@rbi42.bsky.social
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
Orwellian Legal Logic
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
December 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Orwellian Legal Logic
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This anodyne BS is how the NYT summarizes the most corrupt presidency in US history.
Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied.
He said he would get prices down; he lied.
He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied.
He started wars and attacked his own people.
Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied.
He said he would get prices down; he lied.
He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied.
He started wars and attacked his own people.
December 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This anodyne BS is how the NYT summarizes the most corrupt presidency in US history.
Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied.
He said he would get prices down; he lied.
He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied.
He started wars and attacked his own people.
Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was; he lied.
He said he would get prices down; he lied.
He said he'd only deport criminals; he lied.
He started wars and attacked his own people.
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NYT doesn’t get it. He’s terrorizing nonwhite people, seizing imperial power, perverting the government, and spewing hateful lies. This is pro-Trump gaslighting.
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NYT doesn’t get it. He’s terrorizing nonwhite people, seizing imperial power, perverting the government, and spewing hateful lies. This is pro-Trump gaslighting.
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
@startribune.com finally stands up for the truly forgotten! White men! Can't make this shit up
www.startribune.com/2026-reading...
www.startribune.com/2026-reading...
Opinion | You can’t be diverse if you exclude white men
Those year-end book lists that claim to be all about diversity often seem to miss this one major demographic, Annie Holmquist writes.
www.startribune.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
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So many of my older Jewish friends and relatives, including much of my own family, supported the Anti-Defamation League, literally for generations, for reasons including:
— They cared about civil rights
— They cared about fighting antisemitism
— They understood that the two are inseparable
1/
— They cared about civil rights
— They cared about fighting antisemitism
— They understood that the two are inseparable
1/
Top ADL civil rights lay leader quits, accusing group of being ‘useful idiot’ for Trump
Joe Berman cites failure to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right, narrowing of focus from broader civil rights issues to antisemitism and anti-Zionism only
www.timesofisrael.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
So many of my older Jewish friends and relatives, including much of my own family, supported the Anti-Defamation League, literally for generations, for reasons including:
— They cared about civil rights
— They cared about fighting antisemitism
— They understood that the two are inseparable
1/
— They cared about civil rights
— They cared about fighting antisemitism
— They understood that the two are inseparable
1/
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This is VERY high up on my list of things we need to do better in 2026: Find a way to use the Admin's claim they oppose antisemitism to impose a cost for the antisemitism they routinely push out.
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is VERY high up on my list of things we need to do better in 2026: Find a way to use the Admin's claim they oppose antisemitism to impose a cost for the antisemitism they routinely push out.
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
There's literally an EO forbidding federal funding for antisemitism!
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Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
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That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
That’s not how GDP works. But it is how propaganda works.
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#GVerse I leave you with this, #GoodNight Sweet Dreams!
#TImeLineCleanse #FeelGoodMoment
This 5-year-old pianist moved everyone to tears… ✨
A reminder that music has no age.
Pure talent, pure emotion. ❤️ #Remember Life is Beautiful!
#TImeLineCleanse #FeelGoodMoment
This 5-year-old pianist moved everyone to tears… ✨
A reminder that music has no age.
Pure talent, pure emotion. ❤️ #Remember Life is Beautiful!
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#GVerse I leave you with this, #GoodNight Sweet Dreams!
#TImeLineCleanse #FeelGoodMoment
This 5-year-old pianist moved everyone to tears… ✨
A reminder that music has no age.
Pure talent, pure emotion. ❤️ #Remember Life is Beautiful!
#TImeLineCleanse #FeelGoodMoment
This 5-year-old pianist moved everyone to tears… ✨
A reminder that music has no age.
Pure talent, pure emotion. ❤️ #Remember Life is Beautiful!
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it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true
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This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Joe Ely rocked — with the soul of Woody Guthrie
youtu.be/iiBPXlQ5cF8?...
Joe Ely's version of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" is stellar. When Joe toured with the Clash in the late 1970s one critic said that, when Joe opened, he poured gasoline all over the place and the Clash came on and lit the match. It was that incendiary.
RIP Joe Ely!
Joe Ely's version of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" is stellar. When Joe toured with the Clash in the late 1970s one critic said that, when Joe opened, he poured gasoline all over the place and the Clash came on and lit the match. It was that incendiary.
RIP Joe Ely!
Should I Stay Or Should I Go (The Clash cover) – Joe Ely
YouTube video by Rockula Bacchus
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Joe Ely rocked — with the soul of Woody Guthrie
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There's a lot going on, and also the legal and mental presumption of lawful orders isn't helping.
Really highlights just how brittle the US norm-based governance is or comew across, as it also makes one wonder if we need to rethink the architecture of US AT.
Great but horrific read.
Really highlights just how brittle the US norm-based governance is or comew across, as it also makes one wonder if we need to rethink the architecture of US AT.
Great but horrific read.
NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert.
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
theintercept.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There's a lot going on, and also the legal and mental presumption of lawful orders isn't helping.
Really highlights just how brittle the US norm-based governance is or comew across, as it also makes one wonder if we need to rethink the architecture of US AT.
Great but horrific read.
Really highlights just how brittle the US norm-based governance is or comew across, as it also makes one wonder if we need to rethink the architecture of US AT.
Great but horrific read.
First visited Austin about this times — brings back memories
Dewey Mears took this moody, atmospheric photo of Austin's Congress Avenue in 1947. It's almost film-noirish, isn't it? I wonder what it was like to walk down the sidewalk when Austin was a normal, quiet town. 😉
From the Austin History Center, a great place to visit if you're in downtown Austin.
From the Austin History Center, a great place to visit if you're in downtown Austin.
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
First visited Austin about this times — brings back memories
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Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.
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Rob Reiner was a true patriot, a champion of democracy who understood the risks we face and strove to ensure that future generations of Americans would live in a free country. May his memory be a blessing.
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Rob Reiner was a true patriot, a champion of democracy who understood the risks we face and strove to ensure that future generations of Americans would live in a free country. May his memory be a blessing.
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"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
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Land of the free, where you are subject to kidnapping and exile by armed agents of the state if you do not carry your documents
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Land of the free, where you are subject to kidnapping and exile by armed agents of the state if you do not carry your documents
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The image of Kristi Noem at CECOT and the saga of the Venezuelans the US government exiled to a notorious gulag should be seared into America's collective memory.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The image of Kristi Noem at CECOT and the saga of the Venezuelans the US government exiled to a notorious gulag should be seared into America's collective memory.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
But displays of inhumanity were a normalized phenomenon in 2025.
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It's sad the @nytimes.com could not bring itself to mention the "peace prize" in this story about dropping charges in the big FIFA corruption case.
To the extent that there's a legal principle here, "bribery doesn't count if it's outside the U.S." has Kushner & MBS laughing all the way to the bank.
To the extent that there's a legal principle here, "bribery doesn't count if it's outside the U.S." has Kushner & MBS laughing all the way to the bank.
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It's sad the @nytimes.com could not bring itself to mention the "peace prize" in this story about dropping charges in the big FIFA corruption case.
To the extent that there's a legal principle here, "bribery doesn't count if it's outside the U.S." has Kushner & MBS laughing all the way to the bank.
To the extent that there's a legal principle here, "bribery doesn't count if it's outside the U.S." has Kushner & MBS laughing all the way to the bank.
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NEW: Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law.
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
www.lawdork.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW: Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law.
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
Today, at Law Dork:
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Please don't say that we are looking to do a regime change war in Venezuela to take control of their oil.
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Please don't say that we are looking to do a regime change war in Venezuela to take control of their oil.