor, not against him, letting many previous TOS violations slide.
And Trump was president at the time, not Biden.
But it’s still the “look what you made me do” for this wave of state-driven censorship.
They had long been biased in Trump’s favor, not against him, letting many previous TOS violations slide.
And Trump was president at the time, not Biden.
But it’s still the “look what you made me do” for this wave of state-driven censorship.
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The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
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The RFK hearing is a remarkable example of someone in real-time being informed about where they are on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
September 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The RFK hearing is a remarkable example of someone in real-time being informed about where they are on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
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The COVID argument is never “1m more deaths would’ve been worth it, i would’ve preferred if my kids had to grow up without their grandmother.”
Pretty much always based on the assumption that it would’ve been the same amount of sickness and death, or even less, just with more money and more fun.
Pretty much always based on the assumption that it would’ve been the same amount of sickness and death, or even less, just with more money and more fun.
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
September 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The COVID argument is never “1m more deaths would’ve been worth it, i would’ve preferred if my kids had to grow up without their grandmother.”
Pretty much always based on the assumption that it would’ve been the same amount of sickness and death, or even less, just with more money and more fun.
Pretty much always based on the assumption that it would’ve been the same amount of sickness and death, or even less, just with more money and more fun.
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This is something I’ve thought about A LOT lately- the kinds of essential reporting that large traditional media has inexplicably stopped doing. For example, why aren’t there more reporters in the streets of DC, describing what it’s like? It’s truly dumbfounding
Investigative stuff is why I subscribe to independent media, including the handbasket. For me reason, large media with 1000x the resources will never do what I want, which is tell me what's what, who's who, and who's a little bitch.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum.
Our report:
Our report:
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is something I’ve thought about A LOT lately- the kinds of essential reporting that large traditional media has inexplicably stopped doing. For example, why aren’t there more reporters in the streets of DC, describing what it’s like? It’s truly dumbfounding
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
August 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
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Trump doesn't denounce vote by mail because he thinks a democratic electoral system would be better without it, he denounces vote by mail to set up his lies about electoral fraud.
The lying pretext is the point.
Why must we learn the lesson over and over? Do not appease fascists, it does not work.
The lying pretext is the point.
Why must we learn the lesson over and over? Do not appease fascists, it does not work.
Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media
August 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump doesn't denounce vote by mail because he thinks a democratic electoral system would be better without it, he denounces vote by mail to set up his lies about electoral fraud.
The lying pretext is the point.
Why must we learn the lesson over and over? Do not appease fascists, it does not work.
The lying pretext is the point.
Why must we learn the lesson over and over? Do not appease fascists, it does not work.
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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"Cutting drug prices by 1500%" means the drug company is now paying you $1400 to take a pill that they used to sell for $100.
August 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"Cutting drug prices by 1500%" means the drug company is now paying you $1400 to take a pill that they used to sell for $100.
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"This is considered impolite to point out in many mainstream venues, but to be a Republican in good standing today, you have to believe, or at least go along with, an insane amount of lies."
Firing the BLS Director for reporting monthly jobs data institutionalizes that lying, imposing it on others.
Firing the BLS Director for reporting monthly jobs data institutionalizes that lying, imposing it on others.
To Live Inside a Lie
Firing the top labor statistics official for doing the normal monthly jobs report is only the last attempt to force everyone else to abandon reality too
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August 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"This is considered impolite to point out in many mainstream venues, but to be a Republican in good standing today, you have to believe, or at least go along with, an insane amount of lies."
Firing the BLS Director for reporting monthly jobs data institutionalizes that lying, imposing it on others.
Firing the BLS Director for reporting monthly jobs data institutionalizes that lying, imposing it on others.