@richdr.bsky.social
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My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for a dramatic change of tactics by major media to produce "radically truthful” news that defeats the right-wing disinformation industry. Right now, the media are getting slam-dunked by fascist liars. Here’s a thread with my 10 main points. 🧵🧵🧵
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for a dramatic change of tactics by major media to produce "radically truthful” news that defeats the right-wing disinformation industry. Right now, the media are getting slam-dunked by fascist liars. Here’s a thread with my 10 main points. 🧵🧵🧵
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I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
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See also the upper rungs of the legal profession and the tech world. People literally get offended if you suggest that there's a difference between what's good for their career and what's morally permissible, and that sometimes the two are mutually exclusive.
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
See also the upper rungs of the legal profession and the tech world. People literally get offended if you suggest that there's a difference between what's good for their career and what's morally permissible, and that sometimes the two are mutually exclusive.
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
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If Democrats ever want to take America back from Trump and his cronies, here are eight things they must do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc57eD3cWI
What Democrats SHOULD Be Doing
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If Democrats ever want to take America back from Trump and his cronies, here are eight things they must do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc57eD3cWI
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Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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Just disgusting.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just disgusting.
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Short passage captures so much so lucidly. Gurri’s point captures the essence of what was missing in Klein’s Biden age stuff. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Short passage captures so much so lucidly. Gurri’s point captures the essence of what was missing in Klein’s Biden age stuff. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...
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Truly, his politics are a mystery and we will never learn the secrets that motivated this lone wolf killer with absolutely no connections to anyone else, certainly not in politics.
Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.
Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.
At least the UK papers are reporting the truth. US media is afraid to anger Trump www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Truly, his politics are a mystery and we will never learn the secrets that motivated this lone wolf killer with absolutely no connections to anyone else, certainly not in politics.
Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.
Now, who wants to talk about improving mental health? No, not by funding programs, silly. Just talk about it. Again.
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A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment.
(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)
(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)
are you high-agency or an NPC?
AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley
jasmi.news
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment.
(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)
(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)
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I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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There are admirable conservatives, but they're not the conservatives these guys want us to admire. The basic feature of the American right in our Trumpist moment is a bunch of unadmirable guys who don't understand what it takes to be admirable, and so instead demand all of us admire them.
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There are admirable conservatives, but they're not the conservatives these guys want us to admire. The basic feature of the American right in our Trumpist moment is a bunch of unadmirable guys who don't understand what it takes to be admirable, and so instead demand all of us admire them.
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Will the nyt ever get as mad at trump about anything as much as they got mad at a black lady being president of Harvard
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Will the nyt ever get as mad at trump about anything as much as they got mad at a black lady being president of Harvard
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![Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies
Prosecutors earlier said they couldn't establish probable cause to charge Comey
ByKatherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, and Peter Charalambous
September 25, 2025, 11:34 PM
[video]
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two of three counts sought by prosecutors -- one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice -- just days after President Donald Trump issued a public demand for his Justice Department to act "now" to bring prosecutions against Comey and other political foes, according to sources.
The charges follow Trump's ousting of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, who according to sources had expressed doubts internally about bringing cases against Comey, as well as New York Attorney General Letitia James, after Trump appointed him to lead the office.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreiekg3ydlkmkwrchwyziavbhqecuu74qal4mgurij3cfypurpbs2ca@jpeg)
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
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[new Isaac Chotiner interview]
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
[new Isaac Chotiner interview]
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do
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These people have exactly one line
Every single time there's the slightest whiff that the West might commit more tangible support to Ukraine there's crowing about how dangerous this is because the Russians have nukes
Every single time there's the slightest whiff that the West might commit more tangible support to Ukraine there's crowing about how dangerous this is because the Russians have nukes
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
These people have exactly one line
Every single time there's the slightest whiff that the West might commit more tangible support to Ukraine there's crowing about how dangerous this is because the Russians have nukes
Every single time there's the slightest whiff that the West might commit more tangible support to Ukraine there's crowing about how dangerous this is because the Russians have nukes
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
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I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
August 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
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Foster, by Claire Keegan
August 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Foster, by Claire Keegan
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Look, I know that D.C. Democrats are skittish about institutional reforms, but they should absolutely do this.
These changes are badly needed but, more important, they'd likely appeal to voters who have proven with Trump that they'll give *anyone* who promises to shake things up a chance.
These changes are badly needed but, more important, they'd likely appeal to voters who have proven with Trump that they'll give *anyone* who promises to shake things up a chance.
Rather than being protectors of the status quo (as they run in 2024), democrats should be the party of "our institutions are broken and here's a set of reforms we propose: multi-member districts/PR, congress expansion, term limits for judges...."
A new House map proposed by the Texas GOP would take 5 seats away from Democrats.
Remind me, how is this not just cheating?
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
Remind me, how is this not just cheating?
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
July 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Look, I know that D.C. Democrats are skittish about institutional reforms, but they should absolutely do this.
These changes are badly needed but, more important, they'd likely appeal to voters who have proven with Trump that they'll give *anyone* who promises to shake things up a chance.
These changes are badly needed but, more important, they'd likely appeal to voters who have proven with Trump that they'll give *anyone* who promises to shake things up a chance.