@mrcenzo.bsky.social
Thumping bigots and cranks with glorious abandon and shamelessly hawking Defecting Grey.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida
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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
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The president had a MRI but won't say why.
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
October 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The president had a MRI but won't say why.
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
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Imagine being this credulous more than 10 months into this administration.
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Imagine being this credulous more than 10 months into this administration.
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(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...
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Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN meteorological agency.
UN pushes for worldwide disaster alerts as extreme weather ‘spirals’
Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN meteorological agency.
bit.ly
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN meteorological agency.
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Trump's assault "would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms."
Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
www.thebulwark.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump's assault "would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms."
Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
Miles Bruner on leaving the Republican party: www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...
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Just re-upping this. Billionaire Leon Black, along with billionare Leslie Wexner, are both still alive. Both gave MILLIONS to Epstein. We really don't know why. (Oh, we know.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
Money, Women and Taxes: Jeffrey Epstein’s Fiery Friendship with a Wall Street Titan
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just re-upping this. Billionaire Leon Black, along with billionare Leslie Wexner, are both still alive. Both gave MILLIONS to Epstein. We really don't know why. (Oh, we know.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/b...
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Try to imagine the media reaction in 2009 had Barack Obama done something like this for the Tea Party protests. David Gergen's face would have melted. Maureen Dowd would need a fainting couch.
Let's never treat this debased crap as normal or acceptable.
Let's never treat this debased crap as normal or acceptable.
Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Try to imagine the media reaction in 2009 had Barack Obama done something like this for the Tea Party protests. David Gergen's face would have melted. Maureen Dowd would need a fainting couch.
Let's never treat this debased crap as normal or acceptable.
Let's never treat this debased crap as normal or acceptable.
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Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
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“But how do we inspire trust in journalism”
And yeah it’s telling that multiple articles about the Black vote and Mamdani never brought this up
And yeah it’s telling that multiple articles about the Black vote and Mamdani never brought this up
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“But how do we inspire trust in journalism”
And yeah it’s telling that multiple articles about the Black vote and Mamdani never brought this up
And yeah it’s telling that multiple articles about the Black vote and Mamdani never brought this up
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Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.
The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
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A good piece, with a couple of examples of bad NYT headlines undermining good reporting as a bonus.
The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.
Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.
Propaganda.
The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.
Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.
Propaganda.
Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A good piece, with a couple of examples of bad NYT headlines undermining good reporting as a bonus.
The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.
Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.
Propaganda.
The MAGA “influencers” accompanying Noem, & the administration itself, are lying.
Not living in a different reality or having a different view of the facts. Intentionally lying.
Propaganda.
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According the victim's attorney, body camera footage showed the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
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October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
According the victim's attorney, body camera footage showed the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”
trib.al/nWDVlWA
trib.al/nWDVlWA
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THESE FUCKING MAGAT'S ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO BREAK AMERICA.
EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT.
AMERICANS WILL DIE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THIS.
EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT.
AMERICANS WILL DIE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THIS.
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
THESE FUCKING MAGAT'S ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO BREAK AMERICA.
EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT.
AMERICANS WILL DIE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THIS.
EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT.
AMERICANS WILL DIE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THIS.
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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
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I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it
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Trump just ordered his secret police to arrest anyone who burns the flag and imprison them for a year. Stephen Miller just issued new threats to arrest leftists.
Every time the fascism escalates, the logic should be that Dem resistance stiffens, as Sen Chris Murphy says in our pod discussion:
Every time the fascism escalates, the logic should be that Dem resistance stiffens, as Sen Chris Murphy says in our pod discussion:
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Trump just ordered his secret police to arrest anyone who burns the flag and imprison them for a year. Stephen Miller just issued new threats to arrest leftists.
Every time the fascism escalates, the logic should be that Dem resistance stiffens, as Sen Chris Murphy says in our pod discussion:
Every time the fascism escalates, the logic should be that Dem resistance stiffens, as Sen Chris Murphy says in our pod discussion:
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.